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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of discrimination complaints from students and families. The staffers had been on administrative leave while the department faced lawsuits challenging layoffs in the agency’s [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration says it is planning to reduce visits to its field offices in half next year, a move that advocates for the agency fear signals more office closures are coming. Field offices have long been community-based branches that serve as the public face of the Social Security Administration and [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has outlined a strategy to expand its use of artificial intelligence, building on the Trump administration’s embrace of the rapidly advancing technology while raising questions about how health information would be protected. HHS billed the plan as a “first step” focused largely on [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week announced a proposal to change vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry, loosening regulatory pressure on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and trucks. The plan, if finalized next year, would reduce fuel economy requirements, which set rules on how far new vehicles need to travel [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications, such as requests for green cards, for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year, as part of immigration changes in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard troops last week. The changes were outlined in a policy memo posted [...]
A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet marketplaces and becoming popular on social media. The two-week Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora is scheduled to [...]
Nearly 44 percent of the 16,000 truck driving programs listed nationwide by the federal government may be forced to close if they lose their students after a review by the federal Transportation Department found they may not be complying with minimum requirements. The Transportation Department earlier this week said that it plans to revoke the [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 prescription drugs after months of negotiations, reductions that are expected to produce billions in savings for taxpayers and older adults, the Trump administration said. The net prices it unveiled for a 30-day supply of each drug, however, are not what [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service last week said it is going to start charging the millions of international tourists who visit United States parks each year an extra $100 to enter some of the most popular sites, while leaving them out of fee-free days that will be reserved for American residents. The announcement [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A health-care proposal circulated by the White House last week is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue — a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care Act for the past 15 years. The tentative proposal from President Donald Trump [...]