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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans last week took the first steps to change the chamber’s rules, attempting to make it easier to confirm groups of President Donald Trump’s nominees after last-minute negotiations with Democrats fell apart. Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s move is the latest salvo after a dozen years of gradual changes by both [...]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An American Cabinet official overseeing a planned expansion of natural gas exports to Europe said that Greece could play a key role through its pipeline system that extends across the region. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited a liquefied natural gas terminal outside Athens that is linked to a bidirectional pipeline network [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials are vowing a crackdown on deceptive drug ads, but the effort is likely to face multiple headwinds, including pushback from the pharmaceutical industry and layoffs among regulators tasked with leading the effort. President Donald Trump last week signed a memo that directs [...]
Sen. Maria Cantwell warned her colleagues last week that a bill heading to the House floor that would regulate college sports would solidify an unsustainable and growing gap between the nation’s biggest athletic conferences and everyone else. In a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee, where Cantwell, D-Wash., is the ranking member, she [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum earlier this week proposed canceling a public-land management rule that allows for the leasing of public land for conservation as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing. The rule was a part of efforts under former President Joe [...]
TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — As an ominous storm approached Buddy Anthony’s new home, he took shelter in his Ford F-250 pickup parked under a nearby carport. Seconds later, a tornado tore apart the one-story brick house and damaged the truck while lifting it partly in the air. Anthony emerged unhurt, but he had to replace [...]
Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech. The Himalayan country’s government said last week it was blocking several social media platforms including Facebook, X and [...]
Postal traffic into the United States fell by more than 80 percent after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, according to the United Nations postal agency. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures designed to help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or [...]
LONDON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she doesn’t think the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will deter investment in the United States because such tough actions mean there is no uncertainty about the Trump administration’s policies. Analysts say the detention of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order aimed at rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War. Trump said the switch was intended to signal to the world that the United States was a force to be reckoned with, and he complained that the Department of Defense’s name [...]