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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With the explosive growth of Big Tech’s data centers threatening to overload the nation’s electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power emergencies. Texas moved first, as state lawmakers try to protect residents in the data-center hotspot from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed doing away with a program that has required large, mostly industrial companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the government. The program requires refineries, power plants, oil wells and landfills to report their emissions without risk of penalty as officials seek to identify high-polluting [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A framework deal has been reached for the ownership of the popular social video platform TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after weekend trade talks between the United States and China in Spain. Bessent said in a press conference after the latest round of trade talks between the world’s top two economies [...]
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 [...]