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WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives. Patel said the FBI would sever its relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center, asserting that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to offer an aid package to soybean farmers to help them survive China’s boycott of American beans in response to his new tariffs even as the president says he is still seeking a soybean deal with Beijing. Farmers are worried, however, that time is quickly running out [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The sales are a piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more [...]
The state Department of Development has announced that more than $40 million worth of motion picture tax credits are now available. The program offers a 30 percent refundable tax credit on cast and crew wages plus other eligible in-state spending, according to state officials. The $40 million in tax credits includes $34 million for film [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is cancelling $7.6 billion in grants were expected to support hundreds of clean-energy projects in 16 states. The Energy Department said in a statement last week that 223 projects were terminated after a review determined they did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs or were not economically viable. [...]
Gov. Mike DeWine last week signed an executive order to suspend the normal rulemaking process to allow the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to adopt a rule allowing expanded access to tools to prevent drug overdoses. The rule makes test strips and reagent kits that test for the presence of certain drugs legal to distribute in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. A document sent to the universities encourages them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses, with commitments to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, a regulatory formality that quickly triggered pushback from anti-abortion groups and politicians aligned with the Trump administration. Drugmaker Evita Solutions announced on its website that the Food and Drug Administration signed off on its low-cost form of the pill, which [...]
The federal civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don’t explicitly discriminate but may disproportionately harm certain groups, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. The memo, emailed to all area, local and district office directors of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [...]
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The federal government is expected to again accept new applications for a program that grants some people without legal immigration status the ability to live and work in the United States. Lawyers for the federal government and immigrant advocates have presented plans before a federal judge that would open the door [...]