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WASHINGTON (AP) — Everyday Americans will be able to help refugees adjust to life in the United States in a program launched late last week by the State Department as a way to give private citizens a role in resettling the thousands of refugees who arrive every year. The State Department program is called the [...]
Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they gather today in Washington for the annual March for Life. The march, which includes a rally drawing abortion opponents from across the nation, has been held annually since January 1974 — a year after the U.S. Supreme Court's [...]
COLUMBUS — Ohio's new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received — despite no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems — and that change is angering active-duty members of the military and their families because of its potential to disenfranchise them. The new [...]
WASHINGTON — The nation's transportation secretary usually holds one of the most public-facing roles in any presidential administration. A core aspect of the Cabinet job is to travel the country, doling out millions of public dollars and attending ribbon-cutting ceremonies for new bridges and overpasses and ports. Even by those standards, Pete Buttigieg has spent [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Virtually everything was going right for President Joe Biden as he opened the year. His approval ratings were ticking up. Inflation was slowing and as Democrats united behind his likely re-election campaign, Republicans were at war with themselves after a disappointing midterm season. On Jan. 12, however, Biden's political outlook veered [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration last week launched an online appointment system as the only way for migrants to get exceptions from pandemic-era limits on asylum — the federal government's latest major step in eight days to overhaul border enforcement. U.S. Customs and Border Protection began allowing migrants to make appointments up to [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal agency in charge of jumpstarting the production of key components for the nation's nuclear arsenal is falling short when it comes to having a comprehensive schedule for the multibillion-dollar project, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The Government Accountability Office said in the report that plans by the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As alarms began to go off globally about a novel coronavirus spreading in China, officials in Washington turned to the intelligence agencies for insights about the threat the virus posed to America. The most useful early warnings, however, came not from spies or intercepts, according to a recent congressional review of classified [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s presidential dreams were undermined by her use of a private email server that included classified information. Donald Trump has risked criminal charges by refusing to return top-secret records to the government after leaving the White House. Most recently, misplaced files with classified markings could cause a political headache for President [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Japan unveiled plans last week to strengthen their alliance to help counter threats from North Korea and China, which they called the greatest security challenge in the region. In unusually blunt terms, the United States and Japanese foreign and defense ministers condemned China's increasing aggressiveness in the Indo-Pacific [...]