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LOUIS (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration late last week finalized regulations that protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution. The rule defines which "waters of the United States" are protected by [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has failed so far to create a path to residency for Afghans who worked alongside American soldiers in the United States’ longest war, pushing into limbo tens of thousands of refugees who fled Taliban control more than two years ago and now live in the U.S. Some lawmakers had hoped to [...]
State lawmakers around the country introduced thousands of bills to change the way elections are run after former President Donald Trump falsely blamed his 2020 loss on voter fraud. Hundreds became law. Even with proponents of Trump's election lies roundly defeated during the 2022 midterms, advocates on both sides of the voting debate are bracing [...]
WASHINGTON — A section of the $1.7 trillion spending bill passed last week has been billed as a dramatic step toward shoring up retirement accounts of millions of workers. The real windfall, however, may go to a far more secure group: the financial services industry. The retirement savings measure labeled Secure 2.0 would reset how [...]
The nation’s population expanded by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration, to 333.2 million residents, according to estimates released late last week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Net international migration — the number of people moving into the United States minus the number of people leaving — was more [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a couple of party-free years because of the coronavirus pandemic, White House holiday parties returned and the "people's house" was once again welcoming the people — lots of people, an estimated 50,000 visitors between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Helping to make it all happen was White House social secretary Carlos Elizondo. "Everybody's [...]
WASHINGTON — People who want to buy an electric vehicle could get a bigger-than-expected tax credit come Jan. 1 because of a delay by the Treasury Department in drawing up rules for the tax breaks. The department said last week it won't finish the rules that govern where battery minerals and parts have to be [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The U.S. Senate last week confirmed six long-waiting nominees by President Joe Biden to the board of the nation's largest public utility, establishing a new majority with Biden's picks. The Senate confirmed the six by unanimous consent, Tennessee Valley Authority spokesperson Ashton Davies said. The federal utility's nine-member board had been [...]
WASHINGTON — An IRS policy governing the audits of tax returns filed by U.S. presidents is under new scrutiny after a report published by a congressional panel found the agency failed to perform the mandatory inspection of Donald Trump's returns until Congress pressed for information about the process. The three-point policy states that individual returns [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor isn't rattled on a personal level by the political attacks she endured from fellow Republicans during the state's protracted redistricting fight. She's confident she "did the right thing" in ruling their proposed political maps unconstitutional. What does concern the retiring jurist is the ignorance and lack of [...]