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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 [...]
The Trump administration last week said that it is abandoning a Biden-era plan that sought to require airlines to compensate stranded passengers with cash, lodging and meals for flight cancellations or changes caused by a carrier. The proposed rule would have aligned United States policy more closely with European airline consumer protections. It was proposed [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Some lawmakers in Congress are clearing the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to expand mining and drilling on public lands by moving to eliminate energy development limits in several Western states. House Republicans last week voted to repeal land management plans adopted in the closing days of former President Joe [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to increase the number of people trained to spot problems with railroad bridges, but the railroad operators themselves will still be responsible for inspecting their own bridges and the results will still be kept confidential. Currently, there are seven Federal Railroad [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual alliance emerged in the House last week as some lawmakers who rarely agree on legislation rallied support for a bill that would prohibit members of Congress and their families from owning and trading individual stocks. The group included members of the right, the left, moderates and many in between. They [...]
A Columbus state senator recently introduced bipartisan legislation that officially would designate the buckeye candy as the state candy of Ohio. The proposed legislation, Senate Bill 247, emphasizes the buckeye candy’s historical and cultural significance while highlighting its unique role in traditions, cuisine and community pride in Ohio, according to a news release. “The buckeye [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week announced that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado. The decision from Trump caps a four-year tug of war between two states and opposing administrations about where to locate U.S. Space Command, [...]
More than 1.2 million immigrants have disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents. Immigrants make up almost 20 percent of the American workforce and [...]