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COLUMBUS (AP) — It's a busy Friday afternoon at a Somali restaurant on the northeast side of Columbus, home to second-largest Somali population in the country. The smell of spices is just as robust as the loud conversation and the East African restaurant is crowded after afternoon prayers at the nearby mosque. The hubbub grows [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration last week awarded $2.8 billion in grants to boost domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles in 12 states. Twenty companies will receive grants for projects to extract and process lithium, graphite and other battery materials, manufacture components and strengthen U.S. supply of critical minerals, officials said. The announcement came [...]
NEW YORK — After breaking into the mainstream of the investment world, ESG investing has become big enough to be a political target too. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans around the country are criticizing funds that consider environmental, social and corporate-governance issues before deciding whether to invest in a stock or a bond. [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden issued what was widely hailed as a landmark executive order calling for the federal government to study and plan for the impact of climate change on migration and less than a year later, his administration released the first government assessment of the vast rippling [...]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Moments after she flipped a longtime Republican congressional seat in 2018, Iowa Democrat Cindy Axne declared that “Washington doesn’t have our back and we deserve a heck of a lot better.” Now seeking a third term in one of the most competitive House races in the country, Axne is sounding a similar [...]
Lifelong Cleveland resident Steve Gove recalls when the Cuyahoga River symbolized shame — fetid, lifeless, notorious for catching fire when sparks from overhead rail cars ignited the oil-slicked surface. “It was pretty grungy,” said the 73-year-old, an avid canoeist in his youth who sometimes braved the filthy stretch through the steelmaking city. “When you went [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — Rhonda Briggins spent much of Election Day in 2020 at an Atlanta polling place handing out water and snacks to encourage voters to stay in an hourslong line to cast their ballots, something her sorority has done for decades in Georgia. This election, Briggins and some of her thousands of sorority sisters [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week proposed sweeping changes in the way chicken and turkey meat is processed that are intended to reduce illnesses from food contamination, but could require meat companies to make extensive changes to their operations. Despite decades of efforts to try and reduce illnesses caused [...]
WASHINGTON — The White House hosted a summit last week to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure law as the Biden administration tries to improve coordination with the mayors and governors who directly account for 90 percent of the spending. "This is the first time we've tried this in [...]