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WASHINGTON — The nation's gross national debt has surpassed $31 trillion, according to a U.S. Treasury report released this week that logs America's daily finances. Edging closer to the statutory ceiling of roughly $31.4 trillion — an artificial cap Congress placed on the government's ability to borrow — the debt numbers hit an already tenuous [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials are warning ahead of the November midterms that Russia is working to amplify doubts about the integrity of elections in the United States while China is interested in undermining American politicians it sees as threats to Beijing's interests. An unclassified intelligence advisory, newly obtained by The Associated Press, says China [...]
The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals this week to align artificial intelligence-powered tools with what it called the values of democracy and equity, including guidelines for how to protect people's personal data and limit surveillance. The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights notably does not set out specific enforcement actions, but [...]
DENVER — A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado is accused of trying to sell classified information to a hostile foreign government in an attempt to pay off his debts and "help balance" the world's scales, according to court documents released last week. While Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 30, believed he was talking to a [...]
GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The situation with the poll watcher had gotten so bad that Anne Risku, the election director in North Carolina's Wayne County, had to intervene via speakerphone. "You need to back off!" Risku recalled hollering after the woman wedged herself between a voter and the machine where the voter was trying to [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — With the death toll from Hurricane Ian rising and hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida and the Carolinas, federal government officials vowed last weekend to unleash a massive amount of disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people stranded by the storm. Days after Ian tore through [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, a self-described "car guy,'' often promises to lead by example on climate change by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling federal government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles, but efforts to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the fleet have lagged. Biden last year directed the federal government to purchase only American-made, [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration has proposed a new permitting program for wind energy turbines, power lines and other projects that kill eagles amid growing concern among scientists that the rapid expansion of renewable energy in the West could harm golden eagle populations now teetering on decline. The Fish and Wildlife Service program announced [...]
Standing 14 stories tall, the Docking State Office Building is one of Kansas' largest and oldest state workplaces. It's also largely vacant, despite a prime location across from the Capitol in Topeka. Kansas officials are planning to spend $60 million of federal pandemic relief funds to help finance its demolition and replace it with a [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the United States by 2030, including expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food. The administration, in a plan released this week, is also seeking to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer [...]