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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has a new effort to show local governments what it can do for their communities, hosting North Carolina officials to highlight funding opportunities and hear firsthand how coronavirus relief, infrastructure dollars and other policies are faring locally. The event last week reflected an expansion of the use of the [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — There are few places in the country with a more deeply ingrained reputation as a refuge for immigrants than New York City, where the Statue of Liberty rises from the harbor as a symbol of welcome for the worn and weary. For Mayor Eric Adams, however, reconciling that image with an [...]
NEW YORK — A group of Republican attorneys general are pushing the major payment networks — Visa, Mastercard and American Express — to drop their plans to start tracking sales at gun stores, arguing the plans could infringe on consumer privacy and push legal gun sales out of the mainstream financial network. The letter comes [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Election officials in some states are concerned that the drawn-out vote processing and counting that occurred in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election could repeat itself in November's crucial Senate and governor's races. Other states such as Michigan and Wisconsin are other crucial swing states that, similar to Pennsylvania, allow no-excuse mail-in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Senate study warns that American spy agencies' efforts to stop China and other adversaries from stealing secrets are hampered by miscommunication and a lack of money and staff at the office intended to coordinate those efforts. The report comes amid warnings that Chinese and Russian attempts to obtain sensitive data [...]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — In a midterm campaign season dominated by inflation, abortion and crime, there's another issue that is becoming more urgent in Western states: drought. The topic of water historically has played little to no role in campaign ads in much of the region, but funding to fight drought is coming up now [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The number of Venezuelans taken into custody at the United States border with Mexico soared in August, while fewer migrants from Mexico and some Central American countries were stopped, federal officials said earlier this week. Venezuelans surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality after Mexicans among migrants crossing the [...]
Some census takers who falsified information during the 2020 count didn’t have their work redone fully, weren’t fired in a timely manner and, in some cases, even received bonuses, according to the U.S. Commerce Department’s watchdog group. The findings released last week by the Office of Inspector General raise concerns about possible damage to the [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio's efforts to curb gerrymandering are not working and voters must once again amend the constitution to take politics completely out of the process, the retiring chief justice of the state Supreme Court said last week. The current redistricting commission, created by constitutional amendment in 2015, has had no discernible effect on [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration last week announced plans to develop floating platforms in the deep ocean for wind towers that could power millions of homes and vastly expand offshore wind energy in the United States. The plan would target sites in the Pacific Ocean off the California and Oregon coasts, as well as [...]