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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Biden administration said last week it has approved ambitious plans by 34 states and Puerto Rico to create a national electric vehicle charging network as the country begins in earnest its transition away from gas-powered transportation. The plans' approval means $900 million can begin to flow to the states, which [...]
Two leading House Democrats are asking for a federal investigation into whether airlines used any of the $54 billion they received in government pandemic relief to pay employees to quit. The lawmakers said last week that buyouts to employees made a pilot shortage worse and contributed to widespread flight delays and cancellations that have ruined [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent commission is recommending that the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery be dismantled and taken down, as part of its final report to Congress on the renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy. Panel members earlier this week rolled out the final list of ships, base roads, [...]
BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden earlier this weeek urged Americans to come together for a new "national purpose" — his administration's effort to end cancer "as we know it." At the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Biden channeled JFK's famed moonshot speech 60 years ago, likening the space race to his own [...]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Under pressure from his Republican rival, Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman said last week he would participate in one debate before the November election. In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker are still working through the details of what a debate might look like, though they [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration reached a legal settlement earlier this week that requires the government to re-examine potential climate damages from oil and gas leases put up for sale under the Trump administration on government land in Montana and North Dakota. Similar deals have been reached in recent weeks for lease sales [...]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers, but the tax man may demand a cut of the relief in some states. That's because some states tax forgiven debt as income, which means borrowers who are still paying down student loans could owe taxes [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo are awarding $1 billion worth of federal grants for manufacturing, clean energy, farming, biotech and other sectors that will go to 21 regional partnerships. The winners were chosen from 529 initial applicants vying for grants that were part of last year's $1.9 trillion coronavirus [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Discounted prices, car-share programs and at least one million more public charging stations are among the ways California will try to make electric cars easier to buy and drive as it phases out the sale of gas-powered cars. The state won’t force automakers to participate in any equity programs designed to [...]
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement on the southern border. Hugo and Magali Urbina, who bought Heavenly Farms in April 2021, at first welcomed the state footing the [...]