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Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people's movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press. Police have used "Fog Reveal" [...]
HONOLULU (AP) — The last bits of ash and greenhouse gases from Hawaii's only remaining coal-fired power plant slipped into the environment last week when the state's dirtiest source of electricity burned its final pieces of fuel. The last coal shipment arrived in the islands at the end of July and the AES Corporation coal [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia's invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little American farmers could do to meet the new demand, but that may be changing. Earlier [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration last week unveiled a regulation aimed at fending off legal challenges to a decade-old program that shields immigrants from deportation if they arrived as young children. The rule isn't scheduled to take effect until Oct. 31 and its fate is tied to a lawsuit by Texas and other Republican-led [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is tying its authority to cancel student debt to the coronavirus pandemic and to a 2003 law aimed at providing help to members of the military. Legal challenges are expected. Skeptics of the administration's ability to act on its own, without new legislation, had once included President Joe Biden [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah and two Republican-leaning rural counties sued the Biden administration last week over the president's decision last year to restore two sprawling national monuments on rugged lands sacred to Native Americans that former President Donald Trump had downsized. The lawsuit over Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, the two [...]
WASHINGTON — Aaliyah Manning’s dreams of becoming a psychologist ended abruptly during her freshman year at Potomac State in West Virginia when the cost of continuing her education became overwhelming. “The money just wasn’t there,” said Manning, 25. “I knew I wasn’t going to finish, so I just had fun.” After a year, she was [...]
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund is facing pressure to reevaluate how it imposes fees on loans it disperses to needy countries such as war-torn Ukraine — which is one of the fund’s biggest borrowers. Surcharges are added fees on loans imposed on countries that are heavily indebted to the IMF. However, the IMF fee [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The American oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a pivotal time for Chevron, Exxon and other industry players [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Some Florida schools have moved library books and debated changing textbooks in response to a law critics call "Don't Say Gay" — and some teachers have worried that family pictures on their desks could get them in trouble. As students return from summer break, educators are cautiously adjusting and waiting to see [...]