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Trump threatens state funding over enforcing trucker rules

California, Washington and New Mexico could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn earlier this month found what Duffy called significant [...]

By |2025-09-04T10:07:14-04:00Thursday, August 28, 2025|

Countries with digital rules targeting U.S. tech warned

BRUSSELS (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed to impose new tariffs and export curbs on countries with digital taxes or regulations that affect American technology companies. Trump didn’t mention specific places but his comments were taken as a threat against the European Union’s digital rules to rein in companies such as Google, Apple and Meta. [...]

By |2025-09-04T10:07:35-04:00Thursday, August 28, 2025|

‘No magic fixes’ for Democrats as party confronts internal and fundraising struggles

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ken Martin is in the fight of his political life. The low-profile political operative from Minnesota, just six months on the job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is charged with fixing the Democratic brand. “I think the greatest divide right now in our party, frankly, is not ideological,” said Martin. [...]

By |2025-08-28T12:28:42-04:00Wednesday, August 27, 2025|

Federal government takes 10 percent stake in Intel

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week announced the federal government has secured a 10 percent stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal that was completed. “The United States of America now fully owns and controls 10 percent of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” Trump [...]

By |2025-08-28T12:29:30-04:00Wednesday, August 27, 2025|

Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok deadline

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company “highly overrated” and last week he’ll keep extending the deadline for the popular video-sharing platform until there’s a buyer. Congress approved a United States ban on TikTok unless its parent company, ByteDance, sold its [...]

By |2025-08-28T12:29:51-04:00Wednesday, August 27, 2025|

Gabbard cutting intelligence office workforce, reducing budget by more than $700M

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced last week. The move amounts to a downsizing of the office responsible for coordinating the work of 18 intelligence agencies, including on counterterrorism and counterintelligence. “Over [...]

By |2025-08-26T10:00:09-04:00Monday, August 25, 2025|

Pew: Illegal immigration hit record 14 million in 2023

The number of people in the United States illegally surged to an all-time high of 14 million in 2023, a research group said, a major increase that still falls short of estimates from President Donald Trump and some critics of immigration. The Pew Research Center’s closely watched gauge rose from 11.8 million a year earlier [...]

By |2025-08-26T10:00:15-04:00Monday, August 25, 2025|

U.S., EU issue written framework for trade deal

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and the European Union issued a joint statement last week that frames the ongoing deal between the trading partners and solidifies some trade commitments. “This Framework Agreement will put our trade and investment relationship — one of the largest in the world — on a solid footing and will [...]

By |2025-08-26T10:00:25-04:00Monday, August 25, 2025|

20 states sue Justice Department to stop immigration requirements on victim funds

A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D.C., is asking a federal judge to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from withholding federal funds earmarked for crime victims if states don’t cooperate with the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. The lawsuit filed Monday in Rhode Island federal court seeks to block the [...]

By |2025-08-22T08:56:16-04:00Thursday, August 21, 2025|

Budget Office says tax law could trigger Medicare cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare if Congress does not act, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported. The CBO estimates that Medicare, the federal health insurance program for Americans over age 65, could potentially see as much as $491 [...]

By |2025-08-22T09:00:16-04:00Wednesday, August 20, 2025|
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