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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of the service. While commanders are still able to issue service members exemptions from shaving — a policy that has existed for decades — they will [...]
President Donald Trump wants to do away with the quarterly earnings report issued by publicly traded companies. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said securities regulators should stop requiring companies to issue financial reports every three months and instead switch to a six-month reporting period. The Securities and Exchange Commission has required publicly traded [...]
Democratic lawmakers are questioning whether a Boar’s Head deli meat plant at the center of last year’s deadly listeria outbreak will be fit to reopen. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, of Connecticut, sent a letter this week asking company officials to appear before the Congressional Food Safety Caucus to discuss “a repeated pattern of food safety negligence [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — With the explosive growth of Big Tech’s data centers threatening to overload the nation’s electricity grids, policymakers are taking a hard look at a tough-love solution: bumping the energy-hungry data centers off grids during power emergencies. Texas moved first, as state lawmakers try to protect residents in the data-center hotspot from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed doing away with a program that has required large, mostly industrial companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the government. The program requires refineries, power plants, oil wells and landfills to report their emissions without risk of penalty as officials seek to identify high-polluting [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A framework deal has been reached for the ownership of the popular social video platform TikTok, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after weekend trade talks between the United States and China in Spain. Bessent said in a press conference after the latest round of trade talks between the world’s top two economies [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans last week took the first steps to change the chamber’s rules, attempting to make it easier to confirm groups of President Donald Trump’s nominees after last-minute negotiations with Democrats fell apart. Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s move is the latest salvo after a dozen years of gradual changes by both [...]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An American Cabinet official overseeing a planned expansion of natural gas exports to Europe said that Greece could play a key role through its pipeline system that extends across the region. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited a liquefied natural gas terminal outside Athens that is linked to a bidirectional pipeline network [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials are vowing a crackdown on deceptive drug ads, but the effort is likely to face multiple headwinds, including pushback from the pharmaceutical industry and layoffs among regulators tasked with leading the effort. President Donald Trump last week signed a memo that directs [...]
Sen. Maria Cantwell warned her colleagues last week that a bill heading to the House floor that would regulate college sports would solidify an unsustainable and growing gap between the nation’s biggest athletic conferences and everyone else. In a letter to members of the Senate Commerce Committee, where Cantwell, D-Wash., is the ranking member, she [...]