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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum earlier this week proposed canceling a public-land management rule that allows for the leasing of public land for conservation as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing. The rule was a part of efforts under former President Joe [...]
TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — As an ominous storm approached Buddy Anthony’s new home, he took shelter in his Ford F-250 pickup parked under a nearby carport. Seconds later, a tornado tore apart the one-story brick house and damaged the truck while lifting it partly in the air. Anthony emerged unhurt, but he had to replace [...]
Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech. The Himalayan country’s government said last week it was blocking several social media platforms including Facebook, X and [...]
Postal traffic into the United States fell by more than 80 percent after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, according to the United Nations postal agency. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures designed to help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or [...]
LONDON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she doesn’t think the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia will deter investment in the United States because such tough actions mean there is no uncertainty about the Trump administration’s policies. Analysts say the detention of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order aimed at rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War. Trump said the switch was intended to signal to the world that the United States was a force to be reckoned with, and he complained that the Department of Defense’s name [...]
The Trump administration last week said that it is abandoning a Biden-era plan that sought to require airlines to compensate stranded passengers with cash, lodging and meals for flight cancellations or changes caused by a carrier. The proposed rule would have aligned United States policy more closely with European airline consumer protections. It was proposed [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Some lawmakers in Congress are clearing the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to expand mining and drilling on public lands by moving to eliminate energy development limits in several Western states. House Republicans last week voted to repeal land management plans adopted in the closing days of former President Joe [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Transportation Department is going to train 163 track inspectors to increase the number of people trained to spot problems with railroad bridges, but the railroad operators themselves will still be responsible for inspecting their own bridges and the results will still be kept confidential. Currently, there are seven Federal Railroad [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unusual alliance emerged in the House last week as some lawmakers who rarely agree on legislation rallied support for a bill that would prohibit members of Congress and their families from owning and trading individual stocks. The group included members of the right, the left, moderates and many in between. They [...]