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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown officially launched his campaign this week to return to the U.S. Senate next year, brushing aside his loss to Republican Bernie Moreno last fall and expressing confidence his pro-working class message can continue to resonate with the state’s voters. Brown is seeking the seat held by Republican U.S. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — American lawmakers are using a trip to South Korea and Japan to explore how the United States can tap those allies’ shipbuilding expertise and capacity to help boost its own capabilities, which are dwarfed by those of China. Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., planned to meet top shipbuilders from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered U.S. Postal Service mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding. In June, the Senate parliamentarian blocked a Republican proposal in a major tax-and-spending bill to sell off the agency’s new electric vehicles and [...]
Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy park that hosts numerous youth sports leagues. “What are you waiting for, somebody to get killed?” the 85-year-old chided officials in northwest Ohio, complaining that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers, social workers, nurses and other public workers would be cut off from a popular student loan cancellation program if the Trump administration finds their employer engaged in activities with a “substantial illegal purpose,” under a new federal proposal released last week. The Education Department took aim at nonprofits or government bodies [...]
The federal government plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle industry. Secretary Brooke Rollins last week announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes to be producing [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A political standoff in Texas over proposed House maps that could hand Republicans five new seats is poised to enter a new phase Friday, while heavily Democratic California plans to release its own new maps intended to erase all but a sprinkle of the state’s GOP House districts in the fight [...]