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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration earlier this week proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for the federal government’s action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine congressman and several commercial fishing groups are getting behind a push to delay for 10 years rules designed to protect a vanishing species of whale. The North Atlantic right whale numbers only about 370 and has declined over the last 15 years. They have been the subject of proposed [...]
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — The United States and the European Union on Sunday agreed to a trade framework setting a 15 percent tariff on most goods, staving off far higher import duties on both sides. The announcement came after President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen met briefly at Trump’s Turnberry [...]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will move thousands of employees out of the nation’s capital in a reorganization the agency says will put them closer to customers while saving money, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said. Around 2,600 workers — more than half of the Washington, D.C., workforce — will be moved [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University announced last week it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus. Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 [...]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Trump administration last week canceled a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee for a new high-voltage transmission line for delivering solar and wind-generated electricity from the Midwest to the eastern part of the country, but the company indicated that project would go forward anyway. The U.S. Department of Energy declared that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced a trade framework with Japan, placing a 15 percent tax on goods imported from that nation. “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it,” Trump posted on Truth Social, adding that the United States “will continue to always [...]
The United States announced this week it again will pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because it believes that its involvement is not in the country’s national interest and that the agency promotes anti-Israel speech. The decision comes two years after the United States rejoined UNESCO after leaving in 2018, during [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 workplace regulations, ranging from minimum wage requirements for home health-care workers and people with disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances. If approved, the changes unveiled this month also would affect working conditions at construction sites [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to strengthen its legitimacy and political might. The GENIUS Act sets initial guardrails and consumer protections for stablecoins, which are tied to assets such as the American dollar [...]