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Shortly after an airliner made an aggressive maneuver to avoid colliding with a B-52 last month over North Dakota, the bomber nearly collided with a small private plane as it flew past the Minot airport, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators released their preliminary report last week on the July 18 incident that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is legitimate political expression protected by the U.S. Constitution. The order the president signed in the Oval Office acknowledged the [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The nation’s production of crucial components in electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets is set to expand rapidly in the coming years, as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to build up the critical mineral industry in the United States to work to break the chokehold that China has on the global [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that his department is taking management of Union Station, the main transportation hub in Washington, away from Amtrak, in another example of how the federal government is exerting its power over the nation’s capital. Duffy made the announcement before he joined Amtrak President Roger Harris [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Earlier this year, several environmental groups sent a petition to the federal government with a message: Ensure that water from the Colorado River is not wasted and only being delivered for “reasonable” and “beneficial” uses. The organizations urged the Bureau of Reclamation to use its authority to curb water waste in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As armed National Guard troops patrol the nation’s capital as part of a federal takeover of Washington’s police department, handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump, according to the latest AP-NORC poll. Americans are generally not happy about the president’s handling of issues such as immigration and the [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Commuters and students in Philadelphia woke up earlier than usual on Monday to navigate service reductions that the region’s public transit agency has called more drastic than any undertaken by a major transit agency in the country. The cuts took effect as the school year began in the nation’s sixth-most populous [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]