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Since the federal government shutdown began Oct. 1, the Federal Aviation Administration has reported air traffic controller shortages in cities across the country, from airports in Boston and Philadelphia, to control centers in Atlanta and Houston. Flight delays have spread to airports in Nashville, Dallas, Newark and more, and already there has been an increase [...]
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s Commerce Ministry said it was banning dealings by Chinese companies with five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean in the latest swipe by Beijing at President Donald Trump’s effort to rebuild the industry in America. The ministry also announced that it was investigating a probe by Washington into China’s [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States directly purchased Argentine pesos last week and finalized a $20 billion currency swap line with Argentina’s central bank, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a social media post, a rare move aimed at stabilizing turbulent financial markets in the cash-strapped Latin American ally. “U.S. Treasury is prepared, immediately, to [...]
HONG KONG (AP) — China has hit American-owned vessels docking in the country with tit-for-tat port fees, in response to the American government’s planned port fees on Chinese ships, expanding a string of retaliatory measures before trade talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Vessels owned or operated by American companies or [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two decades later, Congress is on the verge of writing a closing chapter to the war in Iraq. The Senate last week voted to repeal the resolution that authorized the 2003 United States invasion, following a House vote last month that would return the basic war power to Congress. The [...]
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the Keystone XL pipeline project with President Donald Trump during his White House visit last week, a government official familiar with the matter said. A Canadian company pulled the plug on it four years ago after the Canadian government failed to persuade [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Miami activist alleges that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted a sizable plot of prime downtown real estate to the state, which then transferred it to the foundation for Donald Trump’s future presidential library. The nearly three-acre property is a developer’s dream and [...]
A mid-decade battle over congressional redistricting is playing out in state capitals, in courtrooms and on the ballot. The efforts to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage got jump-started when Texas Republican lawmakers decided to reshape districts. Since then, lawmakers in Democratic-led California and Republican-led Missouri have approved revised districts, and officials in other [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration warned this week of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been long-standing policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House. After the longest government shutdown in 2019, Trump signed into law legislation [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates that allegedly supplied precursor chemicals to make fentanyl to a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. A dozen Mexico-based companies and eight of the people managing them were accused of using their pharmaceutical, laboratory, chemical, cleaning and real estate [...]