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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — This school year, students in elementary, middle and high schools in some states will get a new lesson on safety: what to do if they find a firearm. Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah are the first states to enact laws that require public schools to teach children as young as 5 the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Near the end of his first term, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that aimed to reduce pollutants emitted by refrigerators and air conditioners. The bipartisan measure brought environmentalists and major business groups into rare alignment on the issue of climate change and won praise across the political spectrum. Five [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week unveiled a deal with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for the popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy. Known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, the drugs have soared in popularity in recent years, but patient access has been a consistent problem because [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has warned that the United States will be rendered “defenseless’’ and possibly “reduced to almost Third World status” if the Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs he imposed this year on many countries. The justices sounded skeptical during oral arguments last week of his sweeping claims of authority to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next year, the Trump administration has confirmed. An email sent last week from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that “IRS Direct File will not be available [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration last week said it was taking the extraordinary step of reducing air traffic by 10 percent across 40 “high-volume” markets to maintain travel safety as air traffic controllers exhibit signs of strain during the ongoing government shutdown. The cutback stands to impact thousands of flights nationwide because the [...]
Eleven states and Kentucky’s governor are suing the Trump administration over what they call “unlawful terms” placed on federal funding critical to supporting local disaster and terrorism preparedness. The predominantly Democratic-led states, which include Michigan, Oregon and Arizona, along with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sued the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and private investors are partnering with two rare-earth startups in a $1.4 billion deal to scale up the nation’s access to materials and technology that analysts say is crucial for producing an array of high-tech goods and military equipment. The investment in Vulcan Elements and ReElement Technologies is the [...]
The new congressional map that California voters approved marked a victory for Democrats in the national redistricting battle playing out ahead of the 2026 midterm election, but analysts say Republicans are still ahead in the fight. The unusual mid-decade redistricting fray began in the summer when President Donald Trump urged Republican-led states to reshape their [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Trump administration says it will be initiating formal meetings with Native American tribes in the Southwest as it considers revoking a 20-year ban on oil and gas development across of hundreds of square miles of federal land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Bureau of Land Management made the [...]