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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to support the mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals. The long-debated Ambler Road project was approved in Trump’s first term, but was later blocked by the Biden administration after an analysis determined the [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana in the nation’s biggest coal sale in more than a decade. The offer from the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. equates to one-tenth of a penny per ton, underscoring coal’s diminished value even [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano was named to the newly created position of CEO of the IRS, making him the latest member of the Trump administration to be put in charge of multiple federal agencies. As IRS CEO, Bisignano will report to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who currently serves as acting [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives. Patel said the FBI would sever its relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center, asserting that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is planning to offer an aid package to soybean farmers to help them survive China’s boycott of American beans in response to his new tariffs even as the president says he is still seeking a soybean deal with Beijing. Farmers are worried, however, that time is quickly running out [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The sales are a piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more [...]
The state Department of Development has announced that more than $40 million worth of motion picture tax credits are now available. The program offers a 30 percent refundable tax credit on cast and crew wages plus other eligible in-state spending, according to state officials. The $40 million in tax credits includes $34 million for film [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is cancelling $7.6 billion in grants were expected to support hundreds of clean-energy projects in 16 states. The Energy Department said in a statement last week that 223 projects were terminated after a review determined they did not adequately advance the nation’s energy needs or were not economically viable. [...]
Gov. Mike DeWine last week signed an executive order to suspend the normal rulemaking process to allow the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to adopt a rule allowing expanded access to tools to prevent drug overdoses. The rule makes test strips and reagent kits that test for the presence of certain drugs legal to distribute in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. A document sent to the universities encourages them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses, with commitments to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s [...]