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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency enhanced enforcement efforts this year, significantly reducing pollution in overburdened communities, the agency said in a report released last week. The EPA said it concluded more than 1,800 civil cases, a 3 percent increase over 2023, and charged 120 criminal defendants, a 17.6 percent increase over the previous [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States severely lags behind China in shipbuilding capacity, lawmakers and analysts have warned, as the Biden administration tries to build up the country’s ability to develop and produce weapons and other defense supplies to fend off war. Speaking at a congressional hearing, Rep. John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has withdrawn a proposed overhaul of workplace apprenticeship programs after facing pushback from business groups concerned about the costs and some state attorneys general opposed to new diversity requirements. The U.S. Department of Labor confirmed that it won’t be moving forward with a proposed rewrite of [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio’s top elections official has rejected a Republican challenge over the legal residency of one of the state’s Democratic members of Congress. Secretary of State Frank LaRose made the decision late last week, saying the complaint brought by a political activist did not provide “clear and convincing” proof that Rep. Emilia Sykes [...]
BANGKOK (AP) — The U.S. Commerce Department has expanded the list of Chinese technology companies subject to export controls to include many that make equipment used to make computer chips, chipmaking tools and software. The 140 companies newly included in the so-called "entity list" are nearly all based in China, but some are Chinese-owned businesses [...]
The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The USS Zumwalt is at a Mississippi shipyard where workers have installed missile tubes that replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The NCAA’s yearslong efforts to get lawmakers to address myriad problems in college sports could finally pay off in the new, Republican-controlled Congress. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican who is set to take over as chair of the powerful Commerce Committee, said recently that a college sports bill will be a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With analysts saying artificial intelligence is at a pivotal moment of development, there’s uncertainty about any possible regulations regarding the technology as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to office. Trump hasn’t specified what his plans are, but the platform of the Republican National Committee said AI development should be “rooted in [...]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Treasury officials are calling on Congress to unlock $20 billion in Internal Revenue Service enforcement money that is tied up in legislative language that has effectively rendered the money frozen. Hoping to unlock the funds in upcoming budget negotiations, Treasury officials are rushing for action before President Joe [...]
DETROIT (AP) — If Donald Trump makes good on his proposal to end federal tax credits for electric-vehicle purchases, sales of EVs are expected to slow. Tax credits or not, though, auto companies show no intention of retreating from a transition away from gas-burning cars and trucks, especially given the investment they have already made: [...]