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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to American weapons funding. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterparts in a letter [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of Democrats in Congress appealed to the largest American companies to hold onto their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying such efforts give everyone a fair chance at achieving the American dream. The 49 House members, led by U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia of California, shared their views in a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign governments are targeting House and Senate races around the country in their effort to meddle with American democracy this election year, intelligence officials are warning. Russia and China have launched influence operations designed to help or hurt candidates in specific congressional races. Without giving specifics about the number of affected races, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the conflict in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released Monday on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on [...]
PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — Residents in Sonoma County, which is home to half a million people north of San Francisco, will vote this fall on a measure aimed at putting an end to large-scale confined animal agriculture. The proposal would require the county to phase out what federal authorities call concentrated animal feeding operations, or [...]
COLUMBUS — Clouds of bubbles streamed aloft and Charli XCX’s song “Talk Talk” boomed alongside a 19-foot Airstream Caravel, as the League of Women Voters of Ohio’s statewide roadshow aimed at registering student voters and exciting them about democracy rolled onto Ohio State University’s main campus last week. The travel trailer, on loan from its [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Votes cast in Ohio for Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will not count because the party nominated her running mate after a state administrative deadline, according to state election officials. Stein, who filed to run as an independent presidential candidate in Ohio because the Green Party lost state recognition several years [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Waves of sanctions imposed by the Biden administration after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine haven’t inflicted the devastating blow to Moscow’s economy that some had expected. In a new report, two researchers are offering reasons why. Oleg Itskhoki of Harvard University and Elina Ribakova of the Peterson Institute for International Economics argue that [...]
In Georgia, election workers will have to hand count the number of ballots cast after voting is completed. In North Carolina, some students and university staff can use their digital IDs to vote. In Wisconsin, ballot drop boxes are legal again, although not every voting jurisdiction will use them. Across the country, new or recently [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Partnerships between the United States and China at universities during the past decade have allowed hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to aid Beijing in developing critical technology that could be used for military purposes, congressional Republicans asserted in a new report. The report said American tax dollars have contributed [...]