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A recent audit of the state Broadcast Educational Media Commission, or BEMC, found that fewer than half of Ohio’s public television stations and the channels they operate use the agency system devised to provide funding assistance for public-media programming. Members of the state auditor’s Ohio Performance Team determined that the agency currently operates the Joint [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump last week ordered federal government officials to consolidate wildland firefighting into a single program, despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes. The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts now split among five agencies and two Cabinet departments. [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — President Donald Trump last week pulled the federal government out of an agreement with Washington, Oregon and four American Indian tribes to work together to restore salmon populations and boost tribal clean-energy development in the Pacific Northwest, deriding the plan as “radical environmentalism” that could have resulted in the breaching of four [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation that would solidify federal policies cracking down on the synthetic opioid fentanyl and its analogs in a bid by lawmakers to combat the nation’s opioid epidemic. The HALT Fentanyl Act makes permanent a 2018 emergency rule that classifies knockoffs of fentanyl as Schedule I controlled substances, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a resolution that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The state quickly announced it was challenging the move in court, with California’s attorney general holding a news conference to discuss the lawsuit before Trump’s signing ceremony ended at the White House. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency last week proposed repealing rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, an action that Administrator Lee Zeldin said would remove billions of dollars in costs for industry and help “unleash” American energy. The EPA also proposed changing a regulation that [...]
GANZHOU, China (AP) — China’s dominance over critical minerals in global supply chains was a powerful bargaining chip in trade talks between Beijing and Washington that concluded with both sides saying they have a framework to pursue a deal. China has spent decades building the world’s main industrial chain for mining and processing such materials, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week announced that the United States will get magnets and rare earth minerals from China under a new trade framework and that tariffs on Chinese goods will total 55 percent. In return, Trump said, the U.S. will provide China “what was agreed to,” including allowing Chinese students [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites across broad landscapes, including two in California created by his predecessor at the request of Native American tribes. A Justice Department legal opinion released earlier this week disavowed a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America’s intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said. Speaking to a technology conference this week, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information. The sometimes slow pace of [...]