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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kremlin is turning to unwitting Americans and commercial public relations firms in Russia to spread disinformation about the presidential race, top United States intelligence officials said earlier this week, detailing the latest efforts by America's adversaries to shape public opinion ahead of November’s election. The warning comes after a tumultuous few [...]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department must invest more to upgrade sensors, communications and space-based technologies in the Arctic to keep pace with China and Russia, which are increasingly operating there, including in joint military exercises, a new Pentagon strategy says. Saying that now is “a critical time” for the Arctic, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has appointed a bipartisan, independent panel to review this month's assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, officials said. The panel members will have "extensive law enforcement and security experience to conduct a 45-day independent review of the planning for and actions taken by the U.S. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $4.3 billion in grants to fund projects in 30 states to reduce pollution. The money will go to 25 projects targeting greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, electric power, commercial and residential buildings, industry, agriculture and waste and materials management. The grants are funded by the 2022 [...]
The last time Congress passed a law designed to protect children on the internet was in 1998 — before Facebook, before the iPhone and long before today's oldest teenagers were born. Now, a bill aiming to protect kids from the harms of social media, gaming sites and other online platforms appears to have enough bipartisan [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Under American pressure, Israel has pledged to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. At the same time, the United States and Israel have allowed tax-deductible donations to groups that have blocked that aid from being delivered. Three groups that have prevented humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza — [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — By now, Georgia officials expected their new Medicaid plan, the only one in the nation with a work requirement, to provide health insurance to 25,000 low-income residents and possibly tens of thousands more. A year since its launch, however, Pathways to Coverage has approximately 4,300 members, much lower than what state officials [...]
SEATTLE — The U.S. and Canada said last week they have agreed to update a six-decade-old treaty that governs the use of one of North America's largest rivers, the Columbia, with provisions that officials said would provide for effective flood control, irrigation and hydropower generation and sharing between the countries. The "agreement in principle," reached [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed legislation last week to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. The Federal Prison Oversight Act, which the House passed in May, now goes [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Two swing districts in a swing county may very well decide which party controls the House in the swing state of Pennsylvania, one of several in which pivotal legislative battles are playing out in the shadow of the presidential campaign. Democrat Brian Munroe and Republican Joe Hogan were elected nearly two [...]