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MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Some shelters south of the United States border with Mexico are caring for many more migrants now that the Biden administration stopped considering most asylum requests, while others have yet to see much of a change. The impact appears uneven more than a week after the temporary suspension took effect. Shelters [...]
Adrian Perkins was running for re-election as the mayor of Shreveport, La., when he said he was surprised by a harsh campaign hit piece. The satirical TV commercial, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to depict Perkins as a high school student who had been called into the principal's office. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero to replace Martin Gruenberg as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Last week’s announcement from the White House came after Gruenberg’s tenure became marred by allegations of workplace abuse that led to him to resign. A longtime financial regulator, Goldsmith Romero is [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — States are looking to increase their take from the $16 billion online sports gambling industry as the industry expands across the country with big partnerships. DraftKings, FanDuel and other betting apps are facing a bigger tax hit in Illinois following changes to tax policy this year. New Jersey, Massachusetts and other [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's influence on a federal energy commission will last beyond his current term, giving a boost to the Democrat's push for renewable energy regardless of the election results in November. The Senate last week approved two new members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and set up a vote on [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A contested East Coast natural gas pipeline was given the go-ahead this week to start operating, six years after construction began at more than double its original estimated cost. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline project across mountainsides in West Virginia and Virginia over longstanding objections [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As he campaigns for re-election, President Joe Biden frequently touts his work on student debt, pointing to the millions of people who received cancellation under his watch. Relatively few Americans, however, say they're fans of his work on the issue, even among those who have student loans. Only 3 in 10 adults [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is telling lawmakers that President Joe Biden is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests at the United States-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, with the border reopening only once that number declines [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With only five months before voters head to the polls, the United States may be more vulnerable to foreign disinformation aimed at influencing voters and undermining democracy than it was before the 2020 election, the leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said earlier this week. Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, based [...]
COLSTRIP, Mont. (AP) — Actions by President Joe Biden's administration that could hasten closures of coal power plants and the mines that supply them are reviving Republican rhetoric about a so-called "war on coal" ahead of the November election. The front line in the political battle over the fuel is in the Powder River Basin [...]