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WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands more firearms dealers across the country will have to run background checks on buyers when selling at gun shows or other places outside brick-and-mortar stores, according to a Biden administration rule that will soon go into effect. The rule aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of [...]
DETROIT — The Biden administration awarded $830 million in grants last week to fund 80 projects aimed at buttressing the nation’s aging infrastructure against the harmful impacts of climate change. The money is expected to improve bridges, roads, ports, rail, transit and other infrastructure across 37 states, Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands, particularly those [...]
The Biden administration earlier this week finalized limits on certain so-called "forever chemicals" in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured. Officials say this will reduce exposure for 100 million people and help prevent thousands of illnesses, including cancers. The rule is the first [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — A Senate subcommittee has summoned Boeing CEO David Calhoun to testify about the company's jetliners in an inquiry prompted by new safety-related charges from a whistleblower. The panel said it will hold a hearing next week featuring a Boeing quality engineer, Sam Salehpour, who is expected to detail safety concerns involving the [...]
BEIJING (AP) — The Biden administration will push China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to American jobs, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said earlier this week after wrapping up four days of talks with Chinese officials. She also said in Beijing they had “difficult conversations” about national security, including American concerns that [...]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Biden administration earlier this week pledged to provide up to $6.6 billion so that a Taiwanese semiconductor giant can expand the facilities it is already building in Arizona and better ensure that the most-advanced microchips are produced domestically for the first time. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the funding for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has denounced Hong Kong's new national security law as a tool to potentially silence dissent both at home and abroad, but so far the action from Washington has been notably muted, disappointing those fighting for the Chinese territory's democracy and freedoms. Since the law's passage on March 19, the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Like many Americans, Richard Bidon says he'd like to see the U.S. government "go back to its original design" — a system of checks and balances developed nearly 240 years ago to prevent any branch, especially the presidency, from becoming too powerful. That's mainly when Republicans are in power, however. Bidon, an [...]
DETROIT (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency last week awarded $20 billion in federal "green bank" grants to eight community development banks and non-profit organizations for use in disadvantaged communities and help Americans reduce their carbon footprints. The money could fund tens of thousands of eligible projects ranging from residential heat pumps and other energy-efficient [...]
The Biden administration this week approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state’s former coal-fired generating station. Avangrid’s New England Wind is the nation’s eighth large offshore wind project to be greenlit and is tied for the largest ever approved, but will [...]