Politic related news.
NEW YORK (AP) — Over the past three months, the U.S. Department of Justice’s voting section has requested copies of voter registration lists from state election administrators in at least 15 states, according to an Associated Press tally. In Colorado, the department demanded “all records” relating to the 2024 election and any records the state [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has raised the tariff rate on U.S. imports from Canada to 35 percent from 25 percent, effective Aug. 1. The announcement from the White House said Canada had failed to “do more to arrest, seize, detain or otherwise intercept ... traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs.” Trump has [...]
Attorney General Dave Yost has announced the appointment of Mathura Sridharan as solicitor general, the state’s top attorney for appeals in state and federal courts. Sridharan, who has served as deputy solicitor general since 2021, will fill the vacancy left by Elliot Gaiser, who was tapped to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of [...]
The Trump administration is canceling plans to use large areas of federal waters for new offshore wind development, announcing last week an end to setting aside large areas for “speculative wind development.” More than 3.5 million acres had been designated wind energy areas, the offshore locations deemed most suitable for wind energy development. The Bureau [...]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The United States will deploy biometric technologies in partnership with Chile to control migration and disrupt criminal networks, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said last week during a visit to the South American nation. “This arrangement is going to serve as a bridge to help Chile and the United States work [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Treasury is seeking to recoup COVID-19 pandemic relief funds from hundreds of local governments that received millions of dollars but never complied with requirements to report how they used the money. The federal government distributed $350 billion to state, local, territorial and tribal governments as part of the American [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week said that he will impose a 25 percent tariff on goods from India, plus an additional import tax because of India’s purchase of Russian oil. India “is our friend,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform, but its tariffs “are far too high” on American products. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration earlier this week proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for the federal government’s action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule would rescind a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine congressman and several commercial fishing groups are getting behind a push to delay for 10 years rules designed to protect a vanishing species of whale. The North Atlantic right whale numbers only about 370 and has declined over the last 15 years. They have been the subject of proposed [...]
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — The United States and the European Union on Sunday agreed to a trade framework setting a 15 percent tariff on most goods, staving off far higher import duties on both sides. The announcement came after President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen met briefly at Trump’s Turnberry [...]