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WASHINGTON — With the GOP presidential primaries just about to start, many Republicans aren't certain that votes will be counted correctly in their contest, as pessimism spreads about the future of both the Democratic and Republican parties, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About one-third of Republicans [...]
WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a prestigious professorship in California and was conducting promising research on Parkinson's disease. Now Fu is doing his research at a Chinese university. His American career [...]
WASHINGTON — This Congress started with showy bluster, a bitter 15-round, multiday spectacle to elect a House speaker, a Republican who vowed to "never quit," and then did just that. House lawmakers proceeded not only to oust the GOP speaker, they also punished their own colleagues with censures and expulsion, launched an impeachment inquiry into [...]
BEXLEY — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been visiting hospitals and speaking with families helped and harmed by gender-affirming care as he decides what action to take on legislation preventing minors from obtaining such treatments, he told The Associated Press in a year-end interview. "I'm trying to learn as much as I can to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration released its highly anticipated proposal for doling out billions of dollars in tax credits to hydrogen producers last week, in a massive effort to build out an industry that some hope can be a cleaner alternative to fossil fueled power. The U.S. credit is the most generous in the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid grueling negotiations, the contours of a bipartisan border security and immigration deal are beginning to take shape, emerging even as Congress left town having failed to publicly unveil any details of the package that's central to unlocking stalled aid for Ukraine. Talks between the White House and key senators have not [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The number of immigrants to the United States jumped to the highest level in two decades this year, driving the nation's overall population growth, according to estimates released earlier this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The country added 1.6 million people, more than two-thirds of which came from international migration, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency conducted more on-site inspections of polluting industrial sites this year than any time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said earlier this week as it seeks to reinvigorate its enforcement program after more than a decade of budget cuts. EPA opened nearly 200 criminal investigations [...]
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Hundreds of dates are written on concrete-filled steel columns erected along the United States border with Mexico to memorialize when the Border Patrol has repaired illicit openings in the wouldbe barriers. No sooner are fixes made than another column is sawed, torched and chiseled for large groups of migrants to enter, [...]
BISMARCK, N.D. — All election ballots would be counted by hand under a proposal that could go to North Dakota voters, potentially achieving a goal of people across the country who distrust modern vote counting but dismaying election officials who say the change would needlessly delay vote tallies and lead to more errors. Backers of [...]