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Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they'd raise property taxes by 57 percent. "There had never been a mention of that," said Geidner, a property owner who helps oversee [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for some of their outpatient drug treatments beginning early next year, the Biden administration announced last week. The White House unveiled a list of 48 drugs — from chemotherapy treatments to growth hormones used to treat endocrine disorders — whose prices increased faster [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate last week passed a defense policy bill that authorizes the biggest pay raise for military personnel in more than two decades. Lawmakers have been negotiating a final bill for months after each chamber passed strikingly different versions in July. A few of the priorities championed by some lawmakers were a [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration hit hundreds of people and firms, from Russia to China to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, with economic and diplomatic sanctions this week as the U.S. targets third-country contributors that are equipping Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The latest round of sanctions landed as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was visiting [...]
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. (AP) — The control stations for America's nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles have a sort of 1980s retro look, with computing panels in sea foam green, bad lighting and chunky control switches, including a critical one that says "launch." Those underground capsules are about to be demolished and the missile [...]
LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Gerston Miranda and his wife were among thousands of migrants recently arriving at this remote area on Arizona's southern border with Mexico, squeezing into the United States through a gap in the wall and walking overnight about 14 miles with two school-aged daughters to surrender to Border Patrol agents. "There is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said it would provide $35 million to BAE Systems to increase production at a New Hampshire factory making computer chips for military aircraft, including F-15 and F-35 jets. It is the first allocation of incentives from last year’s bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which provides more than $52 billion [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change. Federal emergency managers last week announced updates to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting pharmaceutical companies on notice, warning them that if the price of certain drugs is too high, the government might cancel their patent protection and allow rivals to make their own versions. Under a plan announced last week, the government would consider overriding the patent for high-priced drugs [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency said the rule is designed to sharply reduce methane and other air pollutants generated by the oil and gas industry, promote the use of cutting-edge methane detection technologies and deliver public-health benefits in the form [...]