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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trumpeting Medicare's new powers to negotiate directly with drugmakers on the cost of prescription medications — but a poll shows that any immediate political boost that Biden gets for enacting the popular policy may be limited. Three-quarters of Americans, or 76 percent, favor allowing the federal health-care program [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — States and Native American tribes will have greater authority to block energy projects, such as natural gas pipelines, that could pollute rivers and streams under a final rule issued last week by the Biden administration. The rule, which takes effect in November, reverses a Trump-era action that limited the ability of states [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio attorney general’s office last week again rejected petition language for a constitutional amendment aimed at remaking the state’s troubled system for drawing political maps, frustrating the effort’s backers. In his rejection letter, Republican Dave Yost said Citizens Not Politicians’ second submission had one “critical omission”: how party affiliation would be [...]
Child poverty in the United States more than doubled and median household income declined last year when coronavirus pandemic-era government benefits expired and inflation kept rising, according to figures released earlier this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The reports reflected the sometimes-conflicting factors last year buffeting households. Workers faced a robust jobs market, with [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on federal lands, including making companies for the first time pay royalties on what they extract. A plan led by the Interior Department also calls for the creation of a mine leasing [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about accomplishing a potentially impossible task: passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks. Earlier this week, he convened a meeting of some of the country's most prominent technology executives, [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A coalition of environmental groups is seeking to force the Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen its regulation of large livestock operations that release pollutants into waterways. Food & Water Watch and a dozen other environmental and community groups filed a lawsuit last week in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House Situation Room — a space of mystique and even greater secrecy — just received a $50 million facelift. Actually, "room" is a misnomer. It's a 5,500-square-foot, highly secure complex of conference rooms and offices on the ground floor of the West Wing. These are the rooms where history happens, [...]
President Joe Biden last week nominated a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration after his first choice withdrew in March after running into opposition from Republican senators. The White House said Biden nominated Michael G. Whitaker, a former deputy administrator at the FAA. He is currently the chief operating officer of [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration last week canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, overturning sales held in the Trump administration's waning days, and proposed stronger protections against development on vast swaths of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The Department of Interior's scrapping of the leases comes [...]