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HONG KONG (AP) — China has hit American-owned vessels docking in the country with tit-for-tat port fees, in response to the American government’s planned port fees on Chinese ships, expanding a string of retaliatory measures before trade talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Vessels owned or operated by American companies or [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two decades later, Congress is on the verge of writing a closing chapter to the war in Iraq. The Senate last week voted to repeal the resolution that authorized the 2003 United States invasion, following a House vote last month that would return the basic war power to Congress. The [...]
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect of reviving the Keystone XL pipeline project with President Donald Trump during his White House visit last week, a government official familiar with the matter said. A Canadian company pulled the plug on it four years ago after the Canadian government failed to persuade [...]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Miami activist alleges that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted a sizable plot of prime downtown real estate to the state, which then transferred it to the foundation for Donald Trump’s future presidential library. The nearly three-acre property is a developer’s dream and [...]
A mid-decade battle over congressional redistricting is playing out in state capitals, in courtrooms and on the ballot. The efforts to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage got jump-started when Texas Republican lawmakers decided to reshape districts. Since then, lawmakers in Democratic-led California and Republican-led Missouri have approved revised districts, and officials in other [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration warned this week of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been long-standing policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House. After the longest government shutdown in 2019, Trump signed into law legislation [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates that allegedly supplied precursor chemicals to make fentanyl to a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. A dozen Mexico-based companies and eight of the people managing them were accused of using their pharmaceutical, laboratory, chemical, cleaning and real estate [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to support the mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals. The long-debated Ambler Road project was approved in Trump’s first term, but was later blocked by the Biden administration after an analysis determined the [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana in the nation’s biggest coal sale in more than a decade. The offer from the Navajo Transitional Energy Co. equates to one-tenth of a penny per ton, underscoring coal’s diminished value even [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano was named to the newly created position of CEO of the IRS, making him the latest member of the Trump administration to be put in charge of multiple federal agencies. As IRS CEO, Bisignano will report to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who currently serves as acting [...]