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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force last week announced the permanent location for additional U.S. Space Force units — and none of them are in Huntsville, Ala., suggesting the service may be moving ahead with at least part of the design it originally sought for the new force before it became entangled in politics. Four [...]
Vanessa Martinez was finishing preparations for her daughter’s second birthday in September 2021 when her ex-boyfriend broke into her Mesa, Ariz., condo and shot her in the head as she frantically tried to shield their three young children. Doctors had to remove a third of her skull, but Martinez survived. She left the hospital facing [...]
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The day that President Joe Biden's administration ended a public health measure blocking many asylum-seekers at the Mexican border during the coronavirus pandemic, Teodoso Vargas was ready to show American officials his scars and photos of his bullet-riddled body. Instead, he stood frozen with his pregnant wife and 5-year-old son at [...]
BOSTON (AP) — Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America's shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government. The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration is to preserve the properties, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has canceled plans to award a $200 million grant to an American battery manufacturer amid criticism from Republican lawmakers over the company’s alleged ties to China. The cancellation of the award received bipartisan support. Texas-based Microvast was one of 20 companies to win preliminary grants totaling $2.8 billion to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Like the blue and yellow flags that popped up around the country when Russia invaded Ukraine 15 months ago, Americans’ support for Washington's backing of Ukraine has faded a little, but remains widespread, a survey by the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy and NORC shows. It found that half [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When John Podesta left his job as an adviser to President Barack Obama nearly a decade ago, he was confident that hundreds of miles of new power transmission lines were coming to the Southwest, expanding the reach of clean energy throughout the region. So, Podesta was shocked to learn last year, as [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden embarks on his re-election campaign, just 33 percent of American adults say they approve of his handling of the economy and only 24 percent say national economic conditions are in good shape, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Public approval [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — If the fight with Congress over raising the government's debt limit is such a dire threat, why doesn't President Joe Biden just raise the borrowing ceiling himself? It's theoretically possible, but he's all but ruled it out for now. The administration has been searching for possible ways to allow the country to [...]
What a difference little more than two years has made for Madison Township cattle farmer Joe Blystone, former candidate in the Republican primary race for governor. He has gone from fighting to become the state’s grassroots-based governor to believing that only the rich can compete in the political system. In November 2022, Blystone decided he [...]