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The Biden administration has announced $251 million for carbon capture and storage projects in seven states, aiming to reduce planet-warming pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities. The announcement represents a vote of confidence by the government in the nascent technology, which proponents, often from oil and gas industries, say could have a huge [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Under a new proposal intended to protect students, nearly two-thirds of cosmetology certificate programs at for-profit colleges would risk losing federal funding. So would more than a third of such programs in massage therapy and dental support services. Overall, 22 percent of programs at for-profit schools would face a federal crackdown, according [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is vowing to hold the states that won him the White House in 2020, but also compete in places it lost, such as North Carolina and increasingly Republican-dominated Florida, providing what it says are "a number of viable pathways to the 270 electoral votes" needed to clinch [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — College programs that leave graduates underpaid or buried in loans would be cut off from federal money under a proposal issued last week by the Biden administration, but the rules would apply only to for-profit colleges and a tiny fraction of programs at traditional universities. The Education Department is calling it a [...]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden this week vetoed a congressional resolution that would have reinstated tariffs on solar panel imports from Southeast Asia, settling for now a long-running dispute over whether to punish China for trade violations that bypass U.S. rules limiting imports of cheap solar panels from Asia. The result of Biden's veto is [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of migrants encountered at the southern border fell 50 percent during the first three days after the ending of a key pandemic-era regulation compared with the days leading up to conclusion of the restrictions, according to federal immigration officials. A high number of migrants, however, are still in American custody, [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. — Biden administration officials this week sought to dispel worries they want to exclude oil drilling, livestock grazing and other activities from vast government-owned lands, as they faced pushback from Republicans and ranchers over a contentious proposal to put conservation on equal footing with industry. The proposal would allow conservationists and others to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Joe Biden was running for president three years ago, he flew on a white private jet with his campaign logo painted on the side. Now he has a larger, more recognizable ride as he seeks a second term. Like his predecessors, he'll be crisscrossing the country on Air Force One. Every [...]
NIIGATA, Japan — After dozens of standoffs with Congress over government spending in recent decades, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week that in her opinion, the United States should adopt a different system for national finances. Emphasizing that it was her own opinion, not President Joe Biden's, Yellen said there are various alternatives for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate voted narrowly last week to overturn two Biden administration policies intended to protect endangered species. Senators called for reinstating a rule adopted under former President Donald Trump but rescinded by the Biden administration that limited which lands and waters could be designated as places for imperiled animals and plants [...]