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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's re-election campaign has been hiding in plain sight all along. The contours of the 2024 campaign that Biden will formally launch with a video that could be released as soon as this week will look a lot like his messaging and policy moves from the past few months: Play [...]
STOCKHOLM — Global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022 to an all-time high of $2.24 trillion, with a sharp rise in Europe, chiefly due to Russian and Ukrainian expenditure, a Swedish think tank said this week. Spending globally increased by 3.7 percent in real terms, but military expenditure in Europe was [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Only about half of Democrats think President Joe Biden should run again in 2024, a poll shows, but a large majority say they'd be likely to support him if he became the nominee. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 26 percent of Americans overall want [...]
The Biden administration plans to release more than $80 million in funding in a push to produce more solar panels in the country, make solar energy available to more people, and pursue superior alternatives to the sparkly panels made with silicon. Officials from the Department of Energy were scheduled to announce the investments last week. [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Biden administration has identified more than 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on government land and plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation's woodlands from fires, insects and other side effects of climate change. U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands combined [...]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Tribal colleges and universities around the country will be able to tap nearly $15 million in grant funding to boost clean-energy development as part of the federal government's latest investment in creating more reliable and sustainable electricity generation for Native American communities. The U.S. Department of Energy announced the new funding [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before ballots are tallied and reliable polls are conducted, one of the earliest ways to gauge the popularity of presidential candidates is with dollars. Getting donors to part with their money is a key measure of viability, especially in the early stages of a White House campaign. Those who raise ample [...]
CHICAGO (AP) — For many progressives, the past decade has been littered with disappointments, but recent down-ballot victories are providing hope of reshaping the Democratic Party from the bottom up, rather than from Washington. In Chicago earlier this month, a former teacher's union organizer unexpectedly won the mayor's race. In St. Louis, progressives secured a [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden last week announced that hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children will be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges. The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to [...]
PHOENIX — Native American tribal members fighting plans for an enormous copper mine on land they consider sacred say they are increasingly worried federal officials will publish an environmental review paving the way for the project even as they await a federal appeals court ruling in the case. A government attorney said during last month's [...]