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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads emerged last week as senators heard fresh testimony on the fiery hazardous train derailment last month on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Commerce Committee peppered Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw with questions about what enhanced safety [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — They are meeting with campaign donors and giving frequent interviews on cable news. They're delivering speeches in early voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire and hobnobbing with local Republican groups. Some are even quietly discussing campaign jobs with political operatives, but don't call them presidential candidates — at least, not [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said earlier this week he is establishing national monuments on more than half a million acres in Nevada and Texas and creating a marine sanctuary in American waters near the Pacific Remote Islands southwest of Hawaii. The conservation measures are "protecting the heart and soul of our national pride,'' [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is making the case for more government support for child-care programs in an economic report that it released earlier this week, drawing on extensive research to say additional spending would improve children’s lives, increase the quality of early childhood schooling and enable more women to hold jobs. The analysis [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska — On the heels of the Biden administration approving a major Alaska oil project, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland waded into another thorny battle in the state — a long-simmering dispute over building a road through a national wildlife refuge to provide health-care access for a remote, and largely Indigenous, community. Building the [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden last week said his administration was focused "intensely" on lowering health-care costs. Biden used a speech in Las Vegas to make the case that there are stark differences in how Democrats are tackling skyrocketing drug prices compared to their Republican counterparts. The president sought to make the contrast [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration's approval of a massive oil development in northern Alaska commits the country to yet another decades long crude project even as scientists urgently warn that only a halt to more fossil fuel emissions can stem climate change. ConocoPhillips' Willow project would produce 180,000 barrels of oil a day [...]
DEL RIO, Texas — Long before a Chinese spy balloon captivated and spooked the U.S. public, Kyle Bass foresaw what he deemed another foreign danger slated for skies above the Texas-Mexico border: wind turbines. Dozens of them, roughly 700 feet tall — as big as San Antonio's tallest skyscraper — were set to sprout across [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden was expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote better and more secure firearms storage and ensure federal law enforcement agencies are getting the most out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer. In [...]
Nyhiem Way is weary of people conflating African American and black. Shalini Parekh wants a way for South Asian people to identify themselves differently than East Asians with roots in places like China or Japan and Byron Haskins wants the federal government to toss racial and ethnic labels altogether. "When you set up categories that [...]