WASHINGTON (AP) — All new cars and light trucks would be able to talk wirelessly with each other, with traffic lights and with other roadway infrastructure under a proposal released Tuesday by the Transportation Department. Officials say the technology holds the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths and transform driving. Vehicle-to-vehicle communications, or V2V, enables [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Republican lawmaker wants to overhaul Social Security, the decades-old program that provides benefits to some 60 million retirees and disabled, with a plan to gradually increase the retirement age and slow the growth of benefits for higher-income workers. Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas, the chairman of the House Ways and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — For members of Congress, there’s nothing more American than baseball, apple pie and big defense contracts. After President-elect Donald Trump attacked the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on Monday as “out of control,” several lawmakers responded by praising the Pentagon’s most expensive weapons acquisition. Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, [...]
WASHINGTON — Republicans are eagerly planning initial votes next month on dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law, a cherished GOP goal. But many worry that while Congress tries to replace it, the party will face ever-angrier voters, spooked health insurers and the possibility of tumbling off a political cliff. Republicans have said they first [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — There isn’t much doubt about what the Federal Reserve will do when its latest policy meeting ends today: It’s all but certain to raise its benchmark interest rate — its first increase in a year. The real anticipation surrounds what Fed officials may or may not say about the pace of future [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — One by one, key health care industry groups are telling the incoming Republican administration and Congress that it’s not a good idea to repeal the 2010 health care law without clear plans to address the consequences. Hospitals, insurers and actuaries — bean-counters who make long-range economic estimates — weighed in recently, and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, arrived to a recent meeting with Donald Trump, the president-elect greeted him with a blunt question. “Did you think I was going to win?” Trump asked. The entertainment mogul, who has known Trump socially for years, offered an honest and candid response: “No,” [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — American students have a math problem. The latest global snapshot of student performance shows declining math scores in the U.S. and stagnant performance in science and reading. “We’re losing ground — a troubling prospect when, in today’s knowledge-based economy, the best jobs can go anywhere in the world,” said Education Secretary John [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the government in a legal clash over the nation’s insider trading laws, a victory for prosecutors seeking to curb corruption on Wall Street. The justices ruled that sharing corporate secrets with friends or relatives is illegal even if the insider providing the tip doesn’t [...]
WASHINGTON — Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are joining forces to more quickly identify the worst terrorist propaganda and prevent it from spreading online. The new program would create a database of unique digital “fingerprints” to help automatically identify videos or images the companies could remove. The move by the technology companies, which is expected [...]