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The Colorado Energy Office will receive $250 million from the federal government to improve electricity transmission links between Eastern and Western grids, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday. It’s part...
Read article →Two Louisiana community college chancellors and a North Louisiana district attorney are among the six semifinalists for the Southern University System presidency, the search committee tasked with filling the post anno...
Read article →WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration appeared to disappoint senators from both political parties Thursday with how she answered questions about medication abortion acc...
Read article →WASHINGTON — Despite skyrocketing fuel prices and sinking approval ratings for President Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran ahead of the November midterms, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ efforts Thursday to check ...
Read article →WASHINGTON — Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, includin...
Read article →The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to collaborate on research with other federal agencies as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluates the human health risks of the widely used pesticide, ...
Read article →Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier told reporters Thursday in Palm Beach County that state agents have arrested 20 people for voter fraud in Florida. Sixteen of them, they said, were non-citizens wh...
Read article →This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Google would help pay for upgrades to Georgia’s nuclear reactors under an agreement recently a...
Read article →International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump administration’s immigra...
Read article →As the energy industry scrambles to meet surging electricity demand, largely from AI data centers, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is poised to spend nearly $2 billion to help fund 31 grid improvement projects in ...
Read article →Gov. Andy Beshear asked Kentucky’s congressional delegation in a Thursday letter to throw their support behind a bill amending the Black Lung Benefits Act to “provide adequate benefits for miners suffering from black ...
Read article →The juvenile detention center in Durham no longer confines youth to a solitary cell they called “the hole” for discipline or suicide watch, Disability Rights of North Carolina reports, but youth still spend almost all...
Read article →Voter information guides in 11 of Montgomery County's 257 precincts will be reprinted and mailed out by next week to voters in the affected precincts, after voters reported errors regarding polling places and party af...
Read article →For years, I watched young families chase a familiar version of the American dream: land the right job, save enough money for a down payment, and find a home in a community where they could raise their children safely...
Read article →Questions about labor protections, traffic and taxpayer costs filled a packed hearing Tuesday night in Largo, as the Prince George’s County Council heard from the public about the proposed Sphere at National Harbor.
Read article →The Office of Inspector General for Health did almost 1,400 audits and investigations over the last four years and found more than $42 million in improper or unrecovered payments -- but those reports have only recentl...
Read article →This story is made possible through a partnership between Interlochen Public Radio and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. A decades-old contaminated groundwater plume from industrial chemicals in Ant...
Read article →Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday announced charges against two Michigan residents accused of making terrorist threats against public officials in unrelated incidents, including the mayor of Dearborn, Gov. Gretch...
Read article →The Clark County Education Association is calling on Nevada lawmakers to stop pushing to ban data centers entirely and instead focus their efforts on ensuring revenue from the data center boom benefits public educatio...
Read article →The president of Baltimore City Community College defended the school against a recent state audit that found management problems and the potential payment of financial aid to nonexistent "ghost students," but lawmake...
Read article →The town of Hudson has refused for months to take any steps to review and enforce its zoning code as it applies to a planned immigration detention center there, say the plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking to block the fac...
Read article →Cecil County leaders and community members are scrambling to piece together solutions to the loss this summer of the county's only birthing center, after the closure of the unit at ChristianaCare Union Hospital in Elk...
Read article →Concerned that Nevada agencies have relied on artificial intelligence without much oversight, state lawmakers are proposing legislation to establish basic standards on how the technology is used by state and local gov...
Read article →In a crowded school cafeteria in Cumberland Monday evening, residents of the rural county gathered to hear Dominion Energy representatives detail the gas plant the utility is pitching to the local leaders and state re...
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