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SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Maine has sued the state’s Democratic House speaker over her censure that followed a social media post about a transgender athlete participating in high school sports. Rep. Laurel Libby’s posted about a high school athlete who won a girls’ track competition. The post included a photo of […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Wednesday that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court’s ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election. The initial ruling by a Dane County Circuit Court judge allowing for the ballots to be emailed, made in
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and likely further limit the wetlands it covers, building on a Supreme Court decision two years ago that removed federal protections for significant areas. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said at agency headquarters in Washington that
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US military healthcare is unprepared for high numbers of wounded in a potential Pacific conflict. The National Disaster Medical System needs revitalization to boost military-civilian medical ties. US military experiences in combat casualty care over the past two decades won’t translate. There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to great-power war, but one
DENVER (AP) — When President Donald Trump gave his joint address to Congress last week, he boasted that in his first few weeks back in the White House he had “brought free speech back to America.” But First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in
Getty images; Tyler Le/BI Lately, on Twitter/X/whatever you want to call it these days, there’s been a noticeable uptick in nostalgia for Steven Mnuchin, the treasury secretary during President Donald Trump’s first term. “Come back Steve Mnuchin I miss you Steve Mnuchin,” one user wrote in early March. “Steve Mnuchin was the best Trump 1
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — When Missouri’s attorney general says he’ll seize Chinese-owned assets to force China to pay a $24.5 billion award won by the state in a lawsuit over COVID-19, the threat might be more important than actually collecting any money. Similarly, when Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey sued Starbucks last month, alleging
The Trump administration is halting a $1 billion program that helps preserve affordable housing, threatening projects that keep tens of thousands of units livable for low-income Americans, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press. The action is part of a slew of cuts and funding freezes at the U.S. Department of Housing and
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland is having a moment in the international spotlight as U.S. President Donald Trump maneuvers to gain control of the mineral-rich Arctic territory that most people know only as a huge icy island at the top of the world. But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers,
A look at the history of Greenland, from Viking raiders to Donald Trump Read More »
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — When U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019, people thought it was just a joke. No one is laughing now. Trump’s interest in Greenland, restated vigorously soon after he returned to the White House in January, comes as part of an aggressively “America First” foreign policy platform that
What makes Greenland a strategic prize at a time of rising tensions? And why now? Read More »
