Donald Trump's response to the Iranian missile attack on US military bases in Iraq is defying the expectations (and perhaps the hopes) of both Democratic and Republican neocon hawks. After...
January 9, 2020
New Hampshire Democrats aren't maxed out on trying to set and increase a minimum wage. The Democrat-led New Hampshire House voted once again Thursday to establish and gradually increase the...
January 9, 2020
Officials have identified the man shot and wounded by law enforcement officers in Pocatello Monday evening as a 29-year-old Trevor Alan Vanhorn of Idaho Falls. The Idaho State Journal reports...
January 9, 2020
All 37,000 of the lead water pipes in New Jersey's capital city will be replaced over the next five years at an estimated cost of $150 million, Trenton officials said...
January 9, 2020
Gov. Mike Parson said he wants state lawmakers to consider another year of funding for a program that helped cities and counties repair roads and bridges. The program that Parson...
January 9, 2020
A top Federal Reserve official believes that the U.S. central bank needs to re-orient its thinking and policies toward fighting inflation that is too low, rather than its historic focus...
January 9, 2020
Leaders of advocacy groups warned lawmakers on Thursday that the fight over a failed citizenship question, the digital divide and the wording of questions on Hispanic origin and race may...
January 9, 2020
West Virginia Democrats on Thursday said their 2020 legislative platform will focus on education, infrastructure, small businesses and social services. Democrats in the GOP-led statehouse detailed their “West Virginians First”...
January 9, 2020
An effort to drastically reshape government in Atlantic City, which has a tradition of corruption so extensive and colorful that it was the star of hit HBO series “Boardwalk Empire,”...
January 9, 2020
A proposed constitutional amendment that would have deregulated Florida's energy industry won't be on the November ballot after the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the ballot language is misleading....
January 9, 2020
Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are quitting their ‘senior roles' within the firm also known as the British Royal family and starting a new life –...
January 9, 2020
More than 2,000 people in shelters. Nearly one million without power. Hundreds of thousands without water. The aftermath of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that killed one person, injured nine others and...
January 9, 2020
Top lawmakers said Thursday that Gov. Jay Inslee's plan to use hundreds of millions of dollars from the state's emergency budget reserve to combat Washington's homelessness crisis was unlikely to...
January 9, 2020
An ongoing audit of Montana's Medicaid program threatens to delay or increase the costs of infrastructure projects approved by the Legislature, state officials said. The governor's budget office and the...
January 9, 2020
Some Vermont lawmakers and other officials Thursday urged the full Legislature to pass a law to tax and regulate marijuana sales in the state. While it became legal to possess...
January 9, 2020
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, a former teacher and state superintendent of schools, assigned “homework” to the Republican-controlled Legislature on Thursday, calling on them to spend more money on combating homelessness,...
January 9, 2020
Iowa Auditor Rob Sand criticized the Iowa Department of Human Services on Thursday for providing his auditors with data for the agency's Medicaid Home Health Program that was so flawed...
January 9, 2020
Both of New Hampshire's senators support the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, saying it will help businesses in the state. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said in a statement Thursday that the trade deal...
January 9, 2020
Law enforcement agencies in Wisconsin are not consistently reporting human trafficking cases, leading to incomplete information and is likely undercounting the number of people who are forced into the sex...
January 9, 2020
A Connecticut contractor has been charged with failing to reimburse a youth soccer club the $17,000 it paid him for an artificial turf field that he never installed. Robert Malloy,...
January 9, 2020
A proposed gas plant could help reduce wasteful flaring in the northern region of the Bakken oil patch. Outrigger Energy, of Denver, wants to build a plant in Williams County...
January 9, 2020
A Mexican man killed himself on a bridge connecting Reynosa, Mexico and Pharr, Texas, temporarily shutting down a portion of the bridge, Mexican officials said Thursday. U.S. Customs and Border...
January 9, 2020
City officials in Colorado have declined an offer from an Indiana-based company interested in buying multiple affordable housing complexes in the city. RealAmerica Companies approached the city of Aspen and...
January 9, 2020
Who loves the sun? More Americans than ever, according to U-Haul. In its latest moving survey, the moving giant said Florida had beaten out Texas as the No. 1 moving...
January 9, 2020
Imagine waking up one day – as Iraq did – to find the US superpower on your couch. Not only was it not invited, it is breaking things and provoking...
January 9, 2020
Microsoft says it has developed a technique to detect online predators who try to groom children for sexual purposes using the chat function in multiplayer video games. The tech company,...
January 9, 2020
Pat Hurst was selected captain of the U.S. team for the 2021 Solheim Cup on Thursday. The 50-year-old Hurst was an assistant to Juli Inkster for the matches against Europe...
January 9, 2020
U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week to their lowest level in 13 weeks, as financial markets roiled by U.S.-Iran conflict pushed investors toward the safety of Treasury bonds. The...
January 9, 2020
Gov. Henry McMaster wants to expand full-day pre-kindergarten for low-income 4-year-olds to every school district across South Carolina. The program was created in 2006 in response to a lawsuit by...
January 9, 2020
Portland lawmakers have approved a $4.5 million contract with a hazardous waste removal company to clean up homeless encampments around the city. The City Commission unanimously voted to give the...
January 9, 2020
Spirit Airlines broke ground Thursday on the company's new $250 million headquarters in Dania Beach. The company will move from its existing headquarters in Miramar as soon as the 500,000-square-foot...
January 9, 2020
No barfing bartenders dotted the latest monthly roundup of cruise ship inspections, but some of the fruit that inspectors saw might make you want to do a little gastrointestinal refunding....
January 9, 2020
The L.L. Bean headquarters is staying put in the Maine community where the mail-order company was founded, after the company considered alternative locations to expand its corporate headquarters. The company...
January 9, 2020
Several Iowa and Illinois counties hope to form a sprawling port district along the Mississippi River — a plan that backers say would improve access to federal funding and aid...
January 9, 2020
Kansas' Democratic governor and a top Republican lawmaker on Thursday outlined a new proposal for expanding the state's Medicaid program, breaking an impasse that had allowed a handful of GOP...
January 9, 2020
Buyers from outside the state have purchased 24% of homes across Hawaii, the state's head economist said. Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism Chief Economist Eugene Tian shared the...
January 9, 2020
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis delivers his second state of the state address Thursday, outlining his policy priorities — with a particular emphasis on healthcare — to a Legislature in the...
January 9, 2020
How happy were customers and workers with Walmart's new, cashier-less neighborhood market? They broke out in an impromptu dance party. The new Coral Way store, which marks the debut of...
January 9, 2020
Alaska's 2019 population has dipped to its lowest level since 2012 because of a falling birth rate and a decrease in the number of new arrivals to the state, officials...
January 9, 2020
The Trump administration is proposing to speed up approval for pipelines and other major oil and gas projects as part of a sweeping change in enforcement of one of the...
