The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.Rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have showed that greenhouse gases and global warming are harming public health
The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin has claimed that previous administrations used the endangerment finding to justify “trillions of dollars” in regulations on poll
The announcement came more than two months into an operation that has led to tense protests, thousands of arrests and three shootings in the Democratic-led state.Tom Homan, the White House border czar, in a news conference earlier this month.
President Trump initially deployed the troops in those cities to support law enforcement efforts to tamp down protests against immigration raids and protecting buildings.Members of the National Guard at their temporary barracks at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Ill., a suburb of Ch
The debate over whether federal agents should be allowed to cover their faces with masks has become a flashpoint as the government heads for a partial shutdown.A masked Customs and Border Protection agent during an arrest in Minneapolis last month.
A whistle-blower has accused Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, of blocking distribution of a report that Jared Kushner’s name came up in an intercepted communication about Iran.Jared Kushner during a briefing at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel in October
Judge Richard J. Leon found that attempts to discipline Mark Kelly for a video that warned against following illegal orders would violate the senator’s First Amendment rights.Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, at the Capitol on Wednesday.
U.S. companies and consumers are paying most of the cost of tariffs, in the form of higher prices.
The justices put the case on a fast track at the administration’s urging. But they don’t seem in a rush to rule on the president’s signature economic program.The next scheduled day for the announcement of Supreme Court decisions is Feb. 20.
Hundreds of people attended a rally on Thursday to re-raise the flag, setting up a defiant response to the Trump administration’s assault on diversity initiatives.Days after the Pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, federal employees raised an American flag in its
At 85, Jan Worrell lived alone on a remote corner of the Washington coast. Could ElliQ become her companion?
The attack at a secondary school and a private residence in the small, remote community in British Columbia has left families stunned and grief-stricken.
Last-minute announcements and abrupt changes by the Trump administration have caused confusion in an already strained U.S. aviation system.A nearly deserted security checkpoint at El Paso International Airport on Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration announced a 10-day ban on flights o
The U.S. has spent billions of dollars developing counter-drone technology, but much of it needs more testing in the real world.Many flights at El Paso International Airport were canceled on Wednesday, when the Federal Aviation Administration shut down air traffic there for hours.
U.S. officials warn that cartel-operated drones on the border pose a major threat. Mexican officials are less certain. Analysts say the answer is likely in between.The border wall between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico.
The agency is seeking Chinese officials who are frustrated with corruption in the People’s Liberation Army.Members of the People’s Liberation Army attending a ceremony in December. Corruption in China’s military has hampered its push to modernize and improve capabilities.
From the moment you take a sip, drinking starts to influence your biology. Here’s an inside look.
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.
The new projects, expected to be announced on Friday, will reverse decisions made by the Adams administration, and help the new mayor fulfill his vow to make buses fast and free in New York.The new projects are expected to include offset bus lanes on Fordham Road, the busiest bus route in the Bronx.
The police said they were seeking three men and one woman in connection with the shooting, which killed Christopher Redding, 16. Two other teenagers were injured.A teenager was killed and two others wounded in a shooting on a Bronx street.
Kevin Taylor, who ran the School Safety Division, received cash, luxury hotel lodging and a helicopter ride for promising to help steer city contracts to a Florida businessman, prosecutors said.
It’s finally warming up, which means the storm will most likely bring rain instead of more dreaded ice. But forecasters warned that there may be a lot of it.Rain is likely to hit Arkansas, along with other parts of the South.
His song “The Distance,” released in 1996, became an anthem for the disaffected members of Generation X.Mr. Brown in 1996. He left Cake after “Fashion Nugget,” partly over differences with the lead singer, John McCrea.
Mr. Trump’s attempted election takeover is already underway.
