By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a key role to help President Donald Trump fulfill his pledge to roll back major environmental regulations, including those ...
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday.
Scientists put the odds of a strike at slightly more than 1%.
"We are not worried at all, because of this 99 ...
By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — After fours years of criticizing growing government deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own — how to offset the multitrillion-dollar cost of extending and expanding the tax cuts they passed in ...
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — A Dubai-based developer plans to build a 12-story luxury condominium project on the South Florida site where a building collapsed in 2021, killing 98 people.
DAMAC International said Tuesday that it planned to build The Delmore on the site where the Champlain Towers ...
By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has launched his second bid to oust all transgender troops from the military, and once again it will be headed to the courts to sort it out.
Although the new order will affect only a tiny fraction of America's ...
By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a principal way that it regulates air ...
By MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press
Lee Zeldin said Americans deserve a clean environment "without suffocating the economy" during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a department likely to play a central role in President-elect Donald ...
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — As an unconventional pick to lead the nation's intelligence service, Tulsi Gabbard is expected to face tough questions about her past comments on Syria, Russia, foreign surveillance and President Donald Trump when she goes before ...
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia nursing student whose name became a rallying cry during his White House campaign.
Trump said that he appreciated the ...
By SAFIYAH RIDDLE Associated Press/Report for America
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A man in Alabama filed a $20 million federal civil rights lawsuit on Tuesday, alleging a police officer repeatedly used a Taser on him while he was detained and compliant in handcuffs.
A video of the encounter ...