By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive U.S. manufacturing of semiconductors and reduce the country's reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will "sharply increase production'' of semiconductors in the ...
By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press In January 1981, Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican president thanked the Democrat for his administration's help after Reagan resoundingly defeated Carter the previous November. Twenty years earlier, after a much ...
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 260,000 former students of the now-defunct for-profit Ashford University are getting their student loans erased as the Biden administration presses ahead with debt forgiveness in its final days. Ashford was once one of the ...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in Social Security payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was "just the tip of the iceberg." The money was reclaimed as part of a ...
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to fine two advocacy groups that were founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and led by Raphael Warnock before voters elected him to the U.S. Senate. The commission found that the New ...
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts ...
By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the CIA told senators during his confirmation hearing Wednesday that the nation's premier spy agency must do a better job of staying ahead of global threats posed by Russia, China and other ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's police department is curbing its use of high-speed chases after finding that about one-quarter of more than 2,200 initiated by officers last year led to a collision, property damage, physical harm or death. A new policy effective Feb. 1 will limit vehicle ...
By DANA BELTAJI and ISABELLA O'MALLEY Associated Press Fire danger remains high in parts of Los Angeles that have been ablaze for days, but there is hope that better weather over the weekend will give firefighters battling the flames some much-needed relief. After calmer weather on ...
By MEG KINNARD Associated Press House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former President Jimmy Carter. The Republican leader's decision ...
