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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is increasing pressure on Cuba by imposing more economic penalties on industries in the heavily sanctioned socialist country and broadening enforcement of laws that bar Americans who …
US ramps up Cuba sanctions and detentions of Americans returning from the island Read More
When the Trump administration announced plans last year to repeal the federal government’s greenhouse gas reporting system, rather than celebrate, many oil and gas companies publicly urged the U.S. Environmental …
Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data Read More
Karen Scholl, a freelance writer in Ohio, has been buying her family’s health insurance on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace for a decade. This January, her monthly bill soared past …
Inside America’s health insurance ‘death spiral’ Read More
A Trump-appointed federal appeals judge spent months running a Washington public affairs firm after being appointed to the bench last year, an arrangement that contributed to an exodus among the …
‘Is she even allowed to be doing this?’: Inside a federal judge’s side gig running a PR firm Read More
A little-known US-based developer tied to a failed bitcoin business and a fraudulent-transfer lawsuit is quietly advancing Alberta’s latest gas-fired AI data centre proposal. The 466MW Black Bear Power Project …
U.S. Developer Tied to Failed Bitcoin Venture Is Proposing Major Alberta Data Centre Read More
In a 2-1 vote, the Republican majority on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to roll back a six-decade-old requirement under an anti-discrimination law in the United States that …
Why the US may stop collecting workplace race and gender data Read More
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government plans to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining in an unprecedented move that is expected to …
The US plans to auction off sections of water around American Samoa in a push for deep-sea mining Read More
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and the pharmaceutical sector may be at war over drug prices in Washington. But in Europe, they’re working in partnership to drive them up. Pharmaceutical …
It’s complicated: The Trump-pharma relationship split by the Atlantic Read More
Super PACs funded by AIPAC and major big tech donors have poured roughly $2 million behind Rep. Diana DeGette on the eve of her contentious primary in Colorado’s first congressional …
AIPAC, Big Tech Back Diana DeGette Over Melat Kiros With $2M Spending Flood Read More
The United States has announced that it will not renew a trilateral trade agreement covering $1.6 trillion of trade between the US, Mexico and Canada, one day before the agreement was due …
Why has Trump refused to renew the USMCA, and what will that mean? Read More