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151 House Republicans call on EPA to roll back proposed vehicle emission rules

May 22, 2023, 3:49pm Politics

More than 150 Republicans in the U.S. House asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan Monday to roll back the agency’s proposed emissions standards that are expected to further push the auto industry to electric vehicles. Read story

Air Force looks to better control access to classified data after intelligence leak

May 22, 2023, 11:12am Latest News

The Air Force said Monday it is looking at ways to better control access to classified information, in the wake of revelations that superiors of the Massachusetts Air National Guard member charged with leaking highly classified documents had raised concerns internally about his handling of sensitive data. Read story

California, Arizona, Nevada offer landmark drought deal to use less Colorado River water — for now

May 22, 2023, 9:45am Nation & World

Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a plan to significantly reduce their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years, a potential breakthrough in a year-long stalemate over how to deal with a rising problem that pitted Western states against one another. Read story

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. Abortion providers in three states filed a lawsuit Monday, May 8, 2023, aimed at preserving access to the abortion pill mifepristone, even as the drug is threatened by a separate Texas lawsuit winding its way through U.S. court system. (AP Photo/Allen G.

More women sue Texas, asking court to put emergency block on state’s abortion law

FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. Abortion providers in three states filed a lawsuit Monday, May 8, 2023, aimed at preserving access to the abortion pill mifepristone, even as the drug is threatened by a separate Texas lawsuit winding its way through U.S. court system. (AP Photo/Allen G.

May 22, 2023, 7:57am Nation & World

One woman had to carry her baby, missing much of her skull, for months knowing she’d bury her daughter soon after she was born. Another started mirroring the life-threatening symptoms that her baby was displaying while in the womb. An OB-GYN found herself secretly traveling out of state to abort… Read story

Back in hoodies and gym shorts, Fetterman tackles Senate life after depression treatment

May 21, 2023, 2:30pm Politics

Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to the hospital for clinical depression in February, he walked the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits. These days, he’s back to wearing the hoodies and gym shorts he was known for before he became a senator. Read story

Lawyer who quit Trump legal team cites disagreements with Trump adviser as basis for departure

May 20, 2023, 5:42pm Politics

A lawyer who quit Donald Trump's legal team this past week attributed his decision Saturday to strategy disagreements with a close adviser to the former president. Read story

FILE - Dried cracked mud is visible at the Antelope Island Marina due to low water levels, Aug. 31, 2022, on the Great Salt Lake, near Syracuse, Utah. A new study Thursday, May 18, 2023, says climate change's hotter temperatures and society's diversion of water have been shrinking the world's lakes, including the Great Salt Lake, by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s.

Incredible shrinking lakes: Humans, climate change, diversion costs trillions of gallons annually

FILE - Dried cracked mud is visible at the Antelope Island Marina due to low water levels, Aug. 31, 2022, on the Great Salt Lake, near Syracuse, Utah. A new study Thursday, May 18, 2023, says climate change's hotter temperatures and society's diversion of water have been shrinking the world's lakes, including the Great Salt Lake, by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s.

May 20, 2023, 6:00am Politics

Climate change ‘s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s, a new study finds. Read story

FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is flanked by aides as she returns to the Senate Judiciary Committee following a more than two-month absence as she was being treated for a case of shingles, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Feinstein's office said Thursday, May 18, that she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face, and that she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the virus earlier this year. (AP Photo/J.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s return to Capitol has been closely watched. Can she still do her job?

FILE - Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is flanked by aides as she returns to the Senate Judiciary Committee following a more than two-month absence as she was being treated for a case of shingles, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Feinstein's office said Thursday, May 18, that she is suffering from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a complication from the shingles virus that can paralyze part of the face, and that she contracted encephalitis while recovering from the virus earlier this year. (AP Photo/J.

May 19, 2023, 2:27pm Politics

For seven months in 1988, Joe Biden was absent from the Senate, recovering from operations to repair brain aneurysms. Read story

FBI broke rules in scouring foreign intelligence on Jan. 6 riot, racial justice protests, court says

May 19, 2023, 1:05pm Politics

FBI officials repeatedly violated their own standards when they searched a vast repository of foreign intelligence for information related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and racial justice protests in 2020, according to a heavily blacked-out court order released Friday. Read story

FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 15, 2023. For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive. Now summer is just weeks away. While Russia and Ukraine are focused on an intense battle for Bakhmut, the Ukrainian spring offensive has yet to begin.

Why Ukraine’s spring offensive still hasn’t begun — with summer just weeks away

FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire a cannon near Bakhmut, an eastern city where fierce battles against Russian forces have been taking place, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, May 15, 2023. For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive. Now summer is just weeks away. While Russia and Ukraine are focused on an intense battle for Bakhmut, the Ukrainian spring offensive has yet to begin.

May 19, 2023, 8:35am Politics

For months, Western allies have shipped billions of dollars worth of weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine with an urgency to get the supplies to Kyiv in time for an anticipated spring counteroffensive. Read story