WASHINGTON — The White House’s annual update to its most recent budget forecasts shows a brighter near-term picture for federal finances but a gloomier outlook for inflation and economic …
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Paul M. Krawzak and Peter Cohn / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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8/23/22
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Gasoline prices are on the biggest streak of declines since 2015, a relief for both consumers and President Joe Biden who has made fighting inflation a central theme ahead of November midterm …
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8/23/22
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President Joe Biden reportedly plans to announce a long-awaited plan to forgive up to $10,000 in student loans and extend the COVID-19 pause in repayments one more time.
After months of …
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Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News (TNS)
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8/23/22
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NEW YORK — The Trump Organization’s long-serving financial gatekeeper pleaded guilty to 15 felonies on Thursday and directly implicated Donald Trump’s family real estate business in …
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8/18/22
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In what appears to be the first documented instance of monkeypox spreading from humans to animals, a dog was likely infected with the virus by its owners in France, scientists say.
The …
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Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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8/18/22
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Applications for U.S. unemployment insurance fell for the first time in three weeks, suggesting demand for labor remains healthy.
Initial unemployment claims decreased by 2,000 to 250,000 in the …
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8/18/22
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ORLANDO, Fla. — With NASA’s first Artemis mission to the moon set to launch before the end of the month, teams are gearing up for future missions with astronauts including just exactly …
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Richard Tribou / Orlando Sentinel (TNS)
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8/18/22
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Researchers discovered Aug. 9 that 21,000 fish had died in their enclosures at UC Davis’ Center For Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture — a mass die-off that appears to have been caused by …
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Ariane Lange / The Sacramento Bee (TNS)
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8/18/22
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WASHINGTON — Traffic deaths rose 7% in the first quarter of 2022 over last year, federal regulators announced in preliminary estimates Wednesday.
More than 9,500 people died on U.S. roads …
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Riley Beggin / The Detroit News (TNS)
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8/17/22
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WASHINGTON — The 2020 census missed the most households on Native American reservations and in other rural areas, according to the latest Census Bureau report released Tuesday.
The Census …
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Michael Macagnone / CQ-Roll Call (TNS)
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8/17/22
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden won temporary permission to once again pause energy leasing on federal lands and waters, after a U.S. appeals court found a trial judge’s order against …
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Laurel Calkins and Jennifer A. Dlouhy / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/17/22
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Nothing has been able to kill scam robocalls — not federal regulation, not individual state lawsuits, not private software. Each effort has made a dent, but the unwanted calls keep on coming, …
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Elaine S. Povich / Stateline.org (TNS)
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8/17/22
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The Biden administration is weighing Iran’s response to a European Union proposal aimed at reviving the 2015 international nuclear agreement, with officials on both sides of the Atlantic …
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Courtney McBride / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/17/22
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Explosions at a Russian airbase in Crimea that Ukraine says destroyed nine fighter aircraft may indicate new Ukrainian offensive capabilities that complicate Kremlin efforts to support its invading …
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Natalia Drozdiak, Alex Wickham, Volodymyr Verbyany / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/11/22
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Republicans vow they will waste no time tearing into the FBI search of Donald Trump’s home and other investigations of the former president if the GOP wins control of Congress in November, …
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Billy House, Laura Litvan / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/11/22
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention streamlined its guidance Thursday for keeping COVID-19 in check, de-emphasizing social distancing, nixing screening tests for those without symptoms and …
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John Woolfolk / The Mercury News (TNS)
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8/11/22
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WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice is moving to unseal the search warrant and itemized receipt of what was taken from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this …
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Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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8/11/22
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U.S. average retail gasoline prices fell below $4 a gallon to the lowest level since early March, according to data from AAA.
Prices were at $3.99 figures released Thursday showed, continuing a …
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Alex Longley, Chunzi Xu / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/11/22
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — DNA, dental and other analyses confirmed the identity of remains buried in Belgium as a 27-year-old World War II soldier from North Carolina who died during battle in a German …
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8/7/22
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A 20-year-old killer whale that has been at SeaWorld San Diego since his birth died Thursday night following treatment for an infection, the park announced Friday.
Despite aggressive efforts to …
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Lori Weisberg and Alex Riggins / The San Diego Union-Tribune
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8/7/22
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