By SAMANTHA HENDRICKSON Associated Press/Report For America COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — More income tax cuts and a phased-in universal voucher program are among the hundreds of changes in a Republican-craft…
Why is it so smoky outside? Canada wildfires lead to air-quality alerts in northeastern US
By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulner…
A look at restrictions on LGBTQ+ people in the US, and the pushback
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida law banning transgender youth from getting medical treatment is temporarily on hold after a surprise decision Tuesday by a federal judge. The ruling comes amid a bev…
Recalled pillows linked to 10 infant deaths still being sold on Facebook Marketplace, US agency says
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal safety regulators are urging consumers to stop using baby pillows that have been linked to 10 infant deaths but are still being …
Counteroffensive? Probing defenses? A look at the fighting in Ukraine
By The Associated Press While Kyiv is keeping silent about the start of any counteroffensive, fighting is raging in several sections of the front line, signaling that the long-expected campaign could …
Slow start to New York’s legal pot market leaves farmers holding the bag
By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ARGYLE, N.Y. (AP) — Seth Jacobs has about 100 bins packed with marijuana flower sitting in storage at his upstate New York farm. And that’s a problem. There aren’t eno…
As Supreme Court considers affirmative action, colleges see few other ways to diversity goals
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — As an alternative to affirmative action, colleges from California to Florida have tried a range of strategies to achieve the diversity they say …
Changes to food aid in debt bill would cost money, far from savings GOP envisioned
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican attempt to expand work requirements for federal food aid in debt legislation moving through Congress would increase federal spend…
Here’s how to prepare to start paying back your student loans when the pandemic payment freeze ends
By CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A three-year pause on student loan payments will end this summer regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the White House plan to f…
Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losin…