Nevada launches $500M program to boost affordable housing
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has announced the launch of a $500 million program to help provide affordable housing by tapping federal American Rescue Plan funding and new borrowing authority approved by state lawmakers.
Climate toll on Arctic bases: Sunken runways, damaged roads
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military bases in the Arctic and sub-Arctic are failing to prepare their installations for long-term climate change as required, even though soaring temperatures and melting ice already are cracking base runways and roads and wor...
Climate toll on Arctic bases: Sunken runways, damaged roads
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military bases in the Arctic and sub-Arctic are failing to prepare their installations for long-term climate change as required, even though soaring temperatures and melting ice already are cracking base runways and roads and wor...
Judge keeps state takeover of majority-Black town’s finances
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has declined to halt the state's financial takeover of a majority-Black town near the site of a planned Ford pickup truck factory.
Trump adviser Miller grilled about Trump’s speech on Jan. 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers pressed Stephen Miller, a top aide to former President Donald Trump, during a daylong closed-door interview about Trump's speech at a rally that preceded the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, according to two people...
‘This is what we trained for:’ Soldiers depart to help humanitarian crisis in Europe
EDMONTON — Dozens of Canadian soldiers boarded a plane to Poland Friday for what their commander said would be an intense but gratifying mission to help Ukrainians fleeing Russian aggression. The roughly 80 soldiers who took off from Edmonton and anot...
Atlanta police chief to retire as city’s homicide rate rises
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s police chief will retire this summer as the city struggles to tamp down its rising homicide rate and residents on the north side of the city consider seceding to form their own city, largely over crime
Walker raises $5.5M in Georgia Senate race, trailing Warnock
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican Herschel Walker said Friday that his U.S. Senate campaign had raised $5.5 million in the first three months of 2022, a big haul that is still dwarfed by the $13.6 million that Democratic incumbent Raphael
Climate activists block London bridges, UK oil terminals
LONDON (AP) — Climate-change protesters snarled traffic by blocking four London bridges on Friday, while other activists continued weeks of demonstrations targeting oil terminals across Britain.
US military changes explanation of attack on base in Syria
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says explosions earlier this month on a base in eastern Syria that injured several U.S. service members were not, as it originally reported, caused by artillery or another form of indirect fire.
