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The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant, back, in Reserve, La., Sept. 23, 2022. In what could prove a significant move for communities facing air pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Thursday, April 6, 2023, that chemical plants nationwide measure certain hazardous compounds that cross beyond their property lines and reduce them when they are too high.
EPA proposal takes on health risks near US chemical plants
The Environmental Protection Agency proposes chemical plants nationwide measure certain hazardous compounds that cross beyond their property lines and reduce them when they are too high. more
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Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports.
Justice Thomas reportedly took undisclosed luxury trips
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips nearly every year from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow without reporting them on financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reports. more
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Israeli-Americans gather outside of the U.S. Embassy Branch Office to protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel on March 7. This year, when the slavery-to-freedom story of Passover unfolds, mass demonstrations in Israel will be top of mind for some Jews around the globe.
At many Passover Seders, Israel unrest will be on the table
Marc Slutsky has been leading Passover Seders for 40 years, taking on troubling issues that have included Soviet Jewry, racism in the United States, and war after war after war. more
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg speaks at a press conference after the arraignment of former president Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.
Analysis: Trump hush money case raises thorny legal issues
The cover-up is worse than the crime, the expression goes. And in the hush money case against Donald Trump, prosecutors say the cover-up made the crime worse. more
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Trainer Marcia Hinton pets Lolita, a captive orca whale, during a performance at the Miami Seaquarium in Miami, March 9, 1995.
Caregivers: Returning orca Lolita to Northwest is risky
An ambitious plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a half century, to her home waters in Washington’s Puget Sound thrilled advocates. more
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Former President Donald Trump, far left, pleads not guilty as the Clerk of the Court reads the charges and asks him "How do you plea?" Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in a Manhattan courtroom in New York. Defense attorney Joseph Tacopina, center, looked on.
Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony charges
Former President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony charges stemming from alleged hush money payments. more
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The General Motors logo is displayed outside the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant, Jan. 27, 2020, in Hamtramck, Mich. General Motors is offering buyouts to most of its U.S. salaried workforce and some global executives in an effort to trim costs as it makes the transition to electric vehicles.
About 5K GM salaried workers take buyouts, avoiding layoffs
About 5,000 white-collar workers at General Motors took the company's buyout offers, which the automaker says is enough to avoid layoffs at this time. more
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Spiro T. Agnew, who recently resigned from the vice presidency, talks a member of the media after he pleaded no contest to a federal tax evasion charge, outside the Federal Court building in Baltimore, Oct. 10, 1973. The last time Secret Service agents delivered a U.S. leader to face criminal charges, they kept their mission a secret, even from their own bosses. It was Oct. 10, 1973, and just a few agents knew the historic role they were playing in ensuring that Agnew appeared in a federal courtroom to enter a plea and resign from office.
HISTORY: Unlike in Trump case, Secret Service kept this one secret
The last time Secret Service agents escorted a U.S. leader to face criminal charges, they kept their mission a secret — even from their own bosses. more
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Marijuana plants for the adult recreational market are seen hanging in a drying room at a farm in Suffolk County, N.Y., Oct. 4, 2022. New York regulators approved 99 new provisional licenses for recreational marijuana dispensaries Monday, April 3, 2023 as they try to speed up the rollout of a statewide legal market that had been impeded by a court ruling.
New York OKs 99 more pot shop licenses after court ruling
New York regulators approved 99 new provisional licenses for recreational marijuana dispensaries Monday as they try to speed up the rollout of a legal market that had been impeded by a court ruling. more
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Good savers who take full advantage of their 401(k) plans and other tax-deductible retirement plans could be setting themselves up for unnecessarily high tax bills in retirement, according to NerdWallet.
NerdWallet: Will you face a tax bomb in retirement?
If you’re not strategic about how you save, you could face unnecessarily high tax bills and inflated Medicare premiums in retirement — plus, you could be saddling your heirs with higher taxes. more
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Jelly Roll performs "Need A Favor" at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 2, 2023, at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.
'Son of a Sinner' Jelly Roll reigns at CMT Music Awards show
“Son of Sinner” Jelly Roll is a three-time winner at the CMT Music Awards. more
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-lago on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump faces his most urgent legal challenge in New York, where he’s set to be arraigned this week on charges arising from hush money payments during his 2016 campaign. But other investigations outside Manhattan are pressing forward, underscoring the broad range of peril he confronts as he seeks to reclaim the presidency.
Trump faces setbacks in other probes as NY case proceeds
Former President Donald Trump faces the most urgent legal challenge of his life this week in New York. more
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Lt. Gov. David Toland greets Panasonic president Kazuo Tadanobu before a groundbreaking ceremony for the companies newest battery plant in De Soto, Kan., Nov. 2, 2022. States are giving out more cash than ever before to multibillion-dollar microchip foundries and electric vehicle and battery factories, inspiring ever-more competition as states dig deeper into their pockets to attract big employers and capitalize on a wave of huge new projects.
'War of the states': EV, chip makers lavished with subsidies
States are doling out more cash than ever to lure multibillion-dollar microchip, electric vehicle and battery factories, inspiring ever-more competition more
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President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. In the federal budget standoff, the majority of U.S. adults are asking lawmakers to pull off the impossible: Cut the overall size of government, but also devote more money to the most popular and expensive programs.
Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade
The Social Security and Medicare trustees report says Medicare will be unable to pay full benefits for inpatient hospital visits and nursing home stays by 2031. more
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas.
Trump indictment throws 2024 race into uncharted territory
The historic indictment of former President Donald Trump thrust the 2024 presidential election into uncharted territory. more
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Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md.
Trump indicted; 1st ex-president charged with crime
A lawyer for Donald Trump said Thursday he's been told that the former president has been indicted in New York. more
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Students enlisted in the new Army prep course work together in barracks at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., in this August 2022 file photo. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)
Basic training without yelling: Army recruits get second chance
Last August, Daysia Holiday decided to try one more time to join the Army. more
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters during a news conference outside of the chamber, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The Senate is preparing to vote to repeal the 2002 measure that green-lighted that March 2003 invasion of Iraq. The measure would end more than 20 years of authorization for U.S. presidents to use force in that country and return those war powers to Congress.
Senate votes to repeal 2002 measure that approved Iraq war
The Senate has voted to repeal the decades-old congressional measure that greenlighted the 2003 invasion of Iraq. more
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Elouise Cobell poses for a photo outside the law offices of Kilpatrick & Stockton on Dec. 8, 2009, in Washington. Cobell, known as “Yellow Bird Woman” (1945-2011), started the first bank established by a tribe on a reservation in Browning, Montana.
Social issues dominate in Women's Hall of Fame's new class
A new group of National Women's Hall of Fame inductees includes social justice pioneers, groundbreaking physicians and women who have championed Jewish feminist theology and the financial well-being of Native Americans. more
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Customers and bystanders form a line outside a Silicon Valley Bank branch location, Monday, March 13, in Wellesley, Mass.
Is my money safe? What you need to know about bank failures
Recent turmoil in the banking industry may have you worried about your money. more
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