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Troubled Waters: Trump budget casts Great Lakes cleanup into doubt
Jul 7, 2017
The 2018 proposed budget calls for cutting the $300 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
US employers add 222,000 jobs, jobless rate at 4.4 percent
Jul 7, 2017
But wage growth is still lagging.
Syrian refugees are migrating to a California city that didn't expect them
Jul 4, 2017
With no federal funding, volunteers and advocacy groups in Fresno are scrambling to assist families.
Meet methane: The potent greenhouse gas hangs in some regulatory limbo
Jul 4, 2017
Natural gas is billed as a cleaner-burning energy than coal, but leaks during production erode that advantage.
Georgia's weighted charter school lottery aims to give disadvantaged kids better odds, but few schools use it
Jul 3, 2017
In Georgia, the name of a child eligible for the weighted school lottery can be entered up to five times.
Tourism on tribal land is a growing industry
Jul 3, 2017
More people are traveling to Native American land for vacations. Tribal tourism is a $8.6 billion industry and growing.
National forest campgrounds increasingly operated by private companies
Jun 29, 2017
Officials say they need the private operators because of budget cuts and increased spending on fighting wild fires.
EU fines Google a record 2.42 billion euros
Jun 27, 2017
European regulators say Google is breaching antitrust rules.
What national monument status means for one vast Montana landscape
Jun 22, 2017
The Upper Missouri River Breaks includes Native American sites, Old West settlements and tens of thousands of acres of privately owned land.
Republican Arkansas looks to cut its once-expanded Medicaid rolls
Jun 22, 2017
With the future of the Affordable Care Act uncertain, some states anticipate greater reductions by Congress.