Tag: United States government
Audit: FEMA paid for unused rooms for 2017 disaster victims
WASHINGTON — An audit has found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for unused hotel rooms and may have overpaid room taxes as...
Freshman US Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s mother dies of COVID-19
YONKERS, N.Y. — Freshman U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who defeated veteran New York lawmaker Eliot Engel in last year's Democratic primary, announced on Twitter...
Statue of US chief justice who oversaw Plessy to be moved
AUGUSTA, Maine — A Maine county board voted to move the statue of Melville Fuller, who was an Augusta native and served as the...
Indiana attorney general keeps job with health benefits firm
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's newly elected attorney general says state ethics officials have cleared his ongoing role with a health benefits consulting firm in which...
Loans available for businesses, others damaged by fall rain
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan small businesses, agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and private nonprofit organizations damaged by excessive rain Sept. 30 can...
COVID-19 shots might be tweaked if variants get worse
The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations — and regulators are looking to flu...
Congressman hopes politics align on divisive Northwest dams
SPOKANE, Wash. — Nearly two decades ago, Republican President George W. Bush stood on a bank of the Snake River near Pasco, Washington, and...
Dozens charged in Capitol riots spewed extremist rhetoric
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — In a text message, a radicalized Trump supporter suggested getting a boat to ferry “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River...
Highlights of COVID-19 relief bill progressing in House
WASHINGTON — A Democratic-led effort to pass a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package has passed its latest challenge with House committees advancing measures that...
US Navy seizes large cache of smuggled weapons off Somalia
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of weapons being smuggled by two small ships off the coast of...
