• College sports bill doesn’t get vote, but does get spot on the Senate’s September calendar
    The Protect College Sports Act failed to reach a vote during an all-night, pre-recess session in the Senate that ended early Saturday, though the bill did gain a spot on next month’s calendar after the chamber comes back from its summer break. The measure has been touted as one that would put guardrails around an […]
  • Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles
    BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) — Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has plummeted to its lowest water level since it was filled some 90 years ago, another sign of the crisis plaguing the Colorado River system. Water levels at Lake Mead hit 1,040.4 feet (317.1 meters) above sea level on Friday, according […]
  • A pillar of environmental enforcement is targeted by Trump and Musk’s AI company
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Right-leaning legal activists along with Elon Musk ’s artificial intelligence company have brought sweeping challenges against a cornerstone of legal enforcement in the United States: the right of private groups, people and local governments to sue over violations of many major laws. Their argument, supported by the Trump administration, is that the […]
  • How Troy Jackson went from Maine logger to the Democratic nominee for Senate against Susan Collins
    ALLAGASH, Maine (AP) — Troy Jackson stood alongside a small group of loggers deep in the northern Maine woods and stared down State Police troopers who threatened to arrest them. The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working […]
  • Trump goes unmentioned but not ignored as Clinton, Bush and Obama step up as essayists on presidents
    WASHINGTON (AP) — When George W. Bush wrote an essay this year about another president named George, he avoided mentioning the one named Donald. So did Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The three ex-presidents joined a roster of historians and authors in contributing to the In Pursuit project, a 250th-anniversary series that had each writer […]