Interstate 40 construction from causeway in North Carolina Watch video of the Interstate 40 construction from causeway in North Carolina near the Tennessee state line nearly a year after Hurricane Helene. The federal government will release $184 million in AmeriCorps funds previously withheld. The funds will support North Carolina’s recovery efforts from Tropical Storm Helene.
Who is Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook? Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, reappointed through 2038, rejects Trump’s claim he fired her. The announcement from President Donald Trump on Aug. 25 that he was firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook amounts to an extraordinary weaponization of the housing finance system that depends on private, deeply personal data from
Providence’s Real Time Crime Center: How the surveillance system works The new $1 million nerve center for the Providence Police Department can provide instant information to investigators when a crime is occurring. Rhode Island’s $32 million grant for low-carbon transportation materials, awarded in 2024, has been rescinded by the Trump administration. The funds were part
Trump calls on Fed Governor Cook to resign over mortgage allegations President Donald Trump called on Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to resign following allegations about mortgages she holds in Michigan and Georgia. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook if she doesn’t resign, intensifying his effort to gain influence over
Michael Lyle | Nevada Current Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford is among 21 attorneys general who have joined a lawsuit to stop President Donald Trump from withholding billions of dollars in funding for resources for crime victims from states that don’t aid the administration’s mass deportation efforts. Nevada received about $24 million in funding from
Things weren’t always this bad. Generations ago, voters demanded laws to reduce the power of special interests, curtail corruption, and ensure that every citizen could speak freely and had equal representation. But over time, the Supreme Court has taken a sledgehammer to those safeguards. The crusade began in the mid-1970s with a case called Buckley
Wyles Daniel | Contributor Banco de Reservas (Banreservas) is rewriting conventional wisdom about banks. Long viewed as slow, politically entangled institutions, public lenders rarely make headlines for record profits or overseas expansion — but the Dominican Republic’s 83-year-old Banco de Reservas is doing both. Since 2020, the bank has nearly doubled its assets, opened offices
Duval Superintendent Christopher Bernier on the first day of school Duval Superintendent Christopher Bernier visited S.A. Hull Elementary on the first day of school for the new school year on Aug. 11 in Jacksonville. City Council’s Finance Committee cut $1.9 million from Mayor Donna Deegan’s proposed budget for Meals on Wheels, a reduction that would
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The Federal Reserve complied with a pro-Trump investment firm’s request to reveal which board members voted to keep the most recent meeting closed to the public. Azoria Capital applied for a temporary restraining order requiring the Federal Open Market Committee to allow the public to watch its meeting at the end of July. A judge