By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Social Security 's retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year's projections, according to an annual report released Tuesday, while Medicare 's hospital insurance trust fund ...
By STEVEN GRATTAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Colombia has enacted a landmark law requiring the cattle industry to trace livestock and prove beef supply chains are free from deforestation, a measure environmental groups say makes it the first tropical forest country to adopt such a ...
By ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NASA on Tuesday revealed the crew for its Artemis III mission, the next step in the space agency's plan to eventually land astronauts on the moon. The announcement came two months after Artemis II's record-breaking trip around the ...
By HANNAH FLOR/Alaska Public Media Chris Andrews was working the belt at the Anchorage airport last fall, watching international cargo arrive. "An employee said, 'Hey, this box stinks, Chris,'" Andrews recalled. The box was labeled "car parts." Other stinky boxes came down the belt. ...
By MICHAEL CASEY, R.J. RICO and CHARLOTTE KRAMON Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Just a mile from Atlanta's stadium, which will welcome tens of thousands of fans to World Cup games this month, dozens of people were camped out on a downtown sidewalk waiting for a homeless shelter to ...
By GRETA SOLSAA and THEO WELLS-SPACKMAN/VTDigger VTDigger Standing on a dock at a Lamoille River fishing access last week, Andrea Shortsleeve said that ballooning expenses and high demand are making state land and infrastructure harder and harder to manage. Moments later, Shortsleeve, who ...
By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators on Tuesday signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more than 25 years, giving Americans access to a skin-protecting chemical long used in Europe and other parts of the ...
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When Manhattan's original Pennsylvania Station was demolished in 1963, it marked the undignified end to one of America's great public works, a monolithic Beaux Arts train terminal with Roman-style columns and a spacious central waiting ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A man charged in the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train cannot currently stand trial because of his mental illness and will undergo medical treatment to try to restore his competency, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Decarlos Brown ...
By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press Salt Lake City and its county have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security's plan to open a giant warehouse in the city that would be used to detain up to 10,000 immigrants. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, is the ...