Role of Government

U.S. President Joe Biden announced a plan on Wednesday to sell 15 million barrels of crude oil from the nation's emergency supply and begin refilling the reserve as he tries to dampen high gasoline prices ahead of midterm elections on Nov. 8.

Brouhaha over raunchy behavior by a so-called charity vendor continues.

A new report says that one reason has to do with white people's perceptions that they're losing financial dominance as people of color are making gains.

Hidden records show thousands of senior executive branch employees owned shares of companies whose fates were directly affected by their employers’ actions, a Wall Street Journal investigation found.

More than $5 million in TANF funds went toward a volleyball-stadium project Brett wanted Favre and $1.1 million went to Favre himself.

The restaurant industry is fighting hard against a labor bill making its way through the California legislature.

A Lebanese judge reportedly dropped the charges against the man.

Politicians blame “corporate greed” for the formula shortage. But it’s their own destructive policies that are to blame. ————To make sure you see the new w...

We map the state of global democracy, as the Democracy Index hits its lowest point since the inception of the index in 2006.

MADRID (AP) — Bars and restaurants in Spain will be obliged to offer “doggybags” free of charge to clients to take home the food they have not eaten under a new law aimed at reducing food waste. Under the new bill passed by the Spanish government Tuesday, businesses in the food chain will have to draw up plans to try to reduce the amount of food wasted or else face possible fines.

MAPLETON — Wineries in Peninsula Township no longer have to follow numerous zoning restrictions a U.S. District Court judge ruled to be illegal or unconstitutional.

Lawmakers in New York just passed a bill to ban certain bitcoin mining operations that run on carbon-based power sources.

The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.

New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars.

PPP was roughly equivalent in size to the entire recovery package from the 2007–2009 financial crisis.

Metro Detroit food trucks got a boost from Detroit's city council on Tuesday that allows them to expand into other Detroit neighborhoods.

The bill will let dealerships be open for less than 30 hours a week for up to four weeks a year. They were previously required to be open for 30 hours a week year-round.

California's new law does not outlaw boys and girls sections, but large stores must now add "a reasonable selection" of gender-neutral products.

Editor’s note: What follows is a lightly edited version of a North Korean defector’s true story, which was originally a presentation at the AAS Committee on Teaching about Asia workshop for educators at George Washington University in March 2018. The author requested that her name not be published. I am a North Korean defector currently […]

First they impose restrictions, then a moratorium

The mayor wants to be rid of short-term rentals, including through Airbnb and Vrbo. Owners of second homes in the tourist town say their property rights are at stake.

The legislation would give a big boost to unionized shops. Nonunion automakers aren't happy.

The cards were never formally approved by Muskegon city commissioners, though the city manager said he got the blessing of four commissioners.

The collapse of a local furniture chain helped prompt an effort by a lawmaker to make Michigan only the second state to guarantee severance to workers who lose their jobs when their employer scales down or closes its doors altogether.

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has completed a 100-day review of supply chains and will form a task force to address the bottlenecks in the semiconductor, construction, transportation and agriculture sectors.Administration officials said their goal is to increase domestic…

Two Michigan bills that could change the way cities approach short-term home rentals have created intense debate around who gets to determine how to regulate these dwellings, more popularly known as Airbnb or vacation rentals.The issue has put interested groups such as the Ann Arbor-based Michigan…

Civil Rights leaders point to historic criminalization of drug and alcohol bans