Councilors also approved eight affordable housing development grants.

The sale to Oyo, a travel business, will include the Studio 6 motel brand, which caters to customers seeking extended stays. The all-cash transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.

Richmond Fed says commonwealth's job market has ‘softened'

Planning director Jo Ann Hunter said, “It has been a surprisingly divisive ordinance.”

The measure does not include any part of the SAVE Act, the election security proposal backed by former President Donald Trump.

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As part of Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," the House voted to end a retirement supplement aimed at helping federal employees who retire before they're 62.

The Trump administration has a novel strategy to boost arrests and reduce courts' backlog: dismissing people's immigration cases and immediately arresting them.

House Republicans have a plan that would force schools to reimburse the government for a share of the federal loans their students don't repay.

Several Republican senators say they're opposed to the wholescale repeal of certain clean energy tax credits passed by the House. Their phones have been ringing off the hook from industry leaders and energy lobbyists who want to make sure the Senate makes changes to the bill.

People in 15 of 24 countries downgraded ratings of the U.S., according to the survey of more than 28,000. Majorities in almost every country surveyed describe Trump as "arrogant" and "dangerous."