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The Earth Month proposals would help the city meet waste reduction targets.

Dr. Norman Oliver says the cuts would damage state efforts to upgrade technology systems, and reduce opioid use and STIs.

The mayor’s proposal includes pay increases, rate hikes and program cuts.

The funding is still contingent on General Assembly approval.

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, the man arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at people in Colorado, is facing several charges. Here's what we know about him. And, Ukraine makes a bold ask of Russia.

In recent decades, America has seen economic opportunities concentrated in superstar cities. Manufacturing boosters hope reshoring factories could help change that. We look at the theory and evidence.

Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan Center for Justice says presidential emergency powers, which President Trump has used to enact major policies, are the stuff of authoritarian regimes and should be curbed.

The House version of the tax bill would revoke credits for EVs starting at the end of this year. If the plan survives, it would dramatically shape automaker investments and EV sales.

A new report tries to capture the true cost of incarceration to families of people behind bars. It found it costs them around $350 billion every year — almost four times the government's estimate for the cost of incarceration.