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A legislative proposal seeks to ease the process.

A Trump executive order temporarily pauses leases and permits for offshore and onshore wind projects. Wind advocates say an offshore wind freeze could threaten states' climate goals and jobs.

He served 25 years on the Richmond City Council and 22 years in the state Senate.

Officials have been updating laws on Virginia tribes since recent federal recognition

County officials cite complaints over unrestrained dogs.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., about President Trump's budget bill, his own concerns about the legislation, and some of the changes he hopes to see.

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.

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.