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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

The federal government is scaling back data collection used to calculate the inflation rate because of staff shortages. Economists warn that could make for less accurate cost-of-living measures.

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

The majority opinion in each case was written by one of the court's liberals, proving that liberals too can rule for religion, for gun manufacturers, and for a woman claiming she was discriminated against on the job for being straight.

The Court dismissed Mexico's claim that U.S. gun manufacturers aided and abetted the pipeline of weapons from the U.S. to Mexican drug cartels.

The court unanimously sided with an Ohio woman who claimed she was discriminated against at work because she is straight.