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After an Afghan national was charged in the shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington just before Thanksgiving, President Trump’s administration revived his earlier calls for something that to ...

A United States District Court judge on Thursday ruled that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was wrong to cancel a program that has funded infrastructure resiliency efforts in ...

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(NEXSTAR) — Back in May, after several years of delays, authorities began imposing the REAL ID requirement to board flights and enter nuclear power plants and certain federal buildings. While ...

Skills-based hiring was one of the biggest buzzwords of the postpandemic job boom. It dangled the promise of a major shift in white-collar recruiting: Companies would stop fixating on traditional ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee’s new private school voucher program, which provides $7,300 to 20,000 students in its first year, could more than double in size in 2026, a move projected to cost ...