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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will try to claw back $7 billion doled out by the Biden administration to provide rooftop solar power in disadvantaged communities. Under the Biden-era program, money left the federal government and was distributed to 60 entities including states, nonprofits, tribes and local governments. Those entities were expected to use the $7 billion passed as part of the Democrats’ 2022 Inflation Reduction Act to go to subgrantees who would help get the solar...

President Trump on Thursday said he would nominate Stephen Miran to a vacancy on the Federal Reserve Board of governors for a roughly six-month stint. Trump said Miran, who currently chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisors, would serve out the remainder of Adriana Kugler’s term after she announced she will resign from the central bank’s board, effective Friday. Her term was set to expire at the end of January 2026. “In the meantime, we will continue to search for a permanent...

Vinay Prasad, a top vaccine regulator ousted from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) late last month, is set to return to his post, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “At the FDA’s request, Dr. Vinay Prasad is resuming leadership of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,” an HHS spokesperson told The Hill in a statement. “Neither the White House nor HHS will allow the fake news media to distract from the critical work the FDA is carrying out under the...

Three Ukrainian beachgoers have been killed by sea mines after swimming in areas which had been cordoned off to the public. Ukrainian media outlets reported that a man had died after a device exploded just 50 metres off the coast near the resort of Karolino-Bugaz, located in the country's southern Odesa region. Governor of Odesa Oblast, Oleh Kiper, revealed that the deadly explosions occurred in waters that had been closed off for swimming and warned that people were needlessly dying by...

EU Europe and the USA are drifting further apart. In the shadow of the Ukraine war and Brussels censorship policies, a political hiatus is opening up even at the monetary policy level. Monetary policy is often treated as a stepchild in the media. Except during sovereign debt crises, when central banks step in as rescuers, politics and media mostly focus only on interest rate decisions. These are stylized as media highlights to help politics anchor inflation expectations and influence market...

A Delta Air Lines flight clipped another plane’s wing while on the tarmac in Atlanta, Georgia, the airline revealed on Sunday. The flight, scheduled to fly from Atlanta to Guatemala City, reportedly “made contact” with an empty aircraft while pushing back from the gate, Delta announced in a written statement. No injuries were reported, and all 192 passengers were transferred to another plane following a delay. A Delta spokesman said, “The wing of DL1830 reportedly made contact with another...

Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Actor Dean Cain hit back at John Oliver's diss after saying he would be joining ICE. Newsweek reached out to Cain's representative for comment on Monday via email outside regular working hours. Cain rose to fame as Clark Kent on the 1990s television series Lois...

The Trump administration plans to temporarily reassign 120 F.B.I. agents in Washington to nighttime patrol duties as part of President Trump’s crackdown on the city’s street crime, according to people familiar with the matter. Most of the agents will be pulled from their regular duties at the F.B.I.’s Washington field office, but it was not immediately clear if agency leaders would need to pull additional personnel from nearby cities, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to...