Taking carbon out of the atmosphere was never going to be easier than keeping it out of the skies, but the cleanup strategy is already hitting a wall, according to a new report on the state of carbon dioxide removal published in early June.

Removing carbon dioxide, in addition to rapid and deep emission cuts, will now both be necessary to limit...Read more

DENVER — Only one candidate for Colorado governor, of any political party, has helped write the state budget, led a state executive branch and spent decades overseeing local government.

Yet state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, a Weld County Republican who checks all of those boxes, is millions of dollars behind the leading primary competitor in ...Read more

Josue Barreiro stood in front of a crowd of 200 people seated inside a church last week in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He was there to speak about his experience as one of 61 protesters arrested in one night outside Delaney Hall immigrant detention center after Gov. Mikie Sherrill had sent over state police.

He told the crowd, gathered for a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Signs of the exploding popularity of e-bikes are everywhere.

Riders are showing up in massive groups at the beach, kids are popping wheelies on quiet residential roads and scores of others are showing up in emergency rooms with cuts, broken bones or worse.

An 81-year-old was allegedly killed in Lake Forest after a 14-year-old ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Obama Presidential Center, which opens to the public on Friday, on Juneteenth, hugs the north end of Jackson Park, runs alongside a lagoon, rises 225 feet at its highest, and rolls backward down Stony Island Avenue, settling into 58,000 square feet of brilliantly green sloping lawn.

Michelle Obama wants you to sled here in the ...Read more

When Congress allowed COVID-era subsidies for health insurance to expire, California used its own funds to offset the hike in Obamacare premium costs for residents with low incomes.

But the reach has been limited.

As Gov. Gavin Newsom negotiates his last budget with the legislature, the Democrat wants to offer financial help to more than 1 in ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Assembly easily passed bills to increase taxes on software programs and health insurance premiums and extended a cap on corporate tax credits Monday, with the Democrat supermajority muscling in unity past Republican outrage during a late night debate.

Gov. Gavin Newsom first proposed the revenue raising ...Read more

Republican Rep, Mike Collins defeated Derek Dooley in a runoff election for the GOP Senate nomination in Georgia, advancing to face incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff in what will be one of a handful of races this November that will help decide control of the U.S. Senate.

The election was a duel of endorsements, with President Donald Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House budget office released $351.6 million to the Secret Service on Friday for “White House Security Measures,” amid mounting criticism that taxpayer dollars may be tapped to help pay for President Donald Trump’s planned East Wing ballroom.

A database that tracks “apportionments” made by the Office of ...Read more

The U.S. has emptied the immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz after the state spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the high-profile facility to support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that the jail, a sprawling ...Read more

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump shook hands and smiled on the sidelines of a Group of Seven summit in France ahead of their first bilateral meeting in a year.

Noticeably absent was Modi’s trademark bear hug, a hallmark of his interactions with world leaders. The relatively restrained greeting reflected a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Just ahead of the Juneteenth public opening of the Obama Presidential Center, former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama gathered nearly 500 supporters and contributors to the campus for a thank you celebration on Tuesday.

“For us to be able to give back to this community is really important to us, and that couldn...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania families will gain access to detailed information about vaccination rates in their schools before the new academic year, when the state health department launches a new online database to better inform the public.

More than 200 Philadelphia-area schools with kindergarten classrooms — roughly one in three — have...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A northern Minnesota judge handed down a 30-day jail sentence to a head election judge this week for the felony offense of allowing 11 unregistered voters to cast ballots.

Timothy Scouton, 65, of Nevis, Minnesota, removed his glasses and closed his eyes on camera during his virtual sentencing Monday in Hubbard County District ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — More than two years into Minneapolis’ push to implement a court-ordered settlement agreement, police reform efforts lag behind — stymied by a persistent backlog of Internal Affairs cases and high staff turnover, according to an evaluator’s report released this week.

The 40-page document, from the nonprofit Effective Law ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Education is dispersing its civil rights and special education responsibilities to other federal offices, a major step toward the Trump administration’s goal of dismantling the agency.

Oversight of civil rights in schools will move to the Department of Justice and special education programs will move to the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The reservoir that serves as Southern Nevada’s main water supply is headed for an even more painful decline than thought due to historic drought and recent water management decisions, according to federal forecasters.

Lake Mead could plummet to 1,015.77 feet above sea level in July 2027, far below any level seen since the ...Read more