WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Monday that he’s doubling U.S. emergency spending to help communities prepare for hurricanes and other extreme weather events, while launching a new effort at NASA to better understand and track the impact of climate change.
(AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio promised a return to normal for the nation’s largest public school system on Monday as he announced that classrooms will open for in-person instruction in September with no remote option.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions of migrating birds each year.
BRIDGETON, N.J. (AP) — A shooting at a birthday party in New Jersey that left two people dead and 12 injured was not a random act and was a reflection of gun violence that has swept the nation, Gov. Phil Murphy said.
A house bill that would prohibit contractual clauses restricting physicians from practicing medicine is being read and voted on by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs. The bill is being sponsored by District 77 State Representative Mark Wright.