USDA Forest Service releases Community Wildfire Risk website
WASHINGTON – For the first time, community wildfire risk has been mapped nationwide to help community leaders mitigate risk. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest...
EPA guts rule credited with cleaning up coal-plant toxic air
ELLEN KNICKMEYER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country's coal plants to cut back...
Trump gives governors 3-phase plan to reopen economy
ZEKE MILLER, ALAN SUDERMAN, and KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump gave governors a road map Thursday for recovering from the...
Study: Warming makes US West megadrought worst in modern age
SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into...
US job losses mount as economic pain deepens worldwide
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and LORI HINNANT
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's unemployed swelled toward Great Depression-era levels Thursday in an unprecedented collapse...
Record 22 million have sought US jobless aid since virus
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The wave of layoffs that has engulfed the U.S. economy since the coronavirus struck forced 5.2 million...
Reports: Bodies found at New Jersey nursing home
ANDOVER, N.J. (AP) — Police responding to an anonymous tip found more than a dozen bodies at a nursing home in northwestern New Jersey,...
Thursday: What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
The Associated Press
The ranks of Americans thrown out of work by the coronavirus is ballooning, causing an unprecedented collapse that has fueled widening protests...
Trump says new guidelines aim to lift some restrictions
ZEKE MILLER, AAMER MADHANI, and KEVIN FREKING
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he's prepared to announce new guidelines allowing some states...
More states finally paying $600 extra in unemployment aid
CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and SUSAN HAIGH
Associated Press Writers
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The bills are mounting for Justin Conrad, who lost his warehouse job three...