Trump admin. plans to yank “roadless rule” impeding national forests logging

The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Monday. The “roadless rule” adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency in 2001 long has chafed Republican lawmakers, especially in the West where national forests sprawl across vast, mountainous terrain and

New York City Voters Head to the Polls for Highly Contested Mayoral Election Primary

NEW YORK CITY—It’s primary day on Tuesday in New York City as voters there cast their ballots in party primary elections for city offices, with the Democratic primary for the mayoral election being the most highly-watched and closely contested, between former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. New York City’s incumbent mayor,