The annual survey of utilities and 42,000 businesses found grid expansion and construction are fueling employment in solar, wind, and similar technologies. “Clean energy” development accounted for 6 percent of all new employment in the United States in 2023, adding 142,000 jobs to the nation’s collective payroll, according to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Virginia, Alabama, and Ohio also announced the removal of noncitizens from voter rolls leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Aug. 26 more than 1 million ineligible voters have been removed from the state’s voter rolls in the past three years, including more than 6,500 noncitizens and 457,000 deceased
Officials at the cemetery said an incident took place. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is denying reports of an altercation between campaign staffers and an official at Arlington National Cemetery. Citing unnamed sources, several news outlets reported that after Trump participated in an Aug. 26 wreath-laying ceremony at the Virginia military cemetery, staffers pushed the
Parents are more likely to report high levels of stress than other adults, research shows. Parents’ mental health and wellbeing is suffering more than that of other adults under the weight of economic and societal pressures, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned in an advisory published on Aug. 27. The advisory notes that age-old worries parents
The makeshift Gaza aid pier encountered many weather and security challenges that government officials had warned about before the mission began. President Joe Biden pushed for a maritime route to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip over the objections of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) officials, a new government watchdog report concluded. The
The current visit by Biden’s top aide to China is meant to maintain open lines of communication, the White House said. President Joe Biden and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping will speak in the “coming weeks,” the White House said, following two days of talks in China between national security adviser Jake Sullivan
President Joe Biden has declared Aug. 25 through Aug. 31 as ‘Overdose Awareness Week.’ The White House said on Tuesday that it will host families of overdose victims and advocates from across the United States as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to address the overdose epidemic. The meeting, slated to be held on Aug.