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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Washington has raised an estimated $1.8 billion through the sale of allowances to polluting businesses at carbon auctions this year. The state Department of Ecology announced Wednesday the results of its last quarterly auction of the year. It marked the completion of the firs…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — In the middle of morning rush hour on one of the most notoriously congested thoroughfares in Los Angeles, dozens of protesters sat in a row stretching from one edge of the southbound 110 Freeway to the other. Calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, they chanted, sang in H…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The Senate appeared to be on the verge of going home for the holidays without passing an emergency war funding package, as Republicans warned more time is required to reach a bipartisan compromise on border restrictions and draft the complex legislation needed to implement it…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for a third meeting and gave its clearest signal yet that its aggressive hiking campaign is finished by forecasting a series of cuts next year. Officials decided unanimously to leave the target range for the benchmark federal fun…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Two more people from South Carolina have been arrested in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington announced on Wednesday. Christopher George Rockey, 54, of Cross, in Berkeley County, is charged in a criminal complaint with the felony offenses…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will decide whether to put stricter limits on abortion pills that are now the most common method for ending early pregnancies. The justices voted to hear the Biden administration’s appeal and reconsider rulings by conservative judges in Tex…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. lawmakers and the White House are discussing what level of border arrests should trigger stringent new asylum rules under a possible border security deal that would also include aid for Ukraine and Israel, a Republican senator said on Wednesday. Senator Thom Tillis, a Re…

(Reuters) — Three teachers in Florida on Wednesday sued the state over its law prohibiting transgender and nonbinary teachers from using their preferred pronouns in school, saying it violates their constitutional rights. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida’s capital, Tallahassee, sa…

(Reuters) — The New Mexico Supreme Court, based on arguments it heard on Wednesday, appeared poised to block several local ordinances in the state that aim to restrict distribution of the abortion pill. However, the high court appeared unlikely to rule that the state’s constitution includes a…