A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks, his family said. "He was a devoted agent who served with honor and bravery," a family statement ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Environmental groups concerned about loss of protections for vanishing animals see one of President Donald Trump's early executive orders as a method of subverting the Endangered Species Act in the name of fossil fuel extraction and corporate interests. Trump declared ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will begin deploying as many as 1,500 active duty troops to help secure the southern border in the coming days, U.S. officials said Wednesday, putting in motion plans President Donald Trump laid out in executive orders shortly after he took office to crack down ...
The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month. In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink told agency staff leaders ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has moved to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. The moves Tuesday follow an executive order Trump signed ...
NASHUA — With $6.8 million already in hand, the Humane Society for Greater Nashua is appealing to the city’s residents for assistance in raising the remaining $1.2 million needed to expand its facility on Ferry Road. “This expansion will profoundly impact how we care for animals and ...
