Lawmakers who last year failed to complete a rewrite of U.S. agricultural policy will restart their effort this week with pressure building for even bigger cuts for farmers and food-stamp recipients.

With Virginia’s famously fast-paced General Assembly session underway, members of both chambers are debating many complex policies from data centers to tax refunds. Included among them is one ...

A recent survey shows that China's mineral oversupply is lowering EV costs but increasing U.S. dependence on foreign materials just as President Donald Trump rolls back Biden-era EV policies. China ...

And soon can be used to send letters daily? It’s SpongeBob SquarePants! Coming to a new postage stamp later this year. The children’s cartoon, which debuted in 1999, was created by the late ...

An early morning house fire in Chesterfield County resulted in a fatality. At 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, Chesterfield Fire & EMS crews responded to a call for a blaze in the 2900 block of Kingsdale ...

During a virtual speech to the World Economic Forum on Thursday, Jan. 23, President Trump said he would ask the Fed to "immediately" cut interest rates. Powell said the Fed is waiting to see how ...

In a 2023 interview with the Journal Star, Muhleisen said her dad took a hands-off approach once she took over as president of the bank, wanting her to make her own way and put her own stamp on ...

Trump administration officials said programs that provide direct assistance to Americans — such as Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, student loans and food stamps — would not be affected.

She said she’d never rubber stamp a project, and noted that she asked questions and proposed an amendment to the company's special permit to address erosion. Yoakum said she thinks more about ...

and one in five reports having no other source of income besides food stamps, and Democrats have repeatedly said they do not support a farm bill with such cuts to SNAP. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA ...

Benefits are set to rise by 1.7 per cent from April in line with last September’s rate of inflation. But this increase comes amid a backdrop of planned reform of the entire system this spring ...