Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-Palm Springs) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), sponsors of a bill to eliminate the taxes Olympic athletes must pay on the earnings they receive for winning medals. Olympians who win medals receive $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze from the U.S. Olympic Committee.
The number of U.S. counties spread across 32 states that have been declared disaster areas in recent months. Over 90 percent have been placed on the list due to severe drought conditions.
Police around the country have been making increasing use of automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) systems, which combine optical character recognition with database storage and matching to help catch criminals, solve crimes and finding missing people. Their ability to scan massive amounts of data has groups like the American Civil Liberties Union asking questions about privacy.
The United States doesn’t yet face the critical shortage of power that has left more than 600 million people in India without electricity this week but the U.S. grid is aging and stretched to capacity.
The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the U.S. economy was slowing and unlikely to create nearly enough work this year for millions of jobless Americans, but Fed leaders declined to take any steps to boost growth.
A federal appeals court blocked Arizona on Wednesday from enforcing a new state ban on most late-term abortions that opponents say is the toughest in the nation, and agreed to an expedited review of the controversial measure.
San Bernardino officially filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal court Wednesday, just two weeks after the City Council declared insolvency after learning the city would be too broke to make payroll this summer.
More than half of the counties in the United States have been designated as disaster areas mainly because of the ongoing drought that has been ravaging the nation, officials announced Wednesday as disaster designations were signed for 218 more counties in 12 states.
The number of photo-speed-van and red-light-camera tickets issued to city of Denver employees driving city cars that have gone unpaid for the last 3½ years according to the city's manager of safety records.
Oakland leaders took their financial troubles to the doorstep of Goldman Sachs on Tuesday, urging other cities to join them in fighting a bank that has become a lightning rod for criticism of the U.S. financial system.
