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FILE - In this Saturday, July 18, 2020, file photo, Iesha Sekou, left, founder and CEO of Street Corner Resources talks to a young man while visiting and observing potential areas of conflict and gun violence, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. A rise in gun violence in cities across the U.S. is testing the limits of anti-violence groups that have been calling for more government funding for decades. President Joe Biden acknowledged earlier this year that community anti-violence programs have been woefully underfunded and has proposed $5 billion in new aid for them. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
Gun violence tests limits of urban crime prevention groups

By Dave Collins Jun. 24, 2021 08:31 AM EDT

Arizona GOP advances wish list on race, taxes, elections

By Jonathan J. Cooper And Bob Christie Jun. 23, 2021 05:40 PM EDT
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate passed a $12.8 billion budget for the coming fiscal year early Wednesday that contains massive income tax cuts after a...

Lawmakers dismiss criticism of emergency spending law

By James Macpherson Jun. 22, 2021 02:24 PM EDT
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota legislative leaders on Tuesday dismissed criticism of a new limits on emergency spending by a governor-led panel, saying...

Minnesota lawmakers to hand out nearly $1B in tax cuts

By Mohamed Ibrahim Jun. 21, 2021 05:25 PM EDT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After a session marked early on by talk of possible tax increases, the Minnesota Legislature was on track Monday to hand out serious tax...

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2020 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court’s latest rejection of a Republican effort to dismantle “Obamacare” is the latest sign that the GOP must look beyond repealing that law if it wants to hone the nation’s health care problems into a winning political issue. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Democrats see springboard for health care in high court win

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Jun. 19, 2021 08:38 AM EDT

FILE- In this file image from video provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, a sign language interpreter, lower left, signs for acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau Ron Jarmin, who is speaking off camera, as a graphic showing the U.S. population as of April 1, 2020, is displayed during a virtual news conference. When U.S. Census Bureau workers couldn't find out any information about some households after repeatedly mailing them questionnaire reminders and sending census takers to knock on their doors, the statisticians turned to an obscure, last-resort statistical technique known as “imputation.” Less than 1% of households were counted using the technique during the 2020 census. But some conservative political groups are questioning it, potentially laying a foundation for legal challenges to the data that will ultimately be used for drawing congressional and legislative districts. (U.S. Census Bureau via AP)
Report says technology kept 2020 census below expected cost

By Mike Schneider Jun. 14, 2021 04:22 PM EDT

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is maskless but wore a big smile as he arrives for a press conference Monday, May 17, 2021, in St. Paul, Minn., to announce that he and the Legislature had agreed to spend $52 billion on the next two-year budget. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
Walz, leaders, seek budget breakthroughs as Capitol reopens

By Steve Karnowski Jun. 10, 2021 04:08 PM EDT

FILE - This May 4, 2021, photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. The U.S. budget deficit hit a record $2.06 trillion through the first eight months of this budget year as coronavirus relief programs drove spending to all-time highs. The shortfall this year is 9.7% higher than the $1.88 trillion deficit run up over the same period a year ago, the Treasury Department said Wednesday, June 9, 2021 in its monthly budget report. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)
US budget deficit for current year hits record $2.1 trillion

By Martin Crutsinger Jun. 10, 2021 03:36 PM EDT

President Joe Biden talks about the May jobs report from the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Friday, June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden says jobs report bolsters case for government spending

By Josh Boak Jun. 05, 2021 12:38 AM EDT

President Joe Biden talks about the May jobs report from the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Friday, June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden says jobs report bolsters case for government spending

By Josh Boak Jun. 04, 2021 03:33 PM EDT

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden, GOP senator talk as time drags on infrastructure deal

By Lisa Mascaro Jun. 03, 2021 12:29 AM EDT

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden, GOP senator talk as time drags on infrastructure deal

By Lisa Mascaro Jun. 02, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

President Joe Biden listens first lady Jill Biden speaks at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Va., Friday, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Biden budget highlights: Lots of spending, taxing the rich

May. 29, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

President Joe Biden speaks at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Va., Friday, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Biden budget highlights: Lots of spending, taxing the rich

May. 28, 2021 04:48 PM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, file photo, people raise their hands as they take the oath of allegiance on their way to becoming new United States citizens before a baseball game in San Diego. Less than a year after being on the verge of furloughing about 70% of employees to plug a funding shortfall, the federal agency that grants citizenship, green cards and temporary visas wants to improve service without a detailed plan to pay for it, including waivers for those who can't afford to pay fees, according to a proposal obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)
Citizenship agency eyes improved service without plan to pay

By Elliot Spagat And Sophia Tareen May. 25, 2021 10:15 AM EDT

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Stout handle mooring lines during the ship's return to home port at Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Va., in this Oct. 12, 2020, photo. The USS Stout showed rust as it returned from the 210-day deployment. The rust was quickly removed and the ship repainted. But the rusty ship and its weary crew underscored the costly toll of deferred maintenance on ships and long deployments on sailors. (Spc. Jason Pastrick/U.S. Navy via AP)
Navy says it's charting a new course after rash of problems

By David Sharp May. 24, 2021 07:39 AM EDT

Robust revenue allows Illinois to repay federal loan early

By John O'connor May. 20, 2021 06:24 PM EDT
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Democratic leaders announced Thursday that they have agreed to repay federal pandemic-relief loans more than a year earlier...

New Zealand Finance Minister Grant Robertson, front right, walks with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, to deliver his budget to parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Thursday, May 20, 2021. New Zealand plans to rebuild its Antarctic base and spend billions more on welfare payments as part of a spending program aimed at lifting the economy out of a coronavirus slump. (Mark Mitchell/NZ Herald via AP)
New Zealand spending plan includes rebuilding Antarctic base

By Nick Perry May. 19, 2021 11:25 PM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-East Gull Lake, second from right, and House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, second from left, after a press conference Monday, May 17, 2021, in St. Paul, Minn., announcing the Legislature and Walz agreed to spend $52 billion on the next two-year budget. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
Walz, legislative leaders reach $52 billion budget deal

By Steve Karnowski May. 17, 2021 11:51 AM EDT

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, file photo, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas looks on as President Joe Biden signs an executive order on immigration, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Biden, under political pressure, agreed to admit four times as many refugees this budget year as his predecessor did, but resettlement agencies concede the number actually allowed into the U.S. will be closer to the record-low cap of 15,000 set by former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Refugees arriving in US unlikely to exceed cap set by Trump

By Julie Watson And Matthew Lee May. 16, 2021 07:44 AM EDT