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Gov. Tom Wolf is backing a new proposal to impose a tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas production that would rise with the price of gas. Wolf's office said the legislation being introduced Tuesday would raise roughly $250 million in the fiscal year beginning this July 1. Under the bill, the state would collect 4.2 cents per thousand cubic feet of gas at a benchmark price of $3 or less.
A court hearing over whether construction of a crude oil pipeline in an environmentally fragile Louisiana swamp will continue focused on whether enough would be done to make up for environmental impacts from the project. An attorney for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC told a federal appeals court panel in Houston Monday that it'll be providing "appropriate compensation" by re-establishing forested wetlands elsewhere in the swamp.
Mobile US and Sprint said Sunday they believed they could win over skeptical regulators to their $26 billion merger because it would create thousands of jobs and help the United States beat China to creating the next generation mobile network. The agreement capped four years of on-and-off talks between the third- and fourth-largest US wireless carriers, setting the stage for the creation of a company with 127 million customers that will be a more formidable competitor to the top two wireless players, Verizon Communications and AT&T.
Bradley County voters will decide Tuesday who will be sheriff and circuit court clerk, as well as choose all but one of the county commissioners. Bradley County voters will decide Tuesday who will be sheriff and circuit court clerk, as well as choose all but one of the county commissioners.
In a joint letter to the Times , the former MPs say that their introduction would prevent a crisis like the Windrush scandal . Meanwhile, former Conservative Home Secretary, Ken Clarke, told BBC Radio 4's World At One programme that it was "impossible" to control illegal migration without an identity card system.
The U.S. Commerce Department is wrestling with a flood of requests to exclude products from steel and aluminum import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, creating a backlog that's sparked calls for action from lawmakers and trade groups. Senators Orrin Hatch of Utah and Ron Wyden of Oregon, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others, want the government to speed up the process and dedicate more resources to it.
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott repeatedly declined to spell out her position on the deportation of illegal immigrants as she was pressed on the issue eight times in a live TV interview. Ms Abbott told ITV1's Good Morning Britain she did not back an amnesty of the kind floated by Boris Johnson and said it was "not Labour's position" that up to a million people believed to be living illegally in the UK should be made to go home.
The body of the 4-year-old Manchester boy who was swept into the Atlantic Ocean from a North Carolina beach was discovered Monday morning, Kitty Hawk, N.C., police said.
Theresa May has defended targets for the removal of illegal immigrants as she confirmed the practice was in place when she was home secretary. Members of the public want the Government to deal with people who have no right to be in the country, the Prime Minister insisted.
A company building a crude oil pipeline in Louisiana is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a judge's order that had halted construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Monday by attorneys for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, federal regulators and environmental groups opposed to the project.
The reviews are in: President Donald Trump gave a thumbs-down Sunday to the comedian who roasted his chief spokeswoman at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, offending present and past members of his administration, including one who walked out in protest. The organization's leader said she regretted that Michelle Wolf's routine may end up defining an evening that was designed to rally around journalism.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has moved swiftly to shore up her government in the wake of the sudden resignation of a senior minister over an immigration scandal late on Sunday night. May appointed Sajid Javid, a second-generation migrant whose parents came to Britain from Pakistan, as Home Secretary on Monday morning, plugging a hole left when predecessor Amber Rudd fell victim to a growing controversy over the treatment of the so-called Windrush generation of immigrants.
Williams was wanted in the fatal... . This image released by Marvel Studios shows, from left, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo and Benedict Wong in a scene from "Avengers: Infinity War."
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur will visit Sylvania Southview High School Monday morning. The Democratic Representative is set to address 75 student volunteers, sharing advice on how they can become active in bettering their community.
The second trial for New York's former assembly speaker is likely to be a repeat of a 2015 trial but with language that will conform to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of corruption. Opening statements begin Monday in the corruption retrial of Democrat Sheldon Silver.
In this April 8, 2018 photo, Marisol Zenteno, right, from The League of Women Voters, registering Aida Merced Lopez, who moved to Miami from Puerto Rico in April 2017, during a festival in Kendall, Florida. "We are just working so the Puerto Rican community can have its voice heard," said volunteer Zenteno as she took a break from working a line of people waiting to buy pork and rice.
Two Republicans who are trying to win their for party's nomination for the U.S. Senate made campaign swings through Albemarle County over the weekend. Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson had a rally Sunday evening at the Double Tree Hotel.
While the debate rages about what comedian Michelle Wolf did or did not mean by specific jokes in her White House Correspondents' Dinner monologue this weekend, and the level of seriousness with which we should all approach them, and how to react to the entire debacle, the Correspondents' Association itself has officially weighed in with a statement to members on Sunday night. Turns out, they aren't over the moon about the whole thing.