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Gov. Nathan Deal held a news conference Wednesday afternoon to announce that the social media giant's 9th U.S. data center will be built in Newton County, about 45 miles east of downtown Atlanta. Deal says the data center will lead to the creation of more than 100 full-time jobs.
As the Florida House prepares to vote as soon as Wednesday on a measure aimed at boosting school safety, the state's Republican governor, Rick Scott, is still not saying whether he would sign the bill, which includes a provision he opposes that would allow some teachers and other school staff to carry weapons. Whether to sign the bill - proposed in the wake of the high school massacre in Parkland - is an important political consideration for Scott, who is term-limited and is widely expected to challenge Florida's Democratic US senator, Bill Nelson, in the November mid-term election.
State Rep. Ann M. Williams gives a thumbs-up to the gallery while Rep. Cynthia Soto applauds after the House voted to pass legislation to license gun dealers during a session Feb. 28, 2018, in Springfield. State Rep. Ann M. Williams gives a thumbs-up to the gallery while Rep. Cynthia Soto applauds after the House voted to pass legislation to license gun dealers during a session Feb. 28, 2018, in Springfield.
This year's midterm elections officially began on Tuesday as Democratic and Republican primaries were held in Texas. Democrats are hoping Texas could become a key state in the party's effort to retake control of the Senate and the House.
A bill that would end New Hampshire's distinction between full-fledged residents and those who claim the state as their domicile for voting is another step closer to becoming law. Current law allows college students and others who consider the state their domicile to vote without being subject to residency requirements, such as getting a New Hampshire driver's license or registering a vehicle.
WASHINGTON The Latest on President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum : Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says President Donald Trump should back off his plan to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum.
Trump plans to meet with ... . FILE- In this Jan. 11, 2013, file photo Vice President Joe Biden, center, speaks during a meeting with representatives from the video game industry in Washington.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will be speaking at publishing's annual national gathering, convention organizers told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The Vermont independent and 2016 Democratic presidential contender is scheduled for May 31 at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan.
The FBI has been in cahoots with Best Buy's Geek Squad for at least the past decade, new documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal. An FBI memo obtained by the nonprofit digital rights group reveals that Best Buy in September 2008 hosted a meeting of the law enforcement agency's Cyber Working Group at a Geek Squad repair facility in Kentucky.
This Jan. 4, 2007, file photo shows then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi waving the Speaker's gavel, while surrounded by her own grandchildren and the children of other members of Congress, after being elected as the first woman Speaker at a swearing-in ceremony for the 110th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the first female elected to House speaker, helped celebrate Women's History Month by donating her suit and gavel to the Smithsonian on Wednesday.
As a top Veterans Administration official in the Obama administration, current Secretary David Shulkin took no action to fix longstanding problems of dirty syringes and equipment shortages that put patients at risk at a major veterans hospital, according to an investigation released Wednesday that finds "failed leadership" and "climate of complacency" at agency. The 150-page report by the VA internal watchdog offers new details to its preliminary finding last April of patient safety issues at the Washington, D.C., medical center.
A new category of future vertical flight took center stage at the Heli-Expo held in Las Vegas last week. EVTOLs-which stands for electric vertical takeoff and landing-are relatively inexpensive, quiet, efficient vehicles that will be able to transport passengers who order them on their smartphones.
Two members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet suggested Wednesday that Canada and Mexico might escape new tariffs on steel and aluminum, a potential bargaining chip in North American trade talks that heeds the 'surgical approach" advocated by House Speaker Paul Ryan. "The president indicated that if we can work something out with Canada and Mexico they will be exempted.
Mike DeBess a planner and civil engineer for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District talks to municipality representatives during a flood summit at Washington City Council Municipality representitives and and county citizens fill Washington City Council chambers to present their issues with flooding to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and ... (more)
Urban airports like Boston's Logan thought they had silenced noise issues with quieter planes. Now complaints pour in from suburbs 10 to 15 miles away because new navigation routes have created relentless noise for some homeowners.
In the midst of a speech to boost Democrat Conor Lamb ahead of next week's special election, the former "It makes me angry when we're not respected - when you're not respected," Biden tells scores of carpenters who packed into a suburban Pittsburgh union hall on Tuesday. "Everything unions do is done well."
H.R. 1409, co-sponsored by Representative Leonard Lance and Representative Brian Higgins ensures that any health plan covering cancer care offer patients the same level of cost-sharing for all forms of cancer medicine. "Bipartisan support for the Cancer Drug Parity Act has grown to 136 cosponsors, reflecting the strong momentum in Congress to pass this piece of meaningful cancer treatment legislation, said Congressman Lance.
The U.S. House of Representatives will debate bipartisan legislation next week aimed at preventing violence at schools following the shooting deaths of 17 people at a Florida high school on Feb. 14, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Tuesday. McCarthy, the second most powerful Republican in the House, did not outline any other bills the chamber might consider that are urged by gun control groups, such as raising the minimum age for buying semi-automatic rifles or banning them altogether.
With the departure of chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, the same thing seems to be happening in his White House. 2. PORN STAR SUES TRUMP OVER NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an "intimate relationship" with Trump beginning in 2006, is seeking to invalidate the pact which prevented her from discussing the encounters.