The Trump administration announced a proposal last month to remove a Forest Service rule that protects millions of acres of National Forest land throughout the United States from commercial logging and road building. Put in place in 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule applies to land ...
US to lift whiskey tariff DOONBEG, Ireland (AP) — President Donald Trump says he plans to remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said Sunday during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he'd been asked about the issue by everyone, including some of the golfers. He said, "Everybody's been bugging me" to do it. "And I said, 'On behalf of the United States of America, I am going to take the tariffs off'" of Irish whiskey. Irish whiskey currently faces the standard tariff imposed by Trump on most imports from the European Union, which was reduced from 15% to 10% in ...
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — The conflict in Yemen intensified on Sunday, as government forces launched attacks against Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red Sea and Houthis fired into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen's government. The Yemeni government vowed to send more forces to ...
DUBLIN (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday played down the need for his administration to check the development of artificial intelligence, saying he worried about ceding America's edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the risks from the advancing ...
A frost advisory is in effect for the Dickinson County area from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. Monday, the National Weather Service said. Temperatures could dip as the low as 30 degrees and sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered, NWS said in an advisory for Ontonagon, Dickinson and southern Houghton counties. If freezing temperatures are observed locally, it would mark the earliest frost this century, according to NWS data from the Iron Mountain-Kingsford Wastewater Treatment Plant. In four of the past five years, the first frost hasn't come until October. The earliest ...
September is such a bittersweet time of the year. So many of our beloved bird species only spend a few short months in the Upper Peninsula. They might show up in April or May and by September they’ve nested — hopefully successfully — and now have no reason to remain. The male ...
