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Illinois officials have awarded a prison medical care contract to the same company it's been using for years, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits and widespread accusations of substandard care

Some Georgia lawmakers are looking for ways to provide relief from property taxes

Memphis residents were urged to boil water and New Yorkers have been warned that roads could be covered with dangerous black ice this weekend as brutal cold and inclement weather continue to sweep across parts of the U.S.Bitterly frigid air spilled into the Midwest from Canada on Friday and several states were under advisories as forecasters warned that wind chills dipping to minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 34 degrees Celsius) could be common through Sunday morning.

Republican lawmakers in Kansas have passed a broad package of tax cuts promoted as widespread relief

Federal officials have briefed a congressional committee on their investigations into a jetliner that lost a panel of its fuselage in midflight this month and revealed that airlines have inspected 40 identical Boeing planes

By David Shepardson and Valerie Insinna

United States on Tuesday, foreshadowing an impending harsh freeze over the weekend and causing power outages for more than 302,000 homes and businesses across nine states. The most severely affected states included Georgia, where over 65,000 power outages occurred, Florida with over 62,000 outages, and Alabama with more than 58,000 outages, as reported by PowerOutage.us. Southern Co manages the largest power companies in Georgia and Alabama, while NextEra Energy holds the position of the major power provider in Florida.

(Reuters) — A piece of fuselage tore off the left side of an Alaska Airlines-operated Boeing (NYSE:BA) 737 MAX 9 jet as it climbed following takeoff from Portland, Oregon, en route to Ontario, California, forcing pilots to turn back and land safely with all 171 passengers and six crew on board.

By Valerie Insinna, Tim Hepher and David Shepardson

These NASCAR Cup series will include Daytona 500. Daytona 500 will be on February 18 and it can be watched on Fox. Inaugural Iowa Cup race which is on June 16 and live streaming is available on USA Network.

Long-held Republican opposition to broader health care coverage may be softening in Georgia and Mississippi

United States Armed Forces will be honored on 11th November, Monday to commemorate Veterans Day. Millions of Americans, celebrate 11th November by taking an off on that day, for celebrating the soldiers. It is called as the “Armistice Day”. This year, the holiday is falling during the weekend which means the businesses will be observing it on 10th November, Sunday with the closure of federal and state buildings.

A winter storm is pummeling much of the central United States a day after Christmas

For most Americans dreaming of a white Christmas, this year’s prospects aren’t good

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke Tuesday alongside FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker in Arlington, Virginia.

NHTSA). This recall will primarily affect the 2021-2023 Model S and Model X vehicles of Tesla, as the cars fail to comply with certain federal safety standards. Those who do not know, Tesla had also recalled more than two million vehicles in the U.S.

TOKYO (Reuters) -Panasonic Energy, a unit of Panasonic (OTC:PCRFY) Holdings, said on Wednesday Oklahoma was no longer a candidate for a new electric vehicle battery plant in the United States.

As reported in Reuters, this development permits X to facilitate money transfer in the same way that other payments systems such as PayPal’s Venmo can.

Should airplane mechanics be responsible for checking their own work? The question is the subject of a long-simmering feud between workers and executives at major aircraft manufacturers. The debate has intensified as the aerospace industry deals with a series of costly manufacturing defects. Workers say having a separate inspector sign off is critical for quality control in an industry with no margin for error.

Creative Planning has acquired a Wilmington, Delaware-based registered investment advisory firm that provides integrated financial advisory, tax planning and investment management services to individuals, families and small businesses, the firm announced Tuesday.

Midwest and Great Lakes region on Sunday. Alongside the snow, a mix of sleet and freezing rain is likely in the eastern Texas Panhandle, extending into northwestern Oklahoma through Saturday afternoon, contributing to travel challenges in the area. Certain areas may witness freezing rain accumulating at a rate of one-tenth of an inch per hour. According to the FOX Forecast Center, there will be moderate to heavy snowfall moving from southwestern to northeastern Kansas, with anticipated accumulations of 4-8 inches. Gusty winds and heavy snow bands, at times reaching rates of 1 inch per hour. A wintry mix, accompanied by lighter snow accumulations, is projected from the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles through southeastern Kansas into northern Missouri. Conditions are forecasted to improve by Sunday morning. Simultaneously, the storm will introduce light snowfall into the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes late Saturday night into Sunday, with the possibility of a couple of inches accumulating around Chicago. Saturday's temperatures in the Central Plains are forecasted to range from the 20s to the 30s, while in the northern part of the Southern Plains, temperatures are expected to be in the 40s.