The executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting is contemplating the organization's future after the Senate passed President Trump's request to rescind funding to public radio and television stations. The Senate on Thursday voted 51-48 to approve a package that would cut $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.

The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.

A powerful earthquake struck a Republican senator's home state Wednesday. Just a day earlier, she'd slammed budget cuts that could affect natural disaster warnings.

Officials are collecting water samples twice daily from 10 locations around the popular Cleveland beach to monitor E. coli levels following Wednesday's discharge event.

M ore should have been done to inform the public about a fixed speed camera trial in North Yorkshire before it began, a council boss has said. The camera was installed on the A64 in Sherburn, near Malton, on 30 June and was due to go live the next day. However, just hours before the switch on, the camera was toppled in an act of vandalism.

(Reuters) -French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Tuesday proposed to cut two public holidays to drive economic growth as part of a plan to overhaul the country's debt-laden finances. The headline-grabbing proposal stirred outcry in the European Union's second-largest economy,