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UK lawmakers approve release of confidential documents on former Prince Andrew

LONDON (AP) — The British government will release confidential papers related to the former Prince Andrew’s appointment as trade envoy after a scathing parliamentary debate in which lawmakers called for greater accountability from the royal family and said the king’s brother had put his ...

Appeals court questions shifting reasons for Trump’s EPA killing clean energy contracts

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday grilled both the Trump administration and the nonprofits picked to run a $20 billion “green bank” program over the termination of their contacts, questioning whether federal officials made up reasons to block the program and whether the nonprofits were demanding access to money that wasn’t technically theirs to control. The judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit are considering the fate of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a congressionally-authorized Biden administration-era program aimed ...