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Gov. Phil Scott signed a wide-ranging bill Monday that aims to ease Vermont’s housing crisis by chipping away at certain state and local regulatory barriers to residential construction. Among several municipal reforms, S.100 will effectively ban single-family zoning statewide by legalizing duplexes wherever year-round residential development is allowed. (Towns and cities will also have to

Relatives checking the bodies of victims at a school in Balasore, India, on Sunday. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Officials suggested human error, even sabotage, could have led to the crash that killed 275, as crews raced to restore service and families struggled to reach the site to identify loved ones. The crushed train cars

Negotiators for President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are eyeing expanded work requirements for a federal program that gives cash directly to needy families as part of a deal to cut spending and raise the debt limit. Both sides say work requirements on recipients of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program could be an acceptable compromise. House Republicans are pushing

Norma Hunt, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt and the mother of team’s current CEO Clark Hunt, died Sunday. She was 85. The family announced her death via a statement released by the Chiefs on Sunday night. “Kind, generous and unfailingly positive, mom was one of a kind,” the statement reads. “Her joy and zeal for life were infectious.” Hunt — sometimes called “The First Lady