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Republicans defeated the request in a hearing on Wednesday, and accused Democrats of using the tragedy for political reasons.

Congress must increase transportation funding. Our roads, bridges and transit systems desperately need it.

A Transportation Department official lightly chastised New York-area transit leaders for inaction on new rail links between the city and New Jersey, a project the White House has ranked as a high priority.

A Republican-backed measure that will repeal Indiana’s law setting wages for state and local government construction projects has been approved by Gov. Mike Pence.

The increases would have pumped more than $1 billion a year into roads, and their defeat was a setback for Gov. Rick Snyder and others who warn that the state’s infrastructure is falling into disrepair.

Justin Wood, an environmental organizer, writes that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan “sets the stage for fundamental reform of the commercial waste system.”

A modest-size dam on the Jhelum River at a site 35 miles east of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, will be the first project financed by China’s $40 billion Silk Road Fund.

Behind the scenes, AbTech Industries had been working to try to persuade the county, in Senator Skelos’s political backyard, to embark upon a more than $10 million storm-water project.

After attacks by the Shabab, an extremist Somali group, killed hundreds in Kenya, plans for a security barrier are stirring intense debate in a town where the two sides of the border are highly interconnected.

President Xi Jinping of China had announced plans to contribute $46 billion for energy and infrastructure projects, an influx that could be a huge benefit to the Pakistani economy.

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