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Demonstrators with the Poor People's Campaign await processing by U.S. Capitol Police after being peacefully arrested at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 21, 2018, where they protested the Trump administration and Congress' policies towards immigrant children and families and the poor. Rep. Steve Russell, R-Okla., left, and Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., walk to a closed-door meeting with House Republicans seeking more information about compromise legislation on immigration, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 21, 2018.
Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party is undergoing an internal struggle that threatens to take us even further into madness and indecency. I try to draw attention to what is happening here in the brief Weekly Standard article "The anti-Israel candidate" .
Your Alaska Link checked in with 2018 gubernatorial candidates Mead Treadwell, Mark Begich, Mike Dunleavy and Scott Hawkins about their campaign run and what they want for the great state of Alaska. As Dunleavy states, "I think it's good for the people of Alaska to have folks in a Primary so they have somebody to choose froma some of the folks that just got in are kind of on the left side of the spectrum, and there's others like myself that are on the right side of the spectrum, so people have an opportunity to chose."
Feminist organizations and anti-violence activists have joined together to denounce both pieces of legislation-and they're calling on their members to demand the same from their Representatives. Republicans in the House introduced two pieces of legislation last week that they claimed would solve the previous immigration crisis brought on by the Trump administration: chaos and confusion for DACA recipients, who have been left fearing deportation and uncertain of their legal status over the last year.
The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the 2018 farm bill Thursday, called for a second time after it failed in May. It sets in place more comprehensive work requirements for recipients of federal food assistance. Able-bodied recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that aren't pregnant or caring for children would need to either work at least 20 hours per week or spend that time in job training.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown introduces bill to end voter roll cleanups based on electoral inaction and failing to respond to mailed notifications. Ohio's top Democratic elected official is fighting the state's process when it comes to scratching voters off the rolls.
And wire reports New Hampshire online retailers could be on the hook to collect sales tax from dozens of states and thousands of locales after the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday upheld South Dakota's online sales tax law.
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, flanked by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, gives a presentation on proposals to consolidate executive agencies as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington Thursday. The Trump administration proposed a major reorganization of the federal government on Thursday, calling for merging the education and labor departments, moving the federal food stamp program to the Department of Health and Human Services and renaming that agency.
A major U.S. Supreme Court ruling out Thursday could force New Hampshire businesses to collect a sales tax on behalf of other states. The case of South Dakota v.
The House killed a hard-right immigration bill Thursday, and Republican leaders delayed a planned vote on a compromise GOP package with the party's lawmakers fiercely divided over an issue that has long confounded them. The conservative measure was defeated 231-193, with 41 Republicans - mostly moderates - joining Democrats in voting against it.
Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations. Public defenders to border agents: Where are the immigrant children? Detained immigrants plead with courts for help finding their missing children., despite President Trump's executive order ending family separations.
The November "blue wave" that was supposed to give Democrats, at minimum, control of the House next year has been less of a sure thing lately -- that is, if anyone still puts any stock in polls.
Since my last article on the declining support for the Democratic party agenda, there have been several more primaries and to date there is no significant evidence that this decline has lessened. We were led to believe by their base that the "Resists" would be highly motivated to go to the polls and the results would be overwhelming.
In a rebuke to President Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday blocked a White House plan to cut almost $15 billion in unused government money slated for children's health insurance and other programs.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., speaks as he is joined by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, second from left, and other House Democrats calling for passage of the Keep Families Together Act, legislation to end the Trump Administration's policy of separating families at the US-Mexico border, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. As the White House struggles to move past another self-imposed crisis, Democrats are fighting to ensure this one isn't quickly forgotten.
President Trump has reversed his zero tolerance immigration policy with an executive order that will stop agents from separating children and parents detained at the border. Immigrant advocates applauded President Trump's decision on Wednesday to end the separation of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally but fear a return to long detentions while the families' appeals for asylum are decided.
On June 22, the 109th National Conference on Local Governance will bring together community leaders, academic practitioners, elected officials and concerned citizens for workshops, presentations and discussions on civic engagement. There are three workshop tracks: Health Equity, Youth and Education and Community-Police Relations.
Maybe there are reasons to hope that this nightmare has awakened some Republicans to the fact that they can actually stand up to the president. President Donald Trump gestures as he signs a "Space Policy Directive" during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence watches.