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Members of Congress just headed home after a brutal fight over repealing Obamacare, and they won't be back in Washington until September 5. The battles that await them are even more impossible - and they're only set to be in session for 12 days before they need to act to prevent a government shutdown and an economic crash. "September is going to be a very difficult month," said House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows shortly before the break.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 2 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has joined a large bipartisan coalition in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to decide whether email service providers can shield evidence of a crime from law enforcement by storing data outside Here you can find useful examples and description about searching the news archive. Read it carefully to get the best results.
Frustrated Republicans vented their displeasure at House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday during a town hall meeting at a wire manufacturer in the Wisconsin congressman's district. Ryan hasn't held a town hall meeting open to the general public since October 2015, but he does frequently take questions from employees following business tours.
North Carolina legislated nearly three times more new crimes in 2016 than in any of the six previous years, according to to a study released Tuesday by the Manhattan Institute . The Institute studied over-criminalization in North Carolina between 2015 and 2016, finding that the state created 83 new crimes in 2016, compared to just 31 in 2015 and an average of 34 between 2009 and 2014.
The commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department felt compelled to order officers not to stage or "recreate" footage taken by their body cameras Tuesday, due to two recent alleged incidents of agents orchestrating crime scenes. Kevin Davis, the lead law enforcement official at the BPD, urgently advised his crew through a memorandum, which was first reported by Kevin Rector of The Baltimore Sun.
The Justice Department will dispatch 12 federal prosecutors to cities ravaged by addiction who will focus exclusively on investigating health care fraud and opioid scams that are fueling the nation's drug abuse epidemic, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday. He unveiled the pilot program during a speech in hard-hit Ohio, where eight people a day die of accidental overdoses.
Attorneys general from 15 states filed a legal challenge on Tuesday over the Trump administration's delay of Obama-era rules reducing emissions of smog-causing air pollutants. The states petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's extension of deadlines Here you can find useful examples and description about searching the news archive.
Lawsuits filed against construction company blamed for power outage on North Carolina's Outer Banks, forcing visitors off beaches and leaving tourist-dependent businesses without income. Lawsuits filed against construction company blamed for power outage on North Carolina's Outer Banks, forcing visitors off beaches and leaving tourist-dependent businesses without income.
President Donald Trump pauses during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump's threat to stop billions of dollars in government payments to insurers and force the collapse of “Obamacare” could put the government in a tricky legal situation.
Sen. Lamar Alexander talks with reporters on Nov. 29, 2016 before the Senate Policy Luncheons in the Capitol. Republicans on both sides of the Capitol scrambled Tuesday to defuse President Donald Trump's threat to cut off critical health insurance payments, moving around Trump toward bipartisan legislation to shore up the Affordable Care Act.
Aug. 1, 2017 - PRLog -- TKG /The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, announced today that it has scheduled a live webcast entitled: White Collar Crime Law and the Criminal Justice Reform Under the New Administration: Trends, Developments and Updates LIVE Webcast. This event is scheduled on August 30, 2017 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET.
Attorneys for the companies that insured Nathan Carman's Chicken Pox are asking a federal court in Rhode Island to leave open the possibility of questioning Carman during deposition about "his grandfather's unsolved homicide ..." "[F]urther defenses ... may become apparent later in discovery ... and [plaintiffs] anticipate that Nathan Carman's 'criminal wrongdoing' ... and 'illegality' ... will similarly bar his insurance claim," states the Plaintiff's Rule 16 Statement filed on July 31. Carman, of Vernon, spent seven days in a four-person, inflatable life raft after his fishing boat sank in September 2016. He was rescued by a freighter and brought to safety by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." In this July 27, 2017, file photo, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas talks to reporters as heads to the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, July 28, 2017, after the Republican-controlled Senate was unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace "Obamacare." The Senate's top Democrat says President Donald Trump's threats to block federal payments to insurers are "not frankly what an adult does" and would boost consumers' premiums.
In this Sept. 16, 2007, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio shows off vehicles advertising a hotline to report undocumented immigrants in Phoenix, Ariz.
Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff whose extreme stance on illegal immigration made him a household name, was convicted Monday of criminal contempt of court for ignoring a judge's order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton wrote that Arpaio had shown a "flagrant disregard" for the court's command and that his attempt to pin the conduct on those who worked for him rang hollow.
Longtime critics of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio say his conviction of a criminal charge for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants is a long-awaited comeuppance. Longtime critics of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio say his conviction of a criminal charge for disobeying a court order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants is a long-awaited comeuppance.
In this July 31, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump pauses during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump's threat to stop billions of dollars in government payments to insurers and force the collapse of "Obamacare" could put the government in a tricky legal situation.
Audrey R. Chavez, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra, Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Lewis A. Martinez, Tia Coronado and William K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.