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The August primary already is having a positive impact: The Legislature is expected to hold hearings and vote next session on Medicaid expansion - and it could pass. It remains to be seen whether Gov. Sam Brownback will loosen his opposition to expansion - or whether the loss of more of his allies in the Nov. 8 general election is needed to help change his priorities.
Patriot Majority USA issued a statement earlier this week claiming Gov. Mike Pence - and Donald Trump's vice presidential candidate, is using the Indiana State Police to suppress African-American voters. "This is not only voter suppression at its worst, it is an insult to all of the honest troopers in the state police, and to law-enforcement officials across the country, who disapprove of wasting precious crime-fighting resources on partisan witch hunts that further harm relations between police officers and minority communities," said Craig Varoga, President of Patriot Majority USA.
A judge on Friday dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre, citing an embattled federal law that shields gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products. State Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis granted a motion by Remington Arms to strike the lawsuit by the families of nine children and adults killed and a teacher who survived the Dec. 14, 2012, school attack, in which a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators with a Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle made by Remington.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a proponent of strong financial regulation, turned up the heat on the country's top securities regulator on Friday, urging President Barack Obama to fire Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White. Warren, a Democrat, has often criticized White in the past, but this was the first time she has called for her ouster.
The government ran a $587 billion budget deficit for the just-completed fiscal year, a 34 percent spike over last year after significant improvement from the record deficits of President Barack Obama 's first years in office. Friday's deficit news, while sobering, does not appear bad enough to jolt a gridlocked Washington into action to stem the flow of red ink.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, under siege from fellow Republicans for his unwillingness to help Donald Trump, accused Democrat Hillary Clinton and liberals on Friday of seeking to impose "a gloom and a greyness" on America and pursuing a government-heavy agenda for elites. "In the America they want, the driving force is the state," Ryan said in remarks to college Republicans in his home state.
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The Obama administration says it'll send more than 10 million mailings to woo the uninsured for the final health care law sign-up season of President Barack Obama 's tenure. Add to that countless email messages to both prospective and returning customers - and ads on social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
"In the course of doing the research for this book over the last eight years, I just started keeping track of where people went to school," Soltes told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last week. "It was out of my own personal curiosity.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says in its response to a lawsuit over the Dakota Access pipeline that it followed proper procedure in evaluating permits for water crossings and did not violate any federal laws. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed the federal suit in July after the Corps granted permits at 200 crossings, including one in North Dakota that's less than a mile upstream from the reservation.
A transgender parolee who said she robbed a Wyoming bank last summer so she would be sent back to prison was sentenced to six years in a federal women's lockup on Wednesday, prosecutors said. Linda Patricia Thompson, also known as Brian Thompson, faced a maximum of 20 years behind bars but was given a lower term under federal sentencing guidelines because she pleaded guilty and accepted responsibility for the crime, said her attorney, David Weiss.
By the time you read this, we will know if Donald Trump pulled off a miracle and overcame his myriad personal shortcomings to win the second debate and maybe save his candidacy by holding Hillary Clinton accountable for the legacy of failure she intends to continue. But more likely he will have spent the town hall excusing his locker room trash talk while the wife of a serial sex abuser stood smiling that Stepfordy smile as she watched him chase rhetorical squirrels down into the sewer.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the second presidential debate. Donald Trump mischaracterized the record on Hillary Clinton's defense of her husband and her own treatment of women when he brought up Bill Clinton's sexual history and other episodes of the past.
Trump's assertion that he'd jail his political rival shocked many, who noted it's a dictatorial move not tolerated in the United States. ST. LOUIS - Donald Trump's overt threat Sunday night to put Hillary Clinton behind bars if he is elected president - an unprecedented declaration in modern U.S. politics - was met with applause by his top campaign surrogates.
Seventy years ago, President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch Act, declaring "Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children, and proper nourishment comes first in attaining this welfare." This Act created the National School Lunch Program and provided lunch to 7 million children in its first year -- today, more than 30 million children depend on it each day.
Two groups that support far-reaching curbs on legal immigration to the United States and ideological screening of would-be immigrants to test their beliefs say Donald Trump's presidential campaign has consulted them on his immigration policy. NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies, which for years have denied accusations they harbor radical views on immigration, told Reuters they had met or had telephone calls with either Trump or senior members of his campaign over the past year.
The kingpin behind the black-market Web site Silk Road is just like the "Cannibal Cop" - he's all talk and no action, his lawyer insisted Thursday. Lawyer Joshua Dratel said in court that his client, Ross Ulbricht, only talked about hiring hitmen to kill people in online chats and there is no proof that any of the murders were actually carried out.
An outtake from the Paul Ryan photo shoot that was inspired by his Facebook photos showing him working out with P90X creator Tony Horton If Donald Trump is elected president and Republicans hold onto Congress, House Speaker Paul Ryan is bluntly promising to ram a partisan agenda through Capitol Hill next year, with Obamacare repeal and trillion-dollar tax cuts likely at the top of the list. And Democrats would be utterly defenseless to stop them.
The arrest of a National Security Agency contractor for allegedly stealing classified information was the second known case of a government contractor being publicly accused of removing secret data from the intelligence agency since 2013. The latest arrest came despite efforts to reform security after the Edward Snowden disclosures, especially in regards to insider threats.
A U.S. Department of Labor report released today details the bleak fate facing the nation's injured workers, noting that those hurt on the job are at "great risk of falling into poverty" because state workers' compensation systems are failing to provide them with adequate benefits. The report lays the groundwork for renewed federal oversight of state workers' comp programs, providing a detailed history of the government's past efforts to step in when states fell short.