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Residents in Kogelo, Kenya, say students have had to drop out of school and donor-funded health clinics have closed due to lack of funding. Obama's struggling ancestral Kenya village misses him - and cashing in on his presidency Residents in Kogelo, Kenya, say students have had to drop out of school and donor-funded health clinics have closed due to lack of funding.
Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Turlock, right, speaks in support of allowing residency for some of the young people who immigrated illegally to the United States with their parents in Modesto, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. At left is Tomas Evangelista, who crossed the border from Mexico as a child and qualified under an Obama-era executive order that Denham would like to extend through an act of Congress.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson today called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "to exercise its oversight and enforcement authority" to protect more than 13,000 Florida children with special needs who were improperly removed from the state's specialized care program, known as Children's Medical Services. Nelson's request comes on the heels of recent reports that despite a Florida judge's ruling two years ago that required the state to stop using a new screening tool that declared thousands of kids ineligible for the state's specialized care program, the state of Florida has still not yet notified all of the families who were improperly removed from the program to provide them an opportunity to reenroll.
The Department of Agriculture has invested seven years and several million dollars in a popular program that claims it gets students to eat significantly more fruits and vegetables. But as a recent critique of the research behind the program reveals, "significantly more" often means an amount as small as a single bite of an apple.
Four members of a New Mexico paramilitary religious sect rocked by child sexual abuse allegations were arrested while trying to flee the state in two vans full of children, authorities said Thursday. Cibola County Sheriff Tony Mace confirmed to The Associated Press that the four members of the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps were arrested late Wednesday as deputies tried to execute a court order to pick up the children for interviews from the group's isolated compound in western New Mexico.
The U.S. House member from Wadsworth posted a video on Twitter that claimed Husted has a "liberal record" while portraying the two-term secretary of state as dishonest and "not as conservative as he pretends to be." Renacci's campaign said the video was in response to a Tweet by a pro-Husted super-PAC, Ohio Conservatives for a Change, that questioned the congressman's support for drug education for children in Ohio schools.
Teenagers are going on Facebook less and less, so much so that an analysis group predicts a 3.4 percent drop in users ages 12 to 17 in comparison to 2016. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in June that it reached a new milestone of 2 billion active users per month, potentially showing that while users are up in general, the younger generation is not as keen to the tech company's services and capabilities.
Now we can say it: the historic election of 2016 has been nullified. And it's not by the opposition party, not by the mainstream media, not by voter fraud or even tampering by the Russians.
In 2015, Social Security lifted an estimated 12.6 million women out of poverty, including 9 million women aged 65 and over. Today is Social Security's 82nd birthday.
The special session of the Texas Legislature is expected to end this week, and it appears the so-called bathroom bill is going to fail. The Texas House has yet to even schedule a hearing on Senator Lois Kolkhorst's bill, and the public pressure against the legislations is getting stronger.
" The Latest on a lawsuit that says teenagers accused of gang affiliations are being illegally detained : A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice is defending the detention of immigrant teenagers over allegations of gang affiliation. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Friday claiming some teens who entered the United States under the unaccompanied-children program are being illegally detained.
Last week, President Donald Trump endorsed an immigration bill put forth by Senators David Perdue and Tom Cotton. The reaction was swift yet predictable.
After delivering a blistering speech critiquing Donald Trump's performance as president at a recent conference, I was challenged by an audience member to say something nice about our commander in chief. I answered without a second's hesitation.
Mark White, a Democrat who served as the governor of Texas from 1983 to 1987, has died at the age of 77. During his time in office, White's most notable achievements came in education reform. In 1984, he signed landmark legislation that included the famous "no-pass, no play" law that said students must pass their classes to be eligible to participate in extracurricular activities.
This quote from State Attorney Glenn Hess in the article "State resentences few juvenile lifers" about Florida's refusal to review life sentences for juvenile offenders is mind blowing: "There's a good justification for them to have a significant sentence. We have kids who were gang members when they committed a murder.
A proposed law that would require carmakers to build alarms for back seats is being pushed by child advocates who say it will prevent kids from dying in hot cars. The law also would streamline the criminal process against caregivers who cause the deaths - cases that can be inconsistent but often heavier-handed against mothers.
There's an issue that bedevils commuters who use New York's Penn Station that will persist long after this summer's extensive track work . There's an issue that bedevils commuters who use New York's Penn Station that will persist long after this summer's extensive track work .
During a political debate between Ann Coulter and Ana Kasparian of the Young Turks, Coulter danced a strange line between bashing President Donald Trump while also defending him. Coulter explained that one only need to look at what Trump promised he would do and what he has actually done.
The YMCA has increased its summer lunch program activity. "The Y has slowly been increasing the way we provide summer meals across the city," said John Barber, Jamestown YMCA operations director.