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Last week in Mance v. Sessions , the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied, by one vote, a request for a rehearing of the case by the full panel of the court, and confirmed the reversal of a lower court decision that had ruled the interstate handgun sale ban to be unconstitutional.
Today , AltaGas Ltd. and WGL Holdings, Inc. announced that they have reached a settlement in principle with key stakeholders in Washington D.C., including the Government of the District of Columbia, the Office of the People's Counsel, the Laborers' International Union of North America, its affiliated District Council, and Local Unions serving or located in Washington D.C. , the United States Department of Defense, the National Consumer Law Center/National Housing Trust-Enterprise Preservation Corporation , and the Apartment and Office Building Association. All key parties have now reached an understanding on settlement terms, clearing a path for review and approval by the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia .
Seventeen states, the District of Columbia and six cities sued the U.S. government Tuesday, saying the addition of a citizenship question to the census form is unconstitutional. Federal funding and congressional representation are at stake in the dispute over the Trump administration's move to reinstate the citizenship question to the 2020 census.
En esta fotografA a del 10 de octubre de 2017 se muestra a la Corte Suprema en Washington. FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington, at sunset.
A group of state attorneys general is urging the National Park Service to scrap its proposed entrance fee hike at 17 popular national parks. The top government lawyers from 10 states, including California, and the District of Columbia sent a letter Wednesday saying they don't want national parks to be "places only for the wealthy."
Lawyers representing 18 states and the District of Columbia will ask a federal judge in California to block the Trump administration from terminating cost-sharing subsidies aimed at helping lower income individuals afford health insurance. Judge Vince Chhabria of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, who was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama, could rule on the motion for a temporary restraining order as early as this week.
California sued the Trump administration Monday over its decision to end a program that gives protection from deportation to young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children or by parents who overstayed visas. The lawsuit's legal arguments largely mirror those already filed in a lawsuit last week by 15 other states and the District of Columbia.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, in Washington.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia on sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's plan to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation - an act Washington state's attorney general called "a dark time for our country." The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of New York.
Democratic attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia sued U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday over her decision to suspend rules that were meant to protect students from abuse by for-profit colleges. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington , says DeVos violated rule-making laws when she announced a June 14 decision to delay so-called borrower defense to repayment rules, which were finalized under President Barack Obama and scheduled to take effect July 1. In her announcement saying the rules would be delayed and rewritten, DeVos said they created "a muddled process that's unfair to students and schools."
A handful of states are pushing back against a sweeping demand from a controversial Trump voting commission for information about voters in every state. Trump's Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity was met with outrage at its inception last month, as it is headed by " notorious vote suppressor " Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and is tasked with investigating " the imagined scourge of voter fraud ."
Early rate filings by Obamacare insurers suggest consumers will face significantly higher premiums for marketplace coverage next year due to regulatory and political uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act. After significant premium hikes in 2017 corrected for underpricing by insurers the previous two years, most analysts expected rates to stabilize for marketplace coverage in 2018.
Attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia are faulting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for rolling back Obama-era guidance they say is helping protect student loan borrowers. In a letter sent Monday, Democratic attorneys general Maura Healey of Massachusetts and Lisa Madigan of Illinois called on DeVos to restore the memos instituted by the Education Department last year under former President Barack Obama.
The entrance to the Georgetown branch of the District of Columbia's Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency is ditching "District of Columbia" from driver's licenses after confusion that led to residents struggling to order beers and board planes.
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The head of the International Monetary Fund this weekend said she sees "reasons to be optimistic" about the U.S. economy's prospects under President Donald Trump, but that international consequences may arise "for which [other] economies have to prepare." Christine Lagarde, who has served at the helm of the District of Columbia-based IMF since 2011, spoke Sunday at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
In ceremonies in fifty state capitals and the District of Columbia, the states convened their electors to elect the next President of the United States, in a mix of symbolism, history, and a bit of raw political feelings as well. "I want to congratulate all of you on your role on this historic day," said Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania.
The nation's high school graduation rate has reached a record 83.2 percent, continuing a steady increase that shows improvement across all racial and ethnic groups, according to federal data released Monday. President Barack Obama welcomed the higher rate as good news, but the gains come against a backdrop of decreasing scores on national math and reading tests.
Four states trimmed their obesity rates, but two saw gains and the rest remained stable, according to a new report . The states that reduced their obesity rate from 2014 to 2015 were Minnesota, Montana, New York and Ohio, according to a report released Thursday by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Thirteen percent of U.S. adults tell Gallup they currently smoke marijuana, nearly double the percentage who reported smoking marijuana only three years ago. Although use of the drug is still prohibited by federal law, the number of states that have legalized recreational marijuana use has grown from two in 2013, Colorado and Washington, to four today -- with the addition of Alaska and Oregon -- plus the District of Columbia.