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Democrats in Congress are expressing deep concern over proposed changes at the Department of Housing and Urban Development that would see the words "free from discrimination" removed from its mission statement a move they say would "erase decades worth of progress" in housing anti-discrimination efforts. In a letter addressed to embattled HUD Secretary Ben Carson, lawmakers are asking the department to not remove the words, saying it would change the mission statement from one that promotes inclusion and discrimination-free communities to "one that does not strive to offer the same protections."
A bipartisan group of senators asked the head of a pharmaceutical company why the cost of a 40-year-old, cancer-fighting drug has spiked 1,400 percent over the last four years. A letter released Monday by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is the first step toward a Senate probe into Tri-Source Pharma and its subsidiary NextSource Biotechnology.
Gov. Ralph Northam has signed legislation to provide nearly $3.5 million in compensation to the "Norfolk Four," the U.S. Navy sailors who were wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a 1997 rape and murder. Northam last week signed identical House and Senate bills to compensate Danial Williams, Joseph Dick, Derek Tice and Eric Wilson, who were wrongly convicted in 1999 of raping and killing 18-year-old Michelle Bosko.
U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, in a 2014 file photo in the State Capitol. U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, in a 2014 file photo in the State Capitol.
The Trump administration is suing Cal... . FILE - In this March 7, 2018, file photo, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses the California Peace Officers' Association at the 26th annual Law Enforcement Legislative Day in Sacramento, Calif.
Ted Cruz is visited Central Texas Monday as part of a three-day tour through 12 Texas cities to kick off the Republican Senator's 2018 reelection campaign. Sen. Cruz began the day in Beaumont, which is still recovering from Hurricane Harvey.
This June 2014 photo shows Devonte Hart with his family at the annual celebration of "The Goonies" movie in Astoria, Ore. Authorities in Northern California say they believe all six children from a family were in a vehicle that plunged off a coastal cliff.
The failure of President Donald Trump and Democratic lawmakers to strike a deal on young undocumented immigrants puts the divisive issue into the middle of some hotly contested campaigns for November's midterm elections -- ones which could tip control of Congress. A relatively small number of people are affected personally by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that Trump wants to end -- about 1.8 million immigrants, known as Dreamers, who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, according to administration estimates.
The on-field tribute will include all the city's living ex-mayors - Sen. Dianne Feinstein , Art Agnos , Frank Jordan , Willie Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Supervisor London Breed - along with current Mayor Mark Farrell and Lee's widow, Anita Lee.
An angry California Congressman repeated over and over again "give me a break," as CNN's Jim Sciutto read President Donald Trump's tweets about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals . During a Monday morning interview, an incensed Rep. John Garamendi asked what the president thinks he's doing and specifically what does spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders "think she's doing."
He is one of the Republican Party's most-prized recruits, a young U.S. Senate candidate with an outsider resume and a populist message designed to appeal equally to farmers, suburban moms and the national GOP's moneyed elite. Hawley, who launched a Republican Senate bid in Missouri less than a year after being elected state attorney general, won't say whether he considers the Republican president a role model.
The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2018 would apply to facilities that manufacture or process cosmetic products but would exempt most retailers, salons and research and testing facilities. The Senate committee, led by Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray , indicated in a The amendment would require manufacturers and distributors to report "serious adverse events" - including death, hospitalization, persistent disability, or significant disfigurement - to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services within 15 days.
At age 28, two video producing buffs came across a shocking story about a young woman from the Wyoming Valley who was left to die in a submerged car that was driven by a man from one of the most powerful families in the world. They felt the "Chappaquiddick incident" in July 1969, which happened 15 years before they were born, was so interesting they decided to write a movie script - for the fun of it during nights after work.
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A federal spending watchdog agency says the Department of Defense must do better at estimating the cost of military construction projects, some of which have had contracts awarded as much as 30 percent higher than expected.
Voters in Clarksburg will decide Thursday if they want to start down the path of creating an interstate school district. The single article at the special town meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Clarksburg School on Thursday will allow the town to enter into conversations with Stamford, Vt.
In this March 26, 2018 photo, farmer Jeff Rehder looks over some of his pigs, in Hawarden, Iowa. Rehder stands to lose potential revenue on his hogs after China responded to Trump's announced plans to impose tariffs on products ... President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on a range of Chinese goods has prompted threats from Beijing that it will tag U.S. products, including pork and aluminum, with an equal 25 percent charge.
Voters choose between Carlos Alvarado of th... . Voters stand in line at a polling station during a presidential election in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, April 1, 2018.