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Pennsylvania would get around $46 million to combat its opioid and heroin epidemic under a $1.1 billion treatment funding proposal in President Barack Obama's 2017 budget, federal officials announced today in a press release and conference call. Democratic members of the U.S. House and Senate, though, were not predicting easy passage.
It has only been a few days since a terrorist targeted LGBT people in an Orlando night club, but that isn't stopping Kansas Republicans from pushing anti-gay legislation that would force trans school children to use bathrooms that don't match their gender identity. The Kansas City Star reports state Rep. John Whitmer drafted the legislation, which he may push during a special legislative session in which state lawmakers try and prevent Kansas public schools from closing.
Donald Trump's Michigan campaign manager Scott Hagerstrom has said he believes that it's possible the likely Republican nominee can win in the state. No Republican has done so since 1988.
Bernie Sanders will meet with his Senate colleagues and with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, the same day the District of Columbia holds the final nominating contest of the Democratic presidential campaign season. Bernie Sanders to meet with Senate Democrats, Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders will meet with his Senate colleagues and with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, the same day the District of Columbia holds the final nominating contest of the Democratic presidential campaign season.
Totalitarian governments and those who seek to expand the power and control of government fear the free exchange of information and ideas. The Obama administration is no exception and has long pushed the concept of "net neutrality" which, in the name of giving everyone equal access to the Internet, empowers government to be the traffic cop -- in essence putting government toll booths on the information superhighway.
Mitt Romney, after two unsuccessful bids for the US presidency in 2008 and 2012, is on the campaign trail again. This time not for himself, but instead for some hypothetical candidate to usurp the presumptive nominee, Donald Trump.
People gather for a candlelight vigil during a memorial service for the victims of the shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, June 13, 2016. Photo: Reuters Vigils have been held in Orlando, Florida, and around the world for the victims of Sunday's deadly gun attack on a gay nightclub.
Some West Virginia legislators appear to have caught shutdown fever. That would explain why they are returning to Charleston a day earlier than previously planned, to work on the state budget.
Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs, Orlando police chief John Mina and FBI agent Ron Hopper speak at a news conference after a shooting attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 12, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Kolczynski - RTX2FSA7 - See this story on www.theatlantic.com At first, the reactions were only subtly different: expressions of horror and sadness, thoughts, and prayers.
The bipartisan bill would require federal agencies to consider release of government information under a "presumption of openness" as opposed to a presumption the information is secret.
In both style and substance, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton offered drastically different proposals Monday for stemming the threat of terrorism and gun violence that have Americans on edge following the deadly weekend attacks at a gay nightclub in Orlando. Trump focused heavily on the nation's broken immigration system in his fiery address, although the Orlando shooter was born in the United States.
Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino-the 2010 GOP candidate for governor and co-chair of Donald Trump's New York campaign-admitted the presumptive Republican presidential nominee erred in some of his comments about Mexican-Americans. Paladino used most of his time at the Upper East Side gathering of the Metropolitan Republican Club attacking 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, House Speaker Paul Ryan, strategist Karl Rove, New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox, President Barack Obama, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo-who defeated him six years ago.
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., walks away after speaking at a news conference outside his home Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Burlington, Vt. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., walks away after speaking at a news conference outside his home Sunday, June 12, 2016, in Burlington, Vt.
McDonald's is moving back to Chicago and taking over the old home of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." The world's biggest hamburger... WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton vowed Monday to make stopping "lone wolf" terrorists a top priority if elected president, saying that while the shooter... NEW YORK - CBS' Tony Awards on Sunday beat last year's audience by one-third.
Erstwhile contender for the Democratic nomination Bernie Sanders had this to say about Sunday's massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando : "I believe that in this country, we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people," Sanders said, according to an emailed statement from NBC. "We have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them, criminals, people who are mentally ill."
U.S. authorities on Monday were investigating whether a gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando and declared his allegiance to Islamic State militants had received any help in carrying out the massacre. The FBI and other agencies were looking at evidence inside and in the closed-off streets around the Pulse nightclub, where New York-born Omar Mateen perpetrated the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, and the worst attack on U.S. soil since the Sept.
Senate Democrats will try to force a vote on legislation that would block people on a federal terror watch list from purchasing guns, in the wake of the Orlando mass shooting Sunday. Senate Republicans blocked the legislation in December after arguing that the terror watch list is often error-ridden and includes many innocent people.
U.S. law enforcement officials are pushing back against mounting criticism that they failed to properly investigate the shooter in the Orlando massacre, saying two previous investigations were closed after finding Omar Mateen posed no threat at the time. The FBI will "look at our own work, to see if there is something we should have done differently," Director James Comey told reporters in Washington Monday.
File- This June 11, 2016 file photo shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gesturing during a campaign speech in Tampa, Fla. Trump plans Monday to further address the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history in a campaign speech originally intended to attack the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.
On June 13, 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional right to consult with an attorney and to remain silent.