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Kansas lawmakers on Wednesday did not act on a state Supreme Court order to create a more equitable funding formula for education, leaving open the possibility that public schools across the state are shut down in June. Both chambers of the Republican-controlled legislature adjourned until January on Wednesday afternoon, five days after the state's high court gave lawmakers until June 30 to fix funding disparities between rich and poor districts or face a shutdown of the state's public schools.
The top two Democrats in California's U.S. Senate race have raised more than a combined $12 million for their campaigns, but many of the state's most generous and loyal campaign donors have yet to crack open their wallets. During Sen. Barbara Boxer's hard-fought 2010 campaign against Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, her supporters helped her secure reelection with more than $10 million in individual contributions in 2009-2010.
According to New York Magazine, four sources linked to the Trump campaign confirmed the Republican White House hopeful is considering a trip to the Jewish state in the next six weeks, though nothing has been finalized. In May, Trump said he believes he enjoys "massive" support from Israelis as he announced he would visit Israel before the presidential election, in an interview published by the Adelson-owned Israel Hayom daily.
Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan filed to run against U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the 2016 GOP primary on Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan filed to face U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the Republican primary moments before the candidate deadline Wednesday.
Newly released documents about a now-defunct business owned by Donald Trump reveal strategies for enticing people to enroll in real estate seminars even if they couldn't afford it, opening the presumptive Republican nominee up to fresh criticism from Hillary Clinton that he took advantage of vulnerable Americans. " Trump University was a fraudulent scheme used to prey upon those who could least afford it," Clinton's campaign wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning.
A U.S. Senate report says at least four automakers are selling new vehicles that have potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators. The report by Commerce Committee Democrats says some 2016 and 2017 models from Fiat Chrysler, Mitsubishi, Toyota and Volkswagen have a type of inflator that is prone to rupture and presents a potential danger to drivers and passengers.
In this June 2014 file photo, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson speaks to the media with Republican National Committee site selection leader Enid Mickelsen and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus alongside at Quicken Loans Arena. Mayor Frank Jackson and other Cleveland leaders swear they have their act together for the Republican National Convention.
The two top Republicans in Congress are pursuing strikingly different strategies on spending bills this year, setting up a possible collision when funding for the government is scheduled to expire just weeks before the presidential election. Mitch McConnell Spending clash looms for GOP McConnell: 'Ticket-splitting' will preserve GOP Senate majority The Trail 2016: Biting the hand that feeds him MORE is betting control of the upper chamber on the argument that Republicans know how to govern.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie once predicted that Donald Trump would clinch the GOP nomination in his home state. Now it looks like Democrat Hillary Clinton might be the one who pulls that off.
Space industry officials including a space flight veteran plan to visit a machine ship in southwest Ohio that is contributing to NASA's Orion and Space Launch System programs. Organizers say retired astronaut Brian Duffy and members of the Orion and SLS leadership team will be joined Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, other local officials and community leaders, and students in the program at Metalex Manufacturing Inc., in Cincinnati.
Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton posed a wild notion in a new interview: She could carry Texas in the fall. In a newly published New York magazine interview with reporter Rebecca Traister, Clinton was asked which traditionally red states she might make a play for against likely GOP nominee, Donald Trump: "Texas!" she exclaimed, eyes wide, as if daring me to question this, which I did.
A woman is walking 80 miles while pulling a casket from her home to the state Capitol to raise awareness of mental health issues, including suicide and addiction. The 48-year-old has a backpack of water and is storing food in the wooden casket she is pulling behind her with a strap fastened to her waist.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has altered her campaign schedule for the next week, saying she will campaign exclusively in California, the largest of six states voting June 7. Clinton scrapped events planned for Thursday in New Jersey, where polls show her with a big lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Polls in the Golden State have shown a tightening race over the last two weeks, though most surveys still show Clinton with a slight lead there.
Though lagging behind Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton by over 200 pledged delegates, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has never been daunted. As the divisive primary season is about to wind up, however, Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, and the roughly one million voters who "feel the Bern" will soon face a tough choice of whether or not to line up behind the very person they has been ripping for months.
Donald Trump's national security adviser said Tuesday he would recommend using U.S. troops to implement a safe zone for refugees in Syria and Turkey to protect Europeans from accepting terrorists embedded as asylum seekers. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions said the move would prevent Europe from having to continue to accept the millions arriving at its borders.
The Department of Energy Office of Inspector General has started a review of DOE's actions to address concerns about exposure to chemical vapors at the Hanford tank farms. Investigators met Tuesday with DOE Hanford officials to discuss the scope of the review and any matters Hanford officials wanted to discuss.
This May 18, 2016 file photo California Gov. Jerry Brown gestures during a community event in Sacramento, Calif. Brown is endorsing Hillary Clinton just a week before the state's June 7 primary.
Legislators can do more to curb the national heroin epidemic by earmarking federal dollars for treatment beds and resources for police and state agencies, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy , D-Conn, and U.S. Rep. Jim Himes , D-4, said Tuesday. The legislators met with community leaders from across the region to drum up support for emergency federal funding that would help Connecticut towns battling an alarming rise in overdoses and deaths caused by heroin and prescription opioid abuse.
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill is pushing a bill she says is aimed at helping World War II veterans exposed to mustard gas. The Democrat says the military tested the effects of mustard gas and the blister agent lewisite on about 60,000 service members by the end of WWII.