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The Trump administration has proposed rules that could deny green cards to immigrants if they use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance. Federal law already requires those seeking green cards and to prove they will not be a burden - or "public charge" - but the new rules detail a broad range of programs that could disqualify them.
I am neither Republican nor Democrat because, to me, neither party is working for the good of the American people. They seem to be working for their own agenda for monetary gain and "to hell with the people."
Fishermen and environmentalists are at odds over a suite of changes to American fishing laws that was approved by the House of Representatives, and the proposal faces a new hurdle in the Senate. The House passed changes to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, a 42-year-old set of rules designed to protect American fisheries from overharvest, on July 11, largely along party lines.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old who's never held elected office, ousted New York City Congressman Joe Crowley. Crowley had been considered a candidate to become House speaker if Democrats win the majority in November.
Dignitaries take a tour of Southwest Key Programs Casa Padre, a U.S. immigration facility in Brownsville, Texas, Monday, June 18, 2018, where children are detained. Dignitaries take a tour of Southwest Key Programs Casa Padre, a U.S. immigration facility in Brownsville, Texas, Monday, June 18, 2018, where children are detained.
U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela speaks during a roundtable discussion on immigrant children being stripped away from their parents and detained, some of them at Southwest Key Programs Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas, Monday, June 18, 2018. Vela took a tour of the facility on Monday, with other dignitaries.
Verizon is pledging to stop selling data through intermediaries that pinpoints the location of mobile phones to outside companies, the Associated Press has learned. It is the first major U.S. wireless carrier to step back from a business practice that has drawn criticism for endangering privacy.
A hearing is scheduled in a challenge of the home addresses listed by Congressional District 2 candidate Ann Kirkpatrick on her nominating petitions. The hearing Monday stems from a lawsuit by three voters who allege that Kirkpatrick lives in downtown Phoenix, even though she listed two Tucson addresses on her nominating documents.
Opponents of introducing the ferocious predator fish to more lakes weren't able to pass legislation this session to limit the practice. So anti-stocking legislation is expected to return next year, Minnesota Public Radio reported .
Several organizations took part in the Memorial Day observance held Monday morning at Desert Lawn Memorial Park, including the U.S. Marine Corps, Yuma Police Department, Border Patrol, Vietnam Veterans of America, Yuma County Sheriff's Office, Yuma Young Marines, American Legion Post 802 and Navy League Sea Cadets. Members of the American Legion Ceremonial Team give a gun salute during a Memorial Day observance held Monday morning at Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Yuma.
Democrat lawmakers are using Friday's school shooting in Texas in a bid to get Gov. Doug Ducey to call lawmakers into special session to adopt new gun laws. In separate letters to the governor, House and Senate minority leaders said they are willing to provide the needed votes for a package.
Ignored by the governor and GOP lawmakers, a coalition of teachers, parents and education advocates are taking their case for more state dollars for classrooms directly to voters even as Ducey and legislative leaders say they've reached a budget deal -- one that ignores those demands. An initiative filed Friday would put a surcharge on the earnings of individuals who earn more than $250,000 a year -- $500,000 for couples.
Mayor Doug Nicholls and City Administrator Greg Wilkinson recently visited Washington, D.C., to promote issues that are important to Yuma. Accompanied by Ron Hamm, the city's legislative consultant, Nicholls and Wilkinson met with the Congressional delegation representing Yuma and various federal agencies to discuss the city's priorities for fiscal year 2018-19.
U.S. Senate candidate Kelli Ward, state Rep. Darin Mitchell and other candidates are expected to attend a meet-and-greet the Colorado River Tea Party is hosting Saturday, along with a presentation by filmmaker and blogger Trevor Loudon. Newly appointed District 13 legislators and candidates Rep. Tim Dunn, R-Yuma, and Sen. Sine Kerr, R-Buckeye, are also on the list for the event as of Wednesday evening.
In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 file photo, members of Congress, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., join a Ukrainian delegation to voice bipartisan support for bolstering the Ukrainian forces with weapons and aid to stave off incursion from Russia and Ukrainian separatists, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kaptur is poised to become the longest-serving female member ever in the U.S. House.
President Donald Trump will not be adding two new lawyers to the legal team defending him in the special counsel's Russia investigation, one of the president's attorneys said Sunday. Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement that Washington lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing have conflicts that won't allow them to represent the president regarding special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Granted, I'm no proponent for a trade war. China can win by oppressing their citizens into mud hovels, forcing them into slave labor with little recourse.
The House gave final approval Monday to a bill that will give tribes direct access to funds that will let them quickly post AMBER alerts over text messaging, radio and television to counties within reservation borders. The AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act was sparked by the May 2016 abduction of Ashlynne Mike, an 11-year-old Navajo girl.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has become the face of the state's resistance to President Donald Trump, challenging the Republican administration's policies nearly four dozen times in court and providing the kind of meat-and-potatoes opposition that Democratic activists say they want. Yet, he was eclipsed at last weekend's state Democratic Party convention by Dave Jones, the comparatively obscure state insurance commissioner who wants Becerra's job.
The Federal Aviation Administration has scheduled public hearings next week on a plan that aims to resolve a flap over noisy takeoffs and landings. The FAA and the city of Phoenix and historic neighborhoods that fought the increased noise filed a joint petition late last year asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to accept a plan for resolving the dispute.