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Top US Republican lawmaker Steve Scalise, recovering from being shot by a gunman angry about US President Donald Trump, has been moved back into intensive care because of concerns over infection, doctors said Wednesday. Scalise and three other people were shot in mid June at a park in suburban Washington as they practiced for a congressional charity baseball game.
West Virginia community health centers are getting $19 million in federal grants from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. U.S. Rep. Evan Jenkins says they include $1.29 million to Camden on Gauley Medical Center, $1.06 million to Monroe County Health Center, $1.48 million to New River Health Association and $1.5 million to Rainelle Medical Center.
The Washington hospital where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is recuperating from a gunshot wound says he has been readmitted to the intensive care unit. MedStar Washington Hospital Center says the Louisiana congressman is back in intensive care because of new concerns for infection.
Insurance companies in Oregon would be required to cover abortions and other reproductive services at no cost to the patient regardless of income, citizenship status or gender identity under a measure approved Wednesday by lawmakers. Oregon already has some of the most liberal abortion laws in the U.S., leaving out otherwise common requirements for waiting periods or spending limits on taxpayer funds.
Republican Andy Sanborn will not seek re-election in 2018 for the District Nine State Senate seat that he has held for the past four terms so he can pursue a bid for US Congress. Sanborn, in an interview Wednesday morning, said that it was the will of his constituents, combined with his belief in term limits that pushed him to be a congressional candidate for New Hampshire's First District.
After four years of helping with training and job hunting for Gallia County residents, Digital Works will be closing its doors July 14, due to lack of funding. According to Gallipolis location facilitator Sherri Shaw, Digital Works opened in 2014 and was homed briefly in the Gallia County Job and Family Services location as part of a partnership before moving to its current location at 859 Third Avenue.
The attorneys general of California and New Mexico sued the Trump administration Wednesday for delaying new rules to reduce methane leaks on federal lands. The lawsuit is the latest in a string of legal challenges by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra against the administration on environmental actions.
According to the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump. As the so-called Trump-Russia story lurches on, one can see it in a few different ways: a witch hunt, the lead-up to Donald Trump's impeachment, a distraction from more important issues, a major national security threat to the U.S. It would be useful, however, to look beyond these partisan perceptions to the story's potential to make America great again.
Bill Kristol says President Donald Trump has to steer clear of having macho head-butting sessions with Russian President Vladimir Putin if anything good is to come out of their upcoming one-on-one powwow. "I'm less concerned with what exactly he says to Putin and more with the general stance he takes," Kristol, editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard, said Wednesday to Newsmax TV's Steve Malzberg.
Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer says he would advocate for increasing efficiency and reducing spending as he weighs a run for Kansas governor, a month after lawmakers overrode GOP Gov. Sam Brownback's veto to raise taxes. Selzer, a Leawood Republican and certified public accountant, first told the Kansas City Star he was weighing a gubernatorial run, but he said he hasn't decided whether he'll pursue the nomination.
"What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" posed Frederick Douglass to a gathering of 500-600 abolitionists in Rochester, N.Y., in 1852. Admission to the speech was 12 cents, and the crowd at the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society was enthusiastic, voting unanimously to endorse the speech at its end.
The Trump administration has fired another shot in the long-smoldering Sagebrush Rebellion: Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has issued a preliminary recommendation to shrink Bears Ears National Monument, which spans over 1.3 million acres. No one quite knows how this will play out.
Donald Trump is famously the oldest person to be elected to a first term as president. At the end of a hypothetical second term, he'd be 78, a year older than Ronald Reagan at the close of his presidency, and eight years older than the next oldest president, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
One America News is an obscure TV channel struggling to emerge from the cellar of the cable ratings, but it is nonetheless one of President Trump's favorite media outlets. It's not hard to see why: On One America newscasts, the Trump administration is a juggernaut of progress, a shining success with a daily drumbeat of achievements.
Rep. Phil Roe , says House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is up and out of bed after being shot last month - and the Louisiana Republican is already getting invites for fall outings. "He's had a very, very, serious injury," Roe said.
Ohio's Republican senator plans to tour a drug recovery center in suburban Cincinnati after voicing opposition to proposed legislation to overhaul Barack Obama's health care law because of concerns about the impact on drug treatment. Second-term Sen. Rob Portman and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Republican from neighboring West Virginia, issued a joint statement last week against the proposed legislation's cuts to Medicaid.
U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and State Rep. Darrin Camilleri were speakers at the launch of the Universal Family Care Downriver campaign July 3. Jessica Strachan - For The News-Herald Alexis Wyatt of Brownstown Township brought her 7-month-old son to the event promoting Universal Family Care to share her story of caring for Alexander, who has to be fed on a feeding tube each out. He is undiagnosed.
"In October 2016, candidate Donald Trump came to Las Vegas to face the question all presidential hopefuls who think they can win Nevada must face: Did he support building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain? 'I'm very friendly with this area,' Trump responded. 'I have a hotel here.
Sen. Joseph Cervantes, an architect and Las Cruces attorney, told The Associated Press he will announced Wednesday he is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in a direct challenge to Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham and other Democrats wanting to succeed Republican Gov. Susana Martinez. Cervantes says he wants to focus on fixing the state's economy and educational system, and will try to change various policies that drive young people from the state.
During his presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "strong leader" with whom he would like to reset tense U.S.-Russian relations. But as Trump heads to his first face-to-face meeting as president with Putin on Friday at the G20 summit in Germany, he is under pressure at home to take a tough line with the Kremlin.