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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling authorizing states to collect sales taxes on purchases made by its residents online opens up a new revenue source for state government by effectively expanding the sales tax base.
In this April 6, 2018 photo Augustana University President Stephanie Herseth Sandlin introduces Josh Morton as the new Director of Athletics at a news conference at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, S.D. Many supporters of Augustana University hope to see the school move from Division II to Division I athletics.
Members of the Marietta City Council will wrap up a long weekend at the Georgia Municipal Association's annual convention in Savannah just in time to head home for committee meetings.
Paulding Republicans will have the chance to cast ballots early beginning July 2 and say if two Paulding County Commission seats should have new owners.
In this May 20, 2013, file photo, U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, D-Wash., speaks at a rally in Olympia, Wash. Heck is helping lead the Democrats' effort to pick up the 23 seats needed to regain control of the House in the 2018 midterm election.
Private property signs block entrance to a dirt road along the perimeter of a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 21, 2018. Private property signs block entrance to a dirt road along the perimeter of a tent encampment recently built near the Tornillo Port of Entry in Tornillo, Texas, on June 21, 2018.
Despite taking heat from both sides of the aisle and receiving an email that threatened she might be lynched, Rep. Maxine Waters didn't back down Monday from her call for voters to "push back" against members of the Trump administration if they bump into them in public. On Sunday, Waters, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Los Angeles, Carson and south Los Angeles, was widely quoted arguing for personal confrontation.
A review of Americans' ratings of President Donald Trump across a series of personal dimensions shows that at least half consider him intelligent, strong and decisive, and able to bring about change. However, much smaller proportions deem him honest, likable or admirable, or say he has appointed good advisers or works well with both parties.
Jeff Sessions defends Trump border policy in Reno, says cartels use kids to smuggle drugs Follow this story for live updates from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' visit to Reno today. Check out this story on rgj.com: Attorney General Jeff Sessions talks Monday, June 25, 2018 about the Trump administration's policies affecting families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
One little news item emerged from the ongoing investigation of the Russia investigation . The outrage machine moved on to the border, to immigration and children separated from their illegal alien parents.
Mayor Sylvester Turner called on the owner of a building east of downtown Houston and the nonprofit hoping to operate the former warehouse as a detention center for immigrant children separated from their families at the nation's southern border to reconsider their plans. The mayor also said he is in no rush to issue city permits at the site, and called on the state not to issue a childcare license to the 54,000-square-foot facility two blocks north of BBVA Compass Stadium for use by federal contractor Southwest Key Programs.
Mitt Romney is flashing his familiar smile at city parks and backyards in Utah's mountains and suburbs this week, making his final pitch after being forced into a Republican Senate primary Tuesday against a conservative state lawmaker. His opponent has painted him as an outsider who can't get along with President Donald Trump, but Romney has quieted his once-strident criticism.
Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, which was merely the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something.
A pair of U.S. senators wants to use federal legislation to give diabetic people better access to therapeutic shoes. Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown say their legislation would allow nurse practitioners and physician assistants to certify patients' need for the shoes.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick frequently talk tough about illegal immigration, but they refuse to publicly support the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy that's spurred outrage for ripping thousands of undocumented children out of the arms of their parents.
Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said President Donald Trump's administration was ill prepared for its policy that led to the separation of babies, children and adolescents from their parents. Corker described the roll out of the "zero tolerance" immigration policy as one that was "done in a ready, fire, aim way."
Congressman David Valadao, R-Hanford, has taken $500,000-plus in farm subsidies - still, he complains that "burdensome government regulations" have stacked the deck against his dairy farm . Strike one for poor management of one's personal budget.
Residents of a New Mexico Hispanic village near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test say they were long ignored about the lingering health effects and were expected to share their stories with Congress . The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium plans to travel to Washington, D.C., to testify Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee about how the Trinity Test hurt generations of Tularosa residents.
President Donald Trump's effort to bend the Republican Party to his will faces its next test Tuesday, when South Carolina voters choose between two GOP gubernatorial candidates who both claim to be Trump acolytes.