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Mouaz Moustafa , the executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, is shown with Sen. John McCain as they visit Syrian rebels in May 2013. Moustafa says his "letters of hope" effort was meant to show the people of war-torn Syria "that they have not been forgotten."
In the four-way primary for central Arkansas' congressional seat, the Democrats' positions on health care -- three support a single-payer solution and the other favors a Medicare buy-in proposal -- reflect the tenor of the race's debate. Clarke Tucker, an attorney and two-term state lawmaker, has been painted by pundits and his three opponents as the more moderate choice.
Jan Morgan often calls Gov. Asa Hutchinson "a big government, tax-and-spend, establishment progressive," in her bid to defeat the governor in the May 22 Republican primary election. Morgan's depiction of Hutchinson "always brings a smile to my face.
Don't miss Jay Barth's column in this week's Arkansas Times on the evolution of opinion on Medicaid expansion among Arkansas GOP voters. Barth digs in to a doozy of a finding in a recent Talk Business poll, one I also noted last week : A substantial plurality of Arkansas Republican primary voters now support Medicaid expansion.
After a year on the Supreme Court as President Trump's first nominee, Justice Neil Gorsuch has largely fulfilled conservatives' hopes and justified liberals' fears by refusing to take a back seat. Instead, he has ably replaced the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the bench and in the public arena.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., uses a salt shaker to illustrate that a similar quantity of the drug fentanyl would kill thousands of people. Cotton and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge held a news conference Wednesday to discuss their efforts to fight opioid problems.
A 56-year-old Arkansas inmate who was sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman when he was 16-years-old has been released on parole. James Dean Vancleave was convicted of capital murder in the 1978 fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Debra King in Springdale.
More Arkansas teachers will have access to computer science training and up to $2,000 in stipends after Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced an expansion of the continuing education program on Wednesday. The K-8 Computer Science Lead Teacher Stipend and Training Program was created in December with $500,000 in seed money; on Wednesday, Hutchinson added $300,000 to the program because interest in the initiative exceeded expectations.
Sen. Tom Cotton praised President Donald Trump's selection of John Bolton as national security adviser as an "excellent choice to take the baton." "H.R. McMaster is a warrior and a scholar, one of the best generals of his generation," the Arkansas Republican, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.
The state Board of Education last week rejected requests from Camden Fairview, Hope, Lafayette County and Junction City to be exempt from the state law requiring students to be able to freely transfer between school districts. districts said they were controlled by past federal desegregation lawsuits.
Fellow governors from the Delta region backed the Bentonville native Saturday afternoon in Washington, D.C. Hutchinson replaces Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey. The White House has called on Congress to eliminate the Delta Regional Authority, but Arkansas Republican leaders have staunchly defended the independent federal agency, which promotes economic development in some of the nation's poorest counties.
Arkansas must pay $71,214 to the Heber Springs lawyer who got the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state's discriminatory birth-certificate practices, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox ruled Friday. The judge found that attorney Cheryl Maples is entitled by federal law to reimbursement for the time and expenses she has devoted to the 2 A1 2-year long legal battle that saw the nation's highest court summarily overturn the Arkansas Supreme Court on the issue last year.
Jenae Green and Vanessa Torres of C-SPAN show visitor Michelle Gibson some of the interactive features aboard the C-SPAN tour bus during its stop Tuesday at the state Capitol. Gov. Asa Hutchinson touted Arkansas' economy and state budget in an appearance Tuesday on C-SPAN, but said Washington will have to find its own solution to federal deficits.
At the state Capitol on Wednesday, bill custodian JoAnn Drew sorts through appropriation bills that will be introduced in the Senate when the legislative fiscal session begins Monday. Ahead of Arkansas' fiscal legislative session that starts Monday, supporters of the state's version of Medicaid expansion have been urging Senate critics of the controversial program to vote to fund it once lawmakers convene.
We say cheers to any movement that wants to increase awareness of women's issues. For example, 6 to 10,000 women marched that same day in Dallas in the annual pro-life walk.
President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address got rave reviews from members of the all-Republican Arkansas congressional delegation. The state's two U.S. senators and four U.S. representatives, who have praised Trump's first year in the White House, said Tuesday's speech struck the right tone.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives at the Capitol at the start of the third day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. Schumer, arguably the most powerful Democrat in Washington, is trying to keep his party together to force a spending bill that would include protections for young immigrants.
Republicans tried to make Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer the face of the government shutdown. Now, he's becoming the face of the Democratic retreat.
The snowy mountains and frozen lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park are still accessible to visitors, despite the federal government shutdown. The snowy mountains and frozen lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park are still accessible to visitors, despite the federal government shutdown.
Donald Trump's Racism: The Definitive List - Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and '80s.