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Newly reunited state Senate Democrats are calling on their Republican counterparts to support measures aimed at improving voter turnout in New York. Senate Democratic Leader Andrew Stewart-Cousins and other Democrats said Tuesday it's embarrassing that New York ranked 41st among states in voter turnout for the 2016 general election.
Has New Orleans already forgotten how much anguish -- and civil liability -- a dysfunctional police department can cause a city? Or how easy is it to slide back into the dynamics that cause routine and deadly violations of constitutional rights and make officers' lives more difficult? Those are just some of the questions with which Mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell will have to contend if she decides to appoint Warren Riley as the director of homeland security, an influential position over law enforcement in the city.
State Sen. Sam McCann, R-Plainview, who last week announced he's running a third-party campaign for governor, said Thursday that he is being denied regular services provided by Senate staff, and he may file a lawsuit to fight that denial on his constituents' behalf. "It's totally unconstitutional," McCann said.
The backlog of court cases addressing the status of illegal immigrant's has reached over one million, prompting Justice and immigration courts to step up efforts to hire more judges, digitize old paper systems and speed up court proceedings.
Hottie Lucy has been a leader the "body acceptance" movement across the globe and today she inspires just a bit more link searching on the trending topic. A couple of examples for Tuesday: Closer to home, we're sharing more than a handful of local news items for the midday.
Calls to protect Illinoisans from a progressive income tax are now coming from both sides of the aisle in Springfield. State Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Smithton, signed on as chief co-sponsor to House Resolution 891 on April 27. The resolution was filed in March by state Rep. David McSweeney, R-Barrington Hills, and states that Illinois should not scrap its constitutionally protected flat income tax.
Oklahoma truck driver Timothy Jackson was recovering from emergency heart surgery when he learned he'd lost his job - and his health insurance along with it - because managers at the company's Indiana headquarters decided he wasn't healthy enough to work. The multimillionaire who owns that business, former Indiana state Rep. Mike Braun, is locked in a bitter Republican primary with two congressmen for the right to challenge Democrat Joe Donnelly in one of the nation's most closely watched Senate races.
Flood insurance -- the costs, benefits, risks and rewards of the federally backed program -- is a familiar topic to Louisianians. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Louisiana Flood of 2016 drove home its advantages as well as its outrages -- the latest being that as much as two thirds of the money paid by property owners for coverage goes to private insurance companies and the lawyers who are hired to fight claims.
Analysis of pre-primary campaign finance reports for 45 candidates in 15 state house races in 14 state legislative districts shows that 86 percent of money raised came from donors giving $1,000 or more, while only 5 percent came from donors giving less than $150. The selection of races was chosen for its geographic diversity, includes both Republican & Democratic primary contests, as well as races with and without incumbents.
On 30 April 2018, the web site Daily World Update published an article reporting that Hillary Clinton had been accidentally killed during the filming of a documentary about her: Hillary Clinton was killed this afternoon when she attempted to "do her own stunt" while shooting a documentary about the 2016 election. Clinton, who is known to be sickly and feeble, tried to re-create her fall outside the 9/11 Memorial.
White House physician Ronny Jackson is facing a new inquiry by the Pentagon inspector general after his nomination to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs fell apart last week. Add Trump Administration as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Trump Administration news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
Sen. John McCain says the fact that he's not running for Senate again makes him more able to vote his conscience U.S. Sen. John McCain is retiring at the end of his term after decades in Congress, giving him a sense of freedom about what he can vote on, he says in a book excerpt published this week by Apple News. McCain, 81, was diagnosed with cancer in July, which the Arizona Republican writes helped him come to terms with the end of his Senate career.
Two of Missouri's highest profile Republicans are butting heads. One is a governor enveloped in legal drama; the other is a state attorney general investigating said governor while also campaigning for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
It has been oddly amusing, watching certain members of the press treat Russia's reported interference in the 2016 presidential election as if it were a first. . This is a serious and long-running problem, dating back to well before the 2016 presidential election.
If Republicans are going to lock and load in order to persuade voters to head to the polls, here are three political gun safety rules. Nothing solidifies a candidate's support for the Second Amendment like packing heat on the campaign trail.
Before a U.S. Navy submarine begins its patrol or mission, its crew conducts "angles and dangles" maneuvers. This involves shaking the boat from side to side and up and down so as to dislodge anything that is not properly stowed.
The Democratic Weekly Address featured Senator Jeanne Shaheen, and it was aired as KVML's "Newsmaker of the Day." Here are his/her words: "Hello, I'm Jeanne Shaheen, Senator from New Hampshire.
The people from the illegal immigrant caravan making bogus asylum claims in the U.S. are keeping other more deserving people from war-torn and troubled countries from getting to safety here, President Trump's top immigration enforcement official said Tuesday.
The White House said Monday it would postpone a decision on imposing tariffs on U.S. imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico for 30 days, avoiding the potential for a trade battle with Europe as the U.S. prepares for tense trade talks in China this week.
Two big stories broke late yesterday, and have obviously gotten well under Donald Trump's skin given a series of new tweets ranting about them. First, the New York Times leaked a series of questions that special counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask Trump.