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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is set to establish an executive order Wednesday,... . This March 20, 2018 photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minneapolis, Minn., shows Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor, after he turned himself in to the Hennepin County Jail.
John Henninger, left, and Eric Larson, right, of Cecil Township, Pa., watches early returns at the election night party of Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, in Canonsburg, Pa., Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The Pennsylvania congressional race between Democrat Conor Lamb and Republican Rick Saccone remains too close to call, with local elections officials still counting absentee ballots late Tuesday.
Six Bay Area members of Congress have signed onto a letter asking the Department of Homeland Security to scrap a plan to prevent spouses of H-1B visa holders from obtaining work permits. The department in December announced the plan , citing President Donald Trump's "Buy American and Hire American" executive order, and said it would carry out the plan this year.
The Senate has passed bipartisan legislation easing bank rules that were enacted after the financial crisis to prevent a relapse. The Senate voted 67-31 for a bill from Republican Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho that would scale back provisions of the law known as Dodd-Frank.
The legal fight over running North Carolina's elections didn't end Tuesday when the state Supreme Court refused Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's request to throw out the entire law creating a combined elections and ethics board. Cooper separately filed another lawsuit Tuesday against Republican legislative leaders challenging the latest version of the combined board marking his third lawsuit on the topic in 15 months.
Local lawmakers are celebrating this week's passage of Senate Bill 356 , which will amend an existing law so the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust can better serve the state.
In this file photo taken on August 12, 2009, Stephen Hawking receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House on August 12, 2009. Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking has died at age 76, a family spokesman said Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
President Donald Trump has chosen Larry Kudlow to be his top economic aide, elevating the influence of a long-time fixture on the CNBC business news network who previously served in the Reagan administration and has emerged as a leading evangelist for tax cuts and a smaller government.
This March 21, 2017, photo provided by the CIA, shows CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel. Haspel, who joined the CIA in 1985, has been chief of station at CIA outposts abroad.
Drury High School students stand in front of the school in North Adams, Mass., each of them holding signs representing each of the people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School one month ago, during a walkout on Wednesday morning, March 14, 2018.
The U.S. Senate voted 67 to 31 on Wednesday to ease bank rules, bringing Congress a step closer to passing the first rewrite of the Dodd-Frank reform law enacted after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. WASHINGTON: The U.S. Senate voted 67 to 31 on Wednesday to ease bank rules, bringing Congress a step closer to passing the first rewrite of the Dodd-Frank reform law enacted after the 2007-2009 global financial crisis.
Fermin Gonzales IV, 17, was one of three students injured when a high school teacher accidentally fired an unauthorized gun during a public safety lesson at a school in California, according to local reports. Bolstering recent warnings about the dangers of giving guns to teachers-a proposal touted by the gun lobby as well as President Donald Trump and other Republicans following the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month-a high school teacher and reserve cop in California accidentally fired a weapon in his classroom this week, injuring three students, according to local reports .
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has asked the Federal Trade Commission to protect consumers holding Toys R Us gift cards that could become worthless if the toy retailer moves forward with a liquidation plan. Schumer, D-N.Y., asked the FTC in a letter Wednesday to take action that would guarantee consumers could exchange gift cards for cash, even if Toys R Us liquidates and closes all 880 of its U.S. stores.
Finland was named the happiest country in the world on the annual World Happiness Report, while the U.S. ranked at number 18-down four places fropm 2017. Nordic countries with strong social welfare structures fared best, as they have in previous years, on the United Nation's annual accounting of global happiness-while the United States finished in 18th place, down four spots from 2017.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao ratcheted up the rhetoric over the Gateway Tunnel project , accusing proponents of waging a campaign to "bully the department" to approve funding. Chao made her comments at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday in response to a question from U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who asked if she would support Gateway, which he called a project of "the upmost urgency."
Sen. John McCain continues to undergo treatment in Arizona, but Meghan McCain said it's possible her father could return to Washington by the summer. Meghan McCain on Tuesday gave an update on her father's health to a Phoenix radio station, saying a timetable has not been determined for her father return to the Senate.
USDC rules that government has met its burden to demonstrate that STRmixa "has been tested for the purpose relevant here, that such tests have been peer-reviewed and published in scientific journals, and that its analyses are based on calculations recognized as reliable in the field." A U.S. District Court judge in New Mexico has denied a defense motion to exclude expert testimony provided by an FBI DNA analyst in an aggravated sexual abuse case.
The Senate's top Democrat is not calling on his fellow party members to oppose President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state-torture-praising Mike Pompeo-or his nominee to lead the CIA-" actual torturer " Gina Haspel. Schumer said Pompeo and Haspel face "lots of outstanding questions," but hoped that if Pompeo is confirmed, he "will turn over a new leaf and will start toughening up our policies towards Russia and Putin."
Republicans eyed a recount and a lawsuit over perceived irregularities in a closely watched U.S. House race in Pennsylvania where Democrat Conor Lamb clung to a slender lead Wednesday in the longtime GOP stronghold friendly to President Donald Trump. With the last batch of absentee ballots counted, Lamb, a 33-year-old former prosecutor and first-time candidate, saw his edge shrink slightly, to 627 votes out of more than 224,000 cast, according to unofficial results.