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It’s been five years this week since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Since then, over 103 million cases have been reported in the U.S., with over 1.2 million deaths nationwide as a result of the coronavirus. Operation Warp Speed was launched by the Trump administration in April 2020 to […]
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A federal judge ordered Elon Musk and DOGE to produce records and answer questions about their work. Musk and DOGE have been given three weeks to comply with the order. Musk’s government efficiency commission has been hit with nearly two dozen lawsuits. A federal judge ordered Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency, or
SACRAMENTO, California — California will need to borrow $3.44 billion to close a budget gap in the state’s Medicaid program, Newsom administration officials told lawmakers Wednesday in a letter obtained by POLITICO. The budget pressure will bring fresh scrutiny to the state’s coverage of undocumented immigrants, which is costing more than first budgeted. Originally, the
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WASHINGTON (AP) — An hours-long outage Wednesday on StudentAid.gov, the federal website for student loans and financial aid, underscored the risks in rapidly gutting the Department of Education, as President Donald Trump aims to dismantle the agency. Hundreds of users reported FAFSA outages to Downdetector starting midday Wednesday, saying they were having trouble completing the
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota lawmakers are on the verge of making their state the first to tell the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its decade-old ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Similar efforts — which would not have any direct sway with the nation’s top courts — have been introduced in a handful
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he said would spur the U.S. economy by rolling back rules that have unfairly burdened industry. Many of the moves would affect landmark regulations aimed at protecting clean air and water. Here’s a look at some of the 31 regulatory
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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration resumed family detention of immigrants last week in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause, a legal nonprofit group providing services to migrant families said Wednesday. Fourteen immigrant families with children as young as one year old were in the detention facility in Karnes County, Texas, about
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It’s the accounting maneuver that could break the Senate, upend the federal budget process and explode the national debt. That’s according to critics of a fiscal tactic that congressional Republicans are now seriously considering as they struggle to figure out how to deliver on all of President Donald Trump’s policy demands. Adopting the “current policy
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gun rights advocates have fought to overturn a Florida law banning gun purchases by people under 21 ever since the day the measure was signed in 2018 following the Parkland school shooting, one of the deadliest mass killings in the U.S. With new leadership in Florida’s Republican-controlled Capitol, conservative lawmakers appear
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SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Maine has sued the state’s Democratic House speaker over her censure that followed a social media post about a transgender athlete participating in high school sports. Rep. Laurel Libby’s posted about a high school athlete who won a girls’ track competition. The post included a photo of
