Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 23:40:51 +0000
WASHINGTON – Bills that would legalize and tax marijuana at the national level, and provide opportunities for people convicted of federal pot crimes to clear their records, were introduced Tuesday in Congress.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 22:58:59 +0000
WASHINGTON – About 3.1 million people would lose food stamp benefits under the Trump administration’s proposal to tighten automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 22:59:01 +0000
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and congressional leaders announced late Monday they had struck a critical debt and budget agreement.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 22:29:15 +0000
NEW YORK – Americans from Texas to Maine sweated out a steamy Saturday as a heat wave canceled events from festivals to horse races and pushed New York City to order steps to avoid straining the electrical system.
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Credit to Author: Manisha Krishnan| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:51:02 +0000
A new report made the discovery after analyzing overdose deaths from 2009-2018.
Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 03:42:54 +0000
WASHINGTON – In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump’s “racist comments” against four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump’s Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn’t “a racist bone in my body.”
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 22:46:58 +0000
SAN FRANCISCO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 has rattled parts of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 23:25:12 +0000
DES MOINES, Iowa – Joe Biden is taking an aggressive approach to defending the Affordable Care Act, challenging not just President Donald Trump but also some of his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination who want to replace the current insurance system with a fully government-run model.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 22:56:27 +0000
WASHINGTON – Unfazed by widespread criticism, President Donald Trump on Monday intensified his incendiary comments about four Democratic congresswomen of color, urging them to get out if they don’t like things going on in America.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 23:04:38 +0000
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says he will not impose quotas on importing uranium, backing away from a possible trade confrontation and breaking with a Commerce Department assessment that America’s use of foreign uranium raises national security concerns.
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