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US Senate moves toward final vote on big budget bill, with Alaska at the forefront
Provisions that would have shielded the state from some health care and food stamp cuts appear to be on the path to failure Alaska...
Jun 304 min read
US Senate votes to advance Republican mega-bill in tense late-night session
The U.S. Senate voted mostly along party lines late Saturday night to move forward with Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” that President Donald Trump wants on his desk in less than a week, after a dramatic three-hour pause when several GOP senators withheld their votes.
Jun 2811 min read
US Supreme Court limits injunctions, allows Trump to act on birthright citizenship ban
The U.S. Supreme Court, as seen on Oct. 9, 2024. (Jane Norman/States Newsroom) By Ariana Figueroa States Newsroom The U.S. Supreme Court...
Jun 277 min read
Local governments, tribes, nonprofits sue Trump administration over EPA grants
Emissions fume at the coal-fueled Oak Grove Power Plant in Robertson County, Texas. Nonprofits, tribes and local governments filed a...
Jun 262 min read
The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’
Some wear balaclavas. Some wear neck gators, sunglasses and hats. Some wear masks and casual clothes . Across the country, armed...
Jun 251 min read
US steps into war between Israel and Iran, strikes 3 Iranian nuclear sites
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into Israel ’s war aimed at...
Jun 211 min read
Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention
Mahmoud Khalil – the Palestinian rights activist, Columbia University graduate and legal permanent resident of the US who had been held...
Jun 211 min read
Israel-Iran war enters a second week with renewed strikes
Israel ’s military said Saturday it was preparing for the possibility of a lengthy war after the second week of the Israel-Iran war ...
Jun 211 min read
GOP’s food stamp plan is found to violate Senate rules
In another blow to the Republicans’ tax and spending cut bill, the Senate parliamentarian has advised that a proposal to shift some food...
Jun 211 min read
A Republican push to sell public lands in the West is reigniting a political fight
BILLINGS, Mont. — Congressional Republicans say their plan to sell potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of federal land will...
Jun 181 min read
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