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Jun 12 2014
News
Coal-mining jobs ‘in free-fall’ after EPA regs
The nation’s coal mines are closing down so rapidly in the wake of a raft of federal environmental regulations targeting coal that mining employment is now in a “free-fall,” according to a report from a leading industry research firm.
Washington TimesMay 31 2020
Analysis
Cops Kill Because We Gave Them The Legal Framework To Do It
The brutal Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd has sparked violent protests, looting, and arson attacks in Minneapolis and St. Paul. A police precinct building was torched and destroyed and the Minnesota National Guard has been called out to restore order. But the killing in Minnesota is the latest reminder that politicians and judges—through federal law and judicial interpretation—have
The American ConservativeJan 29 2018
News
Illinois Ordered A Doctor To Tell Women Where To Get Abortions. Now He Wants The Whole State To Suffer
James Gallant, a retired emergency physician who serves pro bono as the medical director of the Hope Life Center in Sterling, Illinois, a crisis pregnancy center, doesn’t offer abortions, and doesn’t want to tell women who visit his facility that they can get them elsewhere. Doing so — which is required under a 2016 state law — would violate Gallant’s religious freedom, he says. Earlier this
HuffPostJan 22 2015
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Obama to Propose Larger Subsidies for Child Care
President Obama on Thursday will unveil new proposals for more generous subsidies to help working Americans afford child care, appearing at the University of Kansas on his second stop in two days promoting his economic agenda in a solidly Republican state.
Mr. Obama will call for a “landmark investment” in the Child Care and Development Fund, an existing federal program that helps low-
New York Times (News)Oct 05 2013
News
House approves retroactive pay for furloughed government workers
Seeking to dent President Obama’s refusal to chip away at the government shutdown piece-by-piece, House Republicans passed a bill Saturday to guarantee all federal employees get paid after the government shutdown — including those who have been sent home and aren’t on the job. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Virginia Reps. James P. Moran, a Democrat, and Frank Wolf, a Republican, cleared
Washington TimesSep 10 2016
News
Justice Dept., Army & Interior Dept. Temporarily Block DAPL Construction under Missouri River
In a dramatic series of moves late Friday afternoon, a federal judge rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for an injunction against the U.S. government over the Dakota Access Pipeline. Then the Army, Department of Justice, and Department of the Interior responded with an announcement that the Army Corps will not issue permits for Dakota Access to drill under the Missouri River
Democracy Now!Sep 20 2013
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A pricing glitch is afflicting the rollout of online health-care exchanges
Less than two weeks before the launch of insurance marketplaces created by the federal health overhaul, the government's software can't reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage.
Wall Street Journal (News)Apr 23 2013
News
Ricin suspect freed, marshals say
The man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and other officials has been released from federal custody U.S. marshals said.
CNN DigitalFeb 01 2014
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Senate Resolution to Tackle Common Core’s Threat of ‘National Curriculum’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is taking on the controversial Common Core state education standards saying in a draft resolution that what was intended to be a state initiative was “transformed into an incentive-based mandate from the federal government.
The BlazeJan 18 2015
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Will the Supreme Court cement Obama's gay rights legacy?
The Supreme Court’s new move toward a definitive ruling on same-sex marriage could cement President Barack Obama’s claim to having presided over the most significant advances in gay rights in United States history. Obama’s term has already seen the enactment of a federal law protecting gays and lesbians against hate crimes, an end to the ban on openly gay members of the U.S military and the
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