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Jun 24 2021
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Surfside, Florida apartment building collapse leaves 1 dead, 99 unaccounted for
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Miami-Dade County after the Champlain Towers South apartment building collapsed in Surfside.
County Mayor Daniella Levine had also declared a state of emergency and asked the governor do the same in order to receive streamlined state resources for the recovery effort, which was still underway as of Thursday evening, hours
Fox News DigitalJun 24 2021
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Surfside, Florida apartment building collapse leaves 1 dead, 99 unaccounted for
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday declared a state of emergency in Miami-Dade County after the Champlain Towers South apartment building collapsed in Surfside.
County Mayor Daniella Levine had also declared a state of emergency and asked the governor do the same in order to receive streamlined state resources for the recovery effort, which was still underway as of Thursday evening, hours
Fox News DigitalMay 12 2022
Perspectives Blog
The Roe v Wade Leak's Political Fallout
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The leak of an initial draft majority opinion suggesting that the Supreme Court may vote to strike down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey has overtaken the national political discourse this week. Protesters have
AllSides StaffOct 23 2013
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Army chief: Just 2 brigades combat-ready
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno revealed this week that just two Army brigades are combat-ready, with budget cuts hampering the military's ability to train its own troops.
Fox News DigitalJul 17 2020
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Feds file criminal case against ComEd, implicate Mike Madigan
Federal prosecutors implicated Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan on Friday in a brazen, Chicago-style bribery scheme involving ComEd that allegedly went on for years and involved payments to Madigan associates exceeding $1.3 million.
Though the stunning, lengthy details were revealed in documents that charged only ComEd — and not Madigan — with bribery, they said ComEd has agreed
Chicago Sun-TimesMar 09 2020
Analysis
Congress Quietly Repeals More of Obamacare
At the end of 2019, Congress repealed three significant tax components of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. Each of them had been included in the initial legislation to raise the revenue required to pay for the new spending the law called for.
The biggest of the three was the so-called Cadillac tax, which was expected to raise about $197 billion over the next decade. Congress
ReasonOct 17 2013
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GOP looks ahead to next fight: Sequesters
The ink on the final debt and spending agreement hadn't even dried and Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican's leader, was already drawing a red line around the next fight - budget sequesters.
Washington TimesDec 03 2021
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GOP tactics herald a grim new era of governing for Biden and Democrats
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the longest-serving senator and Appropriations Committee chairman, could only growl his frustration to reporters Wednesday as a small clutch of congressional Republicans threatened to delay a short-term government funding patch and spark a partial federal shutdown at midnight Friday.
“I’m just worried that there are some Republicans who have forgotten the disaster
Washington PostJan 31 2022
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Campaigning to Oversee Elections, While Denying the Last One
Nearly two dozen Republicans who have publicly questioned or disputed the results of the 2020 election are running for secretary of state across the country, in some cases after being directly encouraged by allies of former President Donald J. Trump.
Their candidacies are alarming watchdog groups, Democrats and some fellow Republicans, who worry that these Trump supporters, if elected
New York Times (News)Dec 03 2021
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Epstein had underage guests at Palm Beach estate, ex-employee says at Maxwell trial
The late financier Jeffrey Epstein had "many, many, many" female guests at his Palm Beach estate, including two who appeared to be underage, a former employee testified at British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial on Thursday.
Juan Alessi, the Palm Beach house manager, took the stand for the prosecution on the fourth day of Maxwell's trial in Manhattan federal court. He said
Reuters