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President Trump plans to take executive action Tuesday that would provide new federal funding incentives for local police departments to beef up training over the use of force and strengthen a national database to track misconduct, according to senior administration officials.

Trump’s order, the product of collaboration with law enforcement groups and families of suspects killed by

Today, government poses many new threats to individual freedom and the virtues needed for its preservation. Unfortunately, career politicians, an ever-expanding government and massive regulatory constraints dominate American political life. Catos government and politics studies are dedicated to bringing the ideals of individual liberty, civil society, limited government and citizen legislators

Take a look at a congressional district map, and it can look like a madman's jigsaw puzzle. The reason is, in part, that the district lines are drawn by state legislators seeking to maximize partisan advantage. It's a process that critics say is responsible for much that's wrong with Washington.

That's why some states have tried setting up independent commissions to draw the map.

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to expand veterans’ access to health care, acting on bipartisan outrage over long waiting lists, falsified reports of health care improvement and a crush of new patients from the wars ending in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The 420-to-5 vote sends the bill to the Senate, where final passage is all but assured before Congress leaves