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Jul 05 2023
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Powder found in White House's West Wing lobby tests positive for cocaine
WASHINGTON (AP) — A white powder discovered in a lobby area of the White House's West Wing that prompted a brief evacuation Sunday evening tested positive for cocaine in a laboratory analysis, three people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. Officials who found the powder in a small plastic envelope in the heavily trafficked part of the White House initially suspected illegal drugs, but
SFGATEApr 16 2024
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Weedkiller manufacturer seeks to squelch claims it failed to warn about cancer
DES MOINES, Iowa — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shield from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. Nearly identical bills introduced in Iowa, Missouri and Idaho this year – with wording supplied by Bayer – would protect pesticide
Portland Press HeraldApr 28 2023
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Montana Governor's Nonbinary Son Lobbies Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills
David Gianforte, the 32-year-old son of Republican Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, has come out as nonbinary and is lobbying his father to veto anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Montana has seen a rash of such legislation this year, including a bill to ban gender-affirming health care for transgender minors, one to define sex according to a person’s reproductive capability, and one restricting drag
The AdvocateApr 16 2024
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Wake’s recently launched and touted high school flag football faces an uncertain future
The future of Wake County’s high school flag football program is uncertain, just months after more than 500 female athletes took to the gridiron. Wake County school administrators have not included funding to pay for women’s flag football coaches in next year’s school budget. But school board member Sam Hershey lobbied Tuesday to restore flag football funding, suggesting changing the budget
The News & ObserverApr 14 2024
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Hope Eccles is comfortable at altitude and wants all of Utah to be there, too
A young boy with tussled locks and designer ski gear strolls through a hotel lobby that could easily be mistaken for a gallery at the Tate — open, modern and punctuated by sharp lines and pops of color. Accompanied by a nanny at least five decades his senior, the boy gazes about as the woman shleps bags of various sizes. This isn’t the set of a Wes Anderson film. At least, not yet. I’m in the
Deseret NewsApr 15 2024
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Philanthropy in (as Self-Defined, a “Transformative”) Solidarity
The most-insightful critiques of progressive technocratic centralism come from those to its further left. In 2003, for example, Harvard sociologist and political scientist Theda Skocpol pointedly argued in her Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life that establishment-funded policy and lobbying organizations—Washington, D.C.-based by locale and D.C.-centric
Capital Research CenterAug 01 2023
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‘Even more insidious than the NRA’: US gun lobby group gains in power
The National Shooting Sports Foundation has been aggressively pushing gun manufacturers’ interests, and is starting to eclipse its bigger rival
A business trade group representing 10,000 gunmakers, dealers and other firearm firms is emerging as a rising force in the US and starting to eclipse – in some respects – the might of the powerful but scandal-plagued National Rifle Association
The GuardianJan 18 2023
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Two-year sentence for Hawaii woman's Trump lobbying scheme
HONOLULU (AP) — An American consultant was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for an illicit lobbying effort to get the former Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S. Nickie Mali Lum Davis, of Honolulu, pleaded guilty in 2020 to one
San Antonio Express-NewsJan 18 2023
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Two-year sentence for Hawaii woman's Trump lobbying scheme
HONOLULU (AP) — An American consultant was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for an illicit lobbying effort to get the former Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S. Nickie Mali Lum Davis, of Honolulu, pleaded guilty in 2020 to one
Times UnionJan 18 2023
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Two-year sentence for Hawaii woman's Trump lobbying scheme
HONOLULU (AP) — An American consultant was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for an illicit lobbying effort to get the former Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibillion-dollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident living in the U.S. Nickie Mali Lum Davis, of Honolulu, pleaded guilty in 2020 to one
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