Government News
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Despite the lifting of a federal hiring freeze, the Department of Veterans Affairs is leaving thousands of positions unfilled
April 26, 2017 -
A motorist who strikes a protester blocking a public road in North Carolina would be immune from civil liability under a House bill if the driver exercised "due care."
April 26, 2017 -
A new anti-Trump bar in New York City is giving patrons the chance to put their money where their politics are by earmarking profits for a range of progressive causes
April 26, 2017 -
Activists say a man who once sought sanctuary from deportation in a Colorado church has been detained by federal immigration agents
April 26, 2017 -
A California Senate committee is advancing a proposal to eliminate health insurance companies and guarantee government-funded health care for all residents
April 26, 2017 -
Arkansas' aggressive effort to execute condemned inmates is set to conclude Thursday after the state Supreme Court refused to stay the execution of a man who killed a former deputy prison warden following an escape
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump's team boasted Wednesday that its tax-cut plan would shrink Americans' financial burdens, ignite economic growth and vastly simplify tax filing
April 26, 2017 -
At least 25,000 people were displaced after fighting in the town of Kodok, according to a spokesman for the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders, one day after the top U.N. official in South Sudan warned of a government offensive on the town
April 26, 2017 -
Wyoming is gearing up to hold its first wolf hunting season in four years
April 26, 2017 -
The bucolic Shenandoah River is sending some not-so-lovely material downstream, according to a new report that finds Virginia is failing to adequately manage waste from millions of chickens and cows
April 26, 2017 -
A northern Virginia woman says she was asked to leave a church for breastfeeding her 1-year-old daughter
April 26, 2017 -
A Massachusetts city known for celebrating the occult is drawing attention after its mayor snapped a photo that appears to show a scowling face trapped in a streetlamp outside a courthouse
April 26, 2017 -
The moribund Republican health care bill has received a jolt of life because the conservative House Freedom Caucus has endorsed a revised version of the measure
April 26, 2017 -
A senior European Union official is urging Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson to cancel Thursday's planned execution of inmate Kenneth Williams
April 26, 2017 -
Some of the key players have died while others have gone on quietly with their lives in the 25 years since a jury acquitted four white police officers in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King
April 26, 2017