Government News
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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 -
A jury will return after failing to reach a verdict on the first day of deliberations in the Medicare fraud trial of a prominent Florida eye doctor who is accused separately of bribing a U.S. senator
April 26, 2017 -
Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives thought they had defeated a resolution to honor Nathan Bedford Forrest
April 26, 2017 -
Prosecutors cannot use statements a Chinese billionaire made to the FBI after his arrest in a United Nations bribery scandal at his New York trial
April 26, 2017 -
A white Minnesota man has been sentenced to over 15 years in prison for shooting and wounding five black men who were demonstrating against the police killing of an African-American
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to reduce the federal government's role in K-12 education
April 26, 2017 -
About two dozen people witness executions in Arkansas, though the term "witness" is a misnomer
April 26, 2017 -
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he won't remove Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke from office over the death of an inmate who went seven days without water
April 26, 2017 -
The Latest: Venezuela's government says it will begin withdrawing from the Organization of American States, in reaction to growing international pressure on the socialist-run South American nation
April 26, 2017 -
A federal appeals court has denied the latest request from former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi for a new trial on corruption charges
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump proposed dramatic tax cuts for U.S. businesses and individuals Wednesday, dismissing concerns about federal deficits and promising to spur economic growth while simplifying the nation's tangle of tax code rules
April 26, 2017