Government News
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A Senate Democrat says the head of the Environmental Protection Agency is breaking the law by agreeing to headline a state GOP fundraiser
April 26, 2017 -
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The U.S. Border Patrol has a new acting chief _ the first woman to lead the agency in its 93-year history _ as the Trump administration pursues plans for a wall on the border with Mexico and hiring 5,000 agents
April 26, 2017 -
Ivanka Trump has been involved in discussions with the World Bank about setting up a funding operation that would support female entrepreneurs
April 26, 2017 -
Suspended Alabama Chief Justice and gay marriage opponent Roy Moore says he is running for the US Senate seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions
April 26, 2017 -
Boston's mayor and top cop are standing by the police department's tactics after an Associated Press review found little has changed in how often minorities are subject to police stops, searches and frisks
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump has recognized the National Teacher of the Year, and says nothing is more important than being a teacher
April 26, 2017 -
Texas prison officials are asking a federal judge to rescind a U.S. Food and Drug Administration order that blocks the corrections agency from receiving a foreign shipment of a drug to use for executions
April 26, 2017 -
A jailhouse friend of Aaron Hernandez is suggesting the former NFL star hinted at his suicide weeks before he was found hanging by a bedsheet in his prison cell last week
April 26, 2017 -
A boy found doused in chemicals inside his father's pesticide truck while his dead twin sister decomposed in the back would receive the remainder of a $5 million settlement under a bill passed by Florida's lawmakers
April 26, 2017 -
Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was either an entitled, corrupt politician who used a charity for poor kids to line her own pockets or a befuddled, aging lawmaker whose own trusted adviser betrayed her
April 26, 2017 -
A federal judge has struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have permission to admit patients to a nearby hospital, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision against a similar Texas law
April 26, 2017 -
US launches unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile in test of the weapon system
April 26, 2017 -
The White House says President Donald Trump did not attend the entire meeting with senators who gathered to discuss the crisis in North Korea
April 26, 2017 -
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands
April 26, 2017