National Politics

Medicaid, food aid recipients worry about safety net cuts in bill sent to Trump

By Geoff Mulvihill and David A. Lib Missouri’s Jefferson City (AP) The reforms to Medicaid, food assistance, and other programs, according to proponents of ...

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Takeaways as Congress sends tax and spending cuts bill to Trump’s desk

Written by Mary Clare Joel Washington (AP) A day ahead of the deadline he set for July 4, the House passed a comprehensive tax ...

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Honduran family freed from detention after lawsuit against ICE courthouse arrests

Written by Jim Vertuno Texas’s Austin (AP) Civil rights organizations and the family’s lawyers announced Thursday that a mother and her two young Honduran ...

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Supreme Court clears way for deportation to South Sudan of several immigrants with no ties there

Written by Lindsay Whitehurst Washington (AP) The deportation of a number of immigrants who were placed on an aircraft in May that was headed ...

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Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states

Written by Matt O’Brien and Matt Brown Washington (AP) The U.S. Senate decisively rejected a proposal on Tuesday that would have prevented states from ...

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Mexican banks face cascading consequences following US sanctions

By Janetsky, Megan CITY OF MEXICO (AP) Following accusations that they assisted in the launder of millions of dollars for drug cartels, three Mexican ...

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What the Justice Department’s push to bring denaturalization cases means

By Durkin-Richer, Alana Washington (AP) According to a recent letter highlighting the Trump administration’s extreme immigration strategy, the Justice Department is stepping up its ...

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US won’t send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military assistance

By Matthew Lee and Will Weisser Washington (AP) According to officials on Tuesday, the United States is stopping some arms shipments to Ukraine because ...

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Billions in grants for summer school, English instruction delayed during Trump administration review

BIANCA V. ZQUEZ TONESS and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press Washington (AP) As part of a review to make sure funding support President Donald Trump’s ...

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UPenn to ban transgender athletes, feds say, ending civil rights case focused on swimmer Lia Thomas

By the Associated Press’s Colin Binkley Washington (AP) In order to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that the university had violated the ...

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