BEIRUT (AP) – Amnesty International said Wednesday it is enlisting the help of thousands of online activists to speed up its investigation into the U.S.-led campaign that drove Islamic State militants from their self-styled capital of [...]
TORNILLO, Texas (AP) – The U.S. government says a West Texas tent shelter for immigrant children who have recently crossed the southwest border will remain open through the end of the year.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health [...]
Judge Tells Maine Gov. Paul LePage To Expand Medicaid Or GTFO
And he does, every time he has a microphone in front of him.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage really, really, really hates poor people, and recognizes the very clear logic that if only poor people would stop being poor, they wouldn’t need any government [...]
White House plans order to expand health care options
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House is finalizing an executive order that would expand health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed [...]
Congress may protect, expand special tax break for low-income housing developers
Lawmakers are scouring the tax code to eliminate credits and deductions as part of a broad tax reform, but Congress appears poised to protect and perhaps to even expand a special break for real estate developers who build rental housing for [...]
State laws will expand concealed guns to public facilities
Starting Saturday, concealed guns will be permitted at college campuses in Georgia and Kansas, more public buildings and bus stations in Tennessee, and at the Iowa state Capitol as new laws take effect continuing the steady expansion of gun [...]
To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand U.S. forest
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation.
Forests have been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon for more than 300 million years. When we cut down or burn trees and disturb forest soils, we release that [...]