Legal services contract expires, and unaccompanied immigrant children face deportation

WASHINGTON — More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal ser...

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Spending deal freezes Trump proposal to gain power over federal grants, extends highway law

WASHINGTON — Leaders of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee announced a bipartisan deal over the weekend that would keep the federal government funded through Dec. 11 and pause the Trump administ...

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Ohio US Sen. Moreno says former son-in-law Rep. Max Miller unfit to serve in Congress

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, on Sunday said Rep. Max Miller, also of Ohio and his former son-in-law, is not fit to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives as he faces allegations of dom...

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Blanche asserts 'anti-weaponization' fund is dead, wins key GOP support in US Senate

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general appeared on track Monday after he submitted a written assurance to Senate Judiciary Committee lawmakers that the a...

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Blanche asserts 'anti-weaponization' fund is dead, wins key GOP support in US Senate

WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general appeared on track Monday after he submitted a written assurance to Senate Judiciary Committee lawmakers that the a...

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Prosecutors drop vandalism charges for Reflecting Pool damage, blame ‘contractor error’

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro moved Friday to dismiss charges against a former Olympian canoeist alleged to have damaged part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting...

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Trump defends massive settlement for ‘great American Patriots’ of Jan. 6, attacks GOP senators

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended his highly criticized, nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” settlement fund on social media and in a Cabinet meeting Friday, as two key Republican sena...

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US Senate panel advances bill to reject Education Department transfers

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education has cleared its first major legislative hurdle in a bipartisan U.S. Senate co...

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3 Republicans break with Trump in US Senate vote to block war in Iran

WASHINGTON — For the second time in as many weeks, a War Powers Resolution aimed at curbing President Donald Trump’s war with Iran failed to pass the U.S. Senate Thursday.The vote breakdown, 49-50, fe...

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3 Republicans break with Trump in US Senate vote to block war in Iran

WASHINGTON — For the second time in as many weeks, a War Powers Resolution aimed at curbing President Donald Trump’s war with Iran failed to pass the U.S. Senate Thursday.The vote breakdown, 49-50, fe...

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Trump says he might pull Blanche nomination for AG until GOP holdouts leave office

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to pull acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to lead the Justice Department until two Republican holdouts, Sens. Thom Tillis of ...

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Grassley postpones vote in US Senate panel on Blanche nomination for AG

WASHINGTON — A vote on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to permanently fill the nation’s top law enforcement role was postponed Wednesday after two Republican senators — John Cornyn o...

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Grassley postpones vote in US Senate panel on Blanche nomination for AG

WASHINGTON — A vote on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to permanently fill the nation’s top law enforcement role was postponed Wednesday after two Republican senators — John Cornyn o...

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‘People movers’ out, more parking in: Trump announces $22.5B Washington Dulles makeover

WASHINGTON — Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia, the main long-distance gateway to the nation’s capital, is set to receive a multi-billion-dollar makeover, President Donald Trump said...

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TSA shares passengers’ personal information with immigration enforcement, documents show

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has for more than a year used personal information airline passengers provide to the Transportation Security Administration for immigration enforcement, according...

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Fauci pleads the Fifth to COVID questions by US Sen. Rand Paul at intense hearing

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation’s most visible public health officials during the coronavirus pandemic, declined to answer questions from a U.S. Senate committee in a tense and confr...

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Washington says goodbye to South Carolina US Sen. Lindsey Graham

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress paid tribute to their longtime colleague, the late Republican Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Tuesday morning ahead of a funeral service at Washing...

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Bipartisan US Senate proposal on AI ethics panel good step but incomplete, experts say

WASHINGTON — A proposed federal commission on artificial intelligence ethics could help address moral questions associated with the rapidly developing technology, but there are still some areas in whi...

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Reflecting Pool damaged before Olympian charged with felony touched it, witness says

WASHINGTON — Attorneys representing the former Olympic canoeist charged with damaging part of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have asked the judge in the case to release more information from the...

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Flap over noncitizens on state voter rolls seen as unlikely to boost SAVE America Act

WASHINGTON — Suddenly there’s evidence that noncitizens were on voting rolls in New Jersey, and there are new questions about the credibility of Alaska’s voter data. Republicans say that’s a big deal ...

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Haitian immigrants brace for end of protected status

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants could lose their legal status as early as Tuesday, subjecting them to deportation after the U.S. Supreme Court last month allowed the Trump adm...

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Washington says goodbye to South Carolina US Sen. Lindsey Graham • SC Daily Gazette

Members of Congress paid tribute to the late Sen. Lindsey O. Graham in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda ahead of a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral.

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This new media cooperative invites the community to join us on our journey of creation

Welcome to the Pittsburgh Progress, a news organization forged by a team of union journalists and community members. That’s us. We own this thing. It’s a cooperative. You can be an owner, too. You sho...

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Beshear to McConnell: Provide ‘proof of your capacity to serve’ or leave office • Kentucky Lantern

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear wrote in a Monday letter to Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and his staff that the senator should “provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.”

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Washington says goodbye to South Carolina US Sen. Lindsey Graham

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress paid tribute to their longtime colleague, the late Republican Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Tuesday morning ahead of a funeral service at Washing...

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Trump administration sustains defeat on vote-by-mail order in federal appeals court

A federal appeals court over the weekend denied the Trump administration’s request to resume a controversial plan forcing significant restrictions on vote-by-mail.A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. C...

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