"They asked me what music I wanted to listen to...I told them, AC/DC Thunderstruck.," the man told Newsweek.

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”

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Do not forget this when they ask you to thank them for giving you a couple hundred bucks back on your tax return in April.

National Guard troops that the Trump administration tapped to support aggressive immigration operations have left Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, according to U.S. military officials.

NEW: Oklahoma regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water.

But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case.

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“They’re shooting moms in the face.”

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told Vox’s Astead Herndon that peaceful protesting is the “least” people can do as ICE maintains a presence in Chicago.

The Department of Homeland Security is facing a shutdown after Senate Democrats voted to block its funding, saying talks with the GOP to add limits on immigration enforcement hadn’t advanced enough. on.wsj.com/3ZzF7Qr

The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said.

U.S. troops vacated a strategic military base in Syria and turned it over to government forces, a U.S. official said, ending a long presence as part of a broader drawdown of American troops in the country.

Tom Homan says that Trump has backed ‘significant drawdown’ in the state, where two US citizens have died

“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.

The U.S. budget deficit will widen over the next decade as interest costs consume an increasing share of spending, the CBO said in a forecast that highlighted the country’s long-run fiscal challenges.

Trump’s policies will add $1.4tn to US deficit over next decade, CBO says ft.trib.al/zePheDU

Exclusive: The Pentagon told a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to the Middle East as the U.S. prepares for a potential attack on Iran.