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Voting by mail faces uncertain moment ahead of midterm elections
Derrin Robinson has worked in Oregon elections for more than 30 years, long enough to remember when voters in the state cast their ballots at physical polling sites instead of by mail. As the nonpartisan clerk of Harney County, a vast, rural expanse larger than Massachusetts, Robinson oversees elections with about 6,000 registered voters. Oregon […]
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December 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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ICE arrests are forcing American moms to leave their jobs
A jump in immigration enforcement arrests under the Trump administration is having a detrimental impact on America’s child care system, reducing the number of immigrant workers available and prompting mothers with young children to leave their jobs as they scramble for stable care. That’s according to a report released Wednesday by the Better Life Lab […]
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December 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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US Senate hits stalemate on solution to spiraling health insurance costs
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate in long-anticipated votes failed to advance legislation Thursday that would have addressed the rising cost of health insurance, leaving lawmakers deadlocked on how to curb a surge in premiums expected next year. Senators voted 51-48 on a Republican bill co-sponsored by Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy and Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo […]
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December 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Fast-tracked E-Verify bill clears final House committee as Senate stays quiet
A Florida bill demanding all businesses use a federal database to check employees’ immigration status cleared its final House committee Thursday, despite silence from the Senate. HB 197, co-sponsored by Republican Reps. Berny Jacques and Kiyan Michael, is one of the few bills the House has fast-tracked without a Senate companion. It would expand a […]
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December 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Lawsuit from Texas, Florida AGs takes another crack at limiting abortion pill access
Attorneys for the states of Florida and Texas filed another lawsuit this week seeking to restrict access to a medication abortion drug and rescind the approval of its brand-name and generic versions dating back to 2000. It’s the latest in a series of actions taken by state Republican officials to limit how mifepristone, one of […]
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University of West Florida approves American Civic Republicanism Center
The University of West Florida will add a center focused on civics funded by the federal government, putting it in order with some other state universities. Some trustees expressed concern about the name of the center, the Academy of American Civic Republican Center, saying it would trigger criticisms of the institutional neutrality policy the board […]
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves ICE custody as Trump administration vows to fight release
WASHINGTON — The wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no longer in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after a federal judge ordered his release earlier Thursday, according to his attorneys and an immigrant rights group that has advocated his case. CASA, the immigrant rights group that has supported Abrego Garcia and his family since […]
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National Democrats target US Senate GOP incumbents on health care votes
The Democratic National Committee will run ads Thursday on the home pages of newspapers in a quartet of Republican senators’ hometowns, calling on the incumbents up for reelection next year to support a Democratic bill to extend health care subsidies. The digital ads target Sens. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Jon Husted […]
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Rare US House bipartisan vote advances bill rejecting Trump federal-worker bargaining ban
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House agreed Wednesday to consider a bill that would void President Donald Trump’s executive order that strips collective bargaining rights for roughly 1 million federal workers. The 222-200 vote was a rare bipartisan agreement from the lower chamber to rebuke a policy decision from the president. Thirteen Republicans joined all Democrats voting for the […]
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Rodman drawdown exposes the beauty of Florida’s lost springs
This is the time of year many of us go searching for something. We look for good deals on Black Friday and beyond. We hunt for a good place to hide the gifts we’ve acquired for our family and friends. We seek some semblance of holiday cheer amid the tumult of the day. That’s why […]
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Public lands group files suit over new national park pass that features Trump
WASHINGTON — A public lands advocacy group sued the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over the inclusion of President Donald Trump’s face on the forthcoming National Park annual pass. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that alleges the Department of the Interior […]
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December 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Attorney: It’s a ‘judgement call’ whether Florida redraws its congressional map
A pending ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the 1965 Voting Rights Act could trigger the Florida Legislature to conduct a mid-decade congressional redistricting effort, but it won’t require them to do so. That was the opinion of Tallahassee election attorney Andy Bardos, who spoke Wednesday before a Florida House select committee charged with […]
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State issues cease-and-desist to national nonprofit sponsoring abortion pill ads
South Dakota’s Republican attorney general is threatening a lawsuit and ordering a national nonprofit to cease and desist “the deceptive advertising of the sale of abortion pills in South Dakota,” but the organization is not signaling that it will stop its advertising campaign. The ads ask “Pregnant? Don’t want to be?” and provide a link […]
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Trump administration tags $700 million for regenerative farming
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $700 million to support regenerative agriculture as part of the Make America Healthy Again agenda, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday. The USDA pilot program for regenerative agriculture — a conservation management approach centered on improving the […]
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Missouri Sen. Hawley amps up pressure campaign on FDA chief to limit medication abortion
WASHINGTON — Missouri U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley is ratcheting up pressure on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to finish a study into medication abortion and to change its prescribing guidelines, sending a letter to Commissioner Marty Makary on Wednesday that the pace of the review is “totally unacceptable.” The letter came just one day […]
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December 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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US House GOP promises vote on reducing health care premiums, but few specifics disclosed
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson committed Wednesday to hold a vote next week on a package of bills that he said would lower health insurance premiums for hundreds of millions of Americans, not just those enrolled in Affordable Care Act plans. But the Louisiana Republican’s promise didn’t come with any details about which […]
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Another judge grants request to unseal Epstein grand jury files
WASHINGTON — A second federal judge in New York on Wednesday granted a U.S. Department of Justice request to unseal grand jury records in the case against Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 awaiting federal trial on sex trafficking charges and whose case files have become a target of Congress and victims in […]
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Nikki Fried: ‘The pendulum is swinging’ towards Democrats’ after victory in Miami election
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried took a victory lap Wednesday, fresh off seeing Miami voters elect former Miami-Dade County commissioner Eileen Higgins as mayor, the first time a registered Democrat has taken the seat in decades. Higgins defeated former Miami City Manager Emilio González Tuesday by more than 18 percentage points, 59%-41%. That race […]
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December 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Democrats turn up the heat on Hegseth over Caribbean boat strike that killed 2 survivors
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday escalated their demands that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth publicly release an unedited video of a controversial follow-on strike by U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea that killed two shipwrecked survivors. The Sept. 2 strike has drawn scrutiny and questions over Hegseth’s role in ordering a commander […]
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December 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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House Speaker Daniel Perez seeks cuts, restrictions, for safety-net programs
House Speaker Daniel Perez on Tuesday rolled out a far-reaching proposal to cut Medicaid and a low-cost state children’s health insurance program while tightening work requirements for people who rely on the state’s food-assistance program. Contained in two separate bills — HB 693 and HB 697 — dubbed “Florida’s New Frontier in Healthcare” by Perez, […]
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December 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Proposal to reform how the Florida PSC sets energy rates advances in Senate
A bill directing the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) to justify rate increases for investor-owned utilities and consider affordability advanced in its first committee stop Tuesday ahead of the 2026 legislative session. The bill (SB 126) was introduced just weeks after the PSC approved a nearly $7 billion rate increase for Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) 12 million […]
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No due process guarantee in fast-track removal proceedings, Trump administration argues
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration Tuesday defended the merits of its fast-track deportation policy before a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, saying immigrants who have been in the country for less than two years without legal authorization are not guaranteed due process. The suit, brought by immigration […]
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December 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Epstein co-conspirator grand jury records to be unsealed in New York under court order
WASHINGTON — A Manhattan federal judge granted an order Tuesday to unseal grand jury records in the case of Jeffrey Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking minors among other offenses in 2021. Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote in a 24-page order that unsealing the documents fell within the scope of a new […]
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Leaders of 2 major anti-abortion groups call for Trump’s FDA chief to be fired
WASHINGTON — Two of the country’s largest anti-abortion organizations want President Donald Trump to fire U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary over access to medication abortion. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, expressed frustration Tuesday that the FDA hasn’t completed a review of the prescription drug mifepristone. “The FDA needs […]
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Trump to send $12 billion in one-time payments to farmers to offset ag losses
The federal government will provide $12 billion to U.S. farmers who have been hurt by “unfair market disruption,” President Donald Trump said at a White House roundtable event Monday. Trump said repeatedly the funding was available thanks to tariff revenues, framing his aggressive trade policy as a boon to farmers rather than a drag on […]
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December 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM