GOVERNMENT

A photograph of a winmill and hut against a blue sky, taken in Kansas.
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POLITICS
The GOP Crusade Against Obamacare Is Shifting To State Capitals
By Jonathan Cohn
The campaign has come to Kansas and it won’t stop there.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, listens as the panel holds a hearing about prevention and response to sexual assault in the military, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., recounted her own experience while serving as a colonel in the Air Force. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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POLITICS
Gillibrand Aide Resigned In Protest Over Allegedly Mishandled Sex Harassment Claims
By Alanna Vagianos
"Your office chose to go against your public belief that women shouldn’t accept sexual harassment in any form," a former female staffer wrote to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) last summer.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores participates in a forum called Generation Next at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis
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POLITICS
Former Trump Administration Official Will Serve As Analyst Rather Than Editor At CNN
By Antonia Blumberg
Sarah Isgur Flores was the leading spokeswoman at the Justice Department under former Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
TIJUANA, MEXICO - FEBRUARY 14: Luisa Hidalgo, 31, from El Salvador, sits for a portrait in Hotel Salazar in Tijuana, Mexico on February 14, 2019 while waiting to present herself at the border to ask for asylum in order to be reunited with her 14-year-old daughter, Katherinne. They were separated on Christmas morning in 2017. Katherinne has been staying in New York with a foster family for a year. Luisa collected gifts to give her daughter when they reunite and carried letters and school awards her daughter sent her while they were separated. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Trump Administration Won't Say If Deported Parents Can Ever Reunite With Their Kids
By Angelina Chapin
The parents haven't seen their children in months and are hoping the U.S. government will let them back into the country.
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb listens during an interview with The Associated Press in New York on Monday, March 5, 2018. Gottlieb said Monday that he needs more staffers to intercept opioids that are being disguised as other drugs and supplements. (AP Photo/Kathy Young)
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POLITICS
Scott Gottlieb Resigns As FDA Commissioner
He is best known for his efforts to address teenage use of e-cigarettes.
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the U.S. Conference of Mayors Annual Winter Meeting in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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POLITICS
Biden In 1974: Women Don't Have Sole Right To Say What Should Happen To Their Bodies
By Jenavieve Hatch
If the former vice president decides to run in 2020, he'll need to answer for his past policies on abortion.
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POLITICS
Chuck Schumer Reaches Out To MJ Hegar Ahead Of Potential Texas Senate Bid
By Dana Liebelson
The Senate minority leader invited Hegar to meet with him, a source told HuffPost, though the person declined to comment on the record regarding the contents of the discussion.
FILE - In this March 22, 2018, file photo, Anita Ross holds a photo of shooting victim Stephon Clark, as she and other protesters block the entrance to Sacramento City Hall in Sacramento, Calif. Police in California's capital city announced Monday, Aug. 13, 2018, that they are discouraging dangerous foot pursuits of suspected criminals after a chase led to the fatal shooting of Clark, who was unarmed. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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POLITICS
Sacramento Police Officers Who Shot Unarmed Stephon Clark Won't Face Charges
By Donald Thompson, AP
The officers had said they thought Clark had a gun, but investigators found only a cellphone.
In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, photo, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks to voters during a campaign stop at a home in Nashua, N.H. U.S. Sen. and presidential hopeful Klobuchar has built a reputation as an effective champion for consumer safety. She also aggressively advocated for the medical device industry - a big employer in her home state of Minnesota - in ways that complicate her reputation as a consumer defender. Some consumer advocates say her work has helped put patients at risk. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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POLITICS
Amy Klobuchar Defends Her Record On Regulating Medical Devices
By Amy Forliti and Spencer Woodman, AP
Klobuchar has forcefully advocated for the medical device industry in ways that complicate her reputation as a consumer defender.
This Feb. 26, 2019 photo provided by the Anaheim Fire and Rescue shows a car with a firehose running through the rear side windows in Anaheim, Calif. A California fire department enflamed some social media users but delighted others by posting pictures of the busted-out windows of a car that parked in front of a fire hydrant. In a Twitter thread posted Wednesday, the Anaheim Fire Department asked the public: "Ever wonder what happens when a car is parked in front of a fire hydrant and a fire breaks out." (Anaheim Fire and Rescue via AP)
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WEIRD NEWS
Fire Department's Twitter Post Burns People Who Park In Front Of Hydrants
The Anaheim Fire Department's post evoked a firestorm of responses.
Visitors walk around the 40-foot Maryland Peace Cross dedicated to World War I soldiers on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019 in Bladensburg, Md. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Appears Open To Keeping Memorial Cross On Public Land
By Jessica Gresko, AP
The nearly 100-year-old cross was built on public land in Maryland to honor fallen World War I soldiers.
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2017, file photo, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., participates in a panel discussion during a summit on the country's opioid epidemic at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. Cummings has been admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital for a bacterial infection in his knee. His office said doctors drained the infection in a minor procedure Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Cummings' office says he is resting comfortably and expects a full recovery. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
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POLITICS
House Committee Votes To Subpoena Trump Officials Over Family Separations
The subpoenas will be the first issued in the new Congress.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with the Venezuelan American community in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. Trump called on the Venezuelan military to drop its support for Nicolas Maduro in a Miami speech critical of socialism, previewing attacks he may deploy against Democrats in his re-election campaign. Photographer: Alicia Vera/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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POLITICS
26 GOP Ex-Lawmakers Urge Republicans To 'Honor Your Oath' Over Donald Trump Wall Emergency
By Lee Moran
The former GOP lawmakers have penned an open letter calling for the termination of the president's declaration.
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POLITICS
Jon Stewart Blasts Congress' Inaction On 9/11 First Responders Bill: 'It's Bulls**t'
By Hayley Miller
The comedian visited Capitol Hill to demand lawmakers pass funding for sick 9/11 first responders and their families.
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CRIME
Cop Coup: Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Washington Crackdown On Assault-Style Rifles
By Mary Papenfuss
State Attorney General warns law enforcement officers not to highjack democracy.
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U.S. NEWS
Urban Millennials Will Be So Hard To Find — For Census Workers In 2020
By Stateline, Editorial Partner
“Mail? I feel like that’s a dead thing. And I don’t have a lot of people randomly knocking at my front door, so I would be a little weirded out.”
The Lee County Sheriff's Office said that they were investigating the video.
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CRIME
Florida Deputy Resigns After Video Shows Him Striking Handcuffed Teen
By Carla Herreria
Lee County Sheriff's Deputy Blake Grossi resigned after the video of his alleged strike went viral.
FILE - This Aug. 9, 2018, file photo, provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shows a scene from a tour of South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Half a dozen families who were separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border are still detained in Texas months after reuniting with their children. Immigrant advocates say the government has violated a longstanding legal agreement that bars it from detaining children in unlicensed facilities like the South Texas Family Residential Center past 20 days. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP, File)
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POLITICS
Trump Admin Is Still Separating Children From Their Families
By Nomaan Merchant, AP
The Texas Civil Rights Project found that 272 families have been separated at a single Texas courthouse since June.
Visitors wait to enter the Supreme Court as a winter snow storm hits the nation's capital making roads perilous and closing most Federal offices and all major public school districts, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. The Supreme Court is ruling unanimously that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states. The outcome Wednesday could help an Indiana man recover the $40,000 Land Rover police seized when they arrested him for selling about $400 worth of heroin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Constitutional Ban On High Fines Applies To States
By Mark Sherman, AP
The ruling could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects.
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U.S. NEWS
Virginia Wants To Ban Uranium Mining. The Supreme Court Will Decide If It Can.
By The Conversation US, Editorial Partner
The case flips traditional views of federal and state power.
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COMEDY
‘SNL’: Chuck Schumer And Nancy Pelosi Relish Trump's Dealmaking Failure
By David Barden
The Senate minority leader and House speaker desperately tried to keep straight faces as the sought not to gloat.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo talks to the media during a press conference at the police station, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 in Houston. A lead investigator lied in an affidavit justifying a drug raid on a Houston home in which two residents were killed and four undercover officers were shot and wounded during a gun battle, the city’s police chief said Friday. ( Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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CRIME
Police Chief: Officer Lied In Affidavit Before Deadly Houston Drug Raid
By Juan A. Lozano, AP
Two residents were killed and four undercover officers were shot and wounded during a gun battle in the raid.
Police investigators work the scene of a shooting, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Tallahassee, Fla. A shooter killed one person and critically wounded four others at a yoga studio in Florida's capital before killing himself Friday, officials said. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
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WOMEN
Tallahassee Yoga Shooting Suspect Fueled By A ‘Lifetime Of Misogynistic Attitudes’
By Alanna Vagianos
Police found that Scott Beierle murdered two women and wounded five other people due to his general "hatred towards women."
El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump habla en una reunión del gabinete en la Casa Blanca el martes, 12 de febrero del 2019. (AP Foto/ Evan Vucci)
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POLITICS
Trump Not 'Thrilled' With Border Deal But Leaning Toward It
By Jill Colvin, Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram and Jonathan Lemire, AP
Lawmakers tentatively agreed Monday night to a deal that would provide nearly $1.4 billion for border barriers and keep the government funded for the rest of the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 24: On the 34th day of the partial government shutdown, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks to journalists while walking to the Senate floor for votes on competing Republican and Democratic plans to end the government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday January 24, 2019. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Susan Collins Defends Brett Kavanaugh's Abortion Vote
By Igor Bobic
The senator said Kavanaugh took a “logical approach” when the Supreme Court justice voted to uphold an anti-abortion law in Louisiana.
Former U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (L) and her husband Mark Kelly, NASA astronaut and commander of mission STS-134, pose for a picture at the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) Payload Operations and Command Center (POCC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva July 25, 2012. The astronauts' visit to the CERN marks the 14th month anniversary of the installation of the cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station (ISS) by the astronauts during the last mission of the space shuttle Endeavour, code-named STS-134, when they flew the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer for the European Organization for Nuclear Research to the ISS. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud (SWITZERLAND - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)
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POLITICS
NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly Announces Run For McCain Senate Seat In Arizona
By Jonathan J. Cooper, AP
He rocketed to the national spotlight when his Congresswoman wife Gabrielle Giffords was shot in a failed assassination attempt.
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