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Senate sends $70B bill funding ICE, border patrol to vacant House

(The Center Square) – U.S. Senate Republicans finally passed their roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement funding bill after an 18-hour vote-a-rama that ended early Friday morning. The 52-47 final vote saw every Republican holdout except Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, supporting party-line the bill. The

Chicks on the pond | Mary Sheehy Moe

I was a sister wedged in birth order between two brothers. All my cousins my age were boys. All the neighborhood kids my age were boys. So my childhood game wasn’t house. It was baseball. There was always a pick-up game going on in my neighborhood — a real

From suicide pact to Faustian bargain to the art of the deal: Bowing to presidential power | David Adler

The evolution in America of rationales for the cascading growth of presidential power, which began in earnest in the post-war world and followed a trajectory through the expression of the Imperial Presidency before reaching new heights in President Donald Trump’s authoritarian pretensions, has long found traction in the

Feds cut funding for Hawaii Medicaid fraud unit

(The Center Square) - Federal officials decertified Hawaii's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on Thursday, citing concerns over a lack of accountability in the program. Every state that administers Medicaid is required to manage a fraud control unit in order for funds to be properly dispersed. The attorney general in

CNN’s Anderson Cooper Blasts Trump Over His ‘Bizarre’ Attack on Kaitlan Collins

Anderson Cooper defended his CNN colleague Kaitlan Collins on Wednesday night (June 3) after President Donald Trump once again insulted the reporter during an Oval Office press meeting. Trump, who has frequently attacked Collins, turned on the journalist after she asked why he “decided to drop the Anti-Weaponization fund,

’60 Minutes’ Veteran Steve Kroft Says Show ‘No Longer Exists’ Following Scott Pelley Firing

Retired 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft has blasted CBS News for firing veteran reporter Scott Pelley and other staff members in a move he called “disastrous” for the show and its audience. Speaking to Geoff Bennett on PBS NewsHour on Wednesday (June 3), Kroft said, “This is journalistic interference. It

Trump to tap Blanche as attorney general

(The Center Square) – After serving as acting attorney general for more than two months, President Donald Trump says he plans to nominate Todd Blanche as attorney general. Trump made the comments Wednesday evening during a closed press dinner in the Rose Garden, telling attendees that he plans to formally nominate