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Mullin pledges to ‘protect everybody’ as he takes over Department of Homeland Security
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump hailed his new Homeland Security head, former U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, as “strong, professional and fair” during an Oval Office swearing-in ceremony Tuesday. Mullin, who until Monday was one of Oklahoma’s Republican senators, takes the reins at the Department of Homeland Security amid a weekslong partial shutdown in the aftermath […]
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Amazon and Walmart fined for selling banned refrigerant in WA
Retail giants Amazon and Walmart are collectively facing over a million dollars in environmental fines from Washington state’s Department of Ecology for selling coolant products that contain potent greenhouse gases. In 2021, the state Legislature passed a law restricting the sale of products containing hydrofluorocarbons, synthetic gases that can trap up to thousands of times […]
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Trump administration will pay $1B to block 2 offshore wind farms
The U.S. government will pay a French energy firm nearly $1 billion to cancel its plans to build a pair of wind farms off the East Coast, the Trump administration announced Monday in its latest move to stymie offshore wind. The French firm TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases for projects off the coasts of New […]
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TSA union: Workers are ‘literally starving’ as DHS shutdown enters second month
Transportation Security Administration officers are struggling to afford basic necessities as they approach their second missed full paycheck since a funding lapse began last month, union leaders said at a virtual press conference Tuesday. Officials from the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 44,000 TSA officers nationwide, urged Congress to immediately find […]
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Supreme Court conservatives appear ready to revive Trump’s asylum turn-back policy
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed split Tuesday on whether the Trump administration should be allowed to turn away asylum-seekers who present themselves at ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border. The question presented to the justices was whether migrants have to fully cross into the United States in order to have the right […]
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ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained and deported hundreds of pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants since the start of the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed for the first time Wednesday. Federal policy says that such individuals should only be detained in limited circumstances. Between January 1, 2025, and February 16, 2026, […]
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Opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly 50% nationally — but not in Arizona
Since their peak less than three years ago, opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly by half as of October, according to a Stateline analysis. The drop comes as a shrinking fentanyl supply has made the drug weaker and less deadly and volunteer efforts get more people into treatment. The weaker fentanyl tracks to a crackdown on […]
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LocalGAJudge, expressing doubt on abortion murder charge, grants bond to Georgia mother
A Coastal Georgia district attorney and a Superior Court judge said Monday they were doubtful that enough evidence exists to move forward with a malice murder charge against a 31-year-old Camden County mother arrested earlier this month for an alleged illegal abortion, paving the way for a possible reduction or dismissal of charges. Kingsland police […]
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Medicaid cuts could add pressure to already-stressed psychiatric units
Federal Medicaid cuts could exact a heavy toll on psychiatric units at hospitals across the country, many of which are already struggling to keep their doors open but provide essential mental health care to people who need it. Psychiatric units are costly and, like labor and delivery services, typically lose money for hospitals and tend […]
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US Senate confirms Mullin as next Homeland Security boss
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted Monday evening to confirm Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. The 54-45 vote means that Mullin, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, will take over the department in the midst of a five-week shutdown. He will replace outgoing […]
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Arizona hires high-powered law firm, setting the stage for a legal battle over Colorado River water
Arizona is preparing for a legal battle over its rights to Colorado River water. Following an extraordinarily dry winter along the river basin and what’s expected to be an exceptionally hot and dry spring across the West, where high temperatures in March have already blown past records, the pressure to maintain access to the state’s […]
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ICE agents deployed to Atlanta airport as shutdown drives long waits
Armed federal agents decked out in tactical gear patrolled the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday as a continuing partial government shutdown creates long delays at major airports nationwide. The agents were not involved with security screenings or immigration enforcement but were intended to provide security in an effort to bolster Transportation Security Administration employees […]
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Bill raising penalties against protestors who block streets in Georgia heads to the governor
Georgia lawmakers advanced a bill imposing harsher penalties on protesters who block roads and highways Monday, sending it to the governor’s desk. It’s a measure that some Republicans claim is necessary to ensure the public’s safety, but many Democrats say they worry the change could enable the government to more easily crack down on free […]
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Trump administration pushes to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is again trying to send the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the west African nation of Liberia and urging a federal judge to dismiss a bar on his removal, according to legal documents filed over the weekend. Abrego Garcia, of Maryland, has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, […]
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Rounding out debate, Ferguson signs bill addressing retailers’ penny problem
A new Washington state law offers a way to make change in an era without pennies. The federal government stopped making pennies last year but intends to keep the roughly 114 billion pennies in existence in circulation for as long as possible. Plenty of retailers aren’t stocking pennies in their tills already. It’s forced states […]
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Georgia Legislature gives final approval to ‘bell to bell’ cell phone ban in high schools
The Georgia Senate unanimously passed a measure that would ban cellphone use on campus for high school students from the morning bell until the dismissal bell, known as a “bell to bell” ban. The bill would add public high school students to the current law, which passed last year and banned cellphone use for students […]
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‘It reeks of a vendor bill’: Arizona radiation protection measure fails on a tie vote
A bill that would have mandated new protections for health care professionals against long-term radiation exposure risks is dead after failing to gain enough support due largely in part to concerns the bill benefited only a few companies. The legislation is a reaction to the increased cancer rate among cardiovascular interventionalists, heart specialists who specialize […]
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Phoenix among airports hit hardest as TSA staffing crisis reaches new peak, Trump deploys ICE agents
Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest rate since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February, the Department of Homeland Security said, and the Trump administration sent immigration officials to some airports in an attempt to keep lines moving. Travelers reported hourslong security lines at major airports in Atlanta and Houston, while waits […]
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Airport chaos: TSA agents skip work, security lines expand, Trump sends in ICE to assist
Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest rate since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February, the Department of Homeland Security said, and the Trump administration sent immigration officials to some airports in an attempt to keep lines moving. Travelers reported hourslong security lines at major airports in Atlanta and Houston, while waits […]
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New WA law nixes mortgage lender tax break to boost wildfire funding
At the close of last year’s Washington state legislative session, a key bucket of wildfire prevention funding was slashed nearly in half by lawmakers attempting to offset a budget deficit. If it wasn’t restored this year, the Department of Natural Resources was prepared to cut staff and eliminate grants for communities facing wildfires. Rep. Shaun […]
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