President and Administration
The Republican Party has formally nominated Donald Trump as its presidential nominee for a third cycle in a row, cementing his status as the GOP standard-bearer nearly a decade after first ascending to the top of the party…
Former President Doanld Trump was holding a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania - a key state in the Nov. 5 election - when shots rang out, hitting his right ear and leaving his face streaked with blood…
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed an emergency motion on Friday (7/14) asking a circuit court judge to block the Biden administration from “continuing to unlawfully forgive student loans…”
CMS on Wednesday (7/10) proposed to reduce Medicare payments to physicians by 2.8 percent in 2025, a cut that is all but certain to ignite calls for Congress to overrule the agency…
In May 2023, the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency ended – reflecting a long-awaited return to normalcy across the United States…
Jerome Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, indicated on Tuesday (7/9) that recent inflation data had given the central bank more confidence that price increases were returning to normal…
Appropriations
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) are moving forward with a bipartisan deal to add $34.5 billion in emergency cash to their fiscal 2025 funding bills…
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday (7/9) backed a $78.3 billion measure to fund the departments of Justice and Commerce for the upcoming fiscal year…
House Republican appropriators approved a measure Wednesday (7/10) with steep cuts to federal education programs, teeing up a fraught election season brawl over spending…
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday (7/10) approved the fiscal 2025 transportation-HUD spending bill 31-26 vote…
The House Appropriations Committee report released Tuesday (7/9) outlines how the Republican Party plans to cut the HHS fiscal 2025 budget by seven percent ahead of a full markup on Wednesday (7/10)…
House Republicans failed to pass their $7 billion funding bill for parts of the legislative branch on Thursday (7/11)…
Senate appropriators approved funding totals for a dozen annual spending bills along party lines on Thursday (7/11), while pledging to work toward a bipartisan agreement in the coming months…
Senate appropriators will begin markups for its annual spending bills, starting with a Thursday morning (7/11) markup of its fiscal 2025 Military Construction-VA, Agriculture-FDA and Legislative Branch appropriations measures…
Congress
The U.S. Senate passed an AARP-supported bill Thursday (7/11) that aims to speed access to lower-priced prescription drugs by making it harder for big drug companies to keep less expensive generic versions from coming to market…
Western lawmakers are urging the Bureau of Reclamation to increase the amount of money it spends on water recycling projects, citing rising construction costs…
House Republican leadership made its opening salvo after a landmark Supreme Court decision overturned a doctrine shielding many federal regulations from legal challenges…
California
Nearly six times more acres have burned in wildland fires so far this year than the average over the last five years; 20 times more acres have burned than last year…
Four years since passing a ban on menthol cigarettes and candy-flavored vaping cartridges — and two years after a referendum on the same topic…
Gov. Gavin Newsom is rescinding an offer to dispatch attorneys to help prosecute drug crimes in Oakland…
As the fentanyl crisis ravages communities across the country, toddlers and infants increasingly are becoming unsuspecting victims of an opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin…
Education
Arrests were two times greater in schools with a regular police presence than at similar campuses without one and race, gender and disability were huge factors in which students were detained…
California school districts are signing more contracts for artificial intelligence tools, from automated grading in San Diego to chatbots in central California, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area…
About two-thirds of U.S. adults believe K-12 STEM education in this country is average or worse when compared to peer nations, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey…
When the pandemic hit, 10-year-old Luis, who has autism, quickly started to regress….