All posts tagged "United States"
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Immigrants change up their routines, brace for arrest
In Orange County, California, dozens of immigrants have signed powers of attorney authorizing relatives and friends to pick up their children from school and access their bank accounts to pay their bills in the event they are...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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US senators say Raul Castro eager to maintain US relations
HAVANA – Cuban President Raul Castro appears eager to maintain better relations with the United States and gave a group of U.S. Congress members signed copies of a recent speech expressing his willingness to negotiate with President...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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House speaker getting firsthand look at US-Mexico border
MCALLEN, Texas — U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is visiting the Rio Grande valley for a firsthand look at the U.S.-Mexico border as the Trump administration steps up immigration enforcement and prepares to ask Congress to pay...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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Trump administration to lift transgender bathroom guidance
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will revoke federal guidelines that tell public schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their chosen gender identity, the White House said Wednesday. The decision would be a reversal...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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Health care’s future: Turning patients into savers, shoppers
The U.S. government may soon lean on someone new to help lower health care costs: you. The idea is that when your money is on the line — and not the insurance company’s — you’ll look for...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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Americans buy existing homes at fastest pace in a decade
WASHINGTON — Americans shrugged off rising mortgage rates and bought existing homes in January at the fastest pace since 2007. That has set off bidding wars that have pushed up prices as the supply of available homes...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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Conservative forces clash in Trump’s early days
NEW YORK — Milo Yiannopoulos represented the conservative movement’s struggle with powerful and conflicting forces in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, even before he lost his job and speaking slot in this week’s Conservative Political...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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GOP members of Congress face Trump foes at town halls
BLACKSTONE, Va. — Republican U.S. Rep. David Brat, who rode voter anger to a historic political upset nearly three years ago, was on the receiving end of constituent angst about the Trump administration as he held a...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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Trump pick as security adviser is independent-minded
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s choice of an outspoken but non-political Army general as national security adviser is a nod to pragmatism, but Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will serve a commander in chief with unorthodox ideas about...
- Posted February 22, 2017
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State lawmakers channel grief into fight against opioids
ST. PAUL, Minn. — In statehouses across the country, lawmakers with loved ones who fell victim to drugs are leading the fight against the nation’s deadly opioid-abuse crisis, drawing on tragic personal experience to attack the problem....
- Posted February 22, 2017