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