Nebraska Becomes First State to Implement Medicaid Work Requirements
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen speaks during a news conference in Washington, July 8, 2025. Associated Press / Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta, file Loading the A...
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Congress Calmly Certifies Trump Election Win
U.S. Congress on Monday certified the results of November’s presidential election. The joint session took place exactly four years after riots occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, following...
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Steve Bannon Calls for ‘exorcism’ at White House after Biden Honors George Soros with Medal of Freedom
President Joe Biden is receiving widespread criticism for giving billionaire George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom in light of his work to elect prosecutors deemed by critics as soft on
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Trump Asks Judge to Delay Sentencing Hearing
President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday asked acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to delay a sentencing hearing, currently scheduled for Friday, until after an appea...
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Biden Blocks Most New Offshore Drilling ahead of Trump Term
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday said he was blocking fuel companies from drilling for oil and natural gas in the waters off nearly all of the United States’ coastline. Offshore drilling in the lo...
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New York judge schedules Trump’s business fraud sentencing hearing
New York acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Friday ordered President-elect Donald Trump to appear for sentencing on Jan. 10. Last year, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of fa...
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Mike Johnson reelected House speaker in dramatic floor vote | Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican and Louisiana Baptist Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday (Jan. 3), pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump.
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Mike Johnson Secures Votes to Become Speaker of 119th Congress: ‘Purge the policies of America Last’
Republican Rep Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been reelected speaker of the United States House of Representatives, receiving enough votes to clench the position on the first ballot
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Federal Courts Won’t Refer Justice Clarence Thomas to DOJ
Politics Post Date: January 3, 2025 The U.S. Supreme Court ...
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Rep. Johnson lacks votes in first ballot to pick House speaker
Republicans in the House of Representatives failed to coalesce behind Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., on Friday afternoon, sending the House of Representatives into a stalemate without a speaker. The House ...
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U.S. surgeon general links alcohol consumption with cancer
Jim Beam, Knob Creek and other alcohol bottles are pictured at a bar in Eagle, Colo., Dec. 25, 2018. Associated Press / Photo by Jenny Kane, File Surgeon Genera...
