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Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON (AP) — There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who need things like contraception, cancer screenings and pregnancy testing.
The organization has long been at the center of the debate over abortion, but its clinics across the U.S. a ... (full story)
Bill aims to expedite hiring of police officers by certain municipalities
Lawmakers have proposed a bipartisan bill that would put statutory municipalities on more equal footing with charter villages and cities when it comes to filling police department vacancies.
Reps. Kevin Miller, R-Newark, and Joe Miller, D-Amherst, debuted House Bill 44––legislation that would allow statutory cities t ... (full story)
Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning
ATLANTA (AP) — Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington. And voters responded by forbidding future presidents from being elected more than twice.
President Donald Trump has alluded to arcane legal arguments in repeatedly suggesting he could seek a third t ... (full story)
Tigers, swimming pools, a nightclub: The gang drawing Trump's ire started in a Venezuelan prison
TOCORON, Venezuela (AP) — Tocorón once had it all. A nightclub, swimming pools, tigers, a lavish suite and plenty of food.
This was not a Las Vegas-style resort, but it felt like it for some of the thousands who until recently lived in luxury in this sprawling prison in northern Venezuela.
Here, between parties, ... (full story)
Trial will determine who will pay $600M in derailment settlement
Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.
The railroad filed the motion that went to trial last Monday to force the railcar owne ... (full story)