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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Josh Hawley on Wednesday after the Republican’s proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress — and the president and vice president — won bipartisan approval to advance in a committee vote. It’s the second time in as many days that Trump laid into senators in his own party …

Trump goes off on Josh Hawley over insider trading bill  The Hill Congressional stock trading ban gets Senate panel’s OK  Politico Fox News Flash top headlines for July 30  Fox News GOP Sen. Josh Hawley and Democrats vote to advance congressional stock trading ban  CBS News ‘Not ready for prime time’: Trump, Republicans slam GOP leader’s stock trade ban bill  Fox Business Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation into law that launched Medicaid, creating a U.S. health care safety net for millions of low-income Americans in what would become one of the crowning achievements of his domestic legacy. A year earlier, he did the same for food stamps, drawing on President John F. Kennedy’s …

There’s a massive bipartisan housing bill moving forward in Congress  Axios Senate Banking advances first large, bipartisan housing package in a decade  Politico Ahead of Historic Housing Markup, Stakeholders Voice Support for ROAD to Housing Act of 2025  Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (.gov) Housing affordability is a major problem. Elizabeth Warren is helping lead a sweeping bipartisan effort to …

Senators agree to strip hemp language from ag funding bill  Politico GOP Senator Successfully Blocks Federal Hemp THC Ban In Key Spending Bill  Marijuana Moment How It Really Works: The Unfair Fight Between Legal Cannabis and Unregulated ‘Gas‑Station’ Hemp  Independent Voter News War between intoxicating hemp and marijuana industries resumes in St. Louis  STLPR Kentucky business concerned about effects of federal bill re­stricting hemp-based …

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York  —  Wright’s Market has been a fixture of Opelika, Alabama, a town of around 30,000 near Auburn University, since the 1970s. The supermarket relies on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for roughly one-third of sales. SNAP is a “big piece of what we do,” said owner Jimmy Wright, who has worked at the …

Two Democratic members of Congress, Greg Casar (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI,) have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to ban the use of AI surveillance to set prices and wages. During Delta’s Q2 earnings call last week, Delta’s president Glen Hauenstein said that the airline has already rolled out AI-controlled dynamic pricing for 3 percent of its …

When her severely allergic toddler, Josie, began gasping for breath in the middle of the night, Krissy Cunningham knew there was only one place she could get to in time to save her daughter’s life. For 74 years, Pemiscot Memorial hospital has been the destination for those who encounter catastrophe in Missouri’s poorest county, a rural stretch of farms and …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The day was almost done. Bill Belichick had finished tackling 26 minutes of questions from a room of 70 reporters and 22 cameras. He stopped to grab some ESPN-branded boxes of popcorn at a booth in the hallway. There was a problem, though. “You got one that’s not empty?” he asked with a laugh. The booth attendant …

The “big, beautiful bill” passed by Congress three weeks ago will increase Alabama’s costs for the SNAP food assistance program, possibly adding more than $200 million within a couple of years. The bill, spearheaded by President Trump and Republican lawmakers, shifts costs from the federal government to states for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan, which served a monthly average of …