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Tennessee Becomes Latest Republican-Led State to Send National Guard to D.C.  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

Visitors to this year’s Minnesota State Fair might get sticker shock when buying some of their favorite foods. Tino Lettieri and his mom are prepping their stand, Tino’s, for “The Great Minnesota Get-Together.” He’s been selling pizza on a stick and calzones for more than 30 years, but something that seems to change every year is the cost. “As prices …

Aircraft flew over Staunton State Park on Tuesday in search of a suspect wanted for the attempted murder of a volunteer Colorado Parks and Wildlife park ranger. In an open dirt lot on the north edge of the park, Elk Falls Ranch neighborhood residents waited for the all-clear from law enforcement.  A spokesperson for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said …

Washington — The State Department says it has revoked more than 6,000 student visas for overstays and violations of the law.  The vast majority of those violations or alleged violations entailed assault, driving under the influence, burglary, and “support for terrorism,” according to a State Department official, although the State Department didn’t say whether those were accusations, arrests, charges or …

As the Department of Health and Human Services makes sweeping changes to policy under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the routine annual vaccine review and approval process has become clouded with doubt and uncertainty.  Colorado hasn’t waited for the air to clear. Colorado lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year along party lines, later signed into law by …

AUSTIN — A Fort Worth lawmaker said on Monday that she can’t leave the Texas House chambers because she won’t agree to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers, which the GOP speaker is requiring of Democrats who fled the state. GOP Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows is requiring the Democrats, who broke quorum in an effort to stop a Republican redistricting …

Washington officials are responding to a letter from the federal government last week demanding they end so-called “sanctuary jurisdiction” policies — local laws stopping police from working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “You are hereby notified that your jurisdiction has been identified as one that engages in sanctuary policies and practices that thwart federal immigration enforcement,” U.S. Attorney General Pam …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier is spending the night on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety. When Texas House Democrats returned to the Capitol in Austin on Monday, after having fled the state earlier this month in …

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Thomas McCormick, like many who have come through California’s Carlsbad High School, can recite the drill with little hesitation. It started with stairs. One trip up, one trip down as a warm-up. Up, down — timed. Up, down — timed. Up, down — not timed. Up, down — not timed. And those stairs were unforgiving. “Four or …