Author: Molly Parks
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Measles outbreak in West Texas is declared over
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Texas Department of State Health Services announced the end of the measles outbreak in West Texas on Monday. Health officials said the outbreak is over because no new cases have been reported in over…
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Postal Service to release commemorative Jimmy Carter Forever stamp
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Postal Service will release a Forever stamp to honor the late President Jimmy Carter on what would have been the peanut farmer’s 101st birthday. On Oct. 1, the USPS stamp featuring a 1982 portrait…
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Former New Hampshire governor named CEO of airline lobbying firm
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu was announced on Monday as the next CEO and president of Airlines for America, a U.S. airline lobbying firm representing top aviation companies such as American Airlines, Delta, and…
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Virginia health board approves regulations for transgender athletes in women’s sports
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Virginia is moving ahead with a petition that could ban transgender women from playing in women’s sports and changing in women’s locker rooms at the state regulatory level. The Virginia Board of Health voted to…
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What is AB 495, the California bill prompting backlash from parental rights groups?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A new California parental guardianship bill is under attack from parents’ rights groups. On Monday, there will be a California Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Assembly Bill 495, which was written to address short-term guardianship…
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New Orleans mayor indicted after multiyear corruption investigation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal grand jury indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, on Friday after a multiyear corruption investigation into the Louisiana Democrat. Cantrell, now the first sitting mayor to be indicted in the city’s…
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Trump says US won’t do business with Russia ‘until we get the war settled’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump plans on playing business deal hardball with Russian President Vladimir Putin until the Kremlin ends its war with Ukraine. Trump told reporters Friday morning that Putin wants in on the U.S. economy,…
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Trump to set tariffs on steel, microchips, and semiconductors ‘next week and the week after’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Donald Trump announced he would be setting tariffs on steel and semiconductor chips within the next two weeks as he spoke to the White House press pool aboard Air Force One on Friday. “I’ll…
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Joe Scarborough says DC Democrats concerned about crime as well: ‘I don’t care what the crime statistics say’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MSNBC Morning Joe anchor Joe Scarborough expressed frustration Wednesday that Democrats who privately hold concerns about Washington, D.C., crime are simultaneously speaking out against President Donald Trump’s move to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department and…
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Bowser leaves DC for ‘family commitment’ with district embroiled in federal takeover
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser left the district as law enforcement activity surged following the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department and mobilization of the National Guard. Bowser traveled to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, according…




