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California Republicans worry state’s tax return law could devastate their down-ballot hopes in 2020
California tax return law targeting Trump gets legal challenge Four California voters represented by Judicial Watch have sued the state after Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill requiring presidential candidates to release at least 5 years of tax returns to appear on the state primary ballot; William La Jeunesse reports. Republicans in California are crying …
Inside al-Hawl camp, the incubator for Islamic State’s resurgence | World news
The vast scale of al-Hawl can be seen from miles away, on the road that leads to the camp from the west. The white tents housing the displaced women and children of Islamic State stretch out over the dusty landscape far beyond the adjacent town’s outskirts, the furthest away encroaching upon the foot of a …
Why Some States Vote to Block Health Care Reform
Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press A floral funeral wreath was placed outside the Idaho state Senate chambers in March 2016 to protest the body’s failure to pass a Medicaid expansion bill. The Open Mind explores the world of ideas across politics, media, science, technology, and the arts. The American Prospect is re-publishing this conversation. In his new …
Christiana Care to review state’s controversial prison health care systems
CLOSE Steven Sipple, a former inmate at Vaughn Correctional Center, is suing Connections for lack of care while serving time that led to his advanced colorectal cancer and terminal diagnosis. Jennifer Corbett and Damian Giletto/The News Journal Christiana Care will provide an independent review of the state’s prison health care systems, which have come under …
Vaping linked to 94 mysterious cases of severe lung disease in 14 states
Enlarge / A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette i The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Saturday that it’s investigating a puzzling burst of severe lung-disease cases linked to e-cigarette product use or “vaping.” Between June 28 and August 15, health officials have counted 94 probable cases of severe lung illness in …
Farms turn to technology as states face water warnings
GREELEY, Colo. — A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water they would give the crops the next day. After a brief, snaking flight above the field, the drone landed and the researchers removed a …
Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf ‘smuggling fuel to Arab states’ | World news
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that was smuggling fuel to Arab states, Iran’s state TV reported, adding that seven sailors onboard had been detained. “The IRGC’s naval forces have seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf that was smuggling fuel for some Arab countries,” the broadcaster …
Russia Targeted Elections Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds
Mr. McConnell has held fast to his position despite withering criticism from Democrats, and agitation from some in his party who want the Senate to move more modest, bipartisan legislation. The Democratic proposal, already passed by the House, would have given the states hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, mandated the use of backup …
Treasury pick Monica Crowley spread Obama smears: ‘Can he be both loyal to Islam and loyal to the United States?’
Monica Crowley, who was appointed by Trump last week as assistant treasury secretary for public affairs, made multiple comments spreading these false claims on her personal blog and in at least one tweet between 2009 and 2015, according to a review by CNN’s KFile team. Crowley also endorsed a story claiming Obama was an “Islamic …