Members of the National Guard patrol the entrance to the Union Station stop on Washington, D.C.’s Metro system, on March 25, 2026. President Donald Trump was appearing at a GOP event at Union Station that night. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom) The National Guard’s top general told Congress on Friday that it would follow the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo courtesy of CDC) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will nominate Erica Schwartz, who served in the president’s first administration, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a seat left vacant for months after his last director said she was…
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, in March visits a wastewater treatment facility in the city of Social Circle that the city says would be overwhelmed by plans to convert a warehouse to house up to 10,000 immigration prisoners. The city locked the facility’s water meter, forcing the Department of Homeland Security to consider…
Vice President JD Vance speaks during a news briefing in the White House briefing room in January. The Trump administration is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs, but has focused mostly on Democratic-led states. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced that Vance would lead the anti-fraud effort. (Photo…
An unloaded Glock 19X handgun sits next to a magazine and 9 mm ammunition at a gun range. Several states have enacted laws that allow judges to temporarily remove guns from people in crisis, but a growing number of states are banning the measures. (Photo by Amanda Watford/Stateline) This story was originally published by The…
Bonneville County residents cast their votes during the May 21, 2024, primary election at The Waterfront Event Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (Pat Sutphin for the Idaho Capital Sun). As the midterms approach, Republican and Democratic election officials are split over a powerful federal computer program at the center of President Donald Trump’s quest to…
The Kansas City Royals have played out of Kauffman Stadium for decades, boosted by a sales tax in Jackson County. But both the team’s lease and the county’s sales tax expire in 2031, and Kansas City is pitching a downtown ballpark as the new home for the Royals (Vaughn Wheat/The Beacon). Kansas City leaders are…
House Minority Leader Ashley Aune, D-Kansas City, discusses state Senate passage of a proposal to replace the state income tax with sales tax during a news conference Thursday in the Missouri Capitol. Aune is joined by other members of the House Democratic caucus, from left, state Reps. Elizabeth Fuchs of St. Louis, Bridget Walsh Moore…
An Amazon Web Services data center is shown situated near single-family homes. A new report found that 14 states do not disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images) Though public scrutiny of data centers is growing, 14 states do not disclose how much revenue they lose…
A color-coded map illustrates state abortion access in the call center at Chicago’s Family Planning Associates, one of the largest independent clinics in Illinois offering abortion services. Nearly 1 in 4 people traveling to another state for abortion care went to Illinois, according to a recent report (photo submitted) At Family Planning Associates in Chicago,…
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