Kansas House adopts budget bill, rejects trigger tied to school finance ruling The House on Friday voted to advance a budget bill after stripping a provision that would have lapsed most of the scheduled funding increases in the event of an unfavorable court ruling over school finance. Representatives return Saturday […]
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American Airlines sued after bride returning from honeymoon has medical emergency on flight and later dies Brittany and Corey Oswell were flying home from their Hawaiian honeymoon in 2016 when Brittany became dizzy and fainted. She came to soon after, but when she later collapsed in the plane’s lavatory, a […]
Video shows former NFL player’s violent arrest after he said police mistook a phone for a gun A black man said he was arrested in Georgia for possessing a firearm — which he said, in reality, was his cellphone — and that police officers slammed him to the ground and […]
Chancellor Richard Carranza stands by his tweet of viral video in Upper West Side integration fight Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Friday stood by his decision to tweet a viral video with a harsh headline about Upper West Side parents angrily protesting a proposal to integrate middle schools, reaffirming that […]
Texas’ Voter ID Law Does Not Discriminate and Can Stand, Appeals Panel Rules A federal appeals court upheld Texas’ voter identification law on Friday, saying that it does not discriminate against black and Hispanic voters. The decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the […]
NYT: Russian lawyer at Trump Tower meeting had closer ties to Kremlin than previously disclosed Newly surfaced emails indicate that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign associates in 2016, once worked with Russia’s chief legal office in an effort to thwart the Justice Department, The New […]
Hush money deals business as usual for Stormy Daniels’ ex-attorney California attorney Keith M. Davidson drafted a confidential contract in 2012 for a client trying to get cash for a secretly recorded video of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan having sex with a friend’s wife. The ensuing deal resulted in an […]
Firing of House Chaplain Causes Uproar on Capitol Hill Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s abrupt decision to dismiss the House chaplain triggered an uproar on Friday over religion, pitting Republican against Republican and offering Democrats a political opportunity in a year already moving their way. Mr. Ryan moved quietly two weeks […]
Russia slammed for trying to refute Syria chemical weapons attack Russia brought citizens of a Syrian town hit by a claimed chemical weapons attack to deny it happened, sparking international furor over the move. Among those shuttled before the Organisation for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the Hague, […]
Trump to visit United Kingdom in July President Donald Trump will visit the United Kingdom in July, the White House and Downing Street announced on Thursday, finally concluding a months-long back-and-forth over when Trump would at last visit America’s closest ally. “The President of the United States will visit the […]
