House Republicans roll out new plan to decimate Medicaid
The Center for American Progress estimates the proposal could lead to 34,000 additional deaths every year.
By Jesse Valentine - April 24, 2025The Center for American Progress estimates the proposal could lead to 34,000 additional deaths every year.
By Jesse Valentine - April 24, 2025Forty percent of student loan debtors do not have college degrees.
By Jesse Valentine - April 22, 2025Billionaire Harlan Crow is associated with groups that support cuts to Social Security
By Jesse Valentine - April 21, 2025Allie Phillips could have died carrying her unviable fetus. She fought back by running for office & finally vowed not let lawmakers kill her dream of being a mom. Her story:
By Bonnie Fuller - April 21, 2025The financial firm says an increase in manufacturing jobs would likely be offset by massive losses in other sectors.
By Jesse Valentine - April 17, 2025Kilmar Abrego Garcia had been in the country for 14 years and had protected status when ICE agents arrested him on March 15.
By Jesse Valentine - April 16, 2025Attorney General Jeff Jacskon was elected with 52% of the vote.
By Jesse Valentine - April 11, 2025Retirement savings plans have lost significant value as a result of Trump’s trade war.
By Jesse Valentine - April 09, 2025Trump’s international tariff plan has created chaos for global markets and supply chains.
By Jesse Valentine - April 08, 2025Democrats are calling for acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek to resign.
By Jesse Valentine - April 03, 2025The repeal was co-sponsored by North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis
By Jesse Valentine - April 03, 2025Samantha Casiano, an east Texas mother of four, tells her story to COURIER Texas writer Bonnie Fuller.
By Bonnie Fuller - March 28, 2025Republicans in the state legislature have already introduced more bills seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol.
By Bonnie Fuller - March 28, 2025Trump promised to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 24 hours and secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
By Jesse Valentine - March 28, 2025Governors in New Hampshire and Nevada are campaigning as champions of education while backing cuts to public schools.
By Jesse Valentine - March 26, 2025A bill in the Montana House of Representatives would make it a crime to “traffick a fetus” across state lines.
By Jesse Valentine - March 18, 2025Decreasing vaccination rates have caused a measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico.
By Jesse Valentine - March 11, 2025The move has been criticized by voters across the political spectrum, including some on the far-right.
By Jesse Valentine - March 10, 2025Bacon was reelected by less than 6000 votes. Approximately 78,000 of his constituents receive Medicaid.
By - February 28, 2025Dr. Oz’s business associates could benefit from the change.
By Jesse Valentine - February 27, 2025President Donald Trump fired the person in charge of investigating Medicaid fraud last month.
By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2025McMahon, the co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, contributed $15 million to Trump’s reelection campaign.
By Jesse Valentine - February 13, 2025Administration officials have said these additional junk fees can inflate prices and waste people's time.
By Associated Press - October 12, 2023The incident is just the latest in a series of violent threats against public officials.
By Associated Press - October 05, 2023The California Republican told his conference that he would not run for the job again.
By Associated Press - October 04, 2023Congress came to agreement on a stopgap funding bill on Saturday, hours before the government was set to run out of money.
By Associated Press - October 02, 2023In choosing Butler on Sunday, Newsom fulfilled his pledge to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein’s seat became open.
By Associated Press - October 02, 2023Feinstein was a passionate advocate for important liberal priorities, including gun control and reproductive rights.
By Associated Press - September 29, 2023Pennsylvania resident Samuel Lazar’s conviction for his role in the Jan. 6 capitol riot was kept under seal with no explanation, even after his release from prison.
By Associated Press - September 18, 2023For the third time in less than eight months, a special election will decide partisan control of the narrowly divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
By Associated Press - September 18, 2023Nine men were convicted on charges connected with the plot, and now five have been cleared.
By Associated Press - September 17, 2023Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a lawsuit that Senate Republicans don't have the authority to oust Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe and accused them of attacking the state's elections.
By Associated Press - September 16, 2023The United Auto Workers union and major automakers couldn't reach a deal over demands for better wages and benefits, prompting workers to walk off the job.
By Associated Press - September 15, 2023Democratic Gov. Tony Evers said the Republican-controlled state Legislature 'cannot be trusted to appoint or oversee someone charged with drawing fair maps.'
By Associated Press - September 13, 2023The former president received his fourth indictment over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results under a law often used to target mobsters.
By Associated Press - August 15, 2023Gov. J.B. Pritzker pledged to sign the bill, which is part of an effort by Democratic state lawmakers to address gun violence.
By Associated Press - August 10, 2023The Supreme Court put a hold on a lower court ruling invalidating the regulation while the administration appeals.
By Associated Press - August 10, 2023“It’s all about revenge politics to keep Trump’s base,” says one independent voter.
By Associated Press - August 09, 2023With two weeks until the first debate of the 2024 GOP presidential primary, eight candidates have met the qualifications to be on stage.
By Associated Press - August 09, 2023'The map issue is really kind of easy, actually,' Justice Janet Protasiewicz said during a candidate debate. 'I don’t think anybody thinks those maps are fair. Anybody.'
By Associated Press - August 03, 2023'The attack on our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,' said Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.
By Associated Press - August 02, 2023Janet Protasiewicz's April victory upended 15 years of conservative control of the state's highest court.
By Associated Press - August 01, 2023Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill on Thursday, which uses the state's consumer protection law to defend access to abortion.
By Associated Press - July 29, 2023The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing, arresting migrants on trespassing charges and sending busloads of asylum-seekers to Democratic-led cities in other states.
By Associated Press - July 25, 2023Peter Francis Stager struck the Metropolitan Police Department officer with his flagpole at least three times as other rioters pulled the officer, head first, into the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
By Associated Press - July 25, 2023One former regulator called the lack of protection from silica-related illnesses 'stunning' and one of the most 'catastrophic' occupational health failures in U.S. history.
By Associated Press - July 24, 2023Federico Guillermo Klein was convicted on 12 counts, including assaulting police officers.
By Associated Press - July 23, 2023Several other states have similar restrictions that are on hold pending court rulings.
By Associated Press - July 18, 2023The judge’s ruling came nearly a week after the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an injunction halting enforcement of a similar law in Tennessee.
By Associated Press - July 17, 2023The agency received a new funding stream through the Inflation Reduction Act passed in August by Democrats.
By Associated Press - July 14, 2023Perrigo will begin shipping Opill in early 2024, but it hasn't announced the price of the new medication.
By Associated Press - July 13, 2023The administration said 26 million people had applied for relief under the plan and 43 million would have been eligible.
By Associated Press - June 30, 2023