A little bit of everything
The state’s Blueprint Plan promises to expand free pre-K to all children in need in the next 10 years. Passed in 2021 and beginning in 2023, the plan promises to increase education funding by $3.8 billion each year for the next 10 years.
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Outgoing House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, has started transitioning into a new role after stepping away from his leadership position Nov. 17.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over Biden administration guidelines that put a priority on arresting noncitizens with criminal backgrounds or those who pose a threat to national security.
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — When Congress enacted the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) in December 2020, I was ecstatic.
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At a hearing in North Carolina State Court on Monday, attorneys for North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) Commissioner Mike Causey argued that Greg Lindberg’s insurance companies should be liquidated rather than sold to a buyer who has offered to pay over $300 million for them.
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Today Greg Lindberg’s attorneys responded to recent court filings by agents of North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey. Susan Estrich, an attorney and spokesperson for Lindberg, says that Causey’s most recent filing is “full of assumptions, suppositions, presumptions, guesswork, conjecture and more holes that I can count.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of the most powerful politicians in U.S. history and the first woman speaker, announced on the House floor midday Thursday that she would not seek another run for leadership in the Democratic Party.
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The frightening number of potential cognitive issues caused by playing in the league prompted a $1 billion settlement, but Black retired players struggled to qualify for dementia-related payouts due to racial bias.
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Reps. James Comer of Kentucky, and Jim Jordan of Ohio on Thursday set the focus of the soon-to-be Republican-led House oversight and judiciary committees on an investigation of President Joe Biden and his family.
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Hoyer for years was considered a likely successor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California. But as she stepped away from her post Thursday, so too did Hoyer, part of a smoothly-engineered transition to younger party leadership.
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