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North Carolina’s House of Representatives failed on Wednesday to overturn a veto of a bill that would have required doctors to try to preserve the life of any infant born alive during an attempted abortion. The override effort fell short of the required three-fifths majority by only five votes. The bill, titled the Born-Alive Abortion [...]

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Veterans will have expanded access to medical care outside Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities beginning Thursday. The final rule, published Wednesday, establishes the Veterans Community Care Program under the VA MISSION Act of 2018 (MISSION Act). According to the VA’s official blog, “veterans should expect a fairly transparent and seamless transition” into the new [...]

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The US House of Representatives voted 237-187 Tuesday to approve HR6, the American Dream and Promise Act of 2019, which would create a path to citizenship for so-called DREAMers who entered the country illegally as minors. According to the Migration Policy Institute, HR6 would help around 2.7 million, of an estimated 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants, [...]

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The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released new restrictions on non-family travel to Cuba Tuesday. The new OFAC regulations end a “grandfathering” provision that allowed individuals who had made at least one travel-related transaction for a people-to-people trip [...]

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The Tennessee Court of Appeals held Tuesday that the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) do not have standing to prevent the removal of Confederate statutes at parks the City of Memphis had sold to Memphis Greenspace. In December 2017 the city of Memphis sold parkland to Memphis Greenspace, after which Memphis Greenspace removed statutes of [...]

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Alabama legislature sent a bill to the governor that would require convicted child sex offenders to undergo chemical castration treatment as a condition of parole. Under existing law, a conviction for a sex offense against a person under the age of 12 years constitutes a Class A or B felony, and is not eligible for [...]

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The US Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Senior Campaign Finance & Reviewing Analyst, Ryan Furman, sent a letter Sunday, attached to a 233-page report detailing campaign contributions to the Trump campaign that were flagged as apparently excessive. The letter was addressed to Trump campaign treasurer Bradley Crate and referenced the campaign’s most recent quarterly report covering January [...]

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