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Seattle councilman pressures Mayor Katie Wilson for an explanation for police chief departure
The councilman said in a statement that the city charter requires Wilson to give a reason for dismissing Seattle’s police chief.
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Illinois Gov Pritzker in Texas to launch new PAC, calls out Trump 'dementia'
Since his first run for governor in 2018, Pritzker has spent more than $400 million on campaigns for himself and other Democratic Party candidates.
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NY Governor Hochul signs 'union protection' bill into law
Labor unions in New York will be allowed to take legal action against groups that discourage union membership under a proposal signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday.
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‘Boggles all of our minds:’ Autistic teen found in Utah after having gone missing 3 years ago
Police lucked across young man after he was found homeless outside of Salt Lake City.
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Abbott signs agreement with 4th Mexican governor as 4th bus of illegal immigrants arrives in D.C.
Deal struck as a fourth bus transporting illegal immigrants captured by Texas was driven to Washington.
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19 AGs urge Supreme Court to uphold full reinstatement of 'Remain in Mexico' policy
"No one is above the law in America, and we are simply insisting that the Biden administration follow the law," said Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita.
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In worrying sign for Dems, strong majority of California voters say taxes still too high
Nearly 40 percent say they’re financially worse off than a year ago.
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As tax deadline arrives, IRS still has millions of unprocessed returns from last year
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the IRS pointing to "COVID-19 related telework policies" allowing most IRS employees to work remotely as well as outdated software.
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Washington state rejects tax cuts, bucking trend elsewhere
Tax cuts are on the agenda of most of the 14 states where Democrats control both state legislative chambers and the governor’s office. Washington state is not among those states. “I’ve been
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Louisiana attorney general plans to appeal Biden carbon rule to U.S. Supreme Court
Appeals judges overturned lower court order in February that halted the social cost of carbon policy.
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Musk scores win exposing elitist orthodoxy — even if he loses Twitter bid
Twitter board, Biden administration scrambling to stop world's richest man, whose takeover attempt pits censorship versus free speech
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Pope Francis decries Westerners as 'racists' over Ukrainian refugee relief efforts
"Jesus suffered too, because he was a migrant and a refugee in Egypt when he was a child, to escape death," the Pope said.
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Indiana AG sues Biden administration over immigration policy
Between January 2021 and February 2022, Rokita said the U.S. Customs and Border Protection released at least 757,857 undocumented immigrants into the United States.