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Big Tech wants to build a data center in your city. Is it worth it?
A closer look at costs and benefits.
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Why the rushed Postal Service plan for mail-in voting has states in a panic
President Donald Trump’s executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting would assign state officials a Herculean task to reach compliance before the crucial midterm elections.
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With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests
Though it is striving to fulfill the White House’s demand for more arrests, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still falling short of the Trump administration’s announced goal of 2,000 arrests per day.
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Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him.
He was one of thousands of immigrants arrested during Operation Metro Surge.
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Nudification law to go into effect Saturday after judge denies delay request from Musk’s AI company
A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the request of an Elon Musk AI company to delay the law’s enforcement.
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Obamacare enrollment declines in 49 states
In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.
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The war in Iran has unleashed a clean energy boom, but Trump is leaving America behind
Electricity is humanity’s most versatile form of energy and will be the 21st century’s energy source of choice. It is astonishing and bewildering that a president who considers himself the epitome of business savvy is deliberately kneecapping the ability of the U.S. to compete in the energy technologies and enterprises fundamental to surviving and thriving in the 21st century.
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Trump guts election commission in move seen as increasing his sway over midterms
Trump is using the authority that the Supreme Court appeared to give him in a decision last week allowing him to remove members of independent agencies, except for Federal Reserve governors.
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Higher hospital prices mean smaller paychecks and inflated premiums
State legislatures can intervene to help control costs.
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Trump order limiting voting by mail halted by federal court
Trump has suffered a series of setbacks in recent days in his efforts to influence the administration of state-run elections.
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States that won’t obey Trump order will have their mail ballots halted, postmaster says
Postmaster General David Steiner defended the rule at a Senate hearing and dismissed accusations that the Postal Service was acting politically after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March restricting voting by mail.
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Trump ‘trampled’ voter privacy by feeding info into Homeland Security system, judge says
The ruling struck at the core of President Donald Trump’s project to assert authority over state-run elections ahead of the November midterms.
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More Americans are hungry in the face of federal cuts, rising grocery prices
Stewart-Kahn said many families face immediate decisions of which bills to pay and which needs to forgo, but that the parental stress and childhood distress will have long-term consequences for society.
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Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds
Forty-six percent of U.S. adults–regardless of insurance type–reported struggling to afford healthcare last year, according to a report released Wednesday by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research think tank.
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Trump ordered limits on voting by mail. The Postal Service is moving to make states comply.
“Widespread chaos and confusion is the goal of this executive order,” Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, said in a statement.
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling hammered voting rights. What does it mean and what happens now?
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision gutting the federal Voting Rights Act could upend American politics and trigger a new rush to redraw congressional districts.
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Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.
President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide.
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Birthright case forces U.S. Supreme Court to confront prospect of Americans losing citizenship
As the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week about the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed skeptical. The order as written applies only to babies born in the future, and the Trump administration has asked the court to exclude current citizens from any decision. Still, […]
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‘Unbelievably inhumane’: U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison visits troubled Texas detention center
The detention center consists of five massive tent structures on the site of a former World War II detention camp for Japanese Americans at Fort Bliss.
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In bid for voter data, Trump’s DOJ lays groundwork to undermine confidence in midterms
“I just think there’s a total lack of trust in what the federal government will do,” says Alaska state Sen. Bill Wielechowski.
