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Supreme Court Will Hear Travel Ban Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would decide whether President Trump's revised travel ban was lawful, setting the stage for a major decision on the scope of presidential power. — Mr. Trump's revised executive order …
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Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.
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Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to allow a limited version of President Trump's ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect and will consider in the fall …
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Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’ — The high court ruled the Constitution and federal immigration laws support Trump's case. (June 26, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR) — The Supreme Court handed President Trump …
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Supreme Court allows Trump's travel ban to take partial effect — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to let portions of President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order take effect, a partial victory for the White House that could come as a relief after a string of lower court defeats.
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Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
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Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices
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Statement from President Donald J. Trump
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Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
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Justices agree to weigh in on travel ban, allow parts of it to go into effect
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Supreme Court turns down case on right to carry guns
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On The Travel Ban The Supreme Court Says: Stay Tuned
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Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails — Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.” As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”
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6 Nobel Prize-winning economists announce opposition to Senate health bill — Forty economists, including six Nobel laureates, sent a letter Monday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) outlining their opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
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CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon
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The cruel reality of high-speed health care legislating
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THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
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Catholic Sister: Time for moral leadership on Medicaid from so-called ‘pro-life’ Senate Republicans
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A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals — When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers. Yet according to a major new study …
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Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far — As cities across the country pushed their minimum wages to untested heights in recent years, some economists began to ask: How high is too high? — Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, may have hit that limit.
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Support for Same-Sex Marriage Grows, Even Among Groups That Had Been Skeptical — For first time, as many Republicans favor as oppose gay marriage — Two years after the Supreme Court decision that required states to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide, support for allowing gays …
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Justices to Hear Case on Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage
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Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill — Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) on Monday questioned the healthcare bill unveiled by Senate Republicans, saying GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber appear to be “on the pathway to making some major blunders” with the measure.
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American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
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Debating Senator Ron Johnson On The Senate Healthcare Bill
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College Professor Fired For Posting Online That Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’ — The University of Delaware fired a college professor for comments she made online about Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who recently passed away after being released from North Korea.
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Trump's latest bizarre tweets about Russia just left him badly exposed — THE MORNING PLUM: — In recent days, President Trump has adopted a fiendishly clever new line on the ongoing Russia probes: He will fully acknowledge that Russia did try to sabotage our election …
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Audiences of Broadway's graphic portrayal of ‘1984’ faint and vomit — A night at the theater generally involves dressing to the nines, perhaps dinner beforehand at a nearby restaurant and finally the play. Fainting, vomiting, screaming and fighting are not typically part of the experience.
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The National Enquirer's Fervor for Trump — The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit. Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal? — Every Wednesday afternoon, in a windowless conference room in an office building at the tip of lower Manhattan …
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This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan — The Republican repeal bills in the House and Senate both include multi-billion-dollar tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and deep health benefit cuts for the poorest Americans. — Sign up for VoxCare


Amazon's New Echo Show Is Very Cool And A Little Creepy — The new Echo Show is a great device, especially when it comes to video calling. But you should think carefully about how it may fit into your life. — I plod into the kitchen on a Sunday morning and tell the new Alexa to turn on CNN.