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Wyoming, Alaska have healthiest rainy day funds

NATIONWIDE | By TREVOR BACH, Contributor (AP) - The coronavirus pandemic has led to the greatest economic crisis in decades. U.S. gross domestic product plunged by a historic 33% in the second fiscal quarter, w... Read More...

President inks law addressing missing, murdered Native Americans

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday signed a bill named for a Fargo murder victim to address cases of missing and murdered Native Americans. Savanna’s Act, which is named for Savanna Greywi... Read More...

President says he’s leaving hospital for White House, feeling good

BETHESDA, MD. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he’s leaving the military hospital where he has been treated for COVID-19 and will continue his recovery at the White House. He said he’s feeling good and... Read More...

President Trump going to military hospital as precautionary measure, receives experimental treatment

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump will spend a “few days” at a military hospital after contracting COVID-19, the White House said Friday, as the virus that has killed more than 205,000 Americans sp... Read More...

Federal judge orders removal of acting BLM director

NATIONWIDE | Mark Richardson, (Public News Service) -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) begins this week without a director. In what some conservation groups are calling a win, a federal judge ordered Wil... Read More...

Helping kids be critical media consumers, who understand and process what they are watching

NATIONWIDE | Eric Galatas, (Public News Service) - Kids across the nation are facing more social isolation during the coronavirus pandemic, which means they're spending more time in front of screens than real-l... Read More...

U.S. outlines sweeping plan to provide free COVID-19 vaccines

NATIONWIDE | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (AP) - WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for free to all Americans, assuming a safe a... Read More...

US marks 9/11 anniversary at tributes shadowed by virus

NEW YORK | By KAREN MATTHEWS, MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ (AP) - Americans commemorated 9/11 on Friday as a new national crisis — the coronavirus pandemic — reconfigured anniversary ceremonies and a ... Read More...

Don’t want federal agents in your city or town? Then protect federal property

By FRANK V. ZERUNYAN, University of Southern California I recently visited Portland, Oregon, and saw the destruction around the federal courthouse there – walls defaced with graffiti, fences vandalized, and ... Read More...

Wyoming man convicted of threatening to kill president

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Wyoming man has been found guilty of threatening to kill President Donald Trump. The U.S. attorney’s office announced in a news release that the conviction against 27-year-old Timothy Ce... Read More...