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Local News Outlets Could Reap $1.7 Billion in Build Back Better Aid
For The Storm Lake Times, a family-run paper in northwestern Iowa, it could mean $200,000 in federal subsidies the first year and nearly $500,000 ...
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Politics
Biden to Nominate Shalanda Young as Budget Director
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans on Wednesday to nominate Shalanda Young, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, to become ...
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Politics
Challenges to Workplace Vaccine Mandate Moved to Appeals Court in Cincinnati
WASHINGTON — A federal judicial panel on Tuesday assigned the appeals court in Cincinnati to handle at least 34 lawsuits that have been filed ...
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Politics
Racial Equity in Infrastructure, a U.S. Goal, Is Left to States
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s $1 trillion plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure comes with a built-in promise: No longer will roads, bridges ...
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Politics
Faith Groups Push to Scrap New Mandates in Biden’s Child Care Plan
WASHINGTON — A coalition of religious groups is waging an intensive lobbying effort to remove a nondiscrimination provision from President Biden ...
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Politics
Appeals Court Extends Block on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Employers
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has kept its block in place against a federal mandate that all large employers require their workers to get ...
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Health
The Core Legal Strategy Against Opioid Companies May Be Faltering
In 2014, as overdoses and deaths from prescription opioids were catapulting, gutting the budgets of local governments that were struggling to ...
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Politics
U.S. Urges Court Not to Block Vaccine Mandate on Employers
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Monday argued that the federal government had all the power it needed to require large employers to ...
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Politics
Military Grants Few Vaccine Exemptions as Deadlines Loom
WASHINGTON — Two months after the Pentagon began requiring all troops to get the coronavirus vaccine or face dismissal, the vast majority have ...
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Politics
Military Grants Few Vaccine Exemptions as Deadlines Loom
WASHINGTON — Two months after the Pentagon began requiring all troops to get the coronavirus vaccine or face dismissal, the vast majority have ...
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