By MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set. … Continued
By MELINA WALLING The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” with its policies, accusing them of “unlawfully undermining” the Trump administration’s agenda. Related Articles Medicaid, food aid recipients worry … Continued
By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Supporters of the sweeping tax and spending legislation that Congress has sent to President Donald Trump say the changes to Medicaid, food aid and other programs will encourage … Continued
By JAIMIE DING and JULIE WATSON, The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Famed Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for entering US illegally and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized crime charges, federal … Continued
By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cut bill through the House on Thursday, the final step necessary to get the bill to his desk by the GOP’s self-imposed deadline … Continued
A man who pleaded guilty to threats of violence outside a St. Paul school, causing it to go into lockdown, was sentenced this week to three years of supervised probation. Marcelo Rubio Loredo, 41, was accused of being outside Hmong … Continued