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How Congress — and not the president — controls how taxpayer money is spent
The Constitution gives Congress what’s called “the power of the purse,” or the ability to spend taxpayer money — not the ...
N.Y. lets doctors keep names off abortion pills to avoid red-state charges
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) approved the law on Monday, after New York doctor Margaret Carpenter was charged with prescribing ...
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What are sanctuary cities, and how are they being targeted by Trump?
Trump has promised to fix the immigration system in the US by carrying out mass expulsions. Yet certain cities across the ...
School cellphone ban: What's in Gov. Kathy Hochul's plan and how could it work on Long Island?
Cutting down on kids' screen time is popular among many Long Island educators and parents. But some said the state should let ...
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Harvard’s New Speech Rules Continue Their Pattern of Repression
The university’s adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism conflates critique of Israel with antisemitic speech, ...
Job Training Exists for Students With Disabilities. Many Never Get It.
Washington makes money available to the states to help young people with disabilities enter the work force. New Jersey has ...
Musk hit on USAID riles Dems; many in GOP would absorb it into State Department
Democrats criticized the actions at USAID, blaming Elon Musk, but Republicans seemed contend with absorbing it into the State ...
The University of California Increased Diversity. Now It’s Being Sued.
The state’s elite campuses, prohibited from using race-based admissions for decades, are now admitting more Black and ...
Ike Williams, ‘the original Bostonian literary agent,’ dies at 86
Along with his pioneering work as a Boston literary agent, Mr. Williams was deeply engaged "in civil rights in Boston, in ...
A New York doctor was indicted for prescribing an abortion pill in Louisiana. But a shield law could protect her. Here’s how they work.
A New York doctor indicted for allegedly prescribing abortion medication to a patient in Louisiana could be protected under a ...
Kennedy family tree: All about JFK’s kids, grandkids and more
JFK, the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He was the second of nine children the couple shared.
What we know about the victims of the plane, helicopter crash outside DC
Who was on the plane that crashed outside D.C.? How many people died in the plane crash? Here's what we know after the plane ...