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U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak speaks in the North Dakota Senate chamber on Feb. 18, 2025, as Lt. Gov Michelle Strinden presides over the session. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

Fedorchak emphasizes need for new Medicaid requirements

By: Michael Achterling (ND Monitor) North Dakota U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak described Medicaid as an “at-risk program” unless reforms are adopted to curb rising costs. But North Dakota advocates for Medicaid recipients said Thursday they worry about people slipping through the cracks and new administrative burdens being added to the state. Fedorchak, a Republican member […]
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May 15, 2025

Supreme Court Grills Team Trump On Birthright Citizenship Order, Leaves Door Open To Reining In Lower Courts

By: Katelynn Richardson (Daily Caller) Some Supreme Court justices appeared concerned Thursday with the implications of letting the Trump administration enforce its birthright citizenship ban, though several remained skeptical about lower courts’ use of universal injunctions. Following three lower court decisions blocking the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship, the administration in April asked the […]
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May 15, 2025

White House Reportedly Weighs Major Nuclear Regulatory Shift

By: Audrey Streb (Daily Caller) Executive orders reportedly being drafted by the White House could fundamentally change nuclear power policy by shifting more authority to federal departments to approve reactor designs and projects with the goal of quadrupling capacity by 2040. Four separate draft orders reportedly outlined the possibility of expanding nuclear power by restructuring the […]
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May 14, 2025

No tax on tips, child tax credit and business tax cuts survive in big House GOP bill

By: Ashley Murray WASHINGTON — House Republicans advanced the tax portion of the “one big, beautiful” reconciliation package early Wednesday, a step forward in permanently extending, and in some cases expanding, the 2017 tax law and temporarily handing President Donald Trump a win on campaign promises like no tax on tips. The House Committee on […]
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May 14, 2025
David Hogg (Photo via democrats.org)

DNC Moves To Void David Hogg’s Election To Party Vice Chair On Technicality

By: Ireland Owens The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted Monday to void the results of gun control activist David Hogg’s election as one of its vice chairs. Following the credentials committee’s decision that the vice chair election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures, it will bring the vote to the DNC’s full body of members to decide […]
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May 13, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

U.S. and China hit the pause button on trade war for 90 days, as talks continue

By: Ashley Murray The United States and China agreed Monday to lower steep tit-for-tat tariffs for 90 days, temporarily cooling a trade war but still leaving a cloud of uncertainty over businesses in the world’s two largest economies. American and Chinese officials announced the pause will go into effect Wednesday, following talks in Geneva, Switzerland, […]
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May 13, 2025
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site hosts its Rendezvous event every June. This year, volunteers are prepping for an event with fewer National Park Service staff amid federal funding cuts. (Photo provided by National Park Service)

Volunteers prep for Fort Union Rendezvous amid National Park Service ‘whiplash’

By: Erin Hemme Froslie The third full weekend in June is always the busiest part of the summer at Fort Union Trading Post near Williston, North Dakota. This is when the National Park Service historic site hosts its Rendezvous, which draws about 3,000 visitors. This year, however, the event has been in flux as organizers […]
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May 12, 2025

Treasury advises Congress must deal with debt limit before August or face default

By: Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department announced Friday that Congress must address the debt limit before August, setting a firm deadline for Republicans to wrap up work on the “big, beautiful bill” that will raise the nation’s borrowing limit by up to $5 trillion. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote in a letter to congressional leaders […]
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May 11, 2025
Cam Hamilton, at the time senior official performing the duties of the administrator at FEMA, testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on May 7, 2025. (Screenshot from House webcast)

FEMA leader ousted, one day after publicly opposing agency’s elimination

By: Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ousted the leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and replaced him with another official, States Newsroom has confirmed. Cam Hamilton, senior official performing the duties of the administrator at FEMA, was let go just one day after he testified before Congress about the size and […]
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May 8, 2025
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks about her bill renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. (Screenshot via U.S. House Clerk livestream)

Gulf of Mexico to be renamed ‘Gulf of America’ under bill passed by US House

By: Shauneen Miranda WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a measure Thursday that would codify part of President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” The bill — which was passed on a nearly party-line vote, 211-206 — calls on the head of each federal agency to “update each document and map […]
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May 8, 2025
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