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Federal Judge Suspended After Committee Finds She Has Mental Health Condition

Judge Ada Brown was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination.

Ethanol Fuels Higher Prices

The Trump administration has taken several actions to ease the pain at the pump, but the biofuel mandates remain in place.

Poll: Massachusetts Pro-Gun Ballot Initiative Likely Doomed

Oz Says HHS is Deferring $1.2 Billion More From California Medicaid Funding

The action targets California’s Medicaid payments directed toward personal care services.

The Supreme Court’s next major case on the free exercise of religion…

The court also explained that Colorado was not denying funding to religious schools that it provides to secular institutions: No preschool taking state money can refuse to admit children because of the race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity of the parents.
Makin (that the government violates the free exercise clause if it denies funds to religious schools that it provides to private secular schools) displaces the rule of Smith only when the government explicitly excludes religious people and institutions.

Illinois School District Placed Male Roommate Overnight With Teen Girls, Legal Group Claims

An Illinois school district allowed at least one male to share overnight accommodations with female high school students while withholding that information from parents, according to a legal group representing concerned parents. Community High School District 128 in northern Illinois directs staff not to disclose a student’s “transgender” status, to assign overnight-trip rooms according to…

Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin…

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin publicly called on Democrats to intimidate young conservatives who want to work for the Trump administration by prosecuting the president’s staffers.
Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must “go after” and make examples out of officials in President Trump’s orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration.

Driver in Deadly Kansas Soccer Field Crash Released While Investigation Continues

A woman who drove a pickup truck onto a soccer field during a weekend youth game in Kansas.