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Supporters of the bill are likely a few votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override Brownback’s veto.

The conservative governor rejected a push by the state’s Republican majority to accept federal money under the Affordable Care Act. But the fight there and in other states will likely continue.
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"I completely understand why a husband and wife would want to place guardrails in their personal conduct to protect their marriage from both the temptations of the flesh as well as the many other ways in which marriages can atrophy or grow cold over time."

Their method of protecting their marriage may be misguided, but it shows the Pences have an admirable awareness of their own human weaknesses.
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It is highly unusual for a president to publicly call for a fight against members of his own party.

On Thursday, the president appeared to suggest that members of the conservative hardline group in Congress should face primary challenges if they defy him.
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The goal is try to put things back the way they were and pretend the whole fight never happened.

Just over a year after H.B. 2 passed, lawmakers and the governor have reached a deal, but progressive groups say the proposal is a sham.
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The Great Republican Health Care Meltdown has been rough on the White House budget director, who was a central player in President Trump’s push to save the GOP’s floundering plan.

The former hardline conservative congressman finds himself stymied by his former colleagues in the House.
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While managing a short-term shelter for homeless LGBT youth in New York, Barnhart was frustrated by the inability to provide them long-term services. So she started convening regular Sunday dinners, followed by life coaching, to stay more involved with young people who passed through the shelter.

In an era of polarization and distrust, these local innovators—from a team of urban planners to a kids’ baseball coach—show that individuals can still better their communities.
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Pence is not the first contemporary public figure to set these kinds of boundaries around his marriage.

Outrage over the vice president's approach to marriage reveals how deeply gender divides American culture.
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Gorsuch is likely to fall short of 60 votes, and Republicans will have to jam his nomination through the Senate on their own.

If Republicans want to confirm President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, they’ll likely have to change the rules and invoke the Senate’s “nuclear option.”
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The pair emphasized bipartisanship, process, and patience, offering little in the way of factual revelations while implicitly rebuking the House Intelligence Committee.

Senators Richard Burr and Mark Warner promised a long, slow, even dull inquiry into election interference—an implicit rebuke to the lowe chamber's ever-more-chaotic process.
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Liberals and conservatives alike are susceptible to believing incorrect information that appears to confirm their political worldview.

A new poll suggests a majority back the president’s unsubstantiated accusations about former President Obama.
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Manafort's purchases do not necessarily indicate any illegal behavior. But experts told WNYC Radio that if someone was trying to launder money, this would be a typical way to do it, turning ill-gotten gains into legitimate cash by moving it through the various transactions.

New reports question whether transactions by the former Trump campaign chair, who has been tied to Russia, indicate possible money laundering.
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All eight Supreme Court justices rejected a crude list of “factors” the Texas courts had evolved to tell when a criminal defendant can be executed despite evidence that he or she is intellectually disabled.

A majority on the Supreme Court lets states know it is serious about barring executions of the mentally disabled.
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Trump could be the most hostile president ever to sit over the EPA.

A curious person’s guide to the laws that keep the air clean and the water pure.
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"Tuesday was not a good day for America’s hard-charging white men."

The Fox News host—like White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer—landed himself in hot water Tuesday for responding to how a woman of color looked, and not to what she said.
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In the end, the most tangible result of an election dominated by Republicans might be an expansion of the very law they love to hate.

Defeat of the Republican health-care bill in Congress has given new momentum to the push to expand Medicaid in several states, including deep-red Kansas.
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if Trump has his way, the merits of Summer Zervos's lawsuit won’t be heard for at least four years.

The president's personal lawyers want a New York court to shield him from private lawsuits during his presidency.
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