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New York Police Department officers stand nearby July 7, 2020, as Black Lives Matter Protests continue in New York City.

Defund the police movement contributed to rise in violence, experts say

Casey Harper | The Center Square
April 17, 2021
FILE - Cash register retail sales tax

Pew: States to receive massive windfall from feds yet still face uncertain economic future

Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
April 16, 2021
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a news conference following a visit to Bears Ears National Monument Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Blanding, Utah. 

Interior secretary revokes Trump administration’s orders prioritizing energy development

Derek Draplin | The Center Square
April 16, 2021
President Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan package of legislation March 11, 2021, at in the Oval Office at the White House.

Study: American Rescue Plan allocates $2 billion to counties that don’t exist or don’t have fiscal problems

Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
April 16, 2021
Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine

Warner, Kaine introduce red-flag, other federal gun control changes to mirror Virginia law

Tyler Arnold | The Center Square
April 15, 2021
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear

Eight states have enacted laws limiting governors’ emergency powers since the start of the pandemic

Samuel Wonacott | Ballotpedia via The Center Square
April 15, 2021
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott

Abbott calls for Biden to label Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations as Texas ranchers fend off criminals

Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
April 15, 2021
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., makes a statement about a coronavirus aid package, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 13, 2020.

Democrats divided over ‘court-packing’ legislation; GOP unified against it

Casey Harper | The Center Square
April 15, 2021
Tia Baker cleans a desk in a classroom during a media tour at Dorothy Eisenberg Elementary School, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Las Vegas. Pre-K to third graders started a two-days-per-week "hybrid" in-person schedule in the Clark County School District. Other grades will be phased in before April 6. 

‘Return to learn’ tracker: 42% of U.S. school districts are providing full in-person instruction

Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
April 15, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. 

Biden pledges to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11

Casey Harper | The Center Square
April 14, 2021
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred

Republican lawmakers introduce bill to remove Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption

Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor
April 14, 2021
This Jan. 18, 2015, file photo shows a sign at the entrance to Camp Amache, the site of a former World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp in Granada, Colo. 

Legislation would make former Japanese internment camp in southeastern Colorado a National Historic Site

Derek Draplin | The Center Square
April 14, 2021
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