President Donald Trump scored a major victory at the Supreme Court on Friday, as the justices lifted a lower court order blocking a key part of his plan to expand the border wall with Mexico. The Justice Department had asked the justices to stay a pair of rulings an Oakland-based federal judge issued in May and June […]
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Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan has signed off on plans for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reprogram funds for up to $1 billion of infrastructure work on the U.S. southern border in response to a request from the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon announced Monday night. The news comes more than a month
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Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- A rational gun safety bill is moving forward in the Arizona legislature. The bill would repeal the requirement for armed Arizonans to unload, then reload, their firearms every time they drive onto school grounds to pick up their child. From tucson.com: He pointed out that existing law already permits adults — anyone 18 and older
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On its face, Arizona State Representative Mark Finchem’s bill to nudge federal lands into state management is not about transferring ownership. Critics detect a ruse. HB 2547, a Republican-backed measure that would create a new state agency to manage federal public lands, cleared the House last week along party lines. It now sits in the Senate, where
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PHOENIX — Employers would be able to pay full-time students less than Arizona’s minimum wage under legislation given preliminary approval in the state House on Wednesday. The bill, which is likely to be challenged in court if it becomes law, seeks to get around the 2016 ballot measure that raised the minimum wage in phases
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