POLITICS

Supreme Court to weigh approval for 1st publicly funded religious charter school

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The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case on whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision invalidating a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a

Interior Department Formally Implements ‘Gulf of America,’ ‘Mount McKinley’ Name Changes

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The agency said the U.S. Board on Geographic Names is working quickly to make the name changes ‘effective immediately for federal use.’ The U.S. Department of the Interior announced on Jan. 24 that it is formally implementing President Donald Trump’s efforts to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, the tallest mountain in North America.

JPMorgan Downgrades Panama Rating Amid Trump’s Vows to Reclaim Canal

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Trump has vowed to take back the Panama Canal. The United States ceded the waterway to the Central American country in 1999. Financial services giant JP Morgan downgraded its assessment of Panama’s bonds on the growing concern that the United States may repossess the Panama Canal. On Jan. 23, JP Morgan’s Global Emerging Markets Research

White House Clarifies Executive Order Pausing IRA Disbursements

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The Office of Management and Budget said the order only applied to some programs under the Inflation Reduction Act. The White House Office of Management and Budget released a memo this week clarifying what authorized allocations can potentially be rescinded from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law under a Jan. 20 executive

DOJ limits enforcement of law protecting reproductive health centers

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The Trump administration has directed federal prosecutors to limit enforcement of a federal law safeguarding abortion centers, reproductive health centers and pregnancy resource centers, calling the Biden administration’s previous use of longstanding protection “the prototypical example” of weaponization of the federal government.  A new Department Justice memo issued Friday and obtained by CBS News focuses