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Arkansas

New federal rule requires minimum staffing for nursing homes • Arkansas Advocate

Originally published by The 19th The Biden administration finalized a rule on Monday to create a federal minimum staffing level for nursing homes, the biggest change to nursing home regulations since they were first established in the 1970s. Vice President Kamala Harris announced the new rule at an event in the battleground state of Wisconsin. […]

Arkansas

Arkansas National Guard deploying 40 members to assist Texas at southern U.S. border • Arkansas Advocate

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will again send members of the Arkansas National Guard to the southern U.S. border in Texas to assist state authorities working to curb illegal immigration. Roughly 40 Arkansas guardsmen and women will deploy from April 1 to May 30 to Eagle Pass, Texas, according to the governor’s office. The deployment of […]

Alaska

Biden cancels Arctic oil drilling leases issued under Trump. Why it matters for the environment — and the 2024 election | #alaska | #politics

The Biden administration announced Wednesday it was canceling seven oil drilling leases sold by the Trump administration in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). “As the climate crisis warms the Arctic more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, we have a responsibility to protect this treasured region […]

Arkansas

U.S. public health emergency could increase abortion access in Arkansas

Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios The Biden administration is weighing a possible public health emergency declaration that would free up resources to help people access abortions, including in Arkansas, Axios’ Oriana Gonzalez writes. State of play: Abortion is illegal in Arkansas except in cases to save a pregnant person’s life, to treat ectopic pregnancies or to remove […]

Alabama

Nine Republican-led states ask judge to end DACA program for “Dreamers” i | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Nine Republican-led states asked a federal judge in Texas Tuesday to strike down a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program rule that protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. Driving the news: The latest lawsuit challenging the Obama-era policy seeks to halt protections for renewing deportation protections and work permits […]

Arkansas

WATCH: Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson calls Biden ‘inconsistent’ on Title 42

The Biden administration has maintained that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over, but the rush to end Title 42 shows how “inconsistent” their claims are, according to Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR). Hutchinson said President Joe Biden has a “separate agenda” and is not merely trying to manage the public health crisis, but is using the emergency […]

Alaska

Gas prices and abortion rights may be the perfect storm for Democrats | #alaska | #politics

Democrats weren’t supposed to feel this way about the midterms. Not only did they face the strong historical trend of backlash to the president’s party in their first midterm election — a fate the last two presidents suffered and that George W. Bush avoided only by whit of 9/11 — but they were also being […]

Arkansas

Arkansas’ student debt cancellation explained

Data: Federal Student Aid; Note: Includes outstanding principal and interest balances from Direct Loans, Federal Family Education Loans and Perkins Loans; Table: Simran Parwani/Axios ICYMI, President Joe Biden announced plans to cancel some student debt for most borrowers. Catch up quick: Biden says he’ll knock $20,000 off the student loan bills for Pell Grant recipients […]

Alabama

Republican AGs, 26 of 27, challenge new sex-based discrimination federal guidance | Alabama | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

(The Center Square) – Half of the state attorneys general in the country want the Biden administration to walk back new federal guidance on sex-based discrimination for schools and other organizations that receive federal money for food programs. The AGs, 26 of the 27 Republicans in those offices across the country, claim in a letter […]