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Feds direct states to check immigration status of their Medicaid enrollees | via Stateline
08/21/2025

Feds direct states to check immigration status of their Medicaid enrollees | via Stateline

This week, the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an effort to check the immigration status of people who get their health insurance through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Medicaid is the public health insurance program for peop...

Grants to boost local emergency alert systems in question as public media agency closes | via States Newsroom
08/20/2025

Grants to boost local emergency alert systems in question as public media agency closes | via States Newsroom

WASHINGTON — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will no longer administer a grant program that has so far provided millions of dollars to local television and radio stations to upgrade the equipment they use to send out emergency alerts. The change comes after Republican lawmakers voted last ...

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ probed by Dems as ICE detention centers multiply in states | via States Newsroom
08/20/2025

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ probed by Dems as ICE detention centers multiply in states | via States Newsroom

WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration moves to expand immigrant detention centers across the country through state partnerships, more than 60 Democratic lawmakers Wednesday pressed top immigration officials for details regarding a quickly constructed facility in the Florida Everglades, dubbed b...

Maine oysterman stirring up Democrats’ efforts to oust Susan Collins
08/20/2025

Maine oysterman stirring up Democrats’ efforts to oust Susan Collins

A largely unknown oysterman and military veteran, Graham Platner garnered widespread attention this week when he launched a U.S. Senate campaign to try to unseat long-time Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins. Most of the candidates running against Collins so far are political newcomers like Graham, b...

“If anything, it’s creating a system that is going to be more unable to meet what it is that, I think, Mainers and the A...
08/20/2025

“If anything, it’s creating a system that is going to be more unable to meet what it is that, I think, Mainers and the American people are asking for,” said Maine Attorney General Frey.

The state’s constitutional officers, Attorney General Aaron Frey and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, both Democrats, condemned Texas’ move, and Trump instigating it, as a blatant abuse of power. But, they said Democratic states exploring the avenues legally available to them to redistrict out...

Cities across the US are embracing AI guidelines for local government workers | via States Newsroom
08/19/2025

Cities across the US are embracing AI guidelines for local government workers | via States Newsroom

While some states and the federal government take their time in considering how artificial intelligence can and should be used, municipalities across the U.S. have been forging their own way in making AI policies for their government employees. “AI is generally useful,” Boston’s Chief Innovati...

Despite federal shift, state health officials encourage COVID vaccines for pregnant women | via Stateline
08/19/2025

Despite federal shift, state health officials encourage COVID vaccines for pregnant women | via Stateline

Heading into the respiratory illness season, states and clinicians are working to encourage pregnant patients to get COVID-19 vaccinations, even though the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services no longer recommends that they should. Along with being older and having an underlying health condi...

Though Maine’s newly enacted food waste ban won’t start until 2030, advocates and food waste experts say the state needs...
08/19/2025

Though Maine’s newly enacted food waste ban won’t start until 2030, advocates and food waste experts say the state needs to take steps in the meantime to prepare.

Though Maine’s newly enacted food waste ban won’t start until 2030, advocates and food waste experts say the state needs to take steps in the meantime to prepare.

Trump, Zelenskyy exit White House talks hopeful about security guarantee for Ukraine
08/19/2025

Trump, Zelenskyy exit White House talks hopeful about security guarantee for Ukraine

President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European allies at the White House Monday celebrated Russian President Vladimir Putin’s concession of NATO-like security protections for Ukraine as part of a future peace deal between the two countries. In a social media post on M...

Four Republican governors are sending nearly 1,000 National Guard members to DC after President Donald Trump last week a...
08/18/2025

Four Republican governors are sending nearly 1,000 National Guard members to DC after President Donald Trump last week activated 800 members from the district’s Guard as part of his federal takeover of the nation’s capital.

WASHINGTON — Four Republican governors are sending nearly 1,000 National Guard members to the District of Columbia after President Donald Trump last week activated 800 members from the district’s Guard as part of his federal takeover of the nation’s capital. The deployment would bring the tota...

Democratic AGs sue DOJ to receive federal funding for victims of violent crimes | via Rhode Island Current
08/18/2025

Democratic AGs sue DOJ to receive federal funding for victims of violent crimes | via Rhode Island Current

Violent crime victims and their families across the country stand to lose more than $1 billion in direct compensation and support services under federal directives that illegally condition state grants on compliance with unrelated immigration policies. So argued 21 Democratic state attorneys general...

“Anyone who cares about states’ rights and individual freedom should be concerned about federal agencies engaged in an u...
08/18/2025

“Anyone who cares about states’ rights and individual freedom should be concerned about federal agencies engaged in an unprecedented power grab," said Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.

Bellows returned from the conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State with more questions than answers regarding the Trump administration’s intentions and the repercussions of some secretaries embracing the federal requests.

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