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December 20, 2015

North Texas city council rejects proposed fracking ban, sends issue to voters

The council governing a North Texas city that sits atop a large natural gas reserve rejected a bid early Wednesday morning to ban further permitting of hydraulic fracturing in the community after eight hours of public testimony.

December 20, 2015

Okla. Supreme Court upholds Common Core repeal

The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the Legislature had the authority to repeal Common Core education standards for English and math in the state's public schools.

December 20, 2015

New EPA regulations on coal-fired power plants could cost Mississippi billions

The cost for Mississippi to meet proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations governing carbon dioxide emissions from coal power plants could run into the billions.

December 20, 2015

MoveOn.org doubles Vermont’s anti-GMO legal defense fund

A legal defense fund created to defend Vermont’s anti-GMO labeling law got a boost this week after liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org made a massive deposit, more than doubling the fund’s account balance.

December 20, 2015

Divided they stand? Billionaire in push to carve up California into six states

A billionaire tech investor says he has enough backing to put a plan to split California into six states on the ballot.

December 20, 2015

Giant African snails seized at Los Angeles airport

U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors seized a live shipment of 67 giant African snails at Los Angeles International Airport this month.

December 20, 2015

Governors wary of White House plan to place immigrant children with states

State governors from both parties have reacted cooly to efforts by the Obama administration to gain their support for placing thousands of unaccompanied Central American children with friends or family members.

December 20, 2015

Nebraska gov, Illinois senator say White House sending illegal immigrant children to their states without notice

Elected officials in two states far from the U.S.-Mexico border have complained that the Obama administration has resettled hundreds of unaccompanied children who entered the United States illegally without adequate notice and has refused to detail the exact locations where the children are being kept. 

December 20, 2015

Many children crossing US border illegally will get to stay, data suggests

New data from immigration courts, as well as individual testimony, indicates that many of the thousands of children undertaking a perilous journey across the U.S. border from Central America will get to stay, despite warnings to the contrary.

December 20, 2015

Virginia county takes on federal government that ‘refuses to do its job’

For Corey Stewart, chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, the border crisis isn’t something far away — or something new.