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...a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court validates the state’s authority to determine the level of health care coverage provided to noncitizens who are ineligible for federal Medicaid....

...Coburn's newly released “2014 Wastebook” has only one sad and lonely reference to federal spending on “silly, unnecessary, and low priority projects” in Hawaii....

...Faleomavaega neither resigned nor retired and finally has returned home just a few days short of a year after his medical evacuation last October....

...it took nearly a month for the ailing delegate to file a formal letter with Obama pleading with him not to take any action that would harm American Samoa....

...the United Nations third decennial conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS)  will run from September 1-4 in Samoa....

...These are the kinds of issues that have dominated Faleomavaega’s agenda over the years when he hasn’t been traveling....

...“this is certainly the most important congressional group to visit the Northern Marianas at one time.”....

A young man living in a future where complacency is valued above all else discovers the sinister secrets that hold his fragile society together....

...The party chairman then called for a vote and the dozen party attendees present (out of 600 people said to be members) unanimously endorsed Faleomavaega for re-election....

...Last week, the House of Representatives voted to authorize Speaker John Boehner to file a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s failure to fully implement Obamacare....

...imagine the humiliation when, without any prior consultation with him, Obama announced a move that could have enormous ramifications for the fishing industry that is the foundation of the territory’s private sector....

The decision covers residents in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands...the law was "undermining the stability" of the territories' insurance markets....

...the new proposed rule would regulate all ditches, except in narrow circumstances. This even includes man-made ditches....

For this Independence Day, here’s a look back at what some presidents had to say in honor of this historic day....

One of the Export-Import Bank’s largest investment partners, BNP Paribas SA, pleaded guilty on Monday to violating U.S. sanctions against Sudan, Iran and Cuba....

...Chase was not entitled to all of the credits, because Chase no longer owned many of the loans it forgave or forgave loans that were not eligible for relief....

Today the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important ruling on Utah’s marriage amendment....

Attkisson is an award-winning investigative reporter who earlier this year made headlines for resigning from CBS News....

...in the not-too-distant future all of America’s tuna will be caught by foreign vessels....

We were among those waiting for a quick Faleomavaega retort in his usual overkill with dates, times and places of consultation and were surprised by the silence....

“They are a threat to the safety and security of Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s up to those two countries to make the decision...." -- Hillary Clinton

Undocumented immigrant children, some as young as 5 years old and traveling with no parent or adult, are being dropped off by the busload in Arizona....

...even as the ailing, 13-term delegate was having his statement inserted into the Congressional Record, freshman U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was upstaging him....

...what matters most is whether we end up with enough lawmakers in Congress willing to reign in the increasingly imperial Obama presidency in his final two years....

...Reid, D-Nev., has promised the Senate will take up a proposed constitutional amendment this year that would radically alter the First Amendment.....

...we will have to keep a close eye on our election office to see if and when he or someone on his behalf picks up a packet containing the petitions that must be circulated....

Children are crossing the border – and they’re doing it without their parents....

It has been just over seven months now that Faleomavaega continues to have been absent from public view....

Saying that something helps small businesses is a great way to gain public support for your cause. Except when it’s not true....

...should the government expand from providing old-age entitlement benefits to controlling personal retirement investments as well?

...the Obama administration lied when it tried to pin the scandal on IRS employees in an Ohio branch office....

Americans have increasingly been pulled into the frightening story of more than 250 schoolgirls in Nigeria who were kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram....

The Obama administration is moving forward with several federal agency rules on immigration while threatening bigger executive actions....

Since fiscal year 1997, the East-West Center has received 11 earmarks totaling $109.7 million....

...the greatest defense of liberty is an informed citizenry....

...a handful of senators are working hard to make sure the government stays in the housing finance business....

This study analyzes the effects of the resulting changes at the individual employee level ....

...an unholy union of big government, big business, and big special interests twists public policy to benefit Washington insiders....

"Congress needs to follow up on this presidential trip by passing trade promotion authority to conclude a free-trade agreement across Asia and the Pacific”

...what if America had never been founded?...

...how your hard-earned money helps subsidize loans for people in other countries....

...the lack of meaningful competition between political parties can be stifling to new ideas, regardless of the underlying ideology....

Here’s a disturbing new idea from some members of Congress....

Since 1980, men's wages have risen only by 6 percent, while women's wages have risen by 60 percent....