In Philadelphia, medetomidine was detected in 72% of illegal opioid samples tested late last year, overtaking xylazine, which has complicated the U.S. response to the opioid crisis.
Scrapped projects include relocating flood-damaged homes in Pennsylvania, protecting businesses from stormwater in North Carolina, and safeguarding water supply lines in Oklahoma’s Tornado Alley.
The American Civil Liberties Union, National Immigration Project and several other allied groups said in a statement that the way ICE deported children who are U.S. citizens and their mothers is a “shocking — although increasingly common — abuse of power.”
The departure in 1975 of the last Americans from Vietnam didn’t only end a tragic chapter in the history of the two countries. It helped mark the end of a singular era of protest music.
The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the ACLU, which accused the Republican administration of violating teachers’ due process and First Amendment rights.
It is the latest example of the DOJ dropping or withdrawing from a voting rights case begun under former President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is seeking to sell more offshore oil and gas leases, which the industry trade group American Petroleum Institute called “a big step forward for American energy dominance.”
Pen America, which reported more than 10,000 books banned in the last school year, said in a court filing that what the parents from the Maryland school district want is “a constitutionally suspect book ban by another name.”
This would cut early education for more than half a million of the nation’s neediest children and child care for their families.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
“This bill would allow you to set aside any state law, you could pollute the air as much as you want, you could pollute the water as much as you want, you could do anything essentially that you wanted that would ordinarily violate the law,” said former Secretary for PA’s Department of Environmental Protection David Hess.
Look for ruby red strawberries and tomatoes, rich leafy greens, carefully crafted coffee, artisan breads, cupcakes, cookies, granola, field-grown flowers, local honey, and more at Bucks County’s farmers market offerings.
At town halls across Pennsylvania, rank-and-file Democrats and allied progressive groups are inviting Conor Lamb, a former U.S Congressman who voters rejected in May 2022 when he ran against Fetterman in the Senate primary. Now he is serving as a stand-in for the embattled Senator.
Senate Bill 780 will effectively ban people from sleeping outside, even if they have no other shelter available to them, and fines municipalities that don’t comply.
