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D.C. Department of Energy and Environment inspector Zach Rybarczyk, the city’s hand-picked straw monitor, has been patrolling area restaurants to ensure their straws are paper and not plastic ever since the city’s plastic straw ban went into effect at the beginning of January, the Washington Post reported Monday. Rybarczyk’s services do not come cheap.

The Associated Press reports that the law eliminating the permit takes effect on July 1, 2019. NRA-ILA executive director Chris Cox commented on the elimination of South Dakota’s permit requirement, saying, “This law is a common-sense measure that allows law-abiding South Dakotans to exercise their fundamental right to self-protection in the

WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren on Thursday said she plans to make a “big announcement” on Feb. 9, where she is widely expected to say that she is officially running for president. She did not say where the announcement would take place. The Massachusetts Democrat launched a presidential exploratory committee with a video she posted online on Dec. 31, and she has since crisscrossed the country with her proto-campaign, making stops in Iowa, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, and New Hampshire.

Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced.  Michael A. Cohen President Trump made a deal to end the shutdown, but plutocrats have made it clear forever what they think of the American worker.  What She Said What’s a Beacon Hill lawmaker supposed to look like anyway?

Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced.  Michael A. Cohen President Trump made a deal to end the shutdown, but plutocrats have made it clear forever what they think of the American worker.  What She Said What’s a Beacon Hill lawmaker supposed to look like anyway?

Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced.  Michael A. Cohen President Trump made a deal to end the shutdown, but plutocrats have made it clear forever what they think of the American worker.  What She Said What’s a Beacon Hill lawmaker supposed to look like anyway?

Renée Graham Now that California’s Kamala Harris has announced for president, conspiracy theorists are making up the same lies about her citizenship that Barack Obama faced.  Michael A. Cohen President Trump made a deal to end the shutdown, but plutocrats have made it clear forever what they think of the American worker.  What She Said What’s a Beacon Hill lawmaker supposed to look like anyway?

Special counsel MORE said in filing Wednesday that materials in his criminal case against a Russian troll farm were released and apparently used in a “disinformation campaign” aimed at discrediting his ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Prosecutors with the special counsel’s office made the disclosure in a motion in the case involving Concord Management and Consulting that opposed the defendant’s request that “sensitive” discovery files be disclosed to the Russian company’s “officers and employees” for the purpose of pre

Democrats on Wednesday strongly suggested they are open to a compromise with MORE even as they unveiled an initial proposal for securing the border that includes no physical barriers. Democratic leaders emerged from a bipartisan budget meeting on border security taking a hard line on Trump’s proposed border wall, while hinting they were open to a deal. “We will expand on the $1.6 billion for border security-related programs that House Democrats have already passed,” House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman MORE (D-N.Y.) said at a conference

Senate Minority Leader MORE after the commander-in-chief lashed out at the intelligence community earlier Wednesday.   Schumer sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence a separate tweet on Wednesday night, Schumer added that it's "past time for U.S.