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Washington, D.C. — U.S. House passed last week the Department of the Interior’s Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (H.R.

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy shuts down prospect of elections, calling it "irresponsible" in a time of war.

As the U.S. Congress eyes another looming partial government shutdown deadline in less than two weeks, it also faces a question: Whether lawmakers, and particularly a small but powerful band of hardline Republicans, are capable of compromise. House of Representatives Republicans say their slim 221-212 majority will spend the coming week trying to pass full-year spending bills that have no chance of clearing the Democratic-majority Senate, even as jitters about the Nov. 17 shutdown deadline spre...

More than 3,000 Ohio children could lose access to Head Start programs under budget cut proposals now being considered by Congress. From birth through age five, Head Start provides low-income families with child care and learning opportunities to equip young children with the tools they need to start Kindergarten. Eva Bloom, director of development for Hocking Athens Perry Community Action, which operates six Head Start centers in those counties, said the cuts not only would hurt families, the...

Children of color and from low-income families in Colorado and across the nation are not only exposed to more dangerous toxic chemicals - including lead, tailpipe and other air pollution, plastics and pesticides - they also experience disproportionate harm to brain development compared to their white and higher income peers, according to a new report. Co-author Devon Payne-Sturges - an associate professor at the University of Maryland - said five decades of data shows that poverty exacerbates ...

A new report found licensed child care programs in Utah are only able to serve about 36% of all children younger than 6 whose parents are working. The Voice for Utah Children report aimed to provide policymakers and the public with an understanding of what is called "the urgent need for child care reform." Mike Wade, owner of First Steps Childcare and Preschool in Salt Lake City, said he views the child care sector as being "stuck somewhere between the private sector...

Do conservatives think Mike Johnson is better than Kevin McCarthy? What do Utahn’s think about McCarthy’s removal?

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is floating a new idea for a temporary spending measure to fund agencies separately as a way to keep the government open past Nov. 17.

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.

Different agencies would face different shutdown deadlines under House GOP proposal.