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☆ These 18 GOP senators voted for the judge that Trump wants recused from overseeing his January 6 trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump and other Republicans have bashed Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing his January 6 trial. But in 2014, 18 currently-serving GOP senators voted for her confirmation. That includes Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, who have both criticized Chutkan as a Trump hater. The Senate has seen significant turnover in the 9 years since Chutkan's confirmation vote, and several prominent GOP senators who have rushed to Trump's defense — including Sens. The 18 currently-serving GOP senators who voted to confirm Chutkan in 2014 include:

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Prosecutors, in asking for the protective order, argued that Trump could otherwise improperly disclose confidential evidence before trial. In a reply brief filed late on Monday, prosecutors said that since they had asked for the protective order, Trump's attorneys had discussed the case on major U.S. television networks. Prosecutors said Trump had a "plan to litigate this case in the media." Prosecutors in their Friday filing said they are prepared to provide Trump with a "substantial amount" of evidence once a protective order is issued. Trump lawyer John Lauro has said he will seek to transfer the 2020 election case from Washington, D.C., to West Virginia.

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☆ The top 10 most expensive states to live in based on living expenses — Hawaii is 50% above the national average
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This amounts to 35% of the annual US household average income of $70,784. Hawaii residents, however, pay around 50% above this national average — forking out an average of $3,070 for their monthly expenses. Getty ImagesMonthly bill expense per household: $2,7274. Getty ImagesMonthly bill expense per household: $2,5696. Getty ImagesMonthly bill expense per household: $2,41310.

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“No way I can get a fair trial, or even close to a fair trial, in Washington, D.C. Several January 6 defendants have argued that there’s been too much pretrial publicity in DC for a fair trial and that the jury pool in the city would be too biased. Still, Trump attorney John Lauro on Sunday cast doubt on the idea that Trump could receive a fair trial in the nation’s capital. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who recently made his sharpest condemnation of Trump, told CBS on Sunday he “would hope” Trump can receive a fair trial in Washington. That’s one reason why the January 6 defendants’ trials have gone forward without delay even though so many attempted to move their cases out of Washington, DC.

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☆ Connecticut law ending religious vaccine exemptions for children is upheld
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin/File PhotoNEW YORK, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to a Connecticut law that ended the state's decades-old religious exemptions from immunization requirements for children in schools, colleges and day care. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said ending religious exemptions, while still allowing medical exemptions, was a rational means to promote health and safety by reducing the potential spread of vaccine-preventable diseases. He said many U.S. courts have reviewed vaccination mandates for children that lack religious exemptions, and only one, in Mississippi, has ever found constitutional problems. Five other U.S. states--California, Maine, Mississippi, New York and West Virginia--also lack religious exemptions. Connecticut's law, signed by Governor Ned Lamont, does not apply to children from kindergarten to 12th grade who previously had received religious exemptions.

Persons: Michelle McLoughlin, Denny Chin, Chin, Barack Obama, Ned Lamont, Joseph Bianco, Donald Trump, Norm Pattis, Brian Festa, William Tong, Lamont, Jonathan Stempel, David Gregorio, Leslie Adler, Deepa Babington Organizations: Pfizer, REUTERS, U.S, Circuit, Patriots USA, CT, Alliance, COVID, Patriots, Connecticut Office, 2nd U.S, Thomson Locations: Storrs , Connecticut, U.S, Connecticut, Manhattan, Mississippi, California , Maine , Mississippi , New York, West Virginia, 2nd, New York

☆ Sen. Rand Paul says GOP's top recruit against Manchin has 'a lot of health issues,' questions his ability to serve
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Rand Paul is raising concerns over the health of his party's top Senate recruit in West Virginia. Jim Justice has "a lot of health issues" and questioned "how he'll be able to serve." Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who currently holds the seat, has not yet announced whether he will seek re-election. "The governor has got a lot of health issues and is not very mobile," Paul, who's backing Mooney in the primary, told POLITICO. The concern raised by Paul about Justice's health comes as the Senate is grappling with a series of health-related issues among senators.

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☆ Trump’s Jury Pool for Jan. 6 Trial: A City That Remembers the Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Amy Qin | More About Amy Qin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

All of this could add up to an enormous challenge for Mr. Trump and his lawyers. Lawyers for several Jan. 6 rioters have petitioned to have their trials transferred out of D.C., without success. Selecting a jury will mean sifting through a jury pool in a city where many residents have some type of connection to politics. The jury selection process to find the 12 district residents who will ultimately decide whether Mr. Trump is guilty could be lengthy. Finding people who don’t have a strong opinion of Mr. Trump or haven’t followed the Jan. 6 case could prove difficult.

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☆ Trump wants his election-based federal charges to be heard in a different state, like West Virginia. Experts say that isn't going to happen.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Madison Hall | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

His case will be heard by a judge and jury in Washington, DC. Trump is now trying to get the case moved to another state, like West Virginia. "The latest Fake 'case' brought by Crooked Joe Biden & Deranged Jack Smith will hopefully be moved to an impartial Venue, such as the politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!" In the 2020 presidential election, Biden brought in 92 percent support in the District of Columbia compared to West Virginia, which Trump won with 69 percent support. Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in Washington, DC, on Thursday in relation to the recent indictment.

Persons: Trump, Donald Trump, Crooked Joe Biden, Jack Smith, John Lauro, Biden, Norm Eisen, Ryan Goodman, Eisen, Goodman Organizations: Service, Washington , D.C, Trump, Federal, CBS, District of Columbia, Brookings Institute, New York University School of Law, Washington Post, United States, Court Locations: Washington ,, West Virginia, Wall, Silicon, Washington, State, District

Former U.S. President Donald Trump enters Erie Insurance Arena for a political rally while campaigning for the GOP nomination in the 2024 election on July 29, 2023 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Decrying President Joe Biden as "crooked" and federal prosecutor Jack Smith as "deranged," Trump in a social media post late Wednesday said he hoped the criminal case would be moved to "an impartial Venue, such as the politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!" Trump won West Virginia by more than 30 points in the 2020 election. The former president's post on Truth Social came just hours before he was expected to travel to D.C. for a 4 p.m. ET appearance before a federal magistrate judge at the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Joe Biden, Jack Smith, Barrett Organizations: U.S, Erie Insurance, GOP, Trump, Washington, D.C, West Virginia, Truth Social Locations: Erie , Pennsylvania, State, West Virginia, Washington

☆ Manchin warns government to step up after Fitch credit rating downgrade
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) arrives prior to Israeli President Isaac Herzog's address to a joint meeting of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, July 19, 2023. WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin on Thursday called on his colleagues to take sorely needed budgetary steps to strengthen the economy after Fitch credit analysts' recent decision to downgrade the United States' long-held foreign issuer default rating. Fitch downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AA+ to AAA on Tuesday, months after having placed the nation's rating on negative watch in May. The credit rating firm cited the U.S. government's lengthy debt ceiling debate, along with the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, in its decision. Manchin's warning comes a day after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called the Fitch downgrade decision "entirely unwarranted" based on a "flawed assessment."

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☆ Black Lung Disease Is Making A Comeback With Coal Miners - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Drew A. Harris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

By the age of 44, Mr. Hoskins was diagnosed with his own case of the most severe form of black lung. Last year we cared for over 500 former coal miners with the most severe form of black lung, a record for the clinic’s 32-year history. By the end of the last century, thanks, in part, to federal safety standards, severe black lung had nearly been eliminated. But with changes in technology and conditions in coal mines in central Appalachia, cases of severe black lung disease are back to the highest level in decades after the last major study, in 2018. As of that year, more than one-fifth of experienced Appalachian miners have black lung.

Persons: Denver Hoskins, Hoskins, Barbara Kingsolver’s Organizations: Cincinnati Reds, Division, Stone Mountain Health Services, Centers for Disease Control Locations: Kentucky, St, Charles, Va, Lee County, Appalachia —, Virginia , Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Appalachia

☆ The most—and least—expensive U.S. states based on the average cost of monthly expenses
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The doxo United States of Bill Pay: State by State Bill Pay Market Report found that Hawaii's average monthly cost for household bills is 50% above the national average. The doxo report found that the average monthly bill for a mortgage in Hawaii is $2,247, while the average rent is $1,856. The average monthly bill cost for San Ramon is $4,390. According to the doxo report, the average mortgage in the state is $879, while the average monthly rent is $785. Denistangneyjr | E+ | Getty ImagesTop 10 least expensive states based on monthly expenses

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☆ Equitrans US Mountain Valley natgas pipe on track for end 2023 completion
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Lengths of pipe wait to be laid in the ground along the under-construction Mountain Valley Pipeline near Elliston, Virginia, U.S. September 29, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller/File PhotoAug 1 (Reuters) - U.S. energy company Equitrans Midstream (ETRN.N) on Tuesday said it still expects to complete the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline by the end of the year despite being tangled in numerous court fights since construction began in 2018. Mountain Valley is key to unlocking gas supplies from Appalachia, the nation's biggest shale gas-producing basin in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. When Mountain Valley started construction in February 2018, Equitrans estimated the 2.0-billion cubic feet per day project would cost about $3.5 billion and enter service by late 2018. The 303-mile (488-kilometer) Mountain Valley project is owned by units of Equitrans, the lead partner building the pipe with a roughly 48.3% interest, NextEra Energy (NEE.N), Consolidated Edison (ED.N), AltaGas (ALA.TO) and RGC Resources (RGCO.O).

Persons: Charles Mostoller, Thomas Karam, Scott DiSavino, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, U.S, Supreme, U.S ., Equitrans, NextEra Energy, Consolidated Edison, RGC Resources, Thomson Locations: Elliston , Virginia, U.S, West Virginia, Virginia, Appalachia, Pennsylvania , Ohio, U.S . Congress

☆ Opinion | Oklahoma’s Religious Public Charter School Would Be an Affront to Taxpayers Everywhere
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Rachel Laser | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In June, Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board approved the nation’s first religious public charter school. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City and the Diocese of Tulsa were given permission to open St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in August 2024. That’s right, a religious public school, funded by the state’s taxpayers. Proponents hope this model will spread to the dozens of other states that allow charter schools. Seven percent of public school students in the country attended charter schools as of the fall of 2021, and that number continues to grow.

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☆ The Butterfly Net, the Hunt and the Magic of Attention - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Lewis Hyde | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Fully quit of school and finally in love, I had been offered a cabin in West Virginia for the summer. Within the month I had restocked my childhood armory — net, killing jar, spreading board, pins, display cases — and was again out roaming the fields. Watching a documentary recently about the old men of Italy’s Piedmont who hunt for truffles, I noticed that sometimes when they explain themselves all talk of truffles drops away. The one thing I have not yet discarded is the butterfly net. I don’t know if the same is true for birders with their binoculars or deer hunters with their rifles, but for me, walking with the butterfly net alters my perceptions.

Persons: he’s Organizations: Italy’s Locations: Connecticut, Pittsburgh, West Virginia

☆ The climate changed. Get used to it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In this year of epic heat, it’s time to start thinking about how the climate changed rather than the fact of its changing. “These giant swings in temperature over short distances in cities, known as the urban heat island effect, make heat waves even worse,” writes CNN’s Rachel Ramirez of a new report by the nonprofit research group Climate Central. There’s a climate change angle for everywhere and everythingThe reason gas prices have spiked in recent days? “I don’t think anybody can deny the impact of climate change anymore,” Biden said, announcing the measures. The partisan divide over climate change is also the largest it has ever been.

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☆ The 10 most affordable places to live in the U.S.—none are in Florida
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

According to U.S. News and World Report, Hickory, North Carolina is the cheapest place to live in the U.S. This month, U.S. News and World Report released its ranking of the cities with the lowest cost of living, based on the median gross rent and annual housing costs for mortgage-paying homeowners. The average Hickory home value is $276,748, up 5.3% over the past year, according to Zillow's Home Value Index. Youngstown, Ohio is the second cheapest place to live in the U.S., according to U.S. News and World Report. Since 2010, new businesses have been popping up in its downtown, according to U.S. News and World Report.

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☆ Supreme Court Clears the Way for Mountain Valley Pipeline as Appeal Moves Forward
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Adam Liptak | More About Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily cleared the way for construction of a 300-mile pipeline capable of carrying two billion cubic feet of natural gas daily from northern West Virginia to southern Virginia. The court’s brief order gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. The Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has cost more than $6 billion, has been the subject of years of legal challenges from environmental groups and is nearing completion. A provision concerning the pipeline was tucked into legislation enacted in June to raise the debt limit and avoid a government shutdown. The provision, championed by Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, barred most legal challenges to the construction and said challenges to the provision itself must be brought in a federal appeals court in Washington.

Persons: Joe Manchin III Organizations: Democrat Locations: West Virginia, Virginia, Washington

☆ Supreme Court allows work on contested natural gas pipeline to resume
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Lengths of pipe wait to be laid in the ground along the under-construction Mountain Valley Pipeline near Elliston, Virginia, September 29, 2019. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed work on a natural gas pipeline crossing federal land in Virginia to resume over the objections of environmental groups. The justices granted an emergency request filed by Mountain Valley Pipeline, meaning that final elements of the 303.5 mile pipeline running from the northwestern part of West Virginia to southern Virginia can be finished. The appeals court intervened despite Congress including language in the recently enacted Fiscal Responsibility Act backed by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., that stripped courts of authority to review approval of the pipeline. "The court of appeals' stay orders flew in the face of this recent, on-point, and emphatic congressional command that the remaining construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline must proceed without further delay," the lawyers added.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Sen, Joe Manchin, Biden Organizations: WASHINGTON, U.S, Circuit, Jefferson National Forest, Wilderness Society, U.S . Forest Service, Midstream Corp Locations: Elliston , Virginia, Virginia, West Virginia, Richmond , Virginia, Jefferson

☆ Same old story with aging politicians
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The freeze is not an isolated incidentEarlier this year, McConnell could not hear reporters at a different news conference. Plus, McConnell is known to have fallen at least three times in the past year, according to CNN’s Manu Raju. His fall at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington led to a concussion and broken ribs that sidelined him for weeks. Nikki Haley got some early attention for her presidential campaign when she suggested a mental competency test for politicians over 75. The only other longer-serving senator is Sen. Charles Grassley, who is 89, and who won an eighth term last November.

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☆ Audio: No Labels leader says it's a 'flip of a coin' whether a Democrat or Republican would be the third party's 2024 presidential candidate
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Centrist group No Labels is preparing to possibly field a third-party candidate in 2024. But it remains unclear whether their candidate would be a Republican or a Democrat. In audio obtained by Insider, one top leader said it would be a "flip of a coin." "The No Labels effort would elect Donald Trump," Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, a Trump critic, recently told The Hill. But historically, the group has been supported by some Republican donors, including those who've also contributed to Trump.

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☆ Opinion | What the Joe Manchin-No Labels Fantasy Gets Wrong About America
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

By 1797, he had emerged as the leader of the Democratic-Republican opposition to the Adams administration. “We are all republicans: we are all federalists.”You can find this distaste for faction and longing for unity throughout American history, up to the present. Americans, including their political leadership, have a real and serious distaste for partisanship and political parties even as they are, and have been, as political and partisan a people as has ever existed. I was reminded of all this while reading a recent opinion essay by Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, in which he dreamed of a world without politics or partisanship at all — a world of “common sense solutions” and bipartisan camaraderie. “What is clear to all those who wish to listen is that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe in unity,” Manchin wrote in USA Today.

Persons: Thomas Jefferson, Adams, ” Jefferson, “, Joe Manchin, ” Manchin, Manchin, ”, Michael Bloomberg Organizations: Democratic, Republican Locations: West Virginia, USA, New York

☆ Who was Lewis Strauss, the villain played by Robert Downey Jr. who tried to frame J. Robert Oppenheimer as a communist?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Sebastian Cahill | Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Lewis Strauss oversaw J. Robert Oppenheimer as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Strauss used Oppenheimer's communist sympathies to begin stripping his security clearances. However, Strauss was the first to take serious action about Oppenheimer's Communist accusations. The film reenacts another instance when Strauss feels Oppenheimer slighted him — as Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein, played by Tom Conti, speak by a pond after Strauss offers Oppenheimer a prestigious job at the Institute for Advanced Study. Strauss also began a separate security proceeding with the AEC over Oppenheimer's alleged Communist ties, which resulted in his security clearances being suspended.

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☆ A growing number of US states are working to loosen child labor laws so your next bartender could be an underage teenager
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In April, Iowa's senate voted to pass a bill that would allow teenagers to serve alcohol. Legislators in Wisconsin are pushing to lower the alcohol service age from 18 to 14 years old. In April, Iowa's Republican-led state senate voted 32-17 to pass a bill rolling back child labor laws in the state. The bill would allow teens to work until 9:00 p.m. during the school year and until 11:00 p.m. over the summer and serve alcohol. The restaurant industry is backing legislators in their efforts to loosen child labor laws, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.

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