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Omar noted that Americans are still being jailed under harsh anti-drug laws, even though several states have already legalised recreational marijuana use.

"This isn't even a close case," former federal prosecutors said in a video.

The top 10 companies on the Fortune 100 list received $338 billion from the federal government.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) continues to demand Fox News host Jeanine Pirro submit a mandatory campaign finance report for her aborted 2006 Senate bid against Hillary Clinton.

"The two reports raise incredibly serious questions about the legitimacy of the process of handling this report. That's my view. It's a game-changer," Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor, told Newsweek.

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that made the 1.9 percent pay raise promised to federal employees earlier this year official.

Pay charts for the 2019 federal employee pay raise are nearly ready says the Trump administration.

The Defense Department spent $4.6 million on crab and lobster in September.

"He has to be careful. They may think: 'Here's this rich guy who got caught and the president can't get him out so why is he more special than us?'"

On February 15, President Trump signed a spending bill with a 1.9 percent pay increase for General Schedule employees.

On Friday, President Trump signed a spending bill that gives Federal GS employees an average 1.9 percent pay raise, but when will the changes take effect? Find out everything you need to know about the 2019 GS pay scale, new localities, back pay and more.

Almost 30 water providers "registered 90th percentile lead levels" and therefore marked 13 ppb (parts per billion) — that ultimately surpasses the 12 ppb lead threshold set in place last year, according to an MLive-The Flint Journal report.

Federal policy is a logical place to start, but state policymakers are missing a key opportunity if they don't join this national conversation.

Asked about reports that she was opposed to the legalization of marijuana, Kamala Harris joked: "Half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?"

Federal workers who are PayPal Credit customers can receive a one-time cash advance of $500.

The average federal worker has missed over $5,000 in wages during the shutdown, the Times analysis showed.

Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he thinks "it's a mistake to back off on marijuana."

About 800,000 federal workers missed a pay check last Friday.

A federal judge in California on Sunday blocked new Trump administration rules that would have allowed more employers to opt out of providing women with free birth control.

Federal union workers convened in McAllen, Texas, to protest the shutdown as the president arrived at the border.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. blocked the Trump administration's revised standards for asylum on Wednesday, handing down a sweeping injunction that also requires the government to bring back deported applicants for new interviews.

Materials seized from Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen reportedly prompted the investigation.

"No one should have to worry that their child's toy may be toxic. It's a parent's worst nightmare," New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said.

Federal prosecutors suggest that Donald Trump committed a federal crime when he directed his then-attorney Michael Cohen to pay off two women during the 2016 campaign.

Edward Burke worked with Trump for more than a decade to lower property taxes on the president's Chicago buildings by more than $14 million.

The former overseer of the $1.5 trillion U.S. student loan market for the Trump administration said the federal government helped lenders go after delinquent borrowers.

Matthew Whitaker may have violated the Hatch Act by continuing to receive thousands of dollars in political contributions as a federal employee.

Interest on debt is rapidly becoming a larger share of the U.S. GDP, setting up a bipartisan battle over competing spending on health care, education and defense.

The charges against Sayoc could mean decades in prison.

Judge Jackson wrote that most of the major aspects of Trump's executive orders "conflict with congressional intent in a manner that cannot be sustained."