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Andy completes his first semester as a part-time professor at a local community college and discovers that it’s an ...

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Congress is running out of time to avert another fiscal crisis in the middle of the current government shutdown standoff — and it’s leaving Republicans with few options other than to try to extend ...

Portland city leaders are asking voters to weigh a November ballot measure that even they admit presents an exasperating choice: either significantly increase money collected from property owners to ...

A newly released draft map shows how Proposition 50 would substantially redraw California’s congressional districts, Under the proposal, districts such as CA-01, CA-03, CA-22, CA-41 and CA-48 are ...

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House Republicans approved a short-term government spending package Friday to avert a shutdown at month’s end, sending the bill to the Senate and setting up a clash with upper-chamber Democrats vowing ...

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