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Let me get this right: Senate Republicans are surprised that the Obama Administration wants to consolidate more power in the federal government instead of releasing it back to the states per the law? Senate Republicans on Wednesday strongly criticized Education Secretary John King, saying he’d failed to follow the intent of the act that replaced […]

“If something tastes good, it must be bad for you.” Do you find it hard to resist gobbling up a piece of raw dough when making cookies, or letting your children scrape the bowl? … Eating raw dough or batter—whether it’s for bread, cookies, pizza or tortillas—could make you, and your kids, sick, says Jenny

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released employee and wage data for occupations in Lewiston, Coeur d’Alene, Boise, Idaho Falls, and Pocatello metropolitan areas. News Releases: Jun 30 Occupational Employment and Wages in Boise City — May 2015 Workers in the Boise City Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $20.28

Via USA Today:  President Obama has signed an executive order intended to better prevent non-combatants from being killed in drone strikes after releasing new figures showing that more than 64 civilians have been killed in 473 strikes he authorized since 2009. The long-awaited report on U.S. airstrikes provides the most detailed official accounting to date

Via the Daily News: It is now legal for most Idaho residents who are at least 21 years old to carry a concealed firearm without a permit throughout the state. This past legislative session the Legislature passed a bill making concealed carry within city limits legal as long as the person is at least 21,

Study shows manual laborers with unsteady employment most at risk. Via the AP: NEW YORK – Farmers, lumberjacks and fishermen have the highest suicide rate in the U.S., while librarians and educators have the lowest, according to a large study that found enormous differences across occupations. The study didn’t explore the reasons behind the differences,

Via the AP: right thing to do, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday that transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. “Americans who want to serve and can meet our standards should be afforded the opportunity to compete

Puerto Rico is our Greece bailout.  The US Senate passed a bipartisan relief package for Puerto Rico on Wednesday, sending the legislation to President Barack Obama for approval just days before the island is expected to default on a $2 billion payment to creditors. Puerto Rico’s debt crisis has crippled the island’s economy and driven

Paul Reid, CBS News Justice reporter, was taking none of Lynches baloney and called it “shocking, absolutely shocking”: “The most high-profile national security investigation under the attorney general is the investigation into whether or not classified information was mishandled in connection with Hillary Clinton’s server,” Reid told CBSN. “Now, President Clinton and his foundation are

Hillary Clinton’s husband and former President Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on her private plane on Monday evening, sparking suspicions that the two discussed Hillary’s email server investigation, although Lynch denies this. The Justice Department and the FBI are investigating the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s use of a private, personal server during

Since the earth’s temperature follows sunspot cycles, this seems to say that we’re in for another round of global cooling. 

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A new report from the U.S. Department of Justice shows that youths are sexually abused more frequently in juvenile detention centers that are understaffed, have more gang violence and more offender complaints. The report, released Tuesday by the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, examined the impact juvenile facilities have on sex

All it takes is for the State of Idaho to invoke the 10th Amendment, just like Washington State, Colorado, Oregon, etc. have done with recreational marijuana laws. Idaho tells the Feds: we don’t care and you have no jurisdiction here.  To all the anti-abortion rights activists roaming the Idaho Capitol, the U.S Supreme Court has

John Brennan says suicide bombings could happen here in the USA. U.S.-led military efforts to contain violent Islamic State radicals in the Middle East have not yet succeeded, and the group’s engine of worldwide terrorism “still has a lot of momentum,” CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday. “We cannot rest at all. We have to

What fool said a vote for Brexit would trigger a stockmarket crash and economic armageddon? Well, some of the brightest minds in the Square Mile actually. In fact, it was pretty much accepted in the City that a ‘Leave’ vote would kill demand for equities, certainly in the short-term. It did, for 10 minutes on

Seven refugees with active tuberculosis were resettled in Idaho between 2011 and 2015, but none of them were contagious, the state Department of Health and Welfare said Tuesday. “While that is accurate (that they had TB), it’s important to note that those refugees were not infectious and could not spread the tuberculosis infection to other