"Illinois receives less federal funds per Medicaid beneficiary than any other state in the U.S.," the IHA said in its fact sheet. The Illinois rate of $3,252 per Medicaid beneficiary ranks last and pales in comparison to neighbors like Missouri ($6,448) and Kentucky ($6,399)

The IHA is a private organization

We remain strong advocates of our safety-net hospitals and will continue to work with the (Illinois Health and Hospital Association) to ensure their viability to support our communities in the years ahead."

Some want the state to take the opposite approach and increase funding for safety-net hospitals.

BLACK was not made aware of the situation until the end of the winter break.

Also, if you have oily skin, you must follow up with a water-based foaming cleanser to really get out all the ickies at once

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Unfortunately, after submitting those 10 years of payments, some people have found out they don’t actually qualify for forgiveness. Nightmare.

we’ll also see a substantial increase in the standard deduction—from $6,350 to $12,000 for individuals and $12,700 to $24,000 for married couples filing jointly. (As it stands, both provisions expire after 2025.)

expects the average credit card interest rate to hit 17.15 percent (up from November 2017’s 16.15 percent).

a drug dealer might be wiretapped and his communications with anyone--including journalists--could be caught up.

An explainer put out by Republicans on the U.S. House intelligence committee said that it is illegal to use Section 702 to target the communication of American journalists and added that no such violations have taken place.

investigating three times as many leak investigations as Obama.

The Obama administration used the Espionage Act to go after leakers more than all previous administrations combined

while the NSA can use it only to target foreigners living outside the U.S., data from Americans on the other side of communications with a target--which could include anything from emails and calls, to group chats--is also gathered. Other government agencies, including the CIA and FBI, can then search some of that data, without a warrant, for information about Americans.

Gui was officially released from detention but forced to remain in China and to report regularly to police

complained about losing one point on a writing assignment for having failed to use gender-inclusive language.

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The level of support for archivists who have been with their current employer for at least 5 years has largely stagnated or decreased.  Those who have been with their employer for less than 5 years are more likely to see increased professional development support (Figure 2).

Prosecutors acknowledged they had no evidence any of the six had personally smashed a window, thrown a rock, or clashed with police, but asked jurors to hold the entire group of marchers criminally responsible for the destructive actions of a handful. They pursued charges that could have conferred maximum sentences of roughly 60 years in prison

"The poor little guy was so far gone we had to put him out of his misery," Gandelman added.

Unlike the Italian mafia or Chinese triads, yakuza are not illegal and each group has its own headquarters, sometimes in full view of police

the phrase “social justice warrior” has traditionally been positive: “All of the examples I’ve seen until quite recently have been lionizing the person.”

tax overhaul they passed last month

If Net Power can provide human-made carbon dioxide for a lower price, oil companies would have no reason to continue using geological sources.

The remaining, pure stream of CO2 can be buried underground.

In the end, the Allam cycle is only slightly more efficient than typical combined-cycle systems. But it has the major added benefit of capturing all potential carbon dioxide emissions essentially for free.

Which sucks because Chrome is a massive resource hog.

When asked this summer by Univision whether he had any regrets about the way he’d conducted himself, Arpaio responded that he had nothing to apologize for and insisted that “the Hispanics” didn’t actually hate him despite his program of racially profiling them.

They’d say they don’t know where their home country is, so let them go there and spend six months, because it might take that long to do paperwork to get them here legally and let them see their home country and see what it's really like

Arpaio suggested he could support some form of legalization of participants in the since discontinued Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program that protected illegal immigrants brought in as children from deportation.

widely viewed as the Republicans’ strongest general election candidate.

provocative approach to combatting illegal immigration

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January 27, 1785, by the Georgia General Assembly. UGA is the birthplace of public higher education in America.

that’s a good thing,” Munster said

The internet giant will acquire discounter Target

"But I don't hear anybody at the White House or any Republicans, and certainly not in the Senate, calling for Mueller to be fired."

Republican demands to gut the ACA also declined after Congress effectively eliminated the individual mandate by zeroing out the tax penalty in Obamacare as part of the tax bill approved this week.

"This has not been a very bipartisan year," McConnell said. "I hope in the new year, we're going to pivot here and become more cooperative."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wants 2018 to be a year of bipartisanship

Republicans argued economic growth spurred by the cuts would offset their cost

without pay since late November

“While we believe that Glenn has acted offensively, we have decided that he does not deserve to be fired,” Mr. Baquet said.

The CRA is a relatively new tool that allows Congress to reverse regulatory actions within 60 legislative days of their enactment.

have estimated the state will lose as much as $1 billion in tax revenue

Enactment of the final tax legislation could mean tax cuts for many people in those states, but also big drops in state tax revenue

The change, if enacted, would be expected to decrease the percentage of taxpayers who itemize their tax deductions, such as donations to alumni funds, from about 30 percent of filers to just 5 percent.

The provision limiting the deduction for state and local taxes paid would put pressure on states to constrain their own spending in areas such as higher education, says a report by Moody’s Investors Service, which counts the tax bill as a possible negative for the higher-education sector.

The bill also would not remove the $2,500 deduction for interest paid on student loans.

Another provision would prohibit colleges from using a loss in one unrelated business to offset a gain in a different such business, potentially increasing their overall tax burden. Unrelated businesses are those not directly connected to their academic mission, such as recreation or fitness centers, sports camps, facility rentals, and golf courses.

“seat-license fees” paid to buy tickets to sporting events — a major revenue stream to big-time college-sports programs.

he bill would impose a 21-percent tax on annual compensation in excess of $1 million paid to any of a nonprofit organization’s five highest-paid employees

proposed an exemption from the tax for colleges that decline to accept federal funds, a plan seen as helping a single institution, Michigan’s Hillsdale College, the beneficiary of many conservative donors. The “Hillsdale Carve-Out,” as it came to be known, was rejected in the Senate’s final bill.

A small change in this section states that the tax applies only to “institutions more than 50 percent of the tuition paying students of which are located in the United States.”

laws in many states require their tax rates to change with federal rates, a pattern that could lead to steep state-budget shortfalls as tax revenues decline

Many critics fear such changes would act as disincentives for donations to colleges.

When adopted the entire Downtown district had a total assessed value of $7,560,528.  Today, that value stands at $38, 137,660.

4% yearly raises

confined to professional degree programs

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the most powerful office on Capitol Hill.

Incidentally, every one of the 265 members who voted for the measure in March were Republicans

Advocates believe a law will make net neutrality more durable. But ISPs are betting they’ll be able to write the bill — because they’ve paid for the opportunity.

(arguably)

adding that the mission will do more than just leave “a flag and footprints on the Moon,” hinting at a possible base and potential mining activities.

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where lawmakers discussed how having the gambling issue on the general election ballot would bring out more black voters and hurt the GOP’s chances of ending Democrats’ 136 years of legislative dominance.

but a federal judge ruled this summer that the state is not required to inform people with convictions who couldn’t vote under the old law that they may now register to vote.

The law bars people with felonies of “moral turpitude” from voting. For decades such crimes were ill defined, but once included things like miscegenation

The mall owner said it would be hit much harder financially by the closures than Starbucks would be if it were forced to keep its stores open until their leases expired

Simon had argued that the closure of Teavana stores could trigger additional store closures in its malls at a time when shopping centers are under pressure from falling foot traffic and widespread retail bankruptcies.

The other universe created by Pierce is the Circle Universe aka The Emelanese Universe. The two universes are completely separate and there is no overlap at all

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Virtually all of our customers are college students. No riff-raff

The odds of arrest were greatest among black men with disabilities, 55 percent of whom were detained by age 28, the study found.

telecom companies, which surged 2.7% to lead all sectors — a reversal of their futility so far in 2017, having dropped 12% year-to-date.

With no male heirs to inherit the fief, the deed was returned to the Crown

Coram married Rispah Cooper and were gifted with the barony of Trebond.

Alanna convinced Daine that Daine should let the animals fight because they would be protecting their home as well.

There is no evidence that any of them did anything illegal.

Ross “recuses himself from any matters focused on transoceanic shipping vessels, but has been generally supportive of the administration’s sanctions of Russian and Venezuelan entities,” a spokesman said

Most of the more than 13.4 million documents, which were analyzed by a group of more than 380 journalists in 67 countries, are from Bermudan law firm Appleby

She noted that he had struggled with mental illness and an occasionally violent temper.

he sitting lieutenant governor upset the latter last week when he said he would be willing to sign a bill banning so-called sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants.

t was announced that Salman had replaced his half-brother Muqrin with his nephew,  Interior Minister Moahammed Bin Nayef, as crown prince. Salman’s son, Defense Minister Moahammed bin Salman, is now deputy crown prince and second in line for the throne.

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner

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The Air Force expects to have its two Open Skies aircraft outfitted with digital cameras by 2019.

Despite being signed in 1992, the first flight did not occur until 2002

the Russians have been balking at flight requests and imposing flight ranges significantly less than the treaty specify, in addition to using superior digital cameras and getting more out of the spy missions than the Americans are.

In 2014, Russia placed a 500-kilometer (310 mile) limit on flights over Kaliningrad despite treaty language establishing a maximum flight distance of 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles).

the eventual American withdrawal from Open Skies. (Despite the widely-accepted perception, Open Skies is not a bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Russia, but a rather large, multilateral treaty between 34 nations.)

Funding for a total of 87 F-35s

a significant increase for facilities restoration and modernization.  Additionally, the proposal increases funding for facilities restoration and modernization by $1.4 billion.

testified that less than 50% of its planes were combat ready, while the Navy and Marine Corps had just over 50% of aircraft necessary for training and operations. In total, only 3 of the Army’s 50 Brigade Combat Teams are ready.

H.R. 2810 authorizes funds to increase the size of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Army Guard and Reserve, Naval and Air Reserve, and Air Guard. In addition, the bill full funds the 2.4% pay raise troops are entitled to under law, and blocks the President’s ability to reduce troop pay while extending special pay and bonuses for service-members. Any reduction of inpatient care for military Medical Treatment facilities locations outside the U.S. is prohibited.

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The bill authorizes $613.8 billion in base funding, including a $28.5 billion increase above the President’s budget for essential readiness recovery. Further, the bill authorizes an additional $10 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations fund (OCO) for base requirements, and an additional $64.6 billion in the OCO fund to cover contingency operations. When factoring in $7.5 billion for mandatory defense spending, a total of $695.9 billion is authorized to be appropriated.[1]

Such funding shall be further increased through 2019 for both territories if Puerto Rico takes specified actions to improve its Medicaid program.

“I don’t think I’ve ever in seven years been so misperceived on any issue,” he said.

The man who answered it asked to meet in the parking lot of a bank rather than the address she offered.

he voted for Donald Trump, helping Pacific County go with the Republican presidential candidate for the first time in decades

abortion would be banned “in cases where a fetal heartbeat is detectable” or in situations where doctors intend to move forward “without determining whether the fetus has a detectable heartbeat.”

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subjectively legitimate in most of the places where it was found, using realistic measures of those concepts.

Weber said, “most of the archives were stored on metal shelving in archival quality folders inside damage-resistant archival boxes in a secure building with a sprinkler system.” He called those steps standard practice for archival collections, and later added that they met or exceeded guidelines set by the United Nations and the Library of Congress.

none of us maintain a personal archive; instead, we rely on access to online digital libraries for the final, published version of our research.

published in the ACM Digital Library

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We have acts of white supremecist terrorism whose fatality and injury rates rival that of Islamic terrorism.

Goodwin set Keys' bond at $5 million, meaning he would have to post $500,000 in order to be released.

“This is not editorial censorship and does not affect the content we publish or make accessible elsewhere in the world,” she said.

They accused the company of prioritizing profit over free speech.

The publisher defended its decision, saying that only 1 percent of its content was inaccessible in mainland China.

however due to an existing medical condition the suspect was transported to the hospital for medical evaluation

The legislation has not yet passed both houses. The new policy enables "us to put the principles of this bill into practice," Smith said.

Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Science Committee, said at the press briefing.

already here.

“However, theory, evidence, and simulation studies tell a different and more complicated story.”

highly regarded Brookings Institution

American political ads, and Russian money, rubles. How could you not connect those two dots?”

much of the content was aimed at raising questions over the legitimacy of the election

EPA staffers are sometimes given instructions on changing regulation enforcement and told not to make records of the changes.

Staffers often must surrender their cell phones before they can meet with him, and are often banned from taking notes.

Sales Of Bump Stocks Have Skyrocketed Since The Las Vegas Shooting, As Often Happens After Mass Shootings

The vast majority of U.S. rabbis on the list are Reform or Conservative.

the government withdrew from a deal to create an egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall, and the Knesset passed a law allowing non-Orthodox Jews to be barred from state mikvahs, or ritual baths

“We can’t have someone walking around wrongly thinking he’s a Jew, and his family and friends believing it,” he said. “I understand people’s need to be part of the Jewish collective in Israel, but there are rules, and if we don’t obey the rules we undermine halacha.

unwittingly compromised by intermarriage

almost all of them immigrants with Jewish heritage, on lists that prevent them from marrying Jews. The courts argue that they are acting to preserve the coherence of the Jewish people.

the “Great Moderation”

Gates was unceremoniously bounced from the group as speculation over his involvement with Manafort’s overseas adventures increased.

Trump’s gang did scheme with the enemy

whom they were told was bringing them negative information on Clinton as part of a secret Russian government plot to help Trump

often with the knowledge of campaign officials

a fine of up to three times the annual compensation that would have been obtained in the new position may be levied by the EEC.

sycophancy

The Clinton campaign and the DNC, through the law firm, continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton in a state Trump won by less than 5 points.

where Trump won by less than 10 points, Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke is taking on Sen. Ted Cruz.

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Trump said the difference is that Democrats are “holding up every single nomination” Trump has put forth

When preparing to respond to a FOIA request, employees must provide all responsive communications pertaining to university business to the unit processing the request, regardless of where the document or account is stored

As a result of Executive Order 15-09, those employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interests form must also file a Supplemental Statement of Economic Interests form with the EEC

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catastrophic insurance plans

“Yes, we have been involved and this is a short-term deal because we think ultimately block grants going to the states is going to be the answer,” said Trump, referring to a Republican push to block grant health-care funding individually to states.

Russia has been known to work with North Korea, and Sunday, it bolstered North Korea's cyber infrastructure by routing its data through TransTeleCom.

 L’Oreal claim to “no longer test[s] on animals any of its products or any of its ingredients, anywhere in the world. Nor does L’Oréal delegate this task to others.” However, I don’t really want to put them on the list of available brands because they have a terrible track record and I don’t really trust them. Not yet, anyway!

after appearing before a magistrate

he slapped his letterhead on top of it and sent it along to the EPA as official correspondence from the Oklahoma AG

overstated the potential health benefits of pumping less stuff in the air

vague and unsubstantiated reports of a secret meeting last year at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington between Sergey I. Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador, and Jeff Sessions, then a senator and now the attorney general.

though ClearGov lists the city’s population at 60 in 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau put it at 113 that year.

even though there appeared to be no such reporting by the national media.

no study has explained why gun deaths were falling, or why they might be expected to continue to fall.” That poses difficulty in trying to definitively determine the impact of the law, they write.

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“The number of homicide incidents involving a firearm decreased by 57 percent between 1989-90 and 2013-14,” the government crime trends report says. “Firearms were used in 13 percent of homicide incidents (n=32) in 2013-14. In 1989-90 it was 24 percent (n=75) of incidents.”

Below is the chart that appeared in our 2009 Ask FactCheck article, showing a 20 percent decline in homicides from 1996 to 2007.

Toomey got the endorsement of a gun-control group, Everytown for Gun Safety, which ran ads supporting Toomey. But with the NRA not spending any money in the race, it’s a stretch to call that race a loss for the NRA (especially given McGinty’s “F” rating).

Krieg, who is also a member of the Plattsburgh City School Board of Education, recently switched to the Democratic Party because of his frustration with GOP lawmakers, The Watertown Daily Times reported.

"I have been accused of being sexist for calling Elise a little girl, and I probably deserve to be called a sexist," he said. "I think most of us, if we admit it, have some of a sexist in us, some of a racist within us. It's something if we're decent people, we recognize in ourselves and we struggle with it all of our lives."

"I recognize her -- I'm not going to say a little girl -- I recognize her as a child, and it has nothing to do with her age. I see her as a child because she's a child. She thinks like a child. She has people set things up for her. She has people put their words in her mouth and she happily repeats them," Krieg said Tuesday

"sullen," hostile male loner whose profile has become all too familiar to Americans in recent decades.

A Democratic House candidate in New York called sitting Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik a "child" in the process of (semi-)apologizing for previous comments in which he'd called her a "little girl."

What Sinha finds particularly interesting is that Coates will develop his own take based on his reading, making him as much an active participant in the historicizing process as the people he reads.

the wife of Maine’s outspoken governor, Paul LePage

And before I could feel fear, grief or despair, I felt relief that the killer was white.

we can use this survey to calculate the prevalence of police violence for various demographic groups

A disproportionate share of America’s violent offenders are African-American males, but not because they are black. It is because America has failed its black communities, and those of the vulnerable more generally, for decades.

olice are already conducting work to identify and re-train or fire the demonstrably small number of its ranks who behave inappropriately

conflating correlation and causation

Further, more than half of the unarmed people killed by police suffered from mental-health issues, drug intoxication, physical disability, or some combination of them. That’s something public-health policies can address head-on.

reporting the suspect.

property destruction

“In 74 percent of all fatal police shootings, the individuals had already fired shots, brandished a gun or attacked a person with a weapon or their bare hands,” the paper reported in 2015. “Another 16 percent of the shootings came after incidents that did not involve firearms or active attacks but featured other potentially dangerous threats.”

With a few notable exceptions, violent criminal attacks are the best predictor of whom police might shoot in America.

they also plan more stringent enforcement of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that prohibits federal subsidies from being used for insurance policies that cover abortion. The agency will issue guidelines for insurers Friday on how they have to charge women who want abortion coverage at least $12 a year more for such a policy, and they have to keep that money in a separate fund to be used only to pay for abortions.

Longer-acting contraception, like an intrauterine device, can cost more than $1,000

maintaining the religious beliefs that have made our business successful and have supported our family and thousands of our employees and their families.

women who work for Hobby Lobby or the religious group may no longer have access to birth control coverage through the Obama-era workaround.

nd then, last year, the court issued a split ruling in the Little Sisters case, saying the government shouldn't fine the nuns but ordering the two sides to work out an arrangement that accommodates their religious beliefs.

The new rules are being published Friday in the Federal Register and go into effect immediately.

he expects that most companies will continue to provide coverage for birth control and that the changes will only affect a tiny percentage of U.S. women.

"This provides an exemption, and it's a limited one," said Roger Severino, director of the HHS Office of Civil Rights. "We should have space for organizations to live out their religious identity and not face discrimination.

According to senior officials with the Department of Health and Human Services, the goal of the new rule is to allow any company or nonprofit group to exclude the coverage for contraception if it has a religious or moral objection.

The decision on whether the death penalty will be sought is in the hands of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

After the closing, she said the city will remove itself from the project's ownership structure.

The city council also voted Tuesday to allow the use of eminent domain and "quick-take" for some properties where the city and landlord couldn't agree on a sale price. "Quick-take" "is the statutory method to obtain early possession of property in a condemnation action," according to a city council memo. Eminent domain and quick-take were already used once before for Bristol properties and are scheduled to be used again in the future.

Vouchers will go to those who are employed or receiving education or training, unless they're seniors or disabled

Projected rent and utilities costs, as of May 25, show that Bristol will have 41 two-bedroom units at $852, 43 three-bedroom units at $953 and six four-bedroom units at $1,172.

However, the project was criticized during the planning staged by those who accused the city of trying to gentrify a primarily African-American neighborhood.

The city is going ahead with eminent domain proceedings on other structures.