Nutritional Standards for School Lunches Revived by Court
White bread had made a cafeteria comeback but may slip off the menu again after a federal judge restored school nutrition standards on Monday.
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Loosening of Obama-Era Fracking Restrictions OK’d by Federal Judge
The Bureau of Land Management did not violate environmental laws when it rescinded Obama-era restrictions on fracking throughout the western United States, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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White House Touts Economic Growth, Downplays Obama Policies
The White House touted what it called unexpected economic growth in a new report Thursday, as officials brushed aside the idea that the Obama administration should be given credit for the longest expansion on record.
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Neutrality-Wary Obama Kept Public in Dark on Russia Threat, Panel Finds
In an effort to keep above the fray in the 2016 presidential election, former President Barack Obama failed to take actions that would have warned the public about the threat of Russian interference, a bipartisan report found Thursday.
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Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Obamacare Individual Mandate
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday sided with Republican opponents of the Affordable Care Act, finding that the individual mandate tax penalty zeroed out by Congress two years ago is unconstitutional, but it declined to invalidate the entire law.
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10 Years Later, Americans Still Split on Obamacare
Nearly 10 years after its passage, the landmark health care legislation commonly called Obamacare continues to divide Americans according to a new poll.
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Judge Finds Obama Expansion of Oregon Monument Invalid
A federal court judge in Washington found President Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument invalid on Tuesday, contradicting an earlier ruling by a federal judge in Oregon and setting the stage for a judicial showdown.
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Obama-Era Ozone Standards Pass Muster With DC Circuit
Ozone standards established under former President Barack Obama will mostly remain in place after the D.C. Circuit rejected claims Friday by major energy industry players who said existing pollution regulations were too hard to follow.
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Insurers to Get High Court Audience on $12B Obamacare Fight
Taking up what could be a key case for the next term, the Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether the government owes $12 billion to insurance companies that lost money as the health care law overhaul known as the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreObama Water Regulations Criticized as Senate Backs Rule Change
Senate Republicans lambasted the previous administration’s water regulations as a federal power grab Wednesday in a hearing on the new policy rolled out by President Donald Trump.
Read moreReporter’s Surveillance Claims Rejected by Fourth Circuit
The Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former CBS News investigative reporter claiming she was spied on by the Obama administration.
Read moreEx-Obama Counsel Denies Lying About Work for Ukraine
The man who served as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of lying to the federal government about work he and his firm did for the Ukrainian government that was linked to former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.
Read moreEx-Obama Counsel Expects Charges in Mueller-Related Probe
Former Obama administration White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be charged in a foreign lobbying investigation spun off from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, his attorneys said.
Read moreStates Fight Trump Attack on School Meals for Poor Kids
After systematically targeting immigration, health care, foreign policy and the environment — key policies of former President Barack Obama — the Trump administration took aim last year at the former first lady’s signature accomplishment: healthy school breakfast and lunches.
Read moreEPA Urges DC Circuit to Reverse Clean Air Rule
Taking on a Obama-era regulation meant to stop global warming, the EPA joined chemical makers Friday in urging the D.C. Circuit to throw out strict limits on greenhouse gas-emitting hydrofluorocarbons.
Read moreGOP Digs for Obama Intel on Russian Election Meddling
In a bid to shift the focus on Russian political meddling, House Republicans called Tuesday for access to briefings on the 2016 election conducted by members of the Obama administration.
Read moreFederal Judge Revives Collection of Equal Pay Data
The Office of Management and Budget must reinstate an Obama-era rule that will require employers to disclose equal pay data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreDevos Under Fire for Obstacles to Student Debt Relief
A federal judge blocked the Education Department on Monday from dismantling an Obama-era regulation intended to protect student-loan borrowers from predatory lending practices.
Read moreFederal Judge Hears GOP Effort to Kill Obamacare
As protesters chanted outside the courthouse, a federal judge in Texas heard arguments Wednesday over whether to block Obamacare as Texas’ lawsuit to invalidate the health care law on a technicality moves forward.
Read moreFederal Judge Rejects States’ Request to Immediately Stop DACA
Texas waited nearly six years to bring a court challenge of Deferred Action for Early Childhood Arrivals, which shields some immigrants from deportation, so its motion to immediately end the program fails, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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