Saturday, June 27, 2026

Tag: Arkansas

Trump rule narrows Medicaid exemptions as work requirements move toward nationwide...

A new CMS rule implementing Republican-backed Medicaid work requirements adopts a stricter definition of medical frailty, raising concerns that millions of low-income Americans could face new bureaucratic hurdles to maintaining health coverage.

Arkansas sheriff convicted of assaulting two detainees in custody

“The Justice Department will continue to vigorously prosecute officers who abuse their authority to make clear that no one is above the law.”

Little Rock, Arkansas launches program that invests in the city’s homeless...

The program is a “day's work for a day's pay and access to resources that will help them get to the next step to create the life that they want."

Police release audio recording of woman drowning during 911 call

“I understand that listening to a person going through the panic that Ms. Stevens was in those final moments of her life, we would all hope that we would get a little bit better response than perhaps she was given."

Former State Senator sentenced to 18 years in prison for bribery...

“Jonathan Woods violated the public’s trust and misused his authority for the purpose of lining his own pockets."

Former judge sentenced to prison for bribery scheme and witness tampering

The former judge was sentenced to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a fine of $50,000.

It takes FIVE MILLION gallons of freshwater to frack a single...

Five million gallons equals 250,000 bathtubs, or seven Olympic-sized swimming pools.

An attempted mass killing in Arkansas

Whether or not Gov. Asa Hutchinson has his way, the lives of eight men hang in the balance.

People in Arkansas Poisoned by Koch Brothers-Owned Paper Plant

Residents have been reported experiencing respiratory and sinus problems, sore throats, nausea and allergies which could be from these factory toxins.

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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture

The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."

Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future

Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.

Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta 

Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.

Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool

The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.

Addicted to war?

War Fever, Trump-Style.