Tag: Utah

The Labor Department announced Wednesday it is suing the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which it says forced hundreds of children in Utah and Arizona to harvest pecans with their bare hands, and for no pay.Â (AP Photo/Susanne Schafer)

Labor Dept. sues church that made kids harvest pecans

Pete Kasperowicz · September 9, 2015 10:29 pm

Taxpayers with more than $10 million of income saw their average rates rise from 19.8 percent to 26.1 percent, equivalent to an average tax hike of $1.52 million.Â (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

The rich are paying a lot more in taxes

Washington Examiner Staff · September 8, 2015 4:01 am

David Ritz, 65, stands as a volunteer escort outside Affiliated Medical Services, a Milwaukee abortion clinic, on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo)Â

States report declining abortions

Paige Winfield Cunningham · September 4, 2015 4:01 am

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthyÂ directed the agency's regional offices to halt investigative work at the mines unless there is "imminent risk," while another federal agency or "another external entity" conducts a review to determine what went wrong.Â (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

EPA calls for internal, external reviews of mine accident

Zack Colman · August 12, 2015 9:52 pm

"The federal Government is asking our people to waive their future rights because they know without the waiver they will be paying millions to our people," Russell Begaye said in a press release. (Wikimedia Commons)

Energy and Environment

Claim: EPA trying to limit Navajo compensation for toxic spill

John Siciliano · August 12, 2015 6:31 pm

Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah appears as Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew arrives to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, before a House Financial Services committee hearing on the annual report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mia Love on Obama’s ‘incredibly scary’ Iran nuke deal

Becket Adams · July 15, 2015 10:39 pm

This March 11, 2015, file photo, shows the floor of the House of Representatives, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Utah fails to expand Medicaid

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 8, 2015 3:37 pm

Suspect anthrax sent to 52 labs, 18 states; number likely to rise

National Security

Suspect anthrax sent to 52 labs, 18 states; number likely to rise

Tara Copp · June 4, 2015 8:31 pm

Dugway Proving Ground military base, about 85 miles southwest Salt Lake City, Utah. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Pentagon warns of more live anthrax discoveries

Tara Copp · June 3, 2015 3:02 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Utah’s radioactive

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2015 9:00 pm

Dugway Proving Ground military base, about 85 miles southwest Salt Lake City, Utah. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart, File)

Suspect anthrax samples turn up in Australia

Robert King · May 29, 2015 3:44 pm

Marco Rubio Winning the Mike Lee Primary?

Michael Warren · April 10, 2015 5:01 pm