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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

News in Numbers
From 42 to 15
Cut in cabinet-level agencies proposed by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
October 04, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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As 1 Supreme Court Justice Survives Impeachment in West Virginia, Others Face Trial
After deliberating behind closed doors for just under 2 hours, 20 minutes Tuesday afternoon, the West Virginia Senate soundly rejected removing Supreme Court Justice Beth Walker from office for maladministration.
October 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Citing PTSD and Depression, Rising Democratic Star Jason Kander Drops Out of Kansas City Mayor's Race
Jason Kander, citing depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, is dropping out of the Kansas City mayor's race.
October 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Voters walking toward a polling station with ballots in hand.
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The Most Important Ballot Measure Results
From health care and immigration to redistricting and transportation funding, voters decided a long list of policies.
October 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
@senatorfain, you raped me the night I graduated from Georgetown in 2007. Then you had the audacity to ask me to support your campaign. I've been terrified of running into you since moving home and seeing your name everywhere. I'm done being silent.
Candace Faber, who says the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing inspired her to tweet her allegations against Washington state Senate Minority Floor Leader Joe Fain, who denies her account.
October 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
Almost $25 billion
Extra money -- beyond their cost of care -- that immigrants covered by employers paid toward private health insurance premiums in 2014. U.S.-born people covered by employers spent the opposite: nearly $25 billion less on premiums when compared to the cost of their care.
October 03, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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'Sextortion' Outlawed in Maryland
Using threats of shame or economic harm to coerce a person into having sex will become explicitly illegal in Maryland under one of the hundreds of new laws that take effect Monday in the state.
October 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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Truck Crashes Into Protesters in Michigan
Eight people were hospitalized when a truck crashed into a large group of people protesting early Tuesday.
October 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
Who Said That
I'd like to kill her, but I can't.
Michael Cioffi, police chief of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., allegedly caught on tape talking about the town council president.
October 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
News in Numbers
62,000
Cases dismissed in the last two years by a largely unregulated "secret court" in Massachusetts, which is unlike any other in the country and run by governor-appointed clerks who may or may not have gone to college. In nearly 30 percent of the thrown-out cases, some involving death, a clerk concluded there was probable cause that the accused committed a crime. Police and politicians include people who have dodged charges this way.
October 02, 2018
 · Caroline Cournoyer
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