News of the day from across the nation, March 31
House Speaker Paul Ryan warned Republicans to unify around a new push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act or risk tempting President Trump to cut a deal with Democrats that runs counter to Republican goals.
Most oppose key elements of the short-circuited GOP proposal to overhaul former President Barack Obama’s health care law, including Medicaid cuts and surcharges for people whose coverage lapses.
3 Pipeline challenge: A coalition of environmental groups is challenging the federal permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline in court because they say additional environmental scrutiny is needed.
The proposed pipeline that TransCanada wants to build would carry crude oil through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska where it would connect with an existing Keystone pipeline network that moves crude to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
A Senate panel on Thursday voted along party lines, 12-11, to advance Acosta’s nomination to all 100 members of the chamber for a confirmation vote.
“Angel of Death”: A serial killer known as the “Angel of Death” after he admitted killing three dozen hospital patients in Ohio and Kentucky died Thursday, two days after investigators said he was attacked in prison, Ohio’s prisons department said.
Donald Harvey, who was serving multiple life sentences, was found beaten in his cell Tuesday afternoon at the state’s prison in Toledo, state officials said.