The 24-hour news cycle is filled with political coverage, but not everything gets the attention it deserves. Here are five politics stories you may have missed in the past week.
- Washington state will require court order to release driver's license info to immigration authorities
- Trump unites Democrats and Republicans — to oppose his offshore drilling plan
- The Senate's push to overrule the FCC on net neutrality now has 50 votes, Democrats say
- Kentucky is first to get OK for Medicaid work requirement
- Five Decades of White Backlash
After a Seattle Times report found that the state's licensing department was giving personal information to federal immigration authorities, the agency announced a series of reforms. — Seattle Times, 1/15
The Trump administration's proposal to open all of the country's outer continental shelf to energy exploration is being met with bipartisan disapproval in Congress. — Los Angeles Times, 1/11
Democrats are one Republican vote shy from overturning the Federal Communications Commission's decision to end net neutrality and prohibit it from making such a measure again in the future. — Washington Post, 1/15
The Trump administration approved Kentucky's plan to tie Medicaid coverage to work requirements. — Associated Press, 1/12
President Trump is the "embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact," Vann Newkirk writes. — The Atlantic, 1/15