Days after the state’s primary, California voters are in a familiar position — waiting to find out which candidates will go on to the general election in their most high-profile races, for governor and Los Angeles mayor. It’s not surprising those have yet to be resolved, along with several closely contested congressional races, because the […]
A two-year investigation into immigrants with fake identity documents led to federal officials detaining 48 workers at a South Carolina metal casting business and six people facing state charges, including two top managers at the plant, authorities announced Thursday. Dozens of officials with federal and local law enforcement agencies raided Burnstein von Seelen Precision Castings […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is on course to pass legislation that would aid Ukraine and sanction key segments of the Russian economy despite opposition from Republican leaders who warn the bill will undermine negotiations designed to achieve a comparable but stronger result. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., seeks to cement U.S. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Water began refilling the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday, President Donald Trump announced from the Oval Office. Trump showed a video during an unrelated event with water bubbling into the freshly painted basin at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. “That’s clean, beautiful water,” the president said. Live video […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry, with an announcement expected Thursday to spend nearly $700 million to support coal-fired power plants and coal exports. A White House official said the administration will use authority under a Cold War-era national defense law to support 13 coal […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — June is widely recognized as Pride Month, but a handful of Republican governors have also bestowed non-LGBTQ titles on it that advocates on both sides view as counterprogramming. Without directly saying the idea was to replace Pride, the governors of Indiana and Tennessee rebranded June as Nuclear Family Month to […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday. The deal would resolve a criminal case filed […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in a case about the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision upheld one of the Federal Communications Commission’s key tools, though the companies also won a concession from the Republican administration that could shift […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans cleared the first hurdle on Thursday as they are struggling to pass legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies, narrowly beating back a Democratic effort to permanently block Trump from creating a $1.776 billion settlement fund for payouts to allies who claim they were persecuted by the government. […]
The House for the first time has approved a war powers resolution that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats to end the three-month-long conflict that has reordered politics at home and abroad. Meanwhile, the Republican-led Senate is moving forward with legislation […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year ago, the White House was unleashing a blitz on higher education. At one campus after another, Trump officials opened investigations and cut federal funding unless schools fell in line with the Republican president’s political agenda. Now, after a campaign that put dozens of universities under investigation, President Donald Trump’s administration […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama Presidential Center will open June 19 more than a decade after the former president chose his hometown of Chicago for the project. The museum displays campaign memorabilia and presidential artifacts, while its campus showcases a new community basketball court, public library and playground. A look at the numbers behind the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama’s influence in his presidential museum runs deep, from the location on Chicago’s South Side to textured stone adorning its dramatic tower to striped reading chairs that are similar to ones in his own home. The Obama Presidential Center opens to the general public on Juneteenth after a celebratory […]
In 2018, when he was just 3 years old, Ederson Galicia Alva was taken from his mother’s arms at the U.S.-Mexico border under the first Trump administration’s family separation policy and kept apart from her in a government facility for months. They were finally reunited after lawyers intervened. Then, in June of last year, he […]
Eleven-year-old Ederson Galicia Alva had just stepped off the plane and into the Miami airport’s dim hallways when federal agents pulled his mother aside for questioning. Again. Panic welled up. His excitement at soon being back at recess with his Florida classmates fell away. Would the government take her away again? This was not his […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is facing warnings from foes and allies alike that he’s getting boxed in on the Iran war, a conflict he sold as a brief military incursion but that has since settled into a holding pattern. It’s been nearly a week since U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will nominate Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, tapping his former personal lawyer who has aggressively pursued the Republican president’s agenda while leading the Justice Department in an acting role. Trump said at a dinner at the White House that he plans to nominate […]
HONOLULU (AP) — A lawsuit filed this week in U.S. court in Honolulu challenges a century-old system that provides one of the most valuable benefits for Native Hawaiians: land at almost no cost. The lawsuit says the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, which sets aside land for those who have at least 50% Hawaiian blood quantum, […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Dozens of anti-immigration enforcement protesters who face federal criminal charges after they interrupted a Minnesota church service in January, accompanied by former CNN journalist Don Lemon, will not additionally face state charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday. St. Paul City Attorney Irene Kao said in a statement that “current evidence is […]
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s government directed its television and communications regulator to back down from a recent decision to triple financial contributions required from U.S. streaming services such as Netflix for Canadian content, the country’s culture minister said Wednesday. Instead, Culture Minister Marc Miller said, the government will invest hundreds of millions of dollars […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has given a man convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol a job in the Pentagon’s policy office, according to officials and internal records. “Mr. Elias Irizarry is a qualified, patriotic young professional, and we are proud to have him as a political appointee,” acting […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement will increase the amount of training for new officers next month, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Wednesday, after criticism that the agency was loosening standards as it rushed to deploy more deportation officers. Mullin’s comments came during a heated congressional hearing when he was asked about when […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Steve Hilton has painted California as a state bursting with potential that has lost its way under Democratic leadership in his bid to be the state’s first Republican governor in more than 15 years. “We have a responsibility to revive California so it is once again that symbol of everything that […]
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will not testify before Congress next week about the league’s broadcast deals and its recent practice of airing games on paywalled streaming services. Goodell declined an invitation to appear at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on June 10 “due to ongoing litigation related to the topic of the hearing,” the league’s […]
