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CBS' "Face the Nation" brings you the latest debate and analysis following the tragedy in Orlando with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre, and Senator Dianne Feinstein. Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump weighs in from the campaign trail.
Dear Editor: Americans are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists, call them ISIS or call them Al Qaeda, Americans are calling it "terrorist attacks." Ever since the massacre in Boston, and then San Bernardino, and now Orlando, Florida on 6/12, President Obama still refuses to call this enemy "Radical Islam" or "Islamic Terrorists" - he continues to carry the liberal banner that it's a "criminal" offense, or "hate crime."
Decisions made across the Atlantic Ocean often seem worlds away to most Americans. But in today's increasingly globalized world, votes such as the June 23 referendum in the United Kingdom deciding whether to leave the European Union can have a significant impact on the United States - and here on the Seacoast.
The Hermon Volunteer Fire Department has been awarded $62,381 in federal funding to purchase 10 pieces of self-contained breathing apparatus for firefighters. The funding was allocated through the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and announced Thursday by U.S. senators Charles E. Schumer, D-NY, and Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-NY.
Leaders in business and agriculture, including the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau, have joined forces to create the Engage Cuba Texas State Council, which will push to have travel and trade restrictions abolished between the United States and the island country 90 miles from Florida. The goal is to give farmers and manufacturers a multibillion-dollar economic nudge by permitting the sale of products to Cuba.
Leaders in business and agriculture, including the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau, have joined forces to create the Engage Cuba Texas State Council that will push to have travel and trade restrictions abolished between the United States and the island country 90 miles from Florida. The goal is to give farmers and manufacturers a multi-billion-dollar economic nudge by permitting the sale of products to Cuba.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz broke down in tears Saturday with almost three dozen union members flanking her at a press conference, attempting to highlight her support among organized labor groups after the Florida AFL-CIO declined to endorse her last week. "When I could choose to work in Florida, unfortunately a right-to-work state, I chose to join a labor union and I was very proud to do that," Wasserman Schultz said.
Sen. Chris Murphy addresses a room full of residents, elected officials and leaders from the LGBT and Muslim communities during a roundtable meeting at the Rainbow CafA Meeting Room in the First Congregational Church of Stamford on Saturday, June 18, 2016. In the wake of the devastating event that occurred last weekend in Orlando, Senator Murphy , along with Senator Richard Blumenthal and Stamford Mayor David Martin joined in discussion with LGBT and Muslim communities to look for ways on how we can move forward together to combat hate in our society.
Approximately 2000 Virginia Democrats convened at the Richmond Convention Center, Saturday, June 18, 2016, to pick delegates to the national convention.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Congressman Jim Himes, and Stamford Mayor David Martin are hosting a public meeting with Connecticut's Muslim and LGBT leaders on the Orlando shooting. The meeting is being held Saturday, June 18, at 9 a.m. in the Rainbow Cafe Meeting Room at the First Congregational Church, 1 Walton Place, Stamford.
TRENTON - Ever since Donald Trump announced a year ago that he was running for president, he's consistently faced sharp criticism for his statements about Hispanics and Muslims. In the last few weeks alone, the presumptive Republican nominee has been called a racist for comments about a judge's "Mexican heritage" and a bigot for reiterating in the wake of the Orlando shooting that the U.S. should fight terrorism by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country.
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins is working with a bipartisan group of senators on an alternative bill that she hopes will break the partisan gridlock in Congress over gun control. Her proposal, coming in the wake of the horrific massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando by a gunman pledging allegiance to ISIS, would bar gun sales to those on the government's no-fly list.
In this May 23, 2005 file photo, real estate mogul and Reality TV star Donald Trump, left, listens as Michael Sexton introduces him at a news conference in New York where he announced the establishment of Trump University. The presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Trump are both trying to prevent the public release of videos that are critical to legal cases involving the candidates.
Amilia Glikman, 39, of Sacramento, has been appointed chief counsel at the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, where she has been assistant chief counsel since 2015 and served as an attorney from 2012 to 2015. She served as an attorney at the Sacramento County Superior Court from 2010 to 2012 and was an associate at Downey Brand LLP from 2002 to 2010.
First came the grimaces - the disbelieving eyes trained upon his shirt, his signs, his car window stickers broadcasting a local betrayal. Then his teenage son refused to drive the family car without redecorating, hiding the three "Make America Great Again" hats that usually sit atop the dashboard.
At the national Panther Veteran Organization reunion, Congressman Brian Higgins presented the family of United States Army veteran Sergeant George Dennis with a Bronze Star and other medals earned while serving in World War II. The Bronze Star is awarded to members of the military distinguishing themselves by heroic service while engaged in an action against an armed enemy.
His campaign roiled by infighting and Republican revolt, Donald Trump is working to address a battleground state staffing shortage that highlights his reliance on a skeptical GOP establishment.
The Vermont senator is executing an intricate endgame to the Democratic primary that he hopes will continue to inspire the 12 million voters who flocked to him, while drawing lines in the political sand that Hillary Clinton and other establishment leaders won't dare to cross. But come January, he will face an existential test: Can his self-proclaimed revolution survive the move from stadiums roaring with adoring fans to the wood-paneled congressional hearing rooms and private political offices of Washington? Sanders' allies believe their colleague, a 25-year veteran of the House and Senate, returns to his job as a senator in Washington with new power to influence and shape policy on the issues he built his campaign on.
The head of the Federal Railroad Administration got an earful Friday from a couple dozen northern Colorado elected leaders who have had their fill of trains blasting their horns at all hours of the day and night. Mayors and council members from Fort Collins, Greeley and Longmont, among others, asked FRA Administrator Sarah Feinberg for ways to lessen the impact of the agency's 2005 train horn rule , which requires engineers to sound a four-blast pattern at all crossings.