California Republican activists favor John Cox for governor but remain divided

Fighting to put a candidate before voters in November, California Republicans strongly preferred businessman John Cox for governor at the party's convention in San Diego this weekend. During an endorsement vote Sunday morning, delegates favored Cox, 55 to 41 percent, over Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach.

Trump floats ‘closing country for a while’

Washington, May 6 - US President Donald Trump has floated a new idea about border security, saying that people might have to think about closing up the country, the media reported. They don't want the wall but we're going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while, CNN quoted Trump as saying during a tax reform roundtable in Ohio on Saturday.

An Urgent Debate for California Republicans: How to Get Back in the Game

For anyone wondering about the state of the Republican Party here these days, consider this: There may be no Republican candidate for governor or United States senator on the California ballot this November. That dispiriting possibility is beginning to sink in for California Republicans against the backdrop of a divisive debate among its candidates and leaders on how the embattled party can become competitive again in a state where Ronald Reagan was elected twice as governor and that Richard M. Nixon called home.

Gathering aims to relaunch Minuteman project, fortify border, in response to Central American caravan

Minutemen and border security supporters gather before heading to the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday. Pledging to report unauthorized entries into the United States - and shame any state leaders who welcome them - about 20 border security supporters assembled Saturday morning near Jamul.

Trump promotes ‘America First’ in Ohio ahead of primaries

President Donald Trumps gestures during a roundtable discussion on tax reform at Cleveland Public Auditorium and Conference Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday, May 5, 2018. President Donald Trumps gestures during a roundtable discussion on tax reform at Cleveland Public Auditorium and Conference Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday, May 5, 2018.

Trump team discovers facts are stubborn things

Those defending President Trump's nativist initiatives would like to assure you that the policies are not based in bigotry. Trump administration Solicitor General Noel Francisco, defending Trump's travel ban at the Supreme Court last week, asked the justices to ignore Trump's anti-Muslim statements during the campaign, because "the president has made crystal-clear on September 25th that he had no intention of imposing the Muslim ban."

Trump’s anti-life, anti-work initiative

How can we reduce the number of abortions in the United States? One way is to make sure women are confident they'll have medical coverage throughout their pregnancies and after. And how can we encourage people to work? By making work pay, which is why Republicans and Democrats have supported the Earned Income Tax Credit, known as the EITC, which tops off the pay of low-income employees.

GOP fights to hold ground in Democratic bastion California

With the June 5 primary closing in, hundreds of party delegates will spend the weekend in San Diego debating endorsements for candidates seeking statewide offices that are all held by Democrats. Republican registration numbers continue to slide in the state - currently, an anemic 25 percent of the total - and the party could soon suffer the indignity of being eclipsed by independents in voter enrollments.

Woman taking sanctuary in Boulder joins call for action on immigration, path to legal residency

Names four women currently taking sanctuary at Colorado churches - Araceli Velasquez, Ingrid Encalada Latorre, Rosa Sabido and Sandra Lopez - and calls federal and state action to create a path for the women to gain legal residency. Says the four women have complied with all requested of them by the immigration system, short of deportation, and have participated in Colorado life to the fullest and have made extraordinary sacrifices by claiming sanctuary to keep their families together.

Spokane teacher hands Donald Trump letters from refugee students

President Donald Trump presented the National Teacher of the Year award on Wednesday to a Washington state educator who gave him a stack of letters from some of the teenage refugees she teaches that talk about what coming to the U.S. has meant to them. Trump did not mention the types of students Mandy Manning teaches during a White House ceremony honoring her and other winners.

Paxton sues to end DACA

Following through on a months-old promise, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, leading a seven-state coalition against an Obama-era immigration measure that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants nationwide from deportation, including more than 120,000 in Texas. Paxton first threatened in June 2017 to sue over the program if President Donald Trump's administration had not ended it by September.

Despite Donald Trump’s threats, U.S. officials allow caravan members to seek asylum

For weeks, President Donald Trump has expressed alarm about a caravan of Central American migrants heading for the United States and vowed to keep them out. But on Tuesday, U.S. officials allowed a second group of the asylum seekers across the border, their fate now in the hands of immigration officials and judges.