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GOP leaders thought they had found a way to make the party's warring conservative and moderate wings happy on an issue that has bedeviled them for years Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, smiles before the vote on the House farm bill which failed to pass, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Freedom Caucus opposed the measure, seeking leverage to obtain a vote on a hard-line immigration plan.
President Donald Trump is hammering California for its sanctuary policies in his latest push to resist the "resistance" to his presidency. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is defending his use of the word "animals" to describe some immigrants who enter the country illegally, saying he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members despite a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders.
President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his use of the word "animals" to describe some immigrants who enter the country illegally, saying he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members in spite of a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders. Answering a reporter's question during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump said his comment a day earlier had clearly been directed at members of the MS-13 gang.
While railing against California for its so-called sanctuary immigration policies, President Donald Trump referred to some people who cross the border illegally as "animals" - drawing a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders for the harsh rhetoric. "We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in -- and we're stopping a lot of them," Trump said during the immigration round table after a sheriff commented about gangs.
The Supreme Court decision upholding states' rights to offer sports betting was backed mostly by conservative justices, but it may also give a boost to California and other liberal states that are defying the Trump administration's drive for stricter immigration enforcement. At issue on both fronts - sports betting and immigration - is whether Washington can require states to enforce a federal policy, or instead, whether they are free to go their own way.
Arnold Schwarzenegger tried urging Donald Trump to join him in his campaign for a better environment by appealing to the president's affinity for "winning." Speaking Tuesday morning at the R20 Austrian World Summit, an offshoot of Schwarzenegger's international non-profit, the former California governor urged Trump to take more action on climate change and ditch fossil fuels, saying such an effort would result in lots of victories.
The House Democrats' campaign arm is ramping up its spending in key California races three weeks out from the primaries, including plans to go up on the air in the race for retiring GOP Rep. Darrel Issa's seat. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's independent expenditure has purchased $410,500 on broadcast and $113,900 on cable in the San Diego media market, according to a source familiar with the media competitive.
1 priority is simple: Don't leave his successor the same mess he did the last time. In this file photo, Amado Nanalang watches basketball games while making bets at a sports book in Las Vegas.
California Gov. Jerry Brown faces a bruising fight with the Legislature over funding for welfare, health care and higher education after producing a revised budget proposal that shows a lot more money but not a lot more spending. The state's budget surplus has ballooned to nearly $9 billion, the largest in at least 18 years, at a time when California is facing serious challenges like rising homelessness and growing inequality.
Three members of President Donald Trump's transition team urged the White House Thursday to stay the course on a ruling rolling back fuel efficiency standards crafted during Obama's administration. Analysts Shirley Ybarra, Myron Ebell, and Thomas Pyle are encouraging Trump to stay the course on reforms to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy .
Former Rep. George Miller eloquently urges us to work together to protect our state from the effects of global warming. But carbon emissions from the United States have accumulated for decades and will ravage the entire world.
JANUARY 30: Surfers leave the water just off the coast on January 30, 2017 in Venice Beach, California. Tim Draper, the billionaire venture capitalist and legend in the world of cryptocurrency, has an idea: Let's split California into three separate states.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom speaks during a debate at the California Theatre, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in San Jose, Calif. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom speaks during a debate at the California Theatre, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in San Jose, Calif.
In this March 8, 2018 file photo California gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses the state's housing problems at a conference in Sacramento, Calif.
Candidates for California governor, from top left: Republican Travis Allen, Democrat John Chiang, Republican John Cox, Democrats Delaine Eastin, Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa. Californians who've been trying their best to avoid thinking about politics over the last year and a half might wake up to a rude surprise in their mailbox this week.
WEBVTT MIKE: WE CAN EXPECT FRONT RUNNER GAVIN NEWSOM TO BE THE PRIMARY TARGET OF MUDSLINGING. BUT HE'LL BE DOING HIS BEST TO AVOID MAKING ANY MISTAKES.
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.
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.
Chased out of much of California by Democrats who hold every statewide office and a 39-14 advantage in U.S. House seats, the party is trying to hold its ground in a place whose nickname, the Orange Curtain, recalls its famous Republican bona fides and where white, suburban homeowners once delivered winning margins for its candidates year after year. But that's changed.
Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D., D-Palm Desert, on Friday released a letter signed by 38 of the state's 39 Democratic members of the House of Representatives in opposition to reopening the DRECP. The letter to Bureau of Land Management state Director Jerome Perez was written by Rep. Ruiz and argued against the Department of Interior's recent threat to overhaul the DRECP, which was years in the making. The DRECP was crafted with input from thousands of Californians, as well as business and mining leaders, environmentalists, farmers, recreational enthusiasts and more.