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U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro speaks during the #WhereAreTheChildren rally in support of immigrant children and families at the at the Guadalupe Cultural Center on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Groups participating included the Texas Organizing Project, MALC, and RAICES.
In this Dec. 4, 2017, photo, people walk by Google offices in New York. Google is blaming "vandalism" at Wikipedia for search results that incorrectly said the ideology of the California Republican Party included "Nazism."
In this Tuesday, May 29, 2018 photo, Adam Smith, left, founder and executive director, Oregon Craft Cannabis Alliance, is shown a marijuana variety called Cherry Skunk by Tree PDX marijuana shop owner Brooke Smith at her shop in Po... . In this Tuesday, May 29, 2018 photo, Tree PDX marijuana shop owner Brooke Smith poses for a photo outside her small shop in Portland, Ore.
Its crunch time in the primary for California governor, with candidates exploring creative strategies and benefiting from massive spending as they try to tear down - or lift up - their rivals in the race's final days. Six major candidates are vying to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown as leader of the nation's most populous state, a liberal stronghold that has taken an outsized role in combating President Donald Trump and his policies on immigration, climate change and more.
Shannon Kula, a Farmington resident and longtime U.S. Senate employee, filed paperwork Wednesday with the Federal Elections Commission to run for Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty's soon-to-be vacant seat. Kula was employed most recently as director of the Women's Leadership Center at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford.
People who retire are finally allowed to say what they actually think. So liberating! Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy says the FBI not only did nothing wrong in using an informant, but that they did what the public would want them to do : Outgoing Rep. Trey Gowdy , the House Oversight Committee chairman and a Trump supporter, said in an interview on Fox that the FBI was justified in using a secret informant to assist in the Russia investigation.
President Donald Trump is poised to play offense against midterms elections history, planning an aggressive travel schedule in support of Republican incumbents from now until November, CNN reports. The president is in Texas on Thursday, the second campaign stop this week alone.
ACLU Border Advocacy Strategist, Michael Seifert, along with Juanita Valdez-Cox of L.U.P.E, US Rep., Filemon Vela, Rochelle Garza, an attorney from Brownsville and Amber Arriaga with Projecto Azteca Equal Voice Network during a round table discussion of the "no tolerance" at the Lower Rio Grande Development Council in Weslaco Wednesday, May 30, ... (more)
The National Flood Insurance Program , a vital but cracking foundation for homeowners and businesses alike in south Louisiana, expires in one month. Lawmakers have been trying for years to stabilize it for the long term, but they might simply pass yet another short-term extension by mid-summer, again putting off the painful repairs.
A federal study shows math scores are 10 percentage points lower for students using vouchers to attend private schools in Washington, D.C., compared with their peers who applied but weren't selected. The study from the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Education Department, assessed children two years after they applied for the government subsidies.
Chicago's public schools will make pre-kindergarten available to 3,700 more children next fall as part of a four-year plan to provide it to every 4-year-old in the city. Mayor Rahm Emanuel says implementing universal full-day pre-kindergarten for all of the children regardless of their families' financial status will "further close the achievement gap."
An independent organization backing Democrats launched a digital TV commercial against U.S. House Republican candidate Troy Balderson for not giving up $10,000 in campaign contributions to the founder of defunct online school ECOT. The 30-second commercial, which can be seen on Facebook and other digital platforms, charges that Balderson, the Republican nominee for the 12th Congressional District in central Ohio, has refused to return contributions from Bill Lager, whose Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow collapsed in January, forcing around 12,000 students to enroll in other schools.
Prosecutors on Wednesday released three brief videos in which the accused gunman in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Valentine's Day massacre in Parkland, Florida, can be heard outlining his plans to carry out the rampage, which left 17 people dead. Nikolas Cruz, 19, is heard in the recordings saying that he wanted to be a school shooter and sought notoriety, officials said.
As President Donald Trump publicly lashed out again at his own Attorney General on Wednesday over the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, a key Republican in Congress said for a second day that a top secret briefing provided to a handful of lawmakers last week showed no evidence of FBI misconduct, as agents were simply trying to figure out what Russia was doing with respect to the Trump Campaign and the 2016 elections. "I think if the FBI were at the table this morning, they would tell you that Russia was the target, and Russia's intentions toward the country were the target," Gowdy said on CBS "This Morning."
White House Press Secretary Sarah Hucakbee Sanders said Wednesday President Donald Trump is "not defending" the comments made by actress Roseanne Barr, but pointing out a media bias on free speech. WASHINGTON - There is no evidence that the FBI planted a "spy" on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, a senior House Republican said Wednesday, contradicting Trump's repeated insistence that the agency inserted a "spy for political reasons and to help Crooked Hillary win."
The Republican-controlled Virginia General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday evening to a state budget expanding Medicaid coverage to the state's poor, ending years of partisan gridlock on the issue. The state Senate voted in favor of expansion after a full day of debate.
AUSTIN - Laurie Felker Jones immediately thought of her two kids when she learned about the Trump administration's family separation policy. "When I heard about what was happening, it was very easy to look at my children and understand what It's like when they're afraid and understand what it's like to be there for them or when we can't be there for them for some reason," she said.
On a Tuesday evening in February 2017, I stood up on the floor of the U.S. Senate and launched into a review of the record of President Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions. Part way into my speech, I started reading a letter written by Coretta Scott King.