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A violent storm system with relentless rains and fierce winds that pounded the southern and central U.S. over the weekend could lead to treacherous flooding in the days ahead. The system that stretched from Texas to the Canadian maritime provinces left a path of destruction as it cut eastward Sunday: Homes were leveled, trees uprooted, cars demolished.
As vehicles line up at the Border Patrol's checkpoint a half-hour drive's north of the U.S.-Mexico border, its agents have around 10 seconds to check each driver and decide which few they will stop for additional inspection. It's a situation challenged constantly by smugglers, sometimes with deadly consequences.
In the battle of the classified memos in the House Intelligence Committee, both sides have now had their say on whether the FBI and Justice Department acted inappropriately as they began investigating President Donald Trump's ties to Russia. A Democratic memo that was declassified Saturday, with sections blacked out and after weeks of delays, aimed to defend the FBI and Justice Department's conduct.
WASHINGTON  If the state's congressional delegation has its way, one of the first lines of defense against incoming ballistic missiles would be an Ohio Army National Guard base in a northeast Ohio city of 11,533. Ohio's congressional delegation is in the midst of what one congressman calls a "full court press" to land an East Coast Missile Defense site in Ravenna, Ohio - a site that would, along with bases in California and Alaska, be capable of fending off long- and intermediate-range missiles, presumably from Iran or North Korea.
Two weeks after President Donald Trump blocked its full release, the House Intelligence Committee published a blacked out version of a classified Democratic memo aiming to counter a GOP narrative that the FBI and Justice Department conspired against Trump as they investigated his ties to Russia. The document's release Saturday was the latest development in an extraordinary back and forth between Republicans and Democrats about the credibility of multiple inquiries into links between the Trump campaign and Russia, and the integrity of the top U.S. law enforcement agencies.
President Donald Trump joined Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night by phone. What he and Judge Janine didn't say is the hottest news item in the incredibly newsworthy interview.
The Republican State Committee's endorsement of U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta for the U.S. Senate seat held by Bob Casey may thin the GOP field of candidates, a public affairs professor said last week. "Barletta is the odds-on favorite to win the primary," said G. Terry Madonna, a professor at Franklin & Marshall College.
Operators of a mobile farmers market are stepping in to try to fill some of the gap left in a Little Rock neighborhood after the area's only grocery store closed this month. One of the owners, Chad Evans, said Friday that the store was unable to negotiate a favorable lease with the building owner.
By MANIK MEHTA NEW YORK, Feb 25 -- The increasingly influential Malaysian Chinese community, galvanized under the Malaysian Chinese Association Club as part of the Malaysian Association of America , celebrated on Friday night here the Chinese lunar year in pomp and style while, at the same time, preserving the Chinese cultural traditions. The large hall of the New Mulan Restaurant in the Chinese-dominated Flushing district of New York - was packed with Malaysian Chinese and their families, along American guests, attired in colourful clothing and applauding the traditional lion dance that is emblematic of the lunar year.
Republican leaders in the state legislature last week unveiled their long-awaited proposal to continue the expansion of Medicaid in New Hampshire, hoping to continue government-funded health insurance for the 50,000 or so Granite Staters who've come on board since eligibility was expanded as part of Obamacare.
When the Republican-controlled Congress first approved its tax bill in December, most Democrats believed it would be a political loser for the GOP. Indeed, a New York Times poll found that just 37 percent of Americans approved of the plan.
Will your vote be safe this year from foreign adversaries working to undermine U.S. democracy? Some of the nation's governors aren't so sure. State leaders of both parties worried aloud Sunday about the security of America's election systems against possible cyberattacks ahead of this fall's midterm elections, aware that Russian agents targeted more than 20 states little more a year ago, and the Trump administration has taken a mostly hands-off approach to the continued interference.
Hours after a controversial memo was released Saturday as a rebuttal to serious allegations about the FBI, President Trump called into Fox News and said he felt the document "was a nothing" and merely verified allegations that the FBI had abused its power. "It was a nothing," he told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.
Esperanza Perez, the mother of a Green Card veteran ordered to be deported to Mexico, clutched an American flag to her chest Saturday outside the Kenosha County Detention Center, where her son is being detained. "He asked, 'Can I take it? Because I fought for this,'" she said.
California Democrats struggled to narrow the field Saturday in several U.S. House races critical to the party's hope of taking back Congress in the midterm elections. None of the five candidates in the Orange County district currently held by retiring Republican Rep. Darrell Issa gained enough support to win the party's official endorsement, exacerbating concerns that a crowded field could make it easier for Republicans to hold the seat.
Democratic congressional candidate Doug Applegate, left, talks with delegate Stephan Bartram in front of supporters at the 2018 California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, in San Diego. Democratic congressional candidate Doug Applegate, left, talks with delegate Stephan Bartram in front of supporters at the 2018 California Democrats State Convention Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018, in San Diego.
When the Republican-controlled Congress first approved its tax bill in December, most Democrats believed it would be a political loser for the GOP. Indeed, a New York Times poll found that just 37 percent of Americans approved of the plan.
Was the application to obtain a FISA surveillance warrant on former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page a major FBI and Justice Department abuse that amounted to politically motivated surveillance? Or was it the proper extension of an FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump and Russia? Saturday's release of a Democratic House Intelligence Committee memo rebutting an earlier GOP memo alleging FBI abuse of the surveillance process shows just how diametrically opposed the committee's Democrats and Republicans are when it comes to the FISA surveillance of Page - and the origins of the larger investigation into Trump and Russia now led by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Giovana Ortiz fought back sobs as she told the audience of the uncertainty she experienced as an undocumented immigrant who was brought to the United States when she was 2. She discussed being raised as an American but trying to take the PSATs and SATs without a Social Security number. She detailed how she spiraled into a deep depression as college seemed increasingly out of the question.
The two challenges filed against former U.S. Rep. Bobby Bright's candidacy as a Republican in the upcoming District 2 Congressional primary have been blocked. At Saturday's hearing, Bright was informed he can run as a Republican in the upcoming District 2 congressional primary.