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The California Coastal Commission is set to consider today whether to approve Humboldt County's request to open up unused coastal lands around Humboldt Bay to new industries - including cannabis. But county Planning and Building Department Director John Ford said there are several steps and approvals that must take place before a cannabis business could even be considered to open in these areas.
It sharply condemns conservatism for its role in a "culture of vicious dehumanization," not to mention its sins of incoherence, rejection of empirical fact and plain hypocrisy.
A rally will be held outside Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' event on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. to protest what some feel is a refusal to listen to her constituents on issues such as health care, immigration, and other key issues. "Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers refused to hold any public events before voting to take away health care from 23 million Americans," said Mariah McKay, one of the leaders of Fuse Spokane.
Over a U.S. Air Force base in the New Mexico desert, pilots on Wednesday tested some off-the-shelf options as the military looks for its next light-attack aircraft. Test flights for the experiment known as the OA-X initiative are being conducted at Holloman Air Force Base.
The Latest on a federal investigators searching offices of a consultant to U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter's congressional campaign : The firm that managed finances for California Republican Duncan Hunter's congressional campaign confirms that the FBI searched its offices. Jason Torchinsky, an attorney for Election CFO, said Wednesday that the firm's offices in Alexandria, Virginia, were searched on Feb. 23. He says the firm and its employees have cooperated fully with government inquiries and have no reason to believe that they are targets of any investigation.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to sue the Department of Justice because it's asking the Chicago Police Department to obey the law perfectly illustrates the dangerous disdain the modern Left has for normal Americans. On July 25, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked all cities, states, and territories applying for a very specific federal law enforcement grant to adhere to three new, very reasonable measures: To openly communicate with the Department of Homeland Security, to allow DHS officers to meet with locally-held prisoners who live in the country illegally and have been arrested for non-immigration related crimes, and to give the Department 48 hours notice before releasing such prisoners.
Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets - especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.
" A top White House aide and a Fox News host lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for saying people think Congress hasn't done anything this year partly because President Donald Trump is inexperienced and had "excessive expectations" about how quickly lawmakers could act. The back and forth was an unusually negative public exchange between Republicans that came less than two weeks after the GOP effort to repeal and replace the Obama health care law was rejected by the Senate.
Legendary rocker Ted Nugent on Wednesday blasted the "goofball" in the Michigan Republican Party who started the rumor that Kid Rock was going to run for the U.S. Senate. Nugent put to rest any notion that Bob Ritchie - a.k.a Kid Rock - was going to run against Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the Democrat up for re-election in 2018.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said he was surprised at the "hysteria" over President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" rhetoric against North Korea. "This is how North Korea talks, so why not give it a shot to say, 'You talk about fire and fury, you say you are going to bury the United States in fire and fury? Hey, we got some fire and fury for you, too, if you want to play that game,'" Kinzinger said Wednesday on CNN's "New Day."
Protesters against the Republic health care proposals chant slogans and wave protest banners inside the office of Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., at the Russell Senate Office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 19, 2017. DENVER - Charges against five people who protested the Senate health care bill and then refused to leave U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner's Denver office have been dropped.
Rep. Todd Rokita officially jumped into the Indiana Senate race on Wednesday, a long-expected decision that formalizes what's already become a brutal Republican primary in the bid to unseat vulnerable Sen. Joe Donnelly Anti-abortion Democrats fading from the scene Senate Dems unveil trade agenda Senate pivots to tax reform fight MORE The Indiana congressman has long been gearing up for a bid and has not shied away from bruising battles with GOP opponent fellow Rep. Luke Messer , with whom he has sparred for months in one of the more contentious primaries ahead of the 2018 midterms.
Residents of the tiny Pacific island of Guam say they're afraid of being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea after Pyongyang announced it was examining plans for attacking the strategically important U.S. territory. Though local officials downplayed any threat, people who live and work on the island, which serves as a launching pad for the U.S. military, said Wednesday they could no longer shrug off the idea of being a potential target.
Ever since Donald Trump hit the national stage as a serious presidential candidate, building the wall was a major part of his campaign pitch. The wall, meant to improve border security, has been the controversial focal point of the country's immigration debate.
North Korea said on Wednesday it is considering plans for a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury". The sharp increase in tensions rattled financial markets and prompted warnings from U.S. officials and analysts not to engage in rhetorical slanging matches with North Korea.
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Guam congressional delegate Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo was quick to respond after North Korea threat of the possibility of launching a missile towards Guam. She wrote, "North Korea's most recent threat to target Guam is dangerous and it further heightens tensions in our region.