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U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who's presiding over two of the three lawsuits against Trump University in San Diego, is clearly now in the cross hairs of the bombastic presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But Curiel is no stranger to being targeted - and in the 1990s he was even reportedly on the hit list of a Mexican drug cartel.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday acknowledged that anger toward him, along with three decades of economic upheaval, is fueling the populism driving many white working-class voters to back presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. "I think Trump is a more colorful character than some of the other Republican elected officials," Obama told PBS' Gwen Ifill during a town hall.
"Vote for folks who are civil and who are making arguments and using logic and presenting evidence, not just somebody who is popping off." President Barack Obama on Wednesday said voters have a responsibility to promote civility in politics by not voting for "somebody who is just popping off" or "just being controversial for the sake of it," implicitly referring to presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Florida will experience a "disaster" with the Zika virus if federal authorities don't immediately provide money to help battle the virus, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Wednesday.
The former head of the Veterans Affairs office in Phoenix, who was fired in the wake of the VA wait-time scandal, could find an easier path back to her old job because of a decision by Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Sharon Helman, who is suing the federal government to win her old job back, is arguing that a key portion of the reforms passed in the wake of the scandal is unconstitutional and denies her an important step to appeal her firing.
Two polygamous towns on the Arizona-Utah line are vigorously opposing a bid to disband their shared police department as a way to remedy religious-based discrimination against nonbelievers, saying problems at the... Two polygamous towns on the Arizona-Utah line are vigorously opposing a bid to disband their shared police department as a way to remedy religious-based discrimination against nonbelievers, saying problems at the agency... A New Jersey doctor says a baby born to a mother with the Zika virus appears to be affected by the disease. By PATRICK MAIRS Associated Press A Honduran woman infected with Zika gave birth in New Jersey to a baby girl with birth defects caused by the virus, her doctor said Wednesday.
President Barack Obama went on a "myth-busting" mission Wednesday aimed at undermining Republican arguments about the economy, working to give cover to Democrats to embrace his policies ahead of the presidential election. Officially, Obama came to this hardscrabble town in northern Indiana to illustrate how steps he took in the first days of his presidency had ultimately paid off and pulled the economy back from the brink.
" Seven years ago, newly elected President Barack Obama came to a blighted stretch of northern Indiana and predicted a tough but certain recovery " if the country embraced his approach to re-juicing the economy. He returns Wednesday seeking credit for having lifted the U.S. out of the doldrums with policies Democrats are now rallying behind as they work to elect his replacement.
This marks the second year of National Gun Violence Awareness Day, which started at a high school on the south side of Chicago in memory of Hadiya Pendelton, who was shot and killed at age 15 in January 2013, one week after marching in President Barack Obama's second inauguration parade. Pendelton's friends chose to hold the day on June 2 last year, which would have been Pendelton's 18th birthday.
Andy Hallinan, the owner of Florida Gun Supply in Inverness, talks in a YouTube video about the shooting targets he's selling using the faces of President Obama and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. [Courtesy of Florida Gun Supply via YouTube] Andy Hallinan said he doesn't want to hurt any of America's leading Democrats, but he did put their faces on shooting targets sold through his Citrus County gun shop.
President Barack Obama will endorse Hillary Clinton "very quickly" after she clinches the delegates to become the Democratic nominee, Clinton's campaign manager Robby Mook said Wednesday. Mook told CNN's Brooke Baldwin he expects Obama, who has not officially backed either Clinton or rival Bernie Sanders, to wade in once the race draws to a close after June 7. Clinton is expected to clinch the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, although Sanders maintains he has a slim chance at topping the ticket.
Obama touts Elkhart's recovery, looks to November President Obama says his economic policies 'point us in the right direction' Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://indy.st/1sMDTj7 President Barack Obama visited Elkhart Wednesday to make the case that his policies have helped shape the recovering U.S. economy - especially in the northern part of Indiana. Obama spoke first at Concord Community High School in Elkhart before a scheduled town hall at the city's Lerner Theatre.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will visit the United Kingdom on June 24, the day that final results from the highly anticipated "Brexit" vote are expected to be tallied. Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks confirmed that Trump will travel to Scotland on the 24 to visit the Turnberry Golf Resort, a property he has been working to open since buying the Turnberry hotel in 2014.
The government claims a federal judge overstepped his authority when he ordered Justice Department attorneys to take ethics classes for accusations of misconduct in the legal fight over President Barack Obama's immigration policies. A Texas-led coalition of 26 states sued the federal government in December 2014 to block Obama's executive actions that offered temporary relief from deportation to half of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
ELKHART President Barack Obama came to Elkhart County less than a month after he took office, visiting the Indiana manufacturing center that was then struggling in the depths of the Great Recession to highlight his economic policies.
A slew of new state polls are strengthening one of the biggest hopes for Donald Trump supporters - that his singular appeal as a candidate will reshuffle the electoral map for 2016. The national contest between Trump and Hillary Clinton is a toss-up, but Trump is surprisingly competitive in a host of states that Democrats have long taken for granted.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump not only surrounds himself with conspiracy theorists, he has spent years pushing conspiracy theories himself, much to the delight of his supporters. At times, Trump tries to remain evasive about whether he actually believes these conspiracy theories, insisting that he simply "heard" or "read" them somewhere or is just asking a question.
Jewish liberals are ready to sow a summer of Donald Trump discontent in ways that aim both to bludgeon and entertain. Bend the Arc, an advocacy group, is convening its first national conference here next week aimed in part at finding a strategy to keep the billionaire real estate magnate, who has secured the Republican nomination, from becoming president.