Rep. Huffmana s landscape photo contest to start Aug. 3

Rep. Jared Huffman has announced his annual district-wide landscape photography competition will start on Aug. 3. Constituents in California's 2nd Congressional District, including Mendocino County, can email an original landscape photo to rephuffmanphotocontest@gmail.com and include their name, hometown and photo location in the body, with the subject “Photo Submission.” One photo submission will be accepted per person, until Aug. 24. “The people of California's 2nd Congressional District live in the most beautiful district in the country,” said Huffman.

Pakistani parliament to elect new PM on Tuesday

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Interior Secretary Zinke to visit Bunkerville on Sunday

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke at the Bob Ruud Community Center in Pahrump, Monday, June 26, 2017. Elizabeth Brumley Las Vegas Review-Journal Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Sunday will make Bunkerville the final stop of a tour through several Western states to review national monuments.

New health benefits among major K-12 reforms of 2017

A new day in health care is slowly on its way for Washington's K-12 school teachers, classroom aides, part-time bus drivers and even lunchroom workers. The new school insurance program, approved by the Legislature in June, is not going to be a quick fix.

Heroism recalled 50 years after deadly fire aboard USS Forrestal

Heroism recalled 50 years after deadly fire aboard USS Forrestal The inferno aboard the Forrestal off the coast of Vietnam killed 134 men on July 29, 1967. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2vhKHuH The crowd watches footage of the fire aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 during the 50th anniversary commemoration ceremony at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Saturday, July 29, 2017.

Waters: Pence is planning his inauguration

Rep. Maxine Waters suggested on Saturday that Vice President Pence is already planning his inauguration in anticipation of President Trump's impeachment. Mike Richard Pence Waters: Pence is planning his inauguration Hackers break into voting machines in minutes at hacking competition Timeline: Trump's relationship with Priebus MORE is somewhere planning an inauguration.

McCain, expected to save health bill, became the executioner

John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis. The longtime Arizona senator stunned pretty much everyone Friday by turning on his party and his president and joining two other GOP senators in voting "no" on the Republicans' final effort to repeal "Obamacare."

Exclusive: Majority of Americans want Congress to move on from healthcare reform – Reuters/Ipsos poll

A majority of Americans are ready to move on from healthcare reform at this point after the U.S. Senate's effort to dismantle Obamacare failed on Friday, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Saturday. Nearly two-thirds of the country wants to either keep or modify the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, and a majority of Americans want Congress to turn its attention to other priorities, the survey found.

Timeline: Trump’s relationship with Priebus

President Trump revealed on Friday one of the most drastic shake-ups of his White House staff to date, proclaiming with a tweet that Reince Priebus was out as his chief of staff, replaced by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. In announcing that Kelly, a retired Marine general, would succeed Priebus, Trump put to rest months of speculation about the now-former chief of staff's future in a White House marred by controversy and leaks.

GOP senator calls for new rules to more quickly confirm Trump nominees

Ron Johnson GOP senator calls for new rules to more quickly confirm Trump nominees ObamaCare repeal: Now what? McCain casts crucial vote to kill 'skinny' ObamaCare repeal MORE called for a change in Senate rules to speed up the confirmation of President Trump's executive nominations, claiming the slow pace of confirmations was a result of "a breakdown in the Senate." "Less than a month from the August recess, the Senate has confirmed only 22 percent of those nominated to serve in the Trump administration.