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With too many factories making slow-selling cars, General Motors can't afford to keep them all operating without making some tough decisions. But the political atmosphere might be limiting its options.
Chicago and state officials released a plan Friday to carry out far-reaching police reforms under federal court supervision more than a year after a U.S. Justice Department investigation found a deep-rooted history of civil rights violations by the police department. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to release a 200-page report covering numerous topics, ranging from police recruitment and training to the use of force and misconduct investigations.
Poll results released Friday show that the race for Florida governor could come down to Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Gwen Graham, Politico reported. The Mason-Dixon Polling and Research survey showed Rep. DeSantis with a comfortable lead over Adam Putnam, Florida's agricultural commissioner.
Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico last September and prompted a mass exodus of more than 100,000 residents to the mainland United States. The Category 4 storm destroyed much of the island's infrastructure, which was already decaying and crumbling amidst a financial crisis and a bankrupt territorial government.
Oil rigs off the coast of Huntington Beach, which offer a home for marine life below the surface, are seen during a new eco-tour put on by IEX Helicopters out of John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, on Thursday, June 28, 2018. The Heli-Marine Expedition takes tours above Southern California coastline to search for dolphins, whales and other sea creatures.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday denied knowing about the 2016 meeting his son Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign staff held at Trump Tower with a group of Russians who offered damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. "I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr," Trump wrote in on Twitter after a CNN report cited his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen as saying Trump had known about the meeting in advance.
"Trump has spent 123 days golfing, or 1/5 of his term, at a cost to taxpayers of $72,181,957 - and still hasn't visited troops in a war zone." - VoteVets, in a tweet, July 23, 2018 As a candidate, President Donald Trump was heavily critical of Barack Obama's golf habit and once told an audience that "I'm going to be working for you.
When the history of the Trump era is written, this quotation from our president will play a prominent role in explaining the distemper of our moment and the dysfunction of his administration. Trump was talking about media coverage of his trade war, but he was also describing his genuinely novel approach to governing: He believes that reality itself can be denied and that big lies can sow enough confusion to keep the truth from taking hold.
President Trump took to Twitter Friday morning to deny that he knew about his son's meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016, following news that his CBS News' Paula Reid confirmed Friday night that Cohen is willing to tell Mueller that Mr. Trump knew of the meeting involving Donald Trump Jr., top campaign officials and a Russian lawyer in advance, although Cohen has no evidence to offer that corroborates his claim. Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and onetime-campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in Trump Tower in a meeting Trump Jr. arranged when he believed the Russian lawyer had damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri says Russian hackers tried unsuccessfully to infiltrate her Senate computer network, raising questions about the extent to which Russia will try to interfere in the 2018 elections. McCaskill, who is up for re-election this year, confirmed the attempted hack after The Daily Beast website reported that Russia's GRU intelligence agency tried to break into the senator's computers in August 2017.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan plan to announce a proposed court agreement Friday afternoon that would govern reforms in the troubled Chicago Police Department . A news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m., and city officials are holding briefings for attorneys and other stakeholders beforehand, sources said.
And speaking of number crunching: Here's a searchable map with a by-precinct look at the 2016 presidential election. It reveals, unsurprisingly, islands of blue, generally in cities, amid the sea of rural red.
Lutheran Social Services said they were expecting reunited families separated at the border when apprehended entering ... The Trump administration says more than 1,800 children have been reunited with their families by the Thursday deadline, but hundreds remain apart, signaling a potentially long wait for anguished families. The Trump administration says more than 1,800 children have been reunited with their families by the Thursday deadline, but hundreds remain apart, signaling a potentially long wait for anguished families.
The mudslinging began early in the campaign and continued until a final announcement was made. Both candidates tried almost everything to gain the opportunity to face off with Democrat Stacey Abrams in November to replace outgoing governor Nathan Deal.
Adem Demaci, a human rights defend... . FILE - In this file photo taken on April 22, 2018, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia.
FILE- In this Wednesday, July 18, 2018 file photo, motorbike taxis ride past a giant billboard of Malian Incumbent President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita that reads "Together moving towards Progress" in Bamako Mali. Mali's voters... .
Strategists, pointing to recent polls, say voters are increasingly frustrated with Trump's handling of Putin, particularly at last week's Helsinki summit, as well as Russian meddling in the 2016 election. "This is a huge issue," said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster.
Trump seemed to de-escalate from the growing threat of an all-out trade war with Europe when he spoke Wednesday alongside European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the White House Rose Garden. The president's improvisational style makes it next to impossible to guess where he goes next - something that could be a problem for everyone from American workers to foreign investors.
The Moscow lawyer said to have promised Donald Trump's presidential campaign dirt on his Democratic opponent worked more closely with senior Russian government officials than she previously let on, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Scores of emails, transcripts and legal documents paint a portrait of Natalia Veselnitskaya as a well-connected attorney who served as a ghostwriter for top Russian government lawyers and received assistance from senior Interior Ministry personnel in a case involving a key client.