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On a blisteringly hot Saturday morning in June, 10 days after 30-year-old Katie Hill emerged as the Democratic party's candidate to unseat Republican Steve Knight for California's 25th Congressional district, dozens of her supporters gathered at the campaign's cramped headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita to prepare for a massive voter registration drive. This last remaining GOP bastion in Los Angeles County is high up on the list of priorities for Democrats hoping to turn the district from red-to-blue in November.
U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Staff Sgt. Avila, assigned to 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, directs trainees on the first day of Basic Combat Training on June 12, 2017 at Fort Jackson, S.C. Some Marine drill instructors recently visited Fort Jackson in July 2018 to see how the Army transforms civilians into Soldiers and gain valuable takeaways for the improvement of their own boot camp.
"MSNBC chat show/Starbucks commercial Morning Joe did run one segment that vaguely mentioned the war on Yemen, but failed to note the U.S.'s role in it at all, much less that Washington is arming and backing the conflict's primary aggressor," Johnson writes. As FAIR has noted before , to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the US and its Gulf Monarchy allies are leveling against the poorest country in the Arab world is simply a non-issue.
Senator Orrin Hatch tweeted at Google that he wasn't dead after search results suggested he had died last September. It's the third time in recent months that Wikipedia vandals have attacked Hatch's page after they renamed him "Sheev Palpatine" and claimed he had a flatulence problem.
Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy. He taught political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio and DePauw University and wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.
National Corn Growers Association President Kevin Skunes presented NCGA's 2018 President's Award to North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven. The President's Award is given annually at NCGA's Corn Congress meeting in Washington to a leader who has worked to advance issues important to corn growers and agriculture.
Smoke trails from two Israeli Patriot interceptor missiles that Israel says shot down a Syrian fighter jet are seen in northern Israel on July 24, 2018. The Israeli Air Force shot down a Syrian fighter jet that traveled two kilometers into Israeli airspace on Tuesday afternoon, the military said.
Stan Collender : "The deadline for Congress and President Donald Trump to come to an agreement that will avoid a government shutdown this fall - which may be a much more frequent threat and occurrence these days than it used to be but would still be anything but routine - is approaching quickly and neither the White House, House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have done anything to make it less likely."
This undated surveillance photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows people illegally crossing the United States border from Canada near Derby Line, Vt. Though attention is focused on illegal immigration into the United States from Mexico, officials and documents say there has been a quiet increase in the number of people apprehended entering illegally on the northern border between Quebec and Vermont.
In 1996, Bill Clinton signed a strict workfare bill, which was so popular that it helped him get re-elected. A Brookings Institute study by welfare scholar Ron Haskins proved those reforms moved more than half of those on welfare into the workforce, and millions eventually gained economic self-sufficiency.
Is Elizabeth Warren having an extramarital affair with New York Magazine? I ask only because NYM just published a 7,200-word opus that reads like a deranged love letter to the American Native senator from Massachusetts, seeking to turn an old, wrinkled leftist with even older, more wrinkled leftist ideas into the fresh young face for America in 2020. So you donA t have to read the article for yourself, I have summarized the lowlights: 1. The article opens with a giant photo of Elizabeth WarrenA s geriatric fist raised proudly into the air.
FILE PHOTO: Immigrant children walk in single file at the facility near the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mike B - The U.S. government will update a federal judge on Tuesday about its efforts to meet a Thursday deadline for reuniting roughly 2,500 immigrant children and parents who were separated by officials as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
FILE PHOTO: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp speaks with visitors to the state capitol about the "SEC primary" involving a group of sou - Republican voters in Georgia on Tuesday will choose their party's nominee for governor in a two-man faceoff that has become a proxy battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and the state's popular Republican governor, Nathan Deal. In May, Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, who has Deal's endorsement, finished ahead of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
All that criticism of President Trump from former national security and law enforcement officials isn't going over well in the White House, and now Trump is considering a way to punish half a dozen by revoking their security clearances . Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders accused them of having "politicized and in some cases monetized their public service and security clearances, making baseless accusations of improper contact with Russia."
On July 24, 1959, during a visit to Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. In 1862, Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States, and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen, died at age 79 in Kinderhook, New York, the town where he was born in 1782.
The celebration of Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday last week and former US president Barack Obama's address at the occasion brought warmth to my heart, but also caused me to ask with Obama: Were we who believed in a progressive vision of tolerance, a common humanity, a caring, open society and social justice nave? Is this vision dead? "Progressive" is the key word here. Many associate it with left-wing political thinking, others with liberalism, yet others claim the title but are anything but progressive.
ENUGU State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has repatriated 75 illegal immigrants arrested in parts of the state during the weekend. NIS Comptroller in the state, Madam Dora Amahian who disclosed this to newsmen yesterday in her office in Enugu said they were arrested in parts of the state during a raid operation carried out by operatives of the command.
The editorial was so filled with hyperbole, half-truths and untruths that I found it difficult to decide which issues to address. Pure socialists believe in government ownership of essential industries such as munitions, telephone, electricity, transportation and postal services.
A Massachusetts state senator who opposes President Donald Trump's immigration policies was mistakenly booked on Fox News, and she used the airtime to criticize Trump's "illegal and inhumane" treatment of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Barbara L'Italien, a Democrat, appeared Monday on "Fox & Friends First," instead of the intended guest, Democratic congressional candidate Ann Kirkpatrick, who has openly supported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement .