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Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed Stacey Abrams Wednesday in her bid to become Georgia's first Democratic governor in 15 years and the nation's first-ever black female state executive. The former vice president hailed Abrams in a statement to The Associated Press for her "track record of building consensus across party lines" while still advancing Democratic priorities like Medicaid expansion and public education.
Emergency responders examined the valves as a trainer pointed to cracks where chlorine could leak from the railcar. Their first task, should they be called to a leak, would be tightening these valves.
WEBVTT [CHANTING] VICK ACROSS CALIFORNIA, PASSIONATELY DIVIDED RESPONSES OVER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY OF SEPARATING FAMILIES ACCUSED OF CROSSING THE BORDER ILLEGALLY. THE RESCUE BRIGADE OF GRANDPARENTS DEMONSTRATING OUTSIDE RIO COSUMNES CORRECTIONAL CENTER, ELK GROVE'S ICE DETENTION FACILITY.
Prosecutors say a businessman accused of conspiring to rig bids at public foreclosure auctions in Mississippi has become the sixth real estate investor to plead guilty in the investigation.
In this Thursday, May 31, 2018, file photo, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks at a news conference in St. Paul, Minn. U.S. President Donald Trump is heading to Minnesota to stump for a congressional candidate, but another test of GOP loyalty to the president looms large over his visit.
Staten Island Republican congressional candidate Michael Grimm said Tuesday that the cries of children being taken away from their parents at the border are no worse than the sobs of kids being dropped off at daycare. The convicted tax cheat , running for his old congressional seat, said Americans shouldn't put too much stock into recordings recently released of children sobbing at immigration shelters after they'd been taken from their parents at the border.
"We've heard that the Trump administration has heartlessly sought to rip toddlers from the arms of their weeping mothers in order to punish illegal-immigrant parents who are merely seeking asylum. But the truth is more complex " Not that it isn't true , mind you.
U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn pointed the finger Tuesday at "liberals" and "liberal judges," blaming them for the family separations underway at the U.S.-Mexico border. "As a mother," the Tennessee Republican said in a statement released by her office, "my heart breaks for the families who are separated at the border, but we are in this position because liberals would not pay to enforce our immigration laws or build appropriate facilities for asylum-seekers."
Protesters fighting to save net neutrality rally outside the Verizon store on Market Street in San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Verizon stores across the country were sites for coordinated protests one week before the FCC votes on the net neutrality issue.
Congressmen Randy Hultgren and Jim McGovern , Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, say they "regret"Tuesday's decision by the Trump Administration to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The announcement to withdraw from the Council was made by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
After President Trump's latest tweets, there should be no doubts about it: His escalating tirades against undocumented immigrants have nothing to do with immigration and everything with exploiting the racial anxieties of people who want America to be a whiter country. Amid the scandal over Trump's policy of separating immigrant children from their asylum-seeking parents and putting unaccompanied minors in cages - a policy he ended by executive order Wednesday, under pressure - the president tweeted Tuesday that immigrants "infest" this country, as if they were animals carrying infectious diseases.
Republicans have taken over Kentucky's state government, electing majorities in the state House and Senate and a Republican governor for the first time ever. Now, Republicans say it is the first time in the state's history that Democratic voter registration has dropped below 50 percent.
Just over 14 years ago, The Washington Post began dropping its jilted-lover inspired bombshell stories on the Jack Abramoff lobbying affair. The Post's stories led to literally thousands of additional follow-up pieces from just about every publication on the planet.
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For months, Los Angeles state Sen. Kevin de Len has been using the immigration issue to hammer on Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the fellow Democrat he will challenge in November. From saying in a Sacramento Bee interview that Feinstein's "natural inclination is to be anti-immigrant" to arguing at February's state Democratic convention that Californians need a leader who will "fight each and every day to protect ... our immigrant families," de Len - author of California's sanctuary state law - has banked on a hope that his long record of vocal support for immigrants and immigration would translate to support at the polls.
Measure would prohibit federal agencies from removing a child without legal immigration status from parent or legal guardian within 100 miles of border Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., stand together as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a 2016 campaign event in Everett. Senate Democrats are joining together to keep families together.
Masayoshi Son is elevating two SoftBank Group Corp. executives and one outsider to his inner circle, appointments that become official on Wednesday. Bloomberg's Pavel Alpeyev reports on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia." (Source: Bloomberg)
President Donald Trump implored anxious House Republicans to fix the nation's broken immigration system but did not offer a clear path forward amid the growing uproar over his administration's decision to separate migrant families at the border.
The network is close to securing a spinoff of the recently rebooted - and quickly canceled - comedy, without its controversial star, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Barr, whose show was axed after she called Valerie Jarrett, the former senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, the baby of the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes,” has “tentatively agreed” to waive any financial and creative rights to the spinoff, according to the outlet.