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Doug Applegate talks with teenagers outside a Carlsbad polling place on Election Day 2016. The Democrat nearly defeated Rep. Darrell Issa but this year must get past a handful of Democrats to advance to the November election.
Bayer has cleared the last large antitrust hurdle on its path to finalize the $66 billion acquisition of Monsanto. On May 29, the U.S. Department of Justice gave the green light to the deal, provided that Bayer first wrap up its sale of $9 billion in seed and crop chemical businesses to German rival BASF.
The U.S. Congress is considering legislation to lift requirements for airports to use firefighting foams containing fluorochemicals. Substances such as perfluoroalkyls persist in the environment and are increasingly found in drinking water supplies across the U.S., especially near airports, military bases, and other facilities that manufacture or use these compounds.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, house minority leader Nancy Pelosi and former mayor Willie l. Brown were on hand as Bennett unveiled his street sign for "Tony Bennett Way."
Five months ago, the lawyers for Donald Trump crafted an incredible 20-page letter to special prosecutor Robert Mueller claiming their client, as president, has "absolute authority" on any and all investigations, including the one against him. The letter surfaced Saturday in The New York Times and attempts to make a case that Trump is above the law in any and all matters that concern him and anyone else he deems invulnerable.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky faces a recall election Tuesday. He is the first California judge to face a recall vote in more than 80 years.
Voters who pass up the June 5 election will find in November that others have made many of their decisions for them. For example, the state's top-two primary system dictates that in five months, there will be two finalists to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown, and polling suggests that one of them will be Lt.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is "leading a lavish lifestyle courtesy of corruption." Former Celgene Corp. executive Bob Hugin is a "greedy drug company CEO."
After weeks of delay, the Supreme Court is expected to make a decision soon on an unusual request from the Trump administration in a politically charged abortion case. In early November, Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the court to toss out a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals order that allowed an unaccompanied immigrant teen in federal custody to obtain an abortion.
It's hard to believe that it was ten years ago tonight that Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination , putting him on the path to make - and change the course of - history. Just a decade ago, it seemed as though every dream could come true.
Sixteen candidates are vying to replace U.S. Rep. Ruben Kihuen, who represents Nevada's 4th Congressional District and is not to seeking re-election. Sixteen candidates are vying to replace U.S. Rep. Ruben Kihuen, who represents Nevada's 4th Congressional District and is not to seeking re-election.
Twenty-one candidates are vying to replace U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen, who represents Nevada's 3rd Congressional District and is leaving the House to run for the Senate. Twenty-one candidates are vying to replace U.S. Rep. Jacky Rosen, who represents Nevada's 3rd Congressional District and is leaving the House to run for the Senate.
The frustration over the pace of Hurricane Matthew disaster relief that spilled over at the Wayne County commissioners May 15 meeting has reached state N.C. Emergency Management Director Mike Sprayberry. "I can tell you, I understand what I am going to be walking into on June 14," he said.
Federal district Judge Robert Clive Jones appears at the Lloyd George U.S. Courthouse in Las Vegas in 2008. Nevada's most overturned federal judge - Robert Clive Jones - was overturned yet again in one case and removed from another because of his bias against the U.S. government.
We've had blistering heat and humidity in much of the nation over the past week. Politics took a very brief break over the Memorial Day weekend, but with primaries and other political events this coming week, we're heading into the "dog days" or perhaps more fitting, the "dog daze" of summer.
OBSERVER Photo by Jimmy McCarthy Dennis Welka, city resident who lives in the First Ward, says he's been contacted by the Erie County District Attorney's Office regarding his petition to ballot on the Republican line that he submitted during his run for office last year. Welka, in a sitdown with the OBSERVER, denied any wrongdoing and said he never cheated, lied or deceived anybody while collecting signatures.
If you're not a political junkie , Tuesday's primary election in California may seem a bit of a snooze. But the consequences for statewide and national politics are significant.
For the longest time, illegal immigration was driven by single males from Mexico. Over the last decade, the flow has shifted to women, children, and family units from Central America.
And since 1954, when the Johnson Act was passed, nonprofits, many of which are churches, have been prohibited from engaging in political activity. has created a vibrant charitable marketplace, with people finding creative ways to provide social services independent of government.