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Elected officials instructed City Attorney Ruben Duran on Wednesday to draft a letter opposing the state's controversial immigration policy limiting local law enforcement cooperation with federal authorities. The Council unanimously directed Duran to express support for the U.S. Department of Justice in its lawsuit against California over Senate Bill 54 and address the letter to Gov. Jerry Brown and the judge overseeing the legal matter.
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Participants take part in a march in Phoenix, Arizonia, U.S., April 26, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. Christy Chavis/via REUTERS Participants take part in a march in Phoenix, Arizonia, U.S., April 26, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media.
MAY 23,2014. Sherman Oaks CA. SoCal drivers enjoys the north bound carpool lane as local, state and federal transportation officials open the 10-Mile Northbound I-405 Carpool Lane on Friday.
Sen. Bob Menendez leaves the courthouse in Newark, N.J., during his trial on federal corruption charges, on Nov. 15, 2017. Sen. Bob Menendez leaves the courthouse in Newark, N.J., during his trial on federal corruption charges, on Nov. 15, 2017.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt during an interview in his office at the EPA headquarters in Washington on Oct. 25, 2017. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt during an interview in his office at the EPA headquarters in Washington on Oct. 25, 2017.
In this Jan. 25, 2018 file photo, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., arrives for voting at the Capitol in Washington. With a flat-top haircut, three missing fingers and a quite-wide girth, Tester has somehow kept a low profile in Congress.
Democratic lawmakers assailed EPA chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday for the ethics and spending scandals that have prompted multiple calls for his ouster. The chairman of the panel that is questioning Pruitt called the allegations a "distraction but one this committee cannot ignore."
A Los Angeles police officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging he tried to smuggle in two illegal immigrants this week in southeastern San Diego County. He was arrested early Tuesday morning at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Pine Valley, located about 12 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Alburgh, Vt . - U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended Remy Amon, 41, an Ivory Coast national with an extraditable felony warrant for molestation of a child.
Australia's foreign minister says new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told her appointing an ambassador to Australia is "one of his highest priorities." Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters Pompeo phoned her during a flight to a NATO meeting within hours of being confirmed in his new role.
A Weslaco man said a phone call from a scout alerting him to law enforcement led to a crash that left one person dead. Damian De Los Angeles Garcia, 34, faces federal harboring charges in connection with a crash Monday in Mercedes when he lost control of the SUV he was driving and crashed, according to the criminal complaint filed against him Tuesday.
The six months of 'missing' Strzok-Page texts will be available to Congress Thursday afternoon after a slight delay this week. The thousands of missing text messages between the embattled FBI lovers are expected to be delivered to Congressional investigators Thursday afternoon, after a long drawn out battle behind closed doors between the Department of Justice and Congressional leaders, this reporter has learned.
President Trump welcomed the children of White House staff members and reporters to the White House today for 'Bring Your Child to Work' day. "Look how nice your parents are behaving.
The Senate Ethics Committee issued a blistering letter Thursday admonishing Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey for accepting gifts without proper approval from a wealthy ophthalmologist and returning in kind with political favors. The report comes nearly three months after the Justice Department filed to dismiss charges against the New Jersey Democrat and bring a years-long legal case -- including an 11-week trial last fall that resulted in a hung jury -- to an end.
In a rare reversal, a federal judge has ordered a new trial for a north Minneapolis man convicted on gun charges, finding that jurors likely focused more on his race than the evidence in rendering a guilty verdict. Five years after Michael Allen Smith's conviction, U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson agreed to re-examine Smith's case after the jury foreman from his trial disclosed that another juror had said of Smith, who is black: "you know he's just a banger from the hood, so he's got to be guilty."
Bipartisan legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller now lies in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after the GOP-led Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance it. McConnell, R-Ky., has said the bill is unnecessary and he won't let it reach the Senate floor.
April 27, 2018 In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, the teary-eyed parents of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died days after being freed from imprisonment in North Korea, react to a standing ovation during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.
French President Emmanuel Macron took his fight to save the 2015 Iran nuclear accord to Washington this week, saying in an address to a joint meeting of Congress that he hoped the United States could agree to a "more comprehensive deal" ahead of a critical mid-May deadline rather than scrap it all together. After reluctantly extending waivers on sanctions against Tehran in January, Trump warned that he would pull the U.S. out of the agreement unless Congress and European allies could "fix" it.
Trump said in an interview with "Fox & Friends" that he knew the rapper "a little bit" and always got along with him, and said West has noticed the low unemployment rate for black Americans. "He sees that stuff and he's smart and he says, 'You know what, Trump is doing a much better job than the Democrats did,'" the president said.