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Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a man in his backyard on Sunday in California in a video captured by his wife. Helena Ponce told Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC-TV that ICE went into the family's backyard in Napa, California, asked her husband his name and arrested him without any problems.
More than 40 congressmen have signed a letter calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to investigate its handling of sexual assault reports in its detention facilities. The letter released Monday is based on the case of Laura Monterrosa, a detainee at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Central Texas.
President Trump's dismal approval ratings-the worst of any modern president at this time in their presidency-are certainly a good sign for Democrats as people begin to look towards the November mid-term elections. But even better for Democrats and more worrying for Republicans is the pronounced and now established intensity gap.
The European Union will publish a draft Brexit withdrawal treaty on Wednesday and it's set to be explosive : it will ignore Theresa May's recent requests about the transition and risks prompting a domestic crisis over the sensitive issue of the Irish border. The agreements reached in December to move Brexit talks along to trade have now been written into legal text, Tim Ross and Ian Wishart report.
"Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., promised that a memo drafted by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee would refute charges raised in an earlier Republican memo about FBI and DOJ abuses in the Trump/Russia investigation. Instead, the Democrats' memo ended up confirming several key accusations.
Widespread displeasure with Donald Trump and his party bodes well for Democrats in November. They have a good chance of retaking the House and a decent one of winning a Senate majority.
WASHINGTON -- The tech industry takes on President Donald Trump's administration at the U.S. Supreme Court today in a high-stakes clash over digital privacy and government access to information stored on overseas servers.
Actress Stacey Dash, an outspoken conservative, has filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress this year in a deep-blue House district just south of Los Angeles. Dash, best known for her role in "Clueless" as the fashion-savvy Dee, registered her campaign committee "Dash to DC" on Monday to run in California's 44th Congressional District.
Two Russian long-range bombers were intercepted off the coast of Alaska by a pair of F-22 Raptor fighter jets on Friday, the military said. The Tu-95 bombers were flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone in the Bering Sea north of the Aleutian Islands, where they were visually identified and shadowed by the U.S. jets at 10 a.m., said Navy Capt.
The National Labor Relations Board vacated a ruling Monday after an Inspector General memo called for William Emanuel to recuse himself over a conflict of interest in the case, The National Law Review reported. President Donald Trump appointed Emanuel to the NLRB in September, creating the board's first Republican majority in a decade.
"Whip Scalise met with a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and alumni today in his office to discuss how we move forward as a country following the tragic shooting on February 14th," Scalise spokeswoman Lauren Fine said in a statement. "As a fellow survivor of a shooting attack, Whip Scalise heard from them about their experiences, shared his own experience with the group, and talked about the healing process in the wake of traumatic events."
News selected on topics and regions - oil and gas, business, politics, IT, the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia Ranking of the Azerbaijani banking sector The US Transportation Security Administration will test new bomb detection technology at New York City's Penn Station on Tuesday, US Senator Chuck Schumer announced in a press release, Sputnik reported. "At long last and at not a moment too soon, the TSA has agreed to bring this new, potentially life-saving technology to New York City and Penn Station for testing, and so we thank the TSA for heeding the call," Schumer said on Monday.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf , whose city is across the bay from San Francisco, has publicly warned illegal immigrants in the area of scheduled sweeps by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement . She said she checked with attorneys who told her that in warning lawbreakers to hide because the police are coming, she wasn't really obstructing justice.
Kim Sordyl poses for a photo at home as her family eats breakfast in the kitchen in Portland, Ore., on Friday, July 7, 2017. In April 2017, the Portland, Ore., school district filed a lawsuit against Sordyl, who is seeking ... more > She may be a Democrat, but Kim Sordyl has locked horns for years with Oregon's powerful teachers unions - and now it looks as if her foes may be seeking payback.
Nearly two dozen House Republicans are pushing Speaker Paul D. Ryan for a quick vote on a bill to get more records into the national instant check system, as lawmakers search for a legislative response to the most recent mass shooting that has a realistic shot at passing Congress . The Republicans pushing for the vote say Sen. John Cornyn's "Fix NICS" bill could help the system flag more people who show signs of violent mental behavior, without infringing on Second Amendment rights.
The Latest on a possible U.S. Senate bid by a Mississippi candidate who ran in 2014 : McDaniel said in a live presentation Monday night on Facebook that he will hold a political event Wednesday in his hometown of Ellisville. He says: "We're looking for a fight."
President Donald Trump says he would have rushed, unarmed, into the Florida high school where a mass shooting was happening, if he had been there. Trump says, "You don't know until you're tested, but I think I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon, and I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein wields instant name recognition and a sizable campaign war chest in her push to extend a 25-year career on Capitol Hill this November - but a chunk of her own party appears to be through with her. The California Democratic Party declined this weekend to endorse Mrs. Feinstein , delivering a huge boost to state Senate leader Kevin de Leon, her chief challenger who's running to her left.
En esta fotografA a del 10 de octubre de 2017 se muestra a la Corte Suprema en Washington. FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington, at sunset.