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California commissions that oversee coastal lands and water pushed the Trump administration Wednesday to leave the state out of plans to expand offshore drilling, warning the state would block pipelines to get oil back to land. The agencies weighed in ahead of a public hearing Thursday in Sacramento, the only opportunity for people to register their opinions in person in California.
The Pentagon says it should be able to get more planes into the air, more ships on the seas and more equipment to troops in the field if Congress approves the major budget agreement struck by Senate leaders on Wednesday. Military leaders have said they're confronting a readiness crisis, punctuated by a series of deadly accidents, that they attributed to funding shortages stemming from the "sequester" budget cuts earlier this decade.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi started speaking around 10 a.m. and yielded the floor at 6:11 p.m., setting a record. - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking, eight-hour speech Wednesday in an attempt to force a House vote on protections for the Dreamer immigrants - and to prove to an increasingly angry wing of progressives and activists that she has done all she could.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley of Iowa and Graham released a criminal referral they had sent to the Justice Department earlier this year asking for an investigation into the former spy, Christopher Steele.
'He can go from being the sweetest person to a complete abusive monster': Woman who was living with Trump aide Rob Porter at the time he began dating Hope Hicks confided to his ex-wives about living in fear 'He just asked me if he could live with me... I told him I had been feeling the same': Teacher, 24, ends up adopting troublesome student, 12, and his baby brother despite nearly making her quit her profession Senate leaders reach 'genuine BREAKTHROUGH' in bipartisan two-year budget deal to lift caps and provide billions in new government spending California baker who refused to make a wedding cake for same-sex couple for religious reasons IS allowed to turn away customers because it is 'artistic expression', judge rules EXCLUSIVE: Aly Raisman condemns organizations that allowed pedophile Larry Nassar to prey on gymnasts for so long, accusing them of 'putting medals and money ahead of ... (more)
North Korean cheering squads wave upon their arrival at the Korean-transit office near the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea Fred Warmbier, whose son Otto Warmbier, a student here at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, died shortly after returning from North Korea, is reportedly traveling to the Winter Olympics with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence. It's hard to imagine the incredible grief of losing a son and of having seen a son suffer.
Dutch lender Rabobank's California subsidiary is scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday in a long-running investigation that led to allegations the bank was used to launder millions of dollars in Mexican drug money. Dutch lender Rabobank's California subsidiary is scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday in a long-running investigation that led to allegations the bank was used to launder millions of dollars in Mexican drug money.
FBI officials said Wednesday that the investigation into the November death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has yielded no evidence that there was a "scuffle, altercation or attack" more than two months after President Donald Trump and others used the suggestion of an attack to promote the building of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Investigators have conducted more than 650 interviews and involved 37 field offices in their probe, but have not found definitive evidence of an attack, the FBI said in a statement.
Way back in a Season 2 episode of The X-Files , FBI assistant director Walter Skinner struggled to convince Fox Mulder, a headstrong agent grieving for his dying partner, not to resign from the Bureau. As When I was 18, I went to Vietnam.
A two year budget agreement announced Wednesday by Congressional leaders was met with scorn from many more conservative Republicans on Capitol Hill, as the combination of big increases in military and domestic spending left some GOP lawmakers frustrated over a lack of budget discipline, while outside groups quickly predicted the plan could swiftly bring back $1 trillion yearly deficits. "It's almost a quarter trillion dollar increase in spending," said Rep. Jim Jordan , who told reporters it reminded him of the Obama Stimulus law.
State Rep. Matt Schaefer speaks during his campaign kick-off and fundraiser in Tyler, Texas, on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Representatives of Grassroots America, Texas Right to Life, Texas Eagle Forum, Empower Texans, Texas Home School Coalition, Gun Owners of America, and Texans for Vaccine Choice were in attendance.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz will speak at the National Prayer Breakfast dinner Thursday in Washington, D.C., in place of Vice President Mike Pence. The Super Bowl LII champion will fill in for Pence who will lead the U.S. delegation at the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea Friday.
Seven activists have been holding a sit-in inside Sen. Michael Bennet's Denver office Wednesday, demanding his immediate help on passing legislation to help immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children. The protesters were demanding that the Democrat set up a meeting with other senators to discuss the program that helps such immigrants - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - issue a public statement about the meeting and set up a separate meeting with constituents in Colorado.
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He wasn't the only Fox contributor to deliver thumbs down to the idea today. Brian Kilmeade, co-host of the president's favorite TV show, called it a "waste of money," leading WaPo to wonder if Trump might eventually think twice about it.
The wonder of this question is that it's being asked at all - and especially, as Politico reports , by Democrats themselves. Wait , some readers may think, won't Democrats win big in the first-term midterm against an unpopular president ? Until very recently, that had been the conventional wisdom and Democrats had absolutely convinced themselves of it.
Eric Skokan, chef and owner of the Black Cat Restaurant and the Black Cat Farm, cuts away part of a corn cob for his pigs in October 2014. Boulder County officials have issued a clean bill of health to Boulder's Black Cat Farm, which provides farm-to-table produce and meat to two popular Boulder restaurants, following a brief investigation prompted by a tip that raised questions about its meat processing.
A Justice Department official who helped oversee the controversial probes of Hillary Clinton 's use of a private email server and Russian interference in the 2016 election stepped down this week. David Laufman, an experienced federal prosecutor who in 2014 became chief of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, said farewell to colleagues Wednesday.
The U.S. is shifting combat and intelligence-gathering aircraft to Afghanistan as part of an intensified focus on the Taliban, now that the campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is winding down, the commander of coalition air forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday. Air Force Maj.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with White House Secretary Rob Porter and Sen. Mike Lee as they return to the White House December 4, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with White House Secretary Rob Porter and Sen. Mike Lee as they return to the White House December 4, 2017 in Washington, DC.