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From the sour looks on the faces of Democrats who turned up for President Trump's State of the Union address, I'm thinking Trump must have tricked them into thinking he was giving a "State of the Onion" address. I've never seen so many dyspeptic expressions.
A GOP memo declassified on Friday accused senior law enforcement officials of misleading a court in order to conduct surveillance on a former Trump campaign adviser, fueling a growing distrust between the White House and Republicans on one side and the Justice Department and FBI on the other. The four-page document, which the FBI said is inaccurate, had been the focus of weeks of partisan fights leading up to its release by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, and that acrimony intensified after its publication.
The bright hopes of young Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California engineering student from Inner Mongolia, died in 2014 at the hands of a then-19-year-old "Dreamer" and his thug pals. Mexican illegal alien Jonathan DelCarmen, who first ju-ped the southern border at age 12, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last summer in the savage robbery and fatal beating of Ji -- who was walking home from a study group after midnight.
Inside a vacant former maximum-security prison, the Pentagon has nearly finished building a new health clinic with nearby surgical and radiological suites. Soon, contractors will add furniture, equipment and put a padded cell in the facility's psych unit.
US President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress on Friday escalated a campaign against US law enforcement agencies over their probe of Trump's ties to Russia, releasing a disputed memo that the FBI warned was misleading and inaccurate. probe of potential collusion between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was a product of political bias against Trump at the FBI and Justice Department.
US President Donald Trump "would be inclined" to permit the release of a memo written by Democrats that rebuts a Republican document alleging anti-Trump bias at the FBI, if it passes a security and legal review, a White House spokesman told CNN on Friday.
President Donald Trump and his supporters are using a congressional memo alleging FBI surveillance abuse to raise questions about the origins of a federal investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia. But the four-page document includes revelations that might complicate the effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe.
The window opened Friday for oil, gas, uranium and coal companies to make requests or stake claims to lands that were cut from two sprawling Utah national monuments by President Trump in December -but there doesn't appear to be a rush to seize the opportunities. For anyone interested in the uranium on the lands stripped from the Bears Ears National Monument, all they need to do is stake a few corner posts in the ground, pay a $212 initial fee and send paperwork to the federal government under a law first created in 1872 that harkens back to the days of the Wild West.
President Donald Trump gestures as delivers his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol to a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan applaud. America's economic recovery has benefited California more than most states because the real estate crash hit the Golden State a lot harder.
Now, the Trump administration, in which they both serve, has allowed the state to implement even more changes in the safety net program -- most notably by requiring some Medicaid recipients to work. The state, which has served as a Medicaid expansion model for Republicans, announced Friday that it will require certain Medicaid recipients to get jobs or participate in other community activities starting in 2019.
A Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018 photo shows the cockpit area of the flight simulator at Outlaw Aviation in Sisters, Ore. A Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018 photo shows the cockpit area of the flight simulator at Outlaw Aviation in Sisters, Ore.
Jordan See and Austin Benz - garbed in matching shirts depicting a sweet little cow with a Band-Aid on her tummy and pink bow on her head - chat on a recent day about an uncommon condition of which they are becoming experts: Omphalocele. When the young couple, expecting their first child, initially heard the term, "I could barely pronounce it," said See, now 28 weeks pregnant, at their Mountain Iron apartment.
The Federal Aviation Administration has scheduled public hearings next week on a plan that aims to resolve a flap over noisy takeoffs and landings. The FAA and the city of Phoenix and historic neighborhoods that fought the increased noise filed a joint petition late last year asking the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to accept a plan for resolving the dispute.
The confident pronouncements by pundits and politicians that the Nunes memo is a dud, dead on arrival, neglect to consider the main tactic of the Republican right wing for some time now. It is a conspiracy theory, and conspiracy theories carried Trump to the White House and many Republicans into Congress or state legislatures.
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee countered claims made in a highly disputed memo alleging political bias within the highest ranks of the FBI. The document, assembled by Rep. Devin Nunes , asserts abuses by top officials in obtaining surveillance warrants and anti-Trump bias.
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon state Gov. Kate Brown at Crosscut Festival 2018 in Seattle. Credit: David Ryder for Crosscut Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown pulled no punches Friday night in how much disgust they feel about the Trump Administration's desire to allow off-shore oil drilling along the U.S. coastline - that is, to allow it everywhere except Florida .
I was delighted to see that the new Hope Place for helping families is finally nearing completion. It is a project that takes us in the right direction.