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The Trump administration will end temporary legal immigration status for 200,000 Salvadorans who have been living in the U.S. for nearly two decades, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. The decision means that Salvadorans who currently have Temporary Protected Status must return to their homeland by September 2019 or become undocumented immigrants if they choose to remain without legal protections.
At Sunday's Golden Globes, host Seth Meyers mentioned former talk show host Oprah Winfrey in a joke about his role in the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner and how being mocked at that event reportedly helped spur Donald Trump to run for president . "In 2011, I told some jokes about our current president at the White House Correspondents Dinner -- jokes about how he was unqualified to be president -- and some have said that night convinced him to run," Meyers said.
In his Jan. 4 op-ed, " This president will not be silent on Iran ," Vice President Pence charged that President Barack Obama effected "an abdication of American leadership" and "emboldened Iran's tyrannical rulers." Mr. Pence, in contrast, promised that "under President Trump, the United States is standing with" the Iranian people.
Longtime Orange County congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the high-profile Foreign Affairs Committee, announced Monday that he will retire when his current term is completed at the end of the year. The conservative Republican, 66, has repeatedly won reelection by broad margins but has seen the GOP advantage in his district slip to less than 2-percentages.
On Thursday, January 4th, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the rescission of prior guidance to US attorneys regarding the enforcement of federal marijuana laws. Chief among the rescinded guidance was the 2013 Cole Memo that instructed U.S. attorneys to exercise prosecutorial restraint in states that had legalized marijuana, if the states had sufficiently implemented strong regulatory and enforcement systems.
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Department of Labor has scrapped its 2010 Fact Sheet on internship status and adopted the more flexible and employer-friendly test devised by Second Circuit. In a decision that surprised no one who has followed the litigation of wage hour claims by interns, the US Department of Labor has abandoned its ill-fated six-part test for intern status in for-profit companies and replaced it with a more nuanced set of factors first articulated by the Second Circuit in 2015.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice says a domestic violence call in Sparta ended when a Monroe County sheriff's deputy fatally shot a suspect. The DOJ says the Monroe County Sheriff's Department and Sparta police have asked state agents to investigate the shooting.
The 25th Amendment is back in the news so this bears repeating. Again. The type of event in which you could imagine President Donald Trump's Cabinet and his vice president engaging in a political mutiny against him and removing him from power using the 25th Amendment would require something like a presidential coma or a disagreement of such epic proportions as to threaten the fabric of the country or it's very existence.
The percentage of U.S. adults who "often get their news from local TV" dropped sharply from 46% in 2016 to 37% in 2017, according to research done in August by the Pew Research Center. The decline is less severe in other areas of TV.
The U.S. Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether police have the right to go on private property without a warrant to search a vehicle. Arguments are scheduled Tuesday in a Virginia case that could test the boundaries of an exception to the Fourth Amendment's requirement that police obtain a warrant before searching a person, their home, papers or personal effects.
He went on to give Trump credit for "beat[ing] me like a drum," along with Hillary Clinton and all the other Republicans who ran. The Republican senator noted how he called Trump a "xenophobic, race-baiting religious bigot," but then he won the election.
The sponsors of last year's marijuana legalization initiative are calling on the new US attorney for Massachusetts, Andrew Lelling, to clarify his intentions, after a change in federal policy gave the prosecutor broad powers to crack down on the state's emerging cannabis industry. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week rescinded Obama-era Department of Justice policies that had sharply limited prosecution of dispensaries, banks, and other participants in state-regulated marijuana markets.
Oklahoma's Republican gubernatorial candidates have mostly avoided taking a clear stance on whether the state should legalize medical marijuana, though both Democratic candidates support the policy change. Gov. Mary Fallin on Friday set a June 26 election for the medical marijuana legalization question, the Tulsa World reported .
Democrats are shifting to offense on health care, emboldened by successes in defending the Affordable Care Act. They say their ultimate goal is a government guarantee of affordable coverage for all.
President Donald Trump, right, welcomes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., third from left, to the podium to speak during a news conference after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. Also pictured is House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, second from left, and Vice President Mike Pence, second from right.
A Democratic candidate for Maryland's 6th Congressional District indicated Monday he would make the opioid crisis a central issue of his campaign, laying out the first detailed policy proposal in the crowded race. David Trone, co-owner of a national liquor retailer, said he would support Congress approving $100 billion in new funding over 10 years to confront the epidemic.
If Oprah Winfrey's stirring Golden Globes acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award sounded like the dress rehearsal for her presidential inauguration, that's because it just might be. CNN now reports that Oprah is "actively thinking" about running for president in 2020, at least according to two anonymous close friends.
For the past week, all of Washington has been chewing over Michael Wolff's new book about President Trump and trying to assess which damning conclusions are actually true. But one of the bleakest scoops about Trump popped up elsewhere on Sunday night.
Sterling K. Brown poses with the award for best performance by an actor in a TV drama at the FOX Golden Globes after-party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 7, 2018. The dominant social issue of Sunday's Golden Globes was combating sexual harassment and sexual assault against women in the entertainment industry, an issue that dominated headlines for months following accusations against Hollywood powerhouse Harvey Weinstein.
The prominent cancer researcher and political newcomer said House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, a top member of leadership, told him he would like to give Keirstead an "early appointment" on the influential Appropriations Committee, and that leaders wanted to make him chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee. "No, neither of those statements is remotely true," the Maryland Democrat's spokeswoman Katie Grant said in a statement."