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Jeff Sessions’ team takes over Washington

With the ascension of former Sen. Jeff Sessions to attorney general and several of his former staff installed at the White House and federal agencies, immigration policy experts are sensing a sea change in Washington. Advocates and policy staff of both parties half-jokingly refer to the “Sessions cabal” that has now found power in President Donald Trump’s Washington — a group that for years has found itself outside the mainstream on immigration policy in Washington and faced ire from their Republican and Democratic colleagues for what one sparring partner called “strident” positions.

Senate on track to confirm Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator

In this Jan. 18, 2017, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. On inauguration eve, five law professors filed a brief in support of a 2015 regulation giving EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers discretion to regulate tributaries and wetlands far upstream from navigable lakes and rivers to protect water quality.

Harrison Ford in near-miss with jet

Actor Harrison Ford had a potentially serious run-in with an airliner at a Southern California airport, NBC-TV reported. Ford, 74, was told to land his single-engine plane on a runway at John Wayne Airport in Orange County on Monday, but he mistakenly landed it on a parallel taxiway, passing over an American Airlines jet holding nearby, NBC reported.

GOP bill would allow states to defund Planned Parenthood

The House voted Thursday to make it easier for states to deny federal family-planning funds to groups such as Planned Parenthood that also perform abortions. A rule imposed by the Obama administration says that states cannot deny funding to clinics for reasons unrelated to their ability to provide basic family planning services.

MANILA. Senator Leila de Lima

THE Department of Justice has found probable cause to charge Senator Leila de Lima before the Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court. De Lima was charged Friday with three cases for violation of the Republic Act 9165 or the Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 in connection with her alleged involvement in the drug trading in the New Bilibid Prison .

Critics: Trump should not ignore domestic terrorist threats

In this Friday, June 18, 2015 file photo, police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene where nine people where shot by Dylann Storm Roof, 21, in Charleston, S.C. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked domestic terrorist plots and attacks in the United States.

Argument: No scheme at GJ airport

Even if the Grand Junction Regional Airport Authority had not erred in its initial grant application to the Federal Aviation Administration in 2011 for a $5 million fence around most of its facility, the federal agency would have approved helping to pay for the project anyway. And because of that, the FAA and the U.S. Department of Justice said they believed there was no conspiracy or fraud going on at the airport, and only reached a settlement agreement with the authority after one error was discovered during a two-year investigation that wasn’t part of the initial complaint.

Closer look doesn’t cast Pence, DeVos in pleasant light

Billionaire Betsy DeVos, the new U.S. secretary of education, just gave Vice President Mike Pence his Gloria Swanson/”Sunset Boulevard” moment: Pence, a former governor and congressman from Indiana, cast the deciding vote in the U.S. Senate to confirm DeVos. Pence’s vote was the first time in U.S. history a vice president has had to break a tie to confirm a Cabinet appointee.

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Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any president since Richard Nixon, our new commander in chief sees virtue in brutal authoritarians, especially if they are fighting radical Islam.

Farther Left or Farther Right?

There is a great public debate taking place among the intelligentsia, the political talking heads, and in written media concerning the relative positional/ideological shift of the two main parties. Barely a day goes by when one side or the other doesn’t say something along these lines: “Today’s Republicans have moved so far Right that there are no more ‘moderate’ Republicans and that’s why compromise is no longer possible.”

Trump unleashed, and a press conference for the ages

Donald Trump entered the East Room of the White House on Thursday reeling from a week filled with resignations, withdrawals and continued questions surrounding his campaign’s contacts with Russia. It was a return for Trump to what worked for him during the course of the 2016 campaign: a circus-like atmosphere in which he uses the media – and his supporters’ distrust of the media – as a sort of tackling dummy to re-centre the narrative on ground more favourable to him.

The Mexican left campaigning in Los Angeles?

During my work days in Mexico, many of my Mexican friends would joke with me about “el 33” or Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution. It goes like this : Article 33 of Mexico’s constitution establishes the right of the president to detain and deport “any foreigner” and prohibits foreigners from participating “in any way” in the political affairs of the country.

Illegal aliens too terrified to apply for welfare

A government social worker for Durham County, N.C., said that the number of Hispanic residents seeking assistance had dropped off rapidly in recent days amid swirling rumors about an ICE checkpoint at a Durham intersection and ICE agents making arrests in a supermarket parking lot. “Today, I haven’t gotten one Hispanic client in the entire check-in today,” said the social worker, a longtime government employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

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The Trump administration said in court documents on Thursday it wants a pause in the legal fight over its ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, so it can issue a replacement ban as it strives to protect the nation from terrorism. Details of the new proposal were not provided in the filing or at a wide-ranging news conference by President Donald Trump.

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Garnar State of the County: Airport, opioid epidemic, county finances Garnar asked Republican and Democratic legislators to work together to address issues facing the county. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://press.sn/2lnPeGE Broome County Executive Jason Garnar discussed the county’s financial outlook, the Binghamton Airport, jobs, and the heroin epidemic during his State of the County address on Thursday.

Appeals court stays travel ban case until Trump’s new executive order

The federal appeals court that upheld a lower court’s restraining order on President Trump ‘s travel ban granted a Justice Department request Thursday to stay proceedings in the case until the president issues a replacement executive order next week. During a Thursday afternoon press conference, Trump mentioned that he would unveil a new executive action “tailored” to address judicial concerns that haulted the travel ban.

UAW ad campaign to push U.S.-made vehicles

President Dennis Williams said the ads could be similar to a 1970s garment workers campaign with a catchy jingle that told people to look for a union label on clothing. Williams told reporters Thursday the union wants to take advantage of Trump’s movement U.S. to bring back manufacturing jobs lost to cheaper-labor countries such as Mexico.

Like Obama, Trump says he’ll go after leakers

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has instructed his Department of Justice to investigate the leaks that have plagued his administration for the last month. Since being sworn into office Jan. 20, Trump has been besieged by a seemingly endless stream of leaks from the White House and federal agencies, a flow of critical information that’s contributed to the impression that the administration in chaos.

CNN: Donald Trump attacks hasn’t hurt the cable news network

The president of CNN said Thursday that neither the network’s journalism or business have been hurt as a result of President Donald Trump’s attacks. Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, spoke Thursday at the same time Trump was holding a news conference in Washington that continued his barrage against media coverage of the administration.

FLASHBACK: Obama Administration Attacks FOX, Press Pool Cackles

Remember during Obama’s second term, when Obama and his administration not only choose to freeze out the FOX News organization but relentlessly mocked them and implied that they were untrustworthy? Well, the MSM certainly doesn’t seem to remember any of it because every outlet from CNN to the Chicago Tribune to The Washington Post to USN to Market Watch all expressed shock and outrage at President Trump’s press conference earlier today. It was an incredible press conference where President Trump, rightly so, called out the false reporting and bias being perpetrated by the MSM.

Trump promises new immigration order as DOJ holds off appeals court

President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to roll out a new immigration executive order next week that will be tailored to the federal court decision that paused his travel ban. “The new order is going to be very much tailored to what I consider to be a very bad decision,” said Trump during a news conference, referring to a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that blocked his travel ban earlier this month.

Trump press conference fact-check: What the president got wrong and right

Authorities in Indiana have released an image of a man they say was photographed on a nature trail around the same time as two Carroll County teenagers were h… — The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov is no longer off the coast of Connecticut, but has moved southward to a position northeast of Norfolk, Virginia.The vessel… A new program is now available for producers in Furnas, Red Willow and Hitchcock counties to receive assistance for planting cover crops to enhance soil health and wildlife ha… The Central Community College men’s golf team is pleased to announce the signing of Dillon Gillming, a senior from Elm Creek High School.

First Take: Zuckerberg’s ‘manifesto’ is just an ad…

Mark Zuckerberg posted a 6,000-word “State of the Union”-style mission statement for Facebook Inc. on Thursday, which many in the media immediately took to calling a “manifesto” that refutes the isolationist ideas of President Donald Trump. The lengthy diatribe , which is nothing like the pithy, controversial manifestos of political and artistic movements of the past , is just Zuckerberg’s attempt to create a warm and fuzzy feeling for Facebook The world’s largest social network has taken a public beating for being a platform for fake news during the recent U.S. presidential election, and been excoriated by some on the left for keeping Trump advisor and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel on its board.