Politics

John Healy
October 12, 2019 - 8:54 am

5 Things You Missed From Donald Trump's Louisiana Rally

President Donald Trump continued his early start on the 2020 campaign on Friday with a rally in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It was the second consecutive day the president held a rally after conducting one in Minneapolis on Thursday. Here is what happened at Trump’s latest rally : ‘Bulls--t...
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This Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, photo shows the Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center operated by GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections in Adelanto, Calif. California is banning the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those the federal government uses for immigrants awaiting deportation hearings. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 he had signed a measure into law that helps fulfill his promise to end the use of private prisons.(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
AP News
October 11, 2019 - 1:36 pm

For-Profit, Private Prisons Banned In California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will ban the use of for-profit, private detention facilities, including those under contract to the federal government to hold immigrants awaiting deportation hearings, under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday that he had signed. The Democratic governor...
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Opponents of President Donald Trump protest ahead of his rally at Target Center on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. They’re standing across the street in front of the landmark First Avenue nightclub, which put rainbow decals on its windows that spelled out VOTE 2020. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
AP News
October 10, 2019 - 8:44 pm

Prince's Estate Criticizes Trump's Use Of 'Purple Rain'

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local): 10 p.m. The estate of musical legend Prince is objecting to President Donald Trump's use of a Prince song before a campaign rally in Minneapolis Thursday night. The Trump campaign played Prince's "Purple Rain" as the...
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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch, speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yovanovitch was removed from her post after insisting that a request to Ukrainian officials to investigate President Donald Trump’s political rival be conveyed through official channels, according to a fellow former diplomat. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
AP News
October 10, 2019 - 5:21 pm

Ambassador To Ukraine Lost Post After Opposing Giuliani's Role

WASHINGTON (AP) — The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was removed from her post after insisting that Rudy Giuliani's requests to Ukrainian officials for investigations be relayed through official channels, according to a former diplomat who has spoken with her. The ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch,...
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The Crisis Next Door
October 10, 2019 - 4:45 pm

Turkey Makes Its Move On Syria's Kurds

Turkey launched operation Peace Spring into northern Syria against Kurdish fighters, following President Trump's pullback of U.S. forces in the region.  Do the Kurds stand a chance against the Turks, and what does this mean for other U.S. allies?

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Gavin Newsom Signs Landmark Rent Control Legislation
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Doug Sovern
October 09, 2019 - 10:30 am

Newsom Signs Landmark Rent Control Legislation, Expanding Protection To Tenants

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs landmark legislation to provide rent control protection to tenants across the state.
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President Donald Trump pauses before speaking during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Attorney General Edwin Meese, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
AP News
October 08, 2019 - 6:55 pm

White House Refuses To Cooperate With Impeachment Investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House declared Tuesday it will halt any and all cooperation with what it termed the "illegitimate" impeachment probe by House Democrats, sharpening the constitutional clash between President Donald Trump and Congress. Trump attorneys sent a lengthy letter to House...
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Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, gives a statement to members of the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. The Trump administration barred Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, from appearing Tuesday before a House panel conducting the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
AP News
October 08, 2019 - 3:28 pm

Ambassador Will Not Testify About Ukraine To House Impeachment Panel

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on envoy Gordon Sondland's scheduled testimony on Capitol Hill (all times local): 6:10 p.m. House Democrats have subpoenaed Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, after he failed to show up at a scheduled deposition Tuesday morning. The deposition was...
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President Donald Trump winks as he listens before a trade agreement signing with Japan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
AP News
October 07, 2019 - 4:48 pm

Trump Faces GOP Criticism For Pulling Troops From Syria

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday cast his decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria as fulfilling a campaign promise to withdraw from "endless war" in the Middle East, even as Republican critics and others said he was sacrificing a U.S. ally and undermining American...
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President Donald Trump speaks at the Young Black Leadership Summit 2019 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. Kearyn Bolin, back left, of Texas State University listens. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
AP News
October 07, 2019 - 1:41 am

2nd Whistleblower Emerges With 'Firsthand Knowledge'

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump (all times local): 2:25 p.m. The disclosure of a second whistleblower threatens to undermine arguments made by President Donald Trump and his allies that a whistleblower complaint was improperly filed because it...
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