WASHINGTON — Pointing to growing threats and competition from Russia and China, the White House on Thursday announced ambitious plans to create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth, separate military warfighting service by 2020. The proposal taps into the American public's long fascination with space — but with a...
NFL Players Protest During Anthem, Draw Rebuke From Trump
NFL players demonstrated during the national anthem at several preseason games Thursday night, protests that again drew a rebuke from President Donald Trump. .....Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money...
Negotiate With Taliban to End Afghan War: Zakaria
Recent news reports on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan have raised the possibility of future direct talks with the Taliban aimed at reaching a peace accord and allowing for the withdrawal of American troops from the war-torn country. Following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the conflict has since become America's...
75% of Americans Say Immigration Is Good. Is Trump's GOP Listening?
Here in the Valley, Republican congressional incumbents such as Jeff Denham of Turlock and David Valadao of Hanford are pushing hard for immigration reform. Elsewhere in America, some GOP House candidates are embracing President Donald Trump's fiery rhetoric about building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico and voting...
Rep. Collins Will Stay on Ballot Despite Insider Trading Charges
NEW YORK — Republican U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins of New York was arrested Wednesday on charges he fed inside information that he gleaned from sitting on the board of a biotechnology company to his son, helping others dodge hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses when bad news came out....
US Braces for Possible Cyberattacks After Iran Sanctions
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is bracing for cyberattacks Iran could launch in retaliation for the re-imposition of sanctions this week by President Donald Trump, cybersecurity and intelligence experts say. Concern over that cyber threat has been rising since May, when Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal, under which...
Council Powerless to Remove Trump Star From Walk of Fame
WEST HOLLYWOOD — The West Hollywood City Council is powerless to remove President Donald Trump's star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The council unanimously approved a resolution urging the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Los Angeles to remove the star because of what it says is Trump's "disturbing treatment...
Iran Weighs Response as US Sanctions Bite
TEHRAN, Iran — As Iranians awoke Tuesday to renewed U.S. sanctions that had been lifted by Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers, the question on everyone's mind remained: What happens now? From deciphering President Donald Trump's tweets on Iran — including one demanding "WORLD PEACE" — to trying to figure...
Trump's Claims on California Wildfires Inaccurate: AP Fact Check
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is claiming that California's water policy is shortchanging firefighters of water to battle the state's raging wildfires. That's not so, according to wildfire and water experts. TRUMP: "California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren't allowing...
Trump Appears to Change Story on Meeting With Russian Lawyer
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump appears to have changed his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel's investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-connected lawyer to collect information about his political opponent. Trump tweeted on Sunday: [raw] Fake News...