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Despite Last-Minute Changes, Senate Bill Deals Big Blow to Renewable Energy

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Trump-Backed Tax-Cut and Spending Bill Passes US Senate

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Homeland Security Secretary Noem Says CNN May Be Prosecuted Over Report on Migration App

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Israeli Officials to Hold Ceasefire Talks in Washington Amid Military Escalation in Gaza

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Trump Escalates Feud With Musk, Threatens Tesla, SpaceX Support

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Musk Vows to Punish Lawmakers Who Back Trump’s Spending Bill

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Will Valadao Spoil Trump’s Plan for July 4th ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Signing?

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Shaver Lake and Reedley 4th of July Shows Are Wednesday. Who Else Is Celebrating?

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Pence Meets with Erdogan, Seeking Syria Border Cease-Fire

ANKARA, Turkey — A senior U.S. delegation led by Vice President Mike Pence pursued an uphill mission Thursday to persuade Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to call for a cease-fire in his fight with Kurdish forces in northern Syria. Pence and Erdogan wore dour expressions as they shook hands before...

Trump Administration Issues Less-Generous Overtime Rule

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has issued a rule that will make overtime pay available to 1.3 million additional workers, though the proposal replaces a more generous one advanced by former President Barack Obama. The Labor Department said Tuesday that it is raising the salary level that companies will have...

Tlaib Declines to Visit West Bank, Citing Israeli Conditions

JERUSALEM — Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib said Friday she would not visit her grandmother in the occupied West Bank, despite being granted an Israeli permit on humanitarian grounds, saying Israel's "oppressive" conditions aimed to humiliate her. Israel barred Tlaib and another Democrat, Rep. Ilhan Omar, from visiting Jerusalem and the...

Editorial: SB 1 Is the Same Bad Legislation in a New Dress

Bad legislation is bad legislation. It doesn't matter how many times you try to dress it up. Or bring it back with a new number. We're talking about Senate Bill 1, which is officially titled the California Environmental, Public Health, and Workers Defense Act of 2019. Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins...

How ICE Arrests, Removes Immigrants Living Illegally in U.S.

RICHMOND, Va. — The officers suit up in the pre-dawn darkness, wrapping on body armor, snapping in guns, pulling on black sweat shirts that read POLICE and ICE. They gather around a conference table in an ordinary office in a nondescript office park in the suburbs, going over their targets...

With OK from Congress, US Hemp Market Set to Boom

PORTLAND, Ore. — Hemp is about to get the nod from the federal government that marijuana, its cannabis plant cousin, craves. A provision of the farm bill that received final approval in Congress on Wednesday removes hemp from the list of federally controlled substances and treats the low-THC version of...

Mi Familia Vota Supports Judge’s Decision to Halt Trump’s Asylum Ban

A federal judge Monday blocked the U.S. government from enforcing a ban on asylum by migrants who cross the southern border illegally. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of San Francisco said President Donald Trump violated a "clear command" from Congress to allow migrants to apply. Trump introduced the measures to...

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