Two Marines based at Camp Pendleton face federal charges after allegedly accepting money to pick up undocumented immigrants near the U.S-Mexico border. According to reports by Quartz and Marine Corp Times, the Marines were pulled over July 3 by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Jacumba Hot Springs, near the...
Where Mike Pence and Second Lady Will Be in the Valley
The White House has released details about Wednesday's visit to the central San Joaquin Valley by Vice President Mike Pence and Second Lady Karen Pence. The vice president, making his first public visit to Fresno and Kings counties since taking office in 2017, has two events scheduled. His wife has...
Is He the Only Dem in America Not Running for President?
It wasn't as epic as Bob Dylan's 115th Dream, but a weird scenario invaded my sleep the other night. I'm in a chair in the Ed Sullivan Studio in New York next to the desk where comedian Stephen Colbert holds court. He places his right index finger just below his nose, as...
Trump Administration Cancels $1 Billion for Bullet Train
SACRAMENTO — The Trump administration canceled nearly $1 billion Thursday in federal money for California's high-speed rail project, further throwing into question the future of the ambitious plan to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco. California Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately pledged to take the administration to court. "The Trump Administration's...
Kushner Oversees Immigration Proposals With Eye on Congress
WASHINGTON — Hastily written executive orders. Declarations by tweet. President Donald Trump's White House hasn't been known for its careful crafting of policy. But Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, has spent months drawing up a long-awaited immigration overhaul plan that the White House began to roll out...
Trump Acknowledges Over $1 Billion in Tax Write Offs, Calls It ‘Sport’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged taking massive tax write offs for real estate losses topping $1 billion from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, calling it "sport" among developers like himself during that period. Trump was reacting to a New York Times report Tuesday that his businesses lost more...
US Gives Exemptions to Sanctions on Iran Revolutionary Guard
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Wednesday granted important exemptions to new sanctions on Iran's Revolutionary Guard, watering down the effects of the measures while also eliminating an aspect that would have complicated U.S. foreign policy efforts. Foreign governments and businesses that have dealings with the Revolutionary Guard and its...
At the Border, Trump Moves Closer to Emergency Declaration
MCALLEN, Texas — Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was mounting to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse that has closed...
Judge Upholds California Sanctuary Laws
A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected a request by the Trump administration to block two California laws that protect immigrants in the country illegally, but put key parts of a third sanctuary law on hold. Judge John Mendez refused to block a law requiring the state to review detention facilities...
Zakaria: North Korea Summit Was Big Win for China
The cancellation of U.S. military exercises with South Korea is one of several troubling outcomes of President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, writes Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria. The headline from the summit in Singapore earlier this month, in which Trump described the exercises as "provocative,"...