The Biden administration will close two immigration detention centers in Georgia and Massachusetts that are under federal investigation for alleged abuse of detained immigrants, including the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia where scores of women said they suffered medical abuse. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday to stop … Read more
Former President Trump speaks at a news conference in Rancho Palos Verdes in September 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Two hundred grams of gold. 122 diamonds. A $100,000 price tag. And “TRUMP” on the dial. Flashy, yes, but the most notable feature in a mechanical wristwatch debuted by former President Trump last week … Read more
With the summit officially starting in less than 48 hours, President Reagan made a rehearsal visit Sunday to the 18th-Century Swiss villa where he will meet with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev on Tuesday. Top officials accompanied him and dutifully took their places in the meeting room along one side of the 16-foot conference table … Read more
If it were a movie, it might be called “101 Donations.” With Congress in recess, the 1998 elections around the corner and federal campaign reform stalled, politicians are practically stumbling over one another as they arrive in Hollywood in a pre-holiday drive to raise donations and cement relationships with powerful, well-heeled backers in show business. … Read more
The state Capitol in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) Amid ongoing warnings about underfunded public employee pension funds, more than a dozen California state lawmakers are augmenting their $107,242 salaries by collecting retirement payments from previous government jobs, a practice that taxpayer activists condemn as “double dipping.” A string of reports in recent weeks … Read more
Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, speaks during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 15. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times) In a move that further signals Donald Trump’s commitment to enforce stringent controls on illegal immigration, the president-elect confirmed Tuesday he planned to appoint South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday expressed outrage at how Border Patrol agents on horseback confronted Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the situation brought to mind how such tactics have been “used against the Indigenous people of our country, [have] been used against African Americans during times of slavery.” “Human beings should not … Read more
Column: Lauren Boebert is her own best asset — and worst enemy — as she fights to stay in Congress Lauren Boebert was preaching to the faithful, prowling the stage of a megachurch and delivering a sermon — filled with Scripture and references to Christ and Satan — taken straight from the Book of Grievance. She … Read more
At least four federal agencies will probably have to lay off thousands of employees this year unless Congress approves “buyouts” to speed voluntary departures, according to Clinton Administration officials. The Agriculture, Interior and Transportation departments and the Office of Personnel Management are at the most risk for reductions in force, or RIFs–the government jargon for … Read more
President Trump speaks at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Nati Harnik / Associated Press) With four weeks until the midterm election, President Trump whipped up a crowd of about 9,000 supporters here, reiterating his recent claims that Democrats are an “angry mob” intent on “policies of anger, division and destruction.” “You don’t hand … Read more
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