WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO March 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department sued the state of California over so-called “sanctuary” policies that try to protect illegal immigrants against deportation, ramping up a confrontation over whether local police should enforce federal law. The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California state capital, takes aim […]
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Florida School Shooter Indicted On 34 Charges
A grand jury has indicted Nikolas Cruz on 34 counts related to last month’s mass shooting at a South Florida high school. Cruz, 19, allegedly opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14, killing 17 people and injuring others. On Wednesday, the Broward County state attorney’s office announced the indictment […]
Court Rules States Can’t Prevent Altering Gender On Birth Certificates
A federal judge ruled this week that Idaho can no longer automatically bar transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates. A judge for the U.S. District Court said on Monday that Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution by automatically denying transgender Americans’ requests to […]
Michael Flynn Forced To Sell House As Legal Fees Mount
Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Trump who pleaded guilty late last year to lying to the FBI, is selling his Virginia home in order to pay his mounting legal bills, according to a report Tuesday. Family members of the retired three-star Army general told ABC News he put his home in […]
West Virginia Teacher Strike Reaches Day 8 With No End In Sight
West Virginia teachers are striking over better pay and benefits. A statewide teacher strike in West Virginia entered its eighth day Monday without a clear resolution in sight—keeping 277,000 students away and particularly hurting those who rely on school-provided free meals in a state where the poverty rate is 17.9 percent. Although teachers have said […]
Bank Flagged Payment To Trump Porn-star As Suspicious
President Trump’s lawyer’s $130,000 wire payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election was flagged as suspicious by his bank and reported to the Treasury Department, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. First Republic Bank flagged the transaction after Michael Cohen wired money to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, […]
Mueller’s Probe Has Extended Into Foreign Campaign Financing
The special counsel is reportedly looking into efforts by the United Arab Emirates to sway the 2016 U.S. election by putting money into the Trump campaign. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is now purportedly looking into whether the United Arab Emirates, with perhaps help from a top adviser, tried to gain political influence by putting […]
Trump Congratulates China’s President For Life Long Term
U.S. President Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping Saturday after the ruling Communist party announced it was eliminating the two-term limit for the presidency, paving the way for Xi to serve indefinitely, according to audio aired by CNN. “He’s now president for life, president for life. And he’s great,” Trump said, according to audio […]
Police Searching For Suspect In Brutal Beating Of Elderly Man
Deputies in Minnesota are investigating after an elderly man sustained multiple face fractures and several lacerations requiring many stitches following a road rage incident. (Anoka County Sheriff’s Office) Minnesota investigators are looking for a dangerously violent man who fractured an elderly man’s face with his fists after a road rage incident. “Anyone who would brutally […]
Man Commits Suicide By Shooting Himself Outside White House Gates
A man has shot and killed himself outside the White House in Washington, the Secret Service says. It said the man approached the White House’s fence on Pennsylvania Avenue just before noon local time (17:00GMT) before taking out a handgun and firing several shots. No one else was injured, according to police. President Donald Trump […]
Roy Moore Asks Supporters For $250,000 To Pay Mounting Legal Fees
Defeated Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is trying to raise $250,000 as he fights a defamation lawsuit filed by a woman who says Moore touched her sexually when she was 14 years old. Moore railed against a “vicious attack” from lawyers in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco and asked for money to start a legal […]
Philando Castille Charity Pays Off Entire Districts Student Lunch Debt
A charity set up in honor of Philando Castile, the African-American school nutrition supervisor who was killed by a police officer at a traffic stop in 2016, announced this week that it had paid off the lunch debt for all of the students in the school district Castile worked in. According to the post, 37,000 kids […]