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Sep 26, 2018
Oscar Goodman sits in the chair, head bowed. The glow of his cellphone reflects in his large glasses. The dark, pinstriped suit jacket hangs long on his body. The martini, when not in his hand, is never far from reach.
The people begin to filter into the private room decorated with black-and-white...
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Sep 26, 2018
Rep. Maxine Waters has tried for months to get a House committee chairman to subpoena documents from Deutsche Bank about Russian money laundering and the finances of President Trump and his family.
If Democrats win the House majority in November, the 14-term Los Angeles lawmaker is almost certain...
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Sep 26, 2018
Boosted by growing support among suburban women and widespread antipathy toward President Trump, Democrats approach the midterm election poised to make major gains nationwide, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times Poll shows.
Democrats had a 14-point margin, 55% to 41%, when likely voters were asked...
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Sep 25, 2018
It was 2005 when Andrea Constand reported that a year earlier, when she was manager of the women's basketball team at Temple University, she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by her mentor at the school — Bill Cosby.
Prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against the comedian and television...
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Sep 25, 2018
Bill Cosby undid his crimson silk tie, removed the jacket of his navy pinstripe suit and rolled up his sleeves before being handcuffed and led slowly from the courtroom.
"This is it; this is the day," said Tamara Green, a 70-year-old Cosby accuser who had traveled from San Diego to Pennsylvania...
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Sep 25, 2018
The toughest challenge facing Judge Brett Kavanaugh when he appears at a Senate hearing Thursday about allegations of a decades-old sexual assault may be reconciling the two starkly different depictions circulating about his high school and college years.
Unfortunately for Kavanaugh, both versions...
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Sep 25, 2018
President Trump unloaded Tuesday on Democrats and the second woman publicly accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct, an escalation of his attacks that reflected the peril facing Brett Kavanaugh as the Senate weighs his confirmation vote.
Defending Kavanaugh as "a high-quality person"...
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Sep 25, 2018
President Trump had barely begun his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday when he declared his tenure had "accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country," the kind of over-the-top boast he often makes at his campaign rallies.
Around the cavernous...
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Sep 25, 2018
Slowly, Bill Cosby removed the jacket of his navy pinstripe suit, undid his necktie and rolled up his sleeves before being handcuffed and led from the courtroom.
"This is it; this is the day," said Tamara Green, a 70-year-old Cosby accuser who had traveled from San Diego to Pennsylvania to watch...
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Sep 25, 2018
A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that Uber can force its drivers into individual arbitration over pay and benefit disputes, voiding an effort by thousands of drivers to join in a class-action suit against the ride-hailing company.
The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th...
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Sep 25, 2018
Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, completing the famed actor and comic's spectacular fall from one of America's most beloved entertainers to disgraced sex offender.
Rejecting the defense argument that Cosby was too frail to handle time behind bars, Judge Steven O'Neill ordered...
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Sep 25, 2018
Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison, completing the famed actor and comic's spectacular fall from one of America's most beloved entertainers to disgraced sex offender.
Rejecting the defense argument that Cosby was too frail to handle time behind bars, Judge Steven O'Neill ordered...
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Sep 25, 2018
President Trump had barely begun his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday when he claimed his tenure had "accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country," the kind of over-the-top boast he usually reserves for his campaign rallies.
Around the cavernous...
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Sep 25, 2018
President Trump unloaded Tuesday on both Democrats and the second woman publicly accusing his Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, of sexual misconduct, an escalation of his attacks that reflected the peril facing his nominee as the Senate weighs a confirmation vote.
Defending Kavanaugh as...
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Sep 25, 2018
Bill Cosby's spectacular journey from one of America's most beloved entertainers to disgraced sex offender drew toward a close Tuesday when the aging actor and comedian was classified as a serial predator ahead of his sentencing for sexually assaulting a former friend.
Cosby declined the opportunity...
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Sep 25, 2018
Bill Cosby's spectacular journey from one of America's most beloved entertainers to disgraced sex offender will draw to a close Tuesday when the aging actor and comedian is sentenced for sexually assaulting a former friend.
Prosecutors have called for Cosby, 81, to spend five to 10 years in prison...
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Sep 25, 2018
President Trump is expected to claim foreign policy successes for his "America first" agenda and turn his wrath on Iran when he speaks to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Hours later, Iran's president, President Hassan Rouhani, will take his turn at the same U.N. podium — and is...
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Sep 25, 2018
President Trump used his second address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to blast Iran's leaders for sowing "havoc and slaughter" in Syria and Yemen, and called on world leaders to help isolate the regime.
"Iran's leaders sow chaos, death and destruction," Trump said. "They do...
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Sep 24, 2018
A federal judge cast doubt Monday on a defamation claim that Stormy Daniels filed against President Trump for a tweet questioning the credibility of the adult-film actress.
Judge S. James Otero of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said the Trump tweet that gave rise to Daniels' lawsuit looked...
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Sep 24, 2018
A year after he derided North Korea's dictator as "Rocket Man," President Trump expressed lavish praise for Kim Jong Un on Monday as the president prepared to use his second United Nations address to denounce what an aide called Iran's "global torrent of destructive activity."
In New York for the...
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Sep 24, 2018
Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein stepped into his government SUV on Monday morning for the short ride from the Justice Department to the White House, where he was convinced he was about to be fired.
Just three days earlier, the New York Times reported that Rosenstein, who supervises the high-stakes...
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Sep 24, 2018
Bill Cosby should be locked up for as long as a decade and be required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life, prosecutors said Monday in the first day of a hearing that will determine how severely the disgraced and aging actor and comedian should be punished.
Cosby, 81, was...
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Sep 24, 2018
Bill Cosby should be locked up for as long as a decade and be required to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life, prosecutors said Monday in the first day of a hearing that will determine how severely the disgraced and aging actor and comedian should be punished.
Cosby, 81, was...
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Sep 24, 2018
Bill Cosby, the first high-profile American celebrity to be convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era, entered a Pennsylvania courthouse Monday to find out whether he will spend his final years behind bars.
The disgraced 81-year-old actor and comedian was convicted in April of three counts...
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Sep 24, 2018
A year after he derided North Korea's dictator as "Rocket Man," President Trump returned to the United Nations on Monday with praise for Kim Jong Un, noting, "It's a very different world."
Trump met Kim in Singapore in June, the first summit ever between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader,...
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Sep 24, 2018
Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, the senior Justice Department official supervising the Russia investigation, will meet Thursday with President Trump, an announcement that stanched, at least for now, a flurry of reports that Rosenstein would be leaving his post.
Rosenstein headed to the White...
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Sep 24, 2018
Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein, the senior Justice Department official supervising the investigation into Russian election meddling and its possible ties to President Trump's inner circle, expects to be fired on Monday, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
There were conflicting...
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Sep 24, 2018
President Trump on Monday continued to stand behind his embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, calling him "an outstanding person" and dismissing a second woman's accusation of sexual misconduct as being part of an "unfair, unjust" political attack.
Trump, leaving the United Nations...
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Sep 24, 2018
Bill Cosby, the first high-profile American celebrity to be convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era, entered a Pennsylvania courthouse Monday to find out whether he will spend his final years behind bars.
The disgraced 81-year-old actor and comedian was convicted in April of three counts...
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Sep 24, 2018
Bill Cosby, the first high-profile American celebrity to be convicted of sexual assault in the #MeToo era, entered a Pennsylvania courthouse Monday to find out whether he will spend his final years behind bars.
The disgraced 81-year-old actor and comedian was convicted in April of three counts...
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Sep 24, 2018
A middle-aged man sways across the outdoor dance floor, nodding and smiling at friends as he moves to the rhythm of the bachata coming from a band called Grupo Melaza Mania.
In his left hand, the man holds a can of Medalla Premium Light beer. He extends his right hand to a woman in tall black heels,...
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Sep 24, 2018
President Trump made quite a splash at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders last year.
From the podium of the cavernous General Assembly, he blasted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man," threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea, and warned of global peril from "loser...
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Sep 24, 2018
Brett M. Kavanaugh's embattled nomination for the Supreme Court faced further disarray Sunday night after an explosive new account emerged of alleged sexual misconduct when he was in college, putting the White House on the defensive and the judge's confirmation in fresh doubt.
Scrambling to respond,...
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Sep 23, 2018
Brett M. Kavanaugh's embattled nomination for the Supreme Court faced further disarray Sunday night after an explosive new account emerged of alleged sexual misconduct when he was in college, putting the White House on the defensive and the judge's confirmation in fresh doubt.
Caught off guard,...
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Sep 23, 2018
The video Katie Hill posted Friday on social media opens with a striking declaration for a congressional candidate: "I have experienced sexual assault multiple times, different ways."
The 31-year-old Democrat, who is trying to unseat Republican Steve Knight of Palmdale, tells viewers she knows...
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Sep 23, 2018
The video Katie Hill posted Friday on social media opens with a striking declaration for a congressional candidate: "I have experienced sexual assault multiple times, different ways."
The 31-year-old Democrat, who is trying to unseat Republican Steve Knight of Palmdale, tells viewers she knows...
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Sep 23, 2018
With a high-stakes Senate hearing set for Thursday morning, battle lines hardened Sunday between defenders of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and those of Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who says the federal judge sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.
After a lengthy...
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Sep 23, 2018
The White House and Brett Kavanaugh issued swift denials Sunday night after an explosive new account emerged of alleged sexual misconduct by the Supreme Court nominee when he was in college, adding greater disarray to what once appeared an easy confirmation process.
The new allegations, reported...
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Sep 23, 2018
Relatives wept in grief Sunday at the mass burial in Tanzania of many of the 224 people who drowned when a ferry in capsized on Lake Victoria.
Colorfully painted coffins were lined up for burial on Ukara Island. Grieving family members places wreaths of flowers on the coffins.
The overloaded boat...
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Sep 23, 2018
President Trump had a stormy debut at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders last September.
From the podium of the packed General Assembly, he blasted North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as "Rocket Man," threatened to "totally destroy" North Korea, and warned of global peril from "loser...
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Sep 23, 2018
From African farms shriveled into desert to monster storms revved up by warmer air over the oceans, climate change is stoking environmental disasters around the globe and uprooting millions of people a year — adding to a refugee crisis said to be the worst since World War II.
The increasingly extreme...
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Sep 22, 2018
The number of people living in the U.S. illegally could be more than double the widely accepted estimate of 11 million, according to a new study by researchers at Yale and MIT.
Unlike previous studies that have concentrated on census statistics, the study used fresh federal data on border arrests,...
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Sep 22, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the California woman who alleges Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, is willing to "provide her firsthand knowledge" to the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, her attorneys said Saturday, and the committee has tentatively agreed...
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Sep 22, 2018
On the day he died, Sunday Aguda had a new job and new wife. They had been planning to celebrate his birthday, just three days away.
But he never reached 45 years old.
Thursday morning, Aguda went for his break outside a Rite Aid warehouse in Harford County, Md. He found himself in the path of...
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Sep 22, 2018
Six siblings of U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar have urged voters to cast their ballots against the Arizona Republican in November in an unusual political ad sponsored by the rival candidate.
The television ad from Democrat David Brill combines video interviews with Gosar family siblings who ask voters to...
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Sep 22, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the California woman who alleges Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, will "provide her first-hand knowledge" before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week, her attorneys said Saturday.
Ford, a research psychologist at Palo Alto University,...
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Sep 22, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the Palo Alto University professor accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape when they were high schoolers, says she never called police and did not speak about the incident to anyone for decades after the alleged attack in the early 1980s.
Trying to...
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Sep 22, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, her attorneys said in a letter Saturday.
Ford, a research psychologist at Palo Alto University, is still hoping the Senate Judiciary...
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Sep 22, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the Stanford University professor accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape when they were high schoolers, says she never called police and did not speak about the incident to anyone for decades after the alleged attack in 1982.
Trying to discredit...
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Sep 22, 2018
Senate Republicans say Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school, must decide this afternoon whether she will agree to their terms for testifying next week.
Ford, a research psychologist at Palo Alto University, has signaled she...
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Sep 21, 2018
The state of Indiana is planning to ask the Supreme Court to settle an abortion dispute involving a state law that could reopen the debate over Roe vs. Wade in the upcoming term.
The state said recently in court filings that it will ask the justices to consider whether a woman can be prohibited...
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Sep 21, 2018
President Trump on Friday backed down from his order to declassify certain documents from the Russia investigation, including text messages exchanged among law enforcement leaders.
The decision will likely disappoint conservative House Republicans and media figures who had encouraged the president...
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Sep 21, 2018
In a Friday morning tweet storm after days of restraint, President Trump defended his embattled Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, and sought to cast doubt on the woman accusing the conservative jurist of attempting to rape her when they were in high school.
Portraying the allegations by...
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Sep 21, 2018
Police in New York say at least five people, including three infants, were stabbed at an overnight day care center in Queens.
NBC New York reports that authorities say the stabbings happened just before 4 a.m. Friday. One of the infants, a girl, is in serious condition, but none of the injuries...
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Sep 21, 2018
As the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh hung in the balance, senators from both parties engaged in an extensive game of chicken this week on the issue of whether and when the public might hear from Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused him of a sexual assault years ago.
Neither...
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Sep 21, 2018
To hear Katie Porter tell it, she's just your average Orange County mom, clipping coupons, shopping specials at the supermarket and puttering about with three kids in a Toyota minivan that's pushing 120,000 miles.
But turn on the TV and you're likely to see a more ominous portrait, etched in shades...
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Sep 21, 2018
To hear Katie Porter tell it, she's just your average Orange County mom, clipping coupons, shopping specials at the supermarket and puttering about with three kids in a Toyota minivan that's pushing 120,000 miles.
But turn on the TV and you're likely to see a more ominous portrait, etched in shades...
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Sep 21, 2018
It's fall in the northwest corner of Alaska's Arctic, and the land is exploding in a riot of activity, color, cold air and sunshine - the natural world's last shout before the arrival of dark and ice.
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Sep 20, 2018
Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, in a tight race to retain his Orange County seat, ridiculed the decades-old allegation of sexual assault that has thrown the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh into turmoil, according to a recording acquired by Talking Points Memo.
"This guy who's going...
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Sep 20, 2018
After days of silence about whether she would appear, California professor Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that she is willing to testify next week about her allegations of a decades-old sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The offer, made...
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Sep 20, 2018
The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on 33 foreign individuals and businesses, including 12 Russian intelligence officers previously indicted by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on charges of interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
The sanctions, announced by...
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Sep 20, 2018
Negotiations for a high-stakes public hearing about the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh gained steam Thursday when his accuser, California professor Christine Blasey Ford, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee offering to testify next week.
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Sep 20, 2018
Puerto Rico and its residents have struggled to recover during the past year after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island, leaving a mess responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths. The island marks the storm's anniversary Sept. 20.
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Sep 20, 2018
Twice in less than a year, the federal government has lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children after placing them in the homes of sponsors across the country, federal officials have acknowledged.
The Health and Human Services Department recently told Senate staffers that case managers could...
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Sep 19, 2018
When Mabrey Smith heard on Wednesday that President Trump might pass by the used-car dealership he runs with his girlfriend here, he dug through his belongings and emerged with two lawn signs from the 2016 campaign — "Trump-Pence."
Then Smith placed them along the road and waited for Trump's motorcade...
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Sep 19, 2018
Republicans hardened their position and closed ranks Wednesday in the handling of sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, ramping up their rhetoric and unifying around the idea that his accuser should testify — publicly or privately —by Monday.It's a big political...
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Sep 19, 2018
Sen. Dianne Feinstein was one of four female senators who rode into Washington in 1992 amid a political backlash over the all-male panel that quizzed Anita Hill on her sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas a year earlier.
Now as the top Democrat handling the...
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Sep 19, 2018
Sen. Dianne Feinstein was one of four female senators who rode into Washington in 1992 amid a political backlash over the all-male panel that quizzed Anita Hill on her sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas a year earlier.
Now as the top Democrat handling the...
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Sep 19, 2018
Facing backlash over the decision to drastically limit the number of refugees who will be permitted to settle in the United States, State Department officials are attempting to defend the move and soften its impact.
But ultimately, the proposed new quota — a third of last year's number and an all-time...
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Sep 19, 2018
President Trump said Wednesday that it's "very hard for me to imagine anything happened" between Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and California professor Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they both were in high school.
Trump also said the accusation...
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Sep 19, 2018
President Trump built his trade policy on an obsession with cutting fat U.S. deficits with China, Mexico, Europe and others.
But for weeks, Trump has barely mentioned that once-singular economic focus. No tweets about trade deficits since July. And the subject was conspicuously missing from his...
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Sep 19, 2018
President Trump built his trade policy on an obsession with cutting fat U.S. deficits with China, Mexico, Europe and others.
But for weeks, Trump has barely mentioned that once-singular economic focus. No tweets about trade deficits since July. And the subject was conspicuously missing from his...
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Sep 19, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they both were in high school, signaled late Tuesday that she would not testify about the allegation until after the FBI investigated the matter.
A letter to the...
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Sep 19, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the Northern California psychology professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were both teenagers, is described by colleagues as a rigorous statistician who doesn't fudge the data or stray from the facts.
One psychiatrist who...
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Sep 18, 2018
Hurricanes can bring all sorts of trouble — winds, rains, floods. And early fatality data from Florence's assault on the Carolinas suggest that being in your car, on the road, after the storm hits land has been especially deadly.
An analysis by the Los Angeles Times of 35 deaths officials have...
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Sep 18, 2018
Rick Dove is an environmental paparazzi operating at more than 1,000 feet above the ground.
A senior advisor with the Waterkeeper Alliance, he circles the floodwaters from Hurricane Florence in the back seat of a tiny propeller plane, gripping his camera while searching for toxic problems below.
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Sep 18, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they both were in high school, signaled late Tuesday that she would not testify about the allegation until after the FBI investigated the matter.
A letter to the...
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Sep 18, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when both were in high school, signaled late Tuesday that she would not testify about the allegations until after the FBI investigated the matter.
The comment, made...
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Sep 18, 2018
Rivers continued to rise out of their banks across the Carolinas on Tuesday, frustrating rescue efforts and residents hoping to return home.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, acknowledged the difficulties after a tour of flooded...
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Sep 18, 2018
Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday bitterly debated how to move forward on a high-stakes hearing Monday with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the California professor, Christine Blasey Ford, accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault.Preparing for what could be one of the most dramatic...
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Sep 18, 2018
Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday bitterly debated how to move forward on a high-stakes hearing Monday with Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and the California professor, Christine Blasey Ford, accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault.
Girding for what could be one of the most dramatic...
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Sep 18, 2018
Rivers continued to rise out of their banks across the Carolinas on Tuesday, frustrating rescue efforts and residents hoping to return home.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, acknowledged the difficulties following a tour of...
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Sep 18, 2018
Republicans on Capitol Hill plan to hear testimony Monday from Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, but will call no one else, drawing rebuke from Democrats who say more witnesses and experts are needed.
"Compare that to the 22 witnesses at the 1991 Anita...
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Sep 18, 2018
Republicans on Capitol Hill plan to hear testimony Monday from Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, but will call no other witnesses, drawing rebuke from Democrats who say more witnesses and experts are needed.
"Compare that to the 22 witnesses at the...
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Sep 18, 2018
Rivers were rising out of their banks across the Carolinas on Tuesday as North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper toured flooded areas with Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
With FEMA registrations set to begin Tuesday for victims of Hurricane Florence, the pair were expected...
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Sep 18, 2018
Republican Young Kim holds a slight edge over Democrat Gil Cisneros in the fiercely contested race to succeed GOP Rep. Ed Royce of Fullerton, according to a poll released Tuesday.
But Kim's lead among potential voters, 46% to 42%, falls within the margin of error in the nonpartisan Monmouth University...
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Sep 17, 2018
President Trump's proposal to create a "space force" would cost nearly $13 billion over five years and require a sweeping reorganization of parts of the Pentagon and intelligence community — including shifting the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center in El Segundo into the new military...
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Sep 17, 2018
Moving to undermine the Russia investigation that has overshadowed the White House, President Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of a raft of sensitive FBI and other records involving several high-profile adversaries, including former FBI Director James B. Comey and his former deputy,...
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Sep 17, 2018
Twenty-seven years after nationally televised hearings into Anita Hill's accusations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas generated a national debate over sexual misconduct, the Senate plunged back into the issue Monday, but in a vastly different country with sharply different values.
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Sep 17, 2018
The Trump administration on Monday announced new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, a sharp escalation of its trade fight with Beijing that will also exact costs on a wide range of American businesses and consumers.
The new tariffs, to take effect next Monday, would initially be set at...
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Sep 17, 2018
The Trump administration on Monday announced new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports, a sharp escalation of its trade fight with Beijing that will also exact costs on a wide range of American businesses and consumers.
The new tariffs, to take effect next Monday, would initially be set at...
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Sep 17, 2018
The Trump administration on Monday announced new tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports, a sharp escalation of its trade fight with China that will also exact costs on a wide range of American businesses and consumers.
The new tariffs, to take effect next Monday, would initially be set at 10%...
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Sep 17, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and the California professor accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault will testify publicly Monday about the allegations, throwing his carefully planned Senate confirmation — once seen as a sure bet — into limbo.
GOP leaders late in the day abandoned...
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Sep 17, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh's carefully planned confirmation — once seen as a sure bet — slipped into limbo Monday over allegations from a California professor that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when both were in high school in the early 1980s.
After initially vowing to proceed...
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Sep 17, 2018
Moving to undermine the Russia investigation that has threatened his White House tenure, President Trump moved Monday to declassify sensitive Justice Department records and personal text messages that White House allies hope will show the special counsel probe was launched from an improper foundation.
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Sep 17, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh's carefully-planned confirmation — once seen as a sure bet — slipped into limbo Monday after he and the woman accusing him of a decades-old sexual assault offered to testify about the allegations.
The Senate now appears increasingly unlikely to move ahead...
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Sep 17, 2018
The Trump administration is cutting the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year to 30,000.
The announcement comes despite calls from global humanitarian groups that this year's cap of 45,000 was too low.
The 30,000 ceiling announced Monday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is...
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Sep 17, 2018
Amid reports that the United States is preparing tariffs on an additional $200 billion of Chinese imports, President Trump said Monday that his administration planned to make a formal announcement after financial markets stopped trading for the day.
"It will be a lot of money coming into the coffers...
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Sep 17, 2018
Storm-battered North Carolina remained in crisis Monday as rivers kept rising and some cities were besieged by floodwaters, even with a weakened Florence moving out of the region.
The storm was believed to be responsible for at least 17 deaths in the region, officials said.
The coastal city of...
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Sep 17, 2018
Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexual assault have offered to testify before the Senate, increasing the likelihood that a preliminary vote this week on President Donald Trump's nominee will be delayed.
Christine Blasey Ford "is willing to to do whatever it...
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