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President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled its third budget proposal Monday, cementing a vision for the United States that bolsters funding for defense and border walls, while severely cutting social programs for the nation’s poorest. The $4.7 trillion budget proposal, which encompasses everything from funding for food aid, education, and health care to national defense, seeks to slash $845 billion from Medicare — a program Trump notably promised to leave untouched…

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LOS ANGELES — The young girl whose body was discovered in a duffel bag near a Los Angeles-area hiking trail last week has been identified, and two persons of interest were being held Sunday for questioning about her death. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the county coroner identified the girl as Trinity Love Jones, 9, of Los Angeles County. Authorities did not provide more detail about where in…

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Disapproval from Democratic presidential candidates was just as blunt. “This is a budget for the military industrial complex, for corporate C.E.O.s, for Wall Street and for the billionaire class,” Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, said in a statement. “It is dead on arrival.” Even some prominent Republicans greeted the president’s request somewhat coolly, because it did not go far enough to reduce the growing national debt. Representative Steve Womack,…

Some Venezuelans have taken to looting supermarkets in Caracas during the fourth day of blackouts, which have paralysed the country.  Pictures reveal that some supermarkets in the capital have been left ransacked by desperate residents as they struggle to find food.  Security forces detained a number of people who were caught looting on Sunday, with some pictures showing looters being piled onto waiting trucks.  Armed men were seen forcefully escorting…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Brexit Brexit has shattered the U.K.’s image as a place for investment, the former chairman of one of the country’s biggest banks said Monday. A second referendum on whether the U.K. should leave the EU may be inevitable, Gerald Grimstone, who served as chairman of Barclays, warned ahead of crucial Parliament votes this week on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal. And he didn’t mince…

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Boeing Boeing shares were set to drop at least 9% at Monday’s market open, wiping about $21.5 billion off the company’s market capitalization. Questions are being asked about the manufacturer after the second crash in six months involving one of its Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft. The latest crash, of an Ethiopian Airlines flight traveling to Kenya on Sunday morning, killed 157 people. China’s aviation…

Washington — In a move that will likely lead to another tense standoff with congressional Democrats, President Trump is expected to request $8.6 billion in additional funds for the construction of his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a senior administration official told CBS News. In its annual budget proposal to Congress, to officially be unveiled Monday, the White House will seek congressional approval of $5 billion in funding for…

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said special counsel Robert Mueller would be making a “mistake” if President Trump isn’t brought in to testify under oath for the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. Speaking to Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Schiff, D-Calif., said that he hopes Mueller subpoenas Trump or finds a way to…

Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday night he and Vice-President Mike Pence have different views of their Christian faith and he does not understand Pence’s loyalty to Donald Trump. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said his feeling “is that the scripture is about protecting the stranger, the prisoner, the poor person, and that idea of welcome. That’s what I get in the Gospel when I’m in church.”…

Victims of crash came from around the world Black body bags were spread across the red sands near Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on Monday as word of the crash traveled to the families of the 157 victims, who were from at least 35 countries. Investigators have yet to locate the flight data recorder, the so-called black box, which they hope will shed light on what brought down a new plane on a…

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A USC student was shot and killed in a failed robbery attempt about a mile from campus early Sunday morning, police said. USC identified the victim as Victor McElhaney, a student in the university’s Thornton School of Music. McElhaney was the son of Oakland City Council member Lynette Gibson McElhaney. “It is with the utmost sadness that I share with you the tragic news that my…

Elise Viebeck March 10 at 7:01 PM In Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Jews and Somali immigrants have been partners for decades. When Somali refugees arrived in Minnesota starting in 1993, Jewish leaders saw echoes of their forebears who faced virulent anti-Semitism as newcomers to the state more than a century before. The communities developed strong ties, joining to fight hunger and illiteracy and raising money for one another in response to…

<!– –> × SEARCH QUOTES Brexit Brexit could be reversed if lawmakers reject the government’s exit deal, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday after two major eurosceptic factions in parliament warned that Prime Minister Theresa May was facing a heavy defeat. Just 19 days before the United Kingdom is due to leave the EU on March 29, May is scrambling – so far unsuccessfully – to secure last-minute…

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Kent Wegener, who oversees the homicide bureau, said that more detectives are being assigned to assist in the investigation, given the volume of information related to the child’s body.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for the wall he promised to build on the southern border with Mexico to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking, officials familiar with his 2020 budget request told Reuters. The demand is more than six times what Congress allocated for border projects in each of the past two fiscal years,…