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A shooter in Aurora, Illinois, is no longer a threat following an active shooter situation, police in the city said Friday afternoon. At least one person is dead, according to Kane County Coroner Rob Russell. The shooting unfolded in an area with several commercial businesses in Aurora. Local police said the scene has been secured. Fast Facts: The City of Aurora said the shooter was apprehended 1 person is dead;…

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CLOSE Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld might be challenging President Trump in the 2020 republican primary election. Veuer’s Sam Berman has the full story. Buzz60 BEDFORD, N.H. – William Weld, a former Massachusetts governor who ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2016, became the first Republican to take a serious step toward challenging President Donald Trump in 2020. Speaking Friday at a breakfast in New Hampshire, Weld said…

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[President Trump declared a national emergency. What happens now?] In addition to a legislative effort to stop Mr. Trump, the issue will almost certainly be taken to court, either by congressional Democrats, liberal advocacy groups or both. Legal experts have said the administration can make serious arguments to justify its move, but added that courts may decide that it is stretching the intent of the law. The Supreme Court is…

Annie Linskey David Weigel February 15 at 9:19 AM Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld told an audience in New Hampshire on Friday that he will try to take on President Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primary, offering the first high-profile challenge to the president’s reelection effort. Weld, 73, said he would seek to determine over the coming months if he can raise enough money to continue his challenge of…

President Trump on Friday rejected an question from CNN’s Jim Acosta about whether he is pretending there’s a crisis at the border, by turning to the families who have lost loved ones due to illegal immigrant violence. At a White House press conference, Acosta said many believe there is no border crisis that requires an emergency declaration to build a border wall. “What do you say to your critics who…

The right feared it would be the Left that would gut the Constitution. It turned out that a Republican president beat them to it by declaring a national emergency over a non-emergency to seize power. On Friday morning, President Trump made that a reality. Speaking from the Rose Garden with the televised drama he loves, he declared that the problems at the southern border constituted a national emergency. Based on…

BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — William Weld, a former governor of Massachusetts who two years ago ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket, has become the first Republican to announce a challenge to President Donald Trump in the 2020 primaries. Fiscally conservative but socially liberal, the 73-year-old Weld ran on the Libertarian party ticket with former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. But he re-registered as a Republican last month,…

Siobhán O’Grady February 15 at 9:06 AM Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claims that officials from his administration met with President Trump’s envoy to Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, and extended an invitation for him to visit Venezuela, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has met with the Trump administration twice in New York, Maduro said, and invited Abrams, the U.S.-based envoy, to visit the country “privately, publicly,…

  Two US citizens are taking legal action against Customs and Border Protection, alleging they were illegally detained after speaking Spanish in a store. Montana residents Ana Suda and Mimi Hernandez say they were approached by an officer, who asked to see their IDs when they told him they were born in the US. They allege they were held for around 40 minutes. In a video the pair say they…

Video Speaker Pelosi says Trump is attempting an ‘end run’ around Congress House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday theorized that if President Trump can declare a national emergency in order to bypass Congress to fund a border wall, there’s no reason that a Democratic president in the future can’t employ the same measure to deal with gun violence in the country. Pelosi made the remarks during a press conference in the Capitol…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that not only would President Trump declare a national emergency to build a border wall, but that he would support it, is going to come back to haunt conservatives. As I noted last month, the possibility of an emergency declaration became a lot more likely when Trump caved on border wall funding to end the government shutdown, thus making him feel he had to…

Allyson Chiu February 15 at 5:18 AM Moments after Trevor Noah sat down behind his desk on the set of “The Daily Show,” he looked straight into the camera and said three words: “The border wall.” “It’s now official, neither Mexico nor Congress will pay for it,” Noah informed his audience Thursday night. “So, like many of you after Valentine’s Day, Trump is turning to Plan B.” “Plan B,” in…

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Video Trump expected to reallocate $8 billion from other agencies for border wall President Trump‘s plans to declare a national emergency in order to fund his long-promised border wall will enable his administration to move $8 billion from various federal agencies to fund the project, a senior administration official told Fox News late Thursday. The news comes as Trump is expected to sign a House border security package that provides $1.4 billion for…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s announcement that not only would President Trump declare a national emergency to build a border wall, but that he would support it, is going to come back to haunt conservatives. As I noted last month, the possibility of an emergency declaration became a lot more likely when Trump caved on border wall funding to end the government shutdown, thus making him feel he had to…

SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — An armed suspect who held a UPS driver hostage Thursday after stealing his truck and leading police on a chase through San Jose was shot dead just yards from a KPIX crew. The suspect, who was identified by police sources as Mark Morasky, was shot once by law enforcement in a parking lot as he ran from the UPS truck holding a firearm. The standoff…

An attack last week against former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke in his Connecticut prison cell reflects “the mentality out there … that people won’t rest until he is either given a life sentence or killed in prison,” his lead trial attorney said Thursday. Daniel Herbert joined Van Dyke’s wife, Tiffany, in demanding to know why Van Dyke was transferred to an out-of-state federal prison and why he was…