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Conrado Virgen Mendoza, 34, left, of Chowchilla, and Ana Leyde Cervantes, 30, of Newman, and were arrested Friday in connection with the death of a Newman police corporal, authorities say. (Stanislaus County Sherriff’s Department) Authorities said Friday they’d taken two more people into custody in connection with this week’s shooting death of a California police officer, bringing the total number of suspects arrested to eight. The pair were identified as a…

Members of the Coast Guard will get their final paycheck of the year on Monday after all, but they still don’t have a long-term guarantee of on-time pay. This week, it was reported that 42,000 active-duty members of the Coast Guard would see their paychecks delayed until a partial government shutdown has ended. But in a bulletin posted Friday, the Coast Guard announced that a solution had been worked out…

A terminally ill boy whose Yemeni mother fought to visit him after being barred from entering the U.S. by the Trump administration’s travel ban has died in hospital in California. Abdullah Hassan, 2, had suffered from a genetic brain condition and died at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement released Friday. “We are heartbroken. We had to say goodbye…

CLOSE Not even Alan Naiman’s close friends had an inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned. USA TODAY In this 2013 photo provided by Susan E. Madsen, Alan Naiman poses for a photo at his work at Children’s Administration (DSHS) Child Protective Services, in Seattle.(Photo: AP) SEATTLE (AP) — Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into…

On the seventh day of the partial government shutdown, President Trump on Friday threatened to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border if Democrats refuse his monetary demands to build his long-promised wall. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said he expected the shutdown to go on for a while, but revealed the president has come down from his initial demand of $5 billion to build the wall. “We sat…

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Prigozhin, 57, has been separately indicted by Mueller with bankrolling the so-called Internet Research Agency, the Kremlin’s primary troll farm, which launched a multifaceted interference campaign to boost Trump’s chances and disparage Hillary Clinton.

Video Acting EPA administrator touts Affordable Clean Energy Rule The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at an Obama-era regulation that seeks to reduce mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. “The Trump Administration is providing regulatory certainty by transparently and accurately taking account of both costs and benefits,” the EPA said in a news release Friday. The EPA on Friday proposed a new rule that challenges the basis…

“Quite the opposite, whatever product is produced by the special counsel must be trusted by Americans, and that requires asking tough but fair questions about investigative techniques both employed and not employed,” they wrote. Both men are retiring in the coming days. But after a slow start, the investigation came to encompass a bevy of politically charged topics and allowed Republicans to parade through Capitol Hill top F.B.I. and Justice…

The government shutdown fight may be burning quietly over this holiday week, but it still needs to end. President Trump’s lather, rinse, repeat routine of hoisting out border wall funding as an eleventh-hour demand over which to shut down the government is getting old, particularly for his base. In 2018 alone, the federal government has shut down three separate times, always due to an immigration negotiation spurred by Trump. The…

Amid credible allegations of election fraud in North Carolina, Democratic leaders announced Friday they will not seat Republican Mark Harris, who ran in the state’s 9th Congressional District, and will instead leave the House seat vacant.

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Video House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi vacations in Hawaii amid partial government shutdown As the government’s partial shutdown drags on, Nancy Pelosi was spotted five time zones away from the House in Hawaii; Peter Doocy reports from Capitol Hill. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is spending the holidays vacationing in Hawaii, as a partial government shutdown grinds on with no resolution in sight. Fox News has confirmed that Pelosi, the House speaker-designate,…

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is visiting the Texas border city of El Paso Friday where an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy was detained with his father before dying in government custody. Nielsen will tour multiple stations and substations operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman said. She is also scheduled to meet with emergency medical technicians and medical professionals, as well as local officials.  Nielsen will go…

The 115th Congress appears to have given up, with both the House and Senate failing to reach a deal to end the ongoing government shutdown. This likely punts the showdown over the border wall to the 116th Congress where Trump will face off against a Democratic majority in the House. An agreement won’t be pretty, but it would be a good lesson for Trump and one that could set the…

Gustavo Perez Arriaga, the man accused of shooting and killing Newman Police Corporal Ronil ‘Ron’ Singh has been captured. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office says that Arriaga was taken into custody in Cpl. Singh’s handcuffs in Kern County on early Friday morning. The suspect’s brother, 25-year-old Adrian Virgen and a co-worker 32-year-old Erik Razo Quiroz were also arrested on “accessory after the fact” charges for attempting to protect Arriaga. Authorities…

The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally “appropriate and necessary.” Matt Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Brown/AP The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally “appropriate and necessary.”…

The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally “appropriate and necessary.” Matt Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Brown/AP The Trump administration EPA says regulations to reduce power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants are too costly and should no longer be considered legally “appropriate and necessary.”…

The 115th Congress appears to have given up, with both the House and Senate failing to reach a deal to end the ongoing government shutdown. This likely punts the showdown over the border wall to the 116th Congress where Trump will face off against a Democratic majority in the House. An agreement won’t be pretty, but it would be a good lesson for Trump and one that could set the…

Gustavo Perez Arriaga, the man accused of shooting and killing Newman Police Corporal Ronil ‘Ron’ Singh has been captured. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office says that Arriaga was taken into custody in Cpl. Singh’s handcuffs in Kern County on early Friday morning. The suspect’s brother, 25-year-old Adrian Virgen and a co-worker 32-year-old Erik Razo Quiroz were also arrested on “accessory after the fact” charges for attempting to protect Arriaga. Authorities…