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CLOSE One year after striking over low pay and high health care cost, teachers in West Virginia were faced with an omnibus bill which would introduce charter schools and education savings accounts as part of their state education reform. Jarrad Henderson, USA TODAY DELBARTON, W.Va. – The coal miner’s son had studied his county’s rough-and-tumble labor history, written his dissertation on it, taught his high school students about it. Now…

<!– –> × MENU SEARCH QUOTES Politics The Trump administration said Tuesday that it plans to cancel $929 million awarded to California’s high-speed rail project and wants the state to return an additional $2.5 billion that it has already spent. The U.S. Department of Transportation announcement follows through on President Donald Trump’s threats to claw back $3.5 billion that the federal government gave to California to build a bullet train…

A conservative watchdog is suing the Justice Department for any recordings Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may have made while attending meetings in the White House. Judicial Watch announced a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on Wednesday, which seeks all records of communications between Rosenstein, the office of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe about using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from…

Video Andrew McCabe believes ‘it’s possible’ President Trump is a Russia asset Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe makes sensational new claim on his book tour; reaction from former National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton and Isaac Wright, partner at Forward Solution Strategy Group. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said in an interview Tuesday that he believes it is possible that President Trump is a Russian asset and thinks…

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who on Tuesday announced he was running for president, surprisingly said, “I’m not crazy about getting rid of the filibuster.” In reality, maintaining the requirement that major legislation needs 60 votes to pass makes it effectively impossible that his sweeping proposals will ever get enacted. In an interview with CBS This Morning, host John Dickerson asked Sanders, “Is it possible to have bipartisan ‘Let’s reason…

A full-scale mockup of a high-speed train on display at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., in 2015. The Trump administration is planning to cancel a $929 million federal grant for the project. Rich Pedroncelli/AP hide caption toggle caption Rich Pedroncelli/AP A full-scale mockup of a high-speed train on display at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., in 2015. The Trump administration is planning to cancel a $929 million federal grant for…

Attorney General William P. Barr, center, listens as President Trump announces a national emergency in the White House Rose Garden on Friday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Philip Rucker Matt Zapotosky February 19 at 10:05 PM On William P. Barr’s first full day as attorney general, President Trump singled him out during remarks in the Rose Garden after signing a national emergency declaration aimed at building his long-promised border wall. “I…

(Reuters) – A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native American activist in a January videotaped incident at the Lincoln Memorial. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, 16, seeks $250 million in damages, the amount that…

Video New California governor kills plans for a new high-speed rail Chuck Devore, former California assemblyman, says the cost of high-speed rail tickets would cost twice as much as an airline ticket. The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is exploring “every legal option” to reclaim $2.5 billion in federal funds spent by California on its now-defunct high-speed rail project, and also that it intends to cancel $928 million in federal…

Video McCabe says he briefed Congress on Trump probe with no objections Did you notice how, during the Andrew McCabe interview with “60 Minutes,” the former FBI acting director kept talking about “articulable facts?” Like ex-CIA boss John Brennan and disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, McCabe was coining his own phrase to explain why the intelligence community started spying the Trump team. But the justification for mounting a probe…

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The Trump administration is bypassing the United States Congress to advance the sale of US nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns it would violate US law guarding against technology transfers, according to a new report by a congressional committee. Security analysts worry the technology would allow Saudi Arabia to produce nuclear weapons in the future, potentially contributing to an arms race in the Middle East. US…

CLOSE An investigation found more than 380 allegations of sexual misconduct by Southern Baptist church leaders over two decades. USA TODAY The Catholic Church has required celibacy from its priests for centuries, yet those vows were broken so frequently that the Vatican established a secret set of guidelines for dealing with clerics who fathered children. This latest revelation, first reported by The New York Times, comes amid a new wave…

CLOSE A Florida statute portraying an iconic moment at the end of World War II was vandalized by a person spray painting hashtag #metoo on it. Buzz60’s Mercer Morrison has the story. Buzz60 STUART, Fla. – The “kissing sailor” statue in Sarasota, a replica of the famous Times Square photograph taken after the end of World War II, was spray painted with #MeToo, just after the man in the photo died,…

The draft memo also referenced another close Trump associate, Thomas J. Barrack, who served as chairman of the president’s inaugural committee. It said that Mr. Trump had appointed Mr. Barrack as a special representative to implement the plan, which it called “the Middle East Marshall Plan.” The memo also directed agencies to support Mr. Barrack’s efforts. The Democrats’ investigation comes at a sensitive time, when lawmakers of both parties are…

Sen. Bernie Sanders has raised more than $1 million for his 2020 presidential campaign in less than four hours, his team confirms, putting him well ahead of other contenders who launched their bids with strong financial support. Sanders, I-Vermont, formally joined the presidential race Tuesday morning, telling “CBS This Morning” he intends to win the Democratic nomination and the White House next year. “We’re gonna win,” he told “CBS This…

Video Klobuchar: We need to stop governing from chaos Presidential candidate and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar talks about joining the crowded Democratic field for 2020. CNN anchor Don Lemon had some flattering words for Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, following a town hall he moderated on Monday night. Likely voters in New Hampshire got the opportunity to ask the 2020 candidate a wide variety of questions from student debt, health care,…

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rejected Democratic complaints that his Independent 2020 campaign will guarantee President Trump’s re-election, and said Democrats themselves will guarantee a Trump victory by nominating a “radical left” nominee. “The stakes are too high to cross our fingers and hope the Democratic Party nominates a moderate who can win over enough independents and disaffected Republicans, and even fellow Democrats, to defeat Trump next year,” Schultz wrote…