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At least 1 dead, several injured after Illinois shooting – live updates – CBS News

Friday, February 15, 2019

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;…

Ex-Massachusetts Gov. William Weld to challenge Trump for Republican nomination in 2020 – USA TODAY

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

Exclusive: Sarah Sanders interviewed by Robert Mueller’s office – CNN

Friday, February 15, 2019

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Trump asks angel moms to answer Jim Acosta question on border crisis: WATCH – Washington Examiner

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

Trump’s emergency declaration stretches the law and violates the separation of powers – Washington Examiner

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

Ex-Massachusetts governor to challenge Trump for GOP nod – AOL

Friday, February 15, 2019

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,…

Maduro claims Venezuela has engaged in secret talks with U.S. envoy – The Washington Post

Friday, February 15, 2019

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,…

U.S. citizens sue Customs and Border Protection, alleging they were illegally detained – AOL

Friday, February 15, 2019

  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…

Trump declaring a national emergency to build border wall with McConnell’s support will come back to haunt conservatives – Washington Examiner

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

‘Nothing says National Emergency like the app you use to remind yourself to get bananas’: Late shows mock border plan – The Washington Post

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

Coalition of the Unwilling – Slate

Friday, February 15, 2019

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Trump declaring a national emergency to build border wall with McConnell’s support will come back to haunt conservatives – Washington Examiner

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

UPS Truck Hijacking Suspect Shot Dead Following Police Standoff in San Jose – CBS San Francisco

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

Attack on Jason Van Dyke reflects ‘mentality that people won’t rest until he is either given a life sentence or killed in prison,’ lawyer says – Chicago Tribune

Friday, February 15, 2019

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…

Trump attacked Obama for using executive powers on immigration, now plans to do the same thing – USA TODAY

Friday, February 15, 2019

CLOSE After a bipartisan vote on border security legislation, senators appeared split over President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency, allowing him to build more of his border wall. (Feb. 14) AP WASHINGTON – There’s always a tweet.  In 2014, President Donald Trump railed against then President Barack Obama over his use of executive power on immigration. Fast forward five years and Trump is expected to do the same thing.  “Repubs…

Beto O’Rourke says he ‘absolutely’ supports destroying existing walls on southern border – Fox News

Friday, February 15, 2019

Video President Trump and Beto O’Rourke hold dueling rallies in El Paso, Texas Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke said Thursday that he would “absolutely” support tearing down existing barriers along the southern border with Mexico, in a full-throated embrace of open-borders rhetoric that has left conservatives wondering where other potential 2020 Democratic White House hopefuls stand on the issue. O’Rourke’s comments came as the House and Senate passed a…

This is not a national emergency: Congress must update the National Emergency Act – Washington Examiner

Friday, February 15, 2019

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has decided to embrace his inner Harry Reid and greenlight President Trump’s emergency declaration. As John Yoo noted earlier this month, the courts may find that Trump is within his rights to mobilize the military to build the wall when his gambit is inevitably challenged for its legality. Even Youngstown v. Sawyer, which reversed former President Harry Truman’s seizure of private steel mills to…

Immigration advocates just sued the Department of Homeland Security over its "Remain in Mexico" policy – CBS News

Friday, February 15, 2019

Immigration advocates are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — and other individuals and U.S. agencies — over the Trump administration’s newly implemented “Migrant Protection Protocols” initiative, which forces some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while they await immigration court dates. Many refer to the initiative as the “Remain in Mexico” policy.  The Southern Poverty Law Center and American Civil Liberties Union officially challenged the…