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Jenna Johnson January 12 at 1:03 PM SAN ANTONIO — Julián Castro, a former mayor of San Antonio who worked in the Obama administration, announced Saturday morning that he is joining the increasingly crowded field of candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Castro, 44, has pitched himself as “the antidote to Donald Trump” who understands the immigrant experience, border issues and the needs of the middle class. If elected, he…

The FBI officially opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether President Donald Trump was compromised by Russia in May 2017, according to a new report from the New York Times. Per the Times, this investigation was meant to determine whether the president himself was either “working on behalf of Russia against American interests” or “had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence” in a way that placed national security at risk. We’ve known…

(Reuters) – A 13-year-old girl’s escape from a rural home, where she was held captive for three months by a 21-year-old Wisconsin man charged with murdering her parents, helped break the case and she should be treated as a hero, the local sheriff said on Friday. Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of law enforcement officers had searched around the clock around the small town of Barron after Jayme Closs’ parents were…

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Deanna Paul January 12 at 8:00 AM President Trump spent the week visiting the U.S.-Mexico border and hinting he might declare a national emergency to build his long-discussed wall. On Friday, he put the idea on hold, strongly counseling congressional Democrats to rethink opposing the wall’s funding. “What we’re not looking to do right now is national emergency,” he said Friday afternoon. “I’m not going to do it so fast.”…

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WCCO Jeanne Nutter WCCO Jeanne Nutter More Headlines Barron County Sheriff via CNN Courtesy Jennifer Smith Barron County Sheriff via CNN Barron Co. Sheriff via CNN Courtesy Jennifer Smith nbc.com/the-voice MADISON, Wis. – The woman who found Jayme Closs while walking her dog yesterday is a former social worker and current academic advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.  On Friday, one of her colleagues in the UW System, Ellen…

DAVIS, Calif. (KCRA) — New details are coming to light in the shooting death of a Davis police officer and an hourslong manhunt for the suspect. Officer Natalie Corona was ambushed Thursday night while responding to a three-vehicle crash, Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said. “He came from the side,” Pytel said. “Based on how dark it was, we’re speculating she never even saw him.” The suspect was found dead…

“While the vast majority of those who visit Joshua Tree National Park do so in a responsible manner,” the statement said, “there have been incidents of new roads being created by motorists and the destruction of Joshua trees in recent days.” Spokesmen for Joshua Tree National Park and for the National Park Service did not respond to messages seeking comment on Friday. Both of their websites contained a notice that…

Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for the president, sought to play down the significance of the investigation. “The fact that it goes back a year and a half and nothing came of it that showed a breach of national security means they found nothing,” Mr. Giuliani said on Friday, though he acknowledged that he had no insight into the inquiry. The cloud of the Russia investigation has hung over Mr….

Nutter said she knew she needed to get the girl help and to get her out of the cold. They went first to one house where no one was home. Then they went to the home of Peter and Kristin Kasinskas because Nutter knew Kristin was a teacher and would be home. “I said, ‘You need to let me in and call 911, because I believe I have Jayme with…

DAVIS, Calif. (KCRA) — New details are coming to light in the shooting death of a Davis police officer and an hourslong manhunt for the suspect. Officer Natalie Corona was ambushed Thursday night while responding to a three-vehicle crash, Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel said. The suspect was found dead in a downtown Davis home with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officials did not publicly identify the shooting suspect Friday….

Federal employee unions filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that the government is violating federal labor laws by requiring employees deemed “essential” to continue working through the partial shutdown without pay. The lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., was brought by the National Federation of Federal Employees, the National Association of Government Employees SEIU, the National Weather Service Employees Organization and the law firm Snider & Associates…

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Authorities have identified the suspect in the kidnapping of Jayme Closs and the killing of her parents as Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, of Gordon. Patterson is being held at the Barron County Jail on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping, and is expected to make an initial court appearance at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Brown County Circuit Court where he will be formally charged for…

Video What is a polar vortex? A powerful winter storm, which is being dubbed “Winter Storm Gia” by The Weather Channel, is expected to wallop parts of the U.S. this weekend with snow and ice. Snow is expected to travel along a narrow 1,500-mile-long path that stretches from the Midwest to the East Coast — impacting millions of people. Northern Missouri and central Illinois will be hit the hardest, potentially seeing more…

Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s lead defense lawyer, is doubling down on his contention that the White House should get to review and edit the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference before it’s released to Congress or the public. Giuliani first made the argument in an interview with INSIDER in September. As prosecutors put together the report, Trump’s current and former lawyers said the information contained in…

Video White House preparing for possible departure of ailing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reports say After the 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice misses oral argument while recovering from cancer surgery, speculation grows that the Trump administration is preparing for a retirement and new confirmation battle. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will miss next week’s court sessions and work from home, but her recovery from early-stage lung cancer surgery…