Tag: California

Can California Lurch Leftward?

Tony Mecia · February 23, 2018 9:30 am

Take 5 Media surveyed 1,082 students on behalf of the Florida House Experience, a mental health and addiction treatment center, on how much they paid on average for illegal substances, as well as how they paid. (iStock)

Red Alert Politics

More than 75 percent of college students say it’s ‘very easy’ or ‘easy’ to buy drugs

Kate Hardiman · February 22, 2018 9:35 pm

"I mean frankly, if I wanted to pull our people from California, you would have a crime mess like you've never seen in California," the president said. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Trump threatens to pull ICE out of California over sanctuary policy

Katie Leach · February 22, 2018 7:17 pm

Supporters say a vehicle miles traveled tax is more fair than increasing the gasoline tax because it would apply to electric and hybrid vehicles. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Energy and Environment

Trump administration signals support for mileage tax to pay for infrastructure plan

Josh Siegel · February 22, 2018 4:41 pm

The border wall between Calexico, Calif., and Mexicali, Mexico, has been damaged and breached several hundred times over the past two years. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

DHS starts construction on 30-foot replacement wall in Calexico, Calif.

Anna Giaritelli · February 21, 2018 10:23 pm

"I actually hope that we'll do that in the next few days," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said at an event Tuesday night called Investigating Russia and Defending Democracy in San Francisco. "So it's my goal to have this out this week." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Adam Schiff aims to have Democratic memo released this week

Diana Stancy Correll · February 21, 2018 5:31 am

Hundreds of Americans have taken to the streets to campaign for stricter gun laws over the past week after a deadly school shooting in Florida took 17 lives. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Gun control is a fantasy. Start a realistic conversation about preventing school massacres

Washington Examiner · February 21, 2018 5:01 am

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas said in his dissent he would have allowed the high court to take up the case, and said the decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is "symptomatic of the lower courts' general failure to afford the Second Amendment the respect due an enumerated constitutional right." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Clarence Thomas rips high court’s decision not to hear case challenging California gun law: Second Amendment is ‘disfavored right’

Melissa Quinn · February 20, 2018 3:32 pm

Late last year, Cristine Garcia's photograph was featured by Time in its "Silence Breakers" article, honoring the #MeToo movement's leading voices. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

Late-night, drunken spin-the-bottle is the printable part of sexual harassment charges against California Democrat, #MeToo activist

Emily Jashinsky · February 19, 2018 4:02 pm

The Supreme Court is reconvening on Tuesday. Here are four major cases to watch in the upcoming days ahead. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Four cases to watch when the Supreme Court returns this week

Melissa Quinn · February 19, 2018 5:01 am

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Committee on Intelligence, said on CNN Sunday that the indictment of Russian nationals in the ongoing investigation into the 2016 election doesn't vindicate the Trump campaign. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Adam Schiff: Indictment of 13 Russians doesn’t absolve Trump of election collusion

Kyle Feldscher · February 18, 2018 3:05 pm

In this 2017 photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by ICE aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants, and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. This week, ICE deportation officers and special agents took a total of 212 people into custody during 122 notices of inspection to businesses throughout the southern California region. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

ICE nabs 195 criminal illegal immigrants during workplace inspections in Los Angeles

Anna Giaritelli · February 16, 2018 6:36 pm