Tag: California

National Security

Watch: Missile defense interceptor destroys incoming warhead

David Brown · May 31, 2017 2:47 pm

The nearly quarter-billion dollar test is the most realistic test yet, designed to show how the U.S. could knock a North Korean nuke out of the sky if it fired such a weapon at the U.S. (Matt Hartman via AP)

National Security

US successfully shoots down dummy warhead in missile defense test

Jamie McIntyre · May 30, 2017 8:52 pm

The agency will launch a "threat-representative" intercontinental ballistic missile from a test site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands and a ground-based interceptor (pictured) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (U.S. Army)

National Security

US to launch test of nation’s missile shield

Melissa Quinn · May 26, 2017 5:17 pm

Fact Check: The Bloom County Lawyer Letter

Jeryl Bier · May 26, 2017 2:02 pm

A Real Side-Splitter

The Scrapbook · May 26, 2017 6:30 am

Most of those targeted had prior convictions for drug offenses or drunk driving. Fifteen had been convicted of sex crimes, and another 27 for domestic violence, according to ICE. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

ICE arrests nearly 200 illegal immigrants in California

Melissa Quinn · May 25, 2017 6:39 pm

"When we remove children from their parents...then we become the parents, we are responsible for them," Bass said. (AP)

Karen Bass: When we put kids in foster care ‘we become the parents’

Leah DePiero · May 24, 2017 6:16 pm

The bill, the Healthy California Act, would eliminate health insurance companies and would cover people who are in the country illegally. It would operate in a similar way as the federal Medicare program, and would include no out-of-pocket costs for residents. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California’s single-payer pricetag: $400 billion

Kimberly Leonard · May 23, 2017 2:20 pm

It's a whole heck of a lot more money than exists in California's state budget currently. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Beltway Confidential

California lawmakers discover single payer would cost twice as much as the state budget

David Freddoso · May 22, 2017 8:55 pm

Using houses as ATMs helped cause the crash

Washington Examiner Staff · May 22, 2017 4:01 am

Chanting could be heard as DNC Chair Tom Perez went into the California Democratic Convention this weekend. "Aye, oh, corporate greed has got to go," was the way it went. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

DNC Chair Tom Perez heckled by Sanders’ camp in California

John Siciliano · May 21, 2017 10:10 pm

California gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, jokes with John Burton, chairman of the California Democratic Party, before addressing the California Democratic Party Convention, Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Democratic battle cry in California: ‘F–k Donald Trump’

John Siciliano · May 21, 2017 8:03 pm