Former El Paso District Attorney Jaime Esparza was nominated on Friday by President Biden to be the top federal prosecutor for the Western District of Texas. Jaime Esparza Esparza served as El Paso’s district attorney, the top prosecutor in state courts, from 1993 to 2020. In a December 2020 interview with El Paso Matters, Esparza
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Today, President Biden is heading to Puerto Rico on his first of two trips scheduled this week to hurricane-damaged communities. On Wednesday, he plans to visit Florida. The island sustained extensive damage to its critical infrastructure from Hurricane Fiona. Puerto Rico had barely recovered from the devastating impact of Hurricane Maria in 2017. While in
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EL PASO, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) and his Democratic opponent Beto O’Rourke will face off in a televised debate Friday at 6 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. The two candidates are set to take the stage at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. Abbott is clearly favored to win, leading
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Former President Donald Trump is on the defensive. A Federal appeals court says the Justice Department can resume its review of classified documents seized from his Florida home, and the New York Attorney General is suing him for alleged fraud. Trump is responding to two probes that took major steps forward yesterday. A Federal appeals
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Bexar County, Texas Sheriff Javier Salazar says his agency will investigate the transportation of 48 Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis chartered two private flights to transport migrants to the Massachusetts island community last week. The decision comes on the heels of immigration rights groups and Democrats accusing Republicans of
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Hundreds of people from across the country joined President Joe Biden as he celebrated the Inflation Reduction Act at the White House Tuesday. The expansive new law covers several major priorities for the President, including lowered prescription drug costs, reducing the federal deficit, addressing global warming and raising taxes for corporations. Biden
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EDINBURGH, UK — ABC News will air a special report on the Queen’s Coffin Procession in Scotland at 7:30 am local time. Britain’s King Charles III and his wife Camilla, Queen Consort, traveled today from London to Edinburgh, where they will walk behind his mother’s coffin as it is transported in a procession through the Scottish
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A judge is set to hear arguments this afternoon related to the search of Former President Donald Trump’s home. Attorneys for Trump and the Justice Department are due in court today. Trump wants a special master to review documents the F.B.I. seized from his home. Trump’s filing doesn’t address obstruction allegations made by the D.O.J. but it
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President Biden is set to give a speech tonight on what he calls “The Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation” during a primetime address in Pennsylvania. White House officials say Biden will touch on what’s at stake in our democracy as well as the progress his administration has made in protecting the nation’s
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Biden’s addressing public safety today during a week of high-profile crimes news that includes gangs targeting celebrities. Gun violence and public safety are in the limelight today. The White House says the President will address those issues while visiting Pennsylvania. The trip comes during a week of high-profile crime news. Biden is ready to talk
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U.S. Officials are trying to find an Iranian man who allegedly planned to assassinate at least two former U.S. Officials. Wednesday, The Justice Department announced criminal charges against Shahram Poursafi who is at large. U.S. Officials say he plotted to kill former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who served under Donald Trump. John Bolton, who
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A self-proclaimed white supremacist will spend time behind bars for his role in the U.S. Capitol riots. Bryan Betancur was sentenced to four months in jail Wednesday after pleading guilty to illegally trespassing on Capitol grounds. Prosecutors say Betancur stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and helped rioters remove furniture from the Capitol building while
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(CNN) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday signed off on a House Ways and Means Committee request to obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service.The 3-0 ruling from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is a blow to Trump, who has argued for years in court against releasing his
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Jury orders Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay Sandy Hook parents more than $4 million for calling 2012 massacre a hoax. This is a developing news story. Download the KVIA news app to get alerts the moment news breaks.
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The Justice Department is suing Idaho over its abortion ban. Tuesday the Justice Department filed the lawsuit, alleging the state is restricting access to abortion to patients who need lifesaving medical treatment. It’s the DOJ’s first challenge since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer. “Under a federal law known as the emergency
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Wisconsin Elections Commission plans to meet next week to consider making a criminal referral against a Racine County man who ordered absentee ballots in the names of a top state lawmaker and other voters in what he says was an effort to expose vulnerabilities in Wisconsin’s voting system. In a
Continue Reading By Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate voted Wednesday to pass a long-awaited bill aimed at boosting US semiconductor production in a bid to increase American competitiveness. It passed with broad bipartisan support, 64 to 33. The measure now goes to the House for approval before it can be sent to President Joe
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A group of U.S. House members met with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky Saturday in Kyiv. The delegation, which included Representative Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, is the latest in a series of high-profile American visitors to Ukraine. Other house members identified in photos include democrats Mike Quigley and Elissa Slotkin, along
Continue Reading By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter’s battle with Elon Musk is weighing on its business. The company on Friday reported revenue of $1.18 billion for the three months ending in June, a decline of 1% from the prior year. Twitter attributed the sales drop in part to “uncertainty” related to Musk’s pending acquisition, which he
Continue Reading (CNN) — The House voted Thursday to pass a bill that would guarantee access to contraception by protecting the right to buy and use contraceptives without government restriction. The final vote was 228-195. Eight Republicans crossed over to vote with Democrats. Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Fred Upton of Michigan,
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The January 6th committee is returning to prime-time today for its last planned public hearing. You can watch it tonight live on ABC-7 at 6 pm local time. We will not have a 6 pm broadcast, we will have a newscast at 9 pm instead. This public hearing will be the second prime-time session since the
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Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, addressed the US Congress Wednesday morning. She is in Washington this week to highlight the human cost of Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia. She showed America’s most powerful lawmakers stark images of the toll of Russian bombardment of cities on Ukraine’s children – a blood-splattered baby stroller, a small crumpled body.
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President Joe Biden on Wednesday will lay out a set of executive actions on climate change, according to a White House official, as prospects for his agenda dwindle in Congress. We are expecting to hear about the President’s plan as he will speak about climate issues in Massachusetts. It comes after democratic Senator Joe Manchin torpedoed his
Continue Reading CNN By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s current term in office, the government’s top infectious disease expert told CNN on Monday. Fauci said he does not currently have a specific retirement date in mind nor has he started the process of retiring. “I have
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from protecting transgender students. The ruling by a federal judge in Tennessee applies to 20 states. Tennessee and 19 other states are fighting president Biden’s efforts to enforce Title IX’s protections against discrimination. At issue is the right of transgender athletes to participate in school sports
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By Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN Ivana Trump, an ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, died of “blunt impact injuries” to the torso, New York City’s medical examiner said Friday. This story is breaking and will be updated. The-CNN-Wire ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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By Gabby Orr, CNN Donald Trump will return to Washington on July 26 to deliver what’s being billed as a major policy speech, CNN has learned, marking the former President’s first time back in the nation’s capital since he left office nearly a year and a half ago. Trump will deliver remarks at the America
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas — Several Republican lawmakers led by Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn will visit the Texas-Mexico border later this week. Thursday and Friday, both Cruz and Cornyn will take four of their Republican colleagues on a night border tour with law enforcement and a Customs and Border Protection aerial border
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, CNN A heated Oval Office meeting convened by then-President Donald Trump on December 18, 2020 — in which lawyer Sidney Powell and her client, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, floated outrageous suggestions about overturning the election — was a central focus of Tuesday’s hearing held by the House select committee investigating
Continue Reading By Holmes Lybrand and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge on Monday denied a request by Steve Bannon for his contempt-of-Congress trial to be delayed from its July 18 start date and severely limited the defenses that the former Donald Trump adviser could put forward at the trial. The rulings from US District Judge Carl
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