Oct 30 What is the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause? By Associated Press "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny… Continue reading
Oct 30 Trump says he’s pursuing executive order to end birthright citizenship By Catherine Lucey, Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Revoking birthright citizenship would spark a court fight over whether the president has the unilateral ability to change an amendment to the Constitution. The 14th Amendment guarantees that right for all children born in the U.S. Continue reading
Oct 30 Trump plans ‘tent cities’ at U.S.-Mexico border By Associated Press Trump says in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham that if any of the migrants, who are still hundreds of miles away, do make it to the border and apply for asylum, as they're legally entitled, the U.S. Continue reading
Oct 30 Pipe-bomb suspect had hit list of targets, official says By Curt Anderson, Michael Balsamo, Associated Press The man suspected of sending pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and other opponents of President Donald Trump kept a list of elected officials and others who investigators believe were intended targets, an official told The Associated Press on Monday. Continue reading
Oct 29 WATCH: Pentagon says 5,200 troops will be sent to U.S. border By Robert Burns, Colleen Long, Jill Colvin, Associated Press The Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants… Continue reading
Oct 29 WATCH: White House accuses media of wrongly blaming Trump for attacks By Associated Press White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday that the first thing the president did was condemn the attacks and the first thing the media did was blame the president. Trump critics have said the president's harsh partisan rhetoric… Continue reading
Oct 29 After Pittsburgh shooting and packages plot, Trump calls media ‘the true Enemy of the People’ By Catherine Lucey, Associated Press Trump strongly condemned the Pittsburgh attack as an act of anti-Semitism, and has denounced political violence and called for unity. But just days before the midterm elections, he has continued to hold his political rallies, complete with harsh criticism of… Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch 25:01 October 28, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Oct. 28, grief and prayers in Pittsburgh after this weekend's deadly rampage at a Jewish synagogue, and the catastrophic human cost of the ongoing war in Yemen. Also, poverty on Skid Row of Los Angeles… Continue watching
Oct 28 Wait times for citizenship applications stretch to 2 years By Amy Taxin, Associated Press More than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on applications to become U.S. citizens, a process that once typically took about six months but has stretched to more than two years in some places under the administration of President Donald Trump. Continue reading
Oct 28 Enough is enough: Fed-up Americans crave unity amid violence By Claire Galofaro, Margery A. Beck, Associated Press As authorities intercepted more than a dozen pipe bombs addressed to President Donald Trump’s most ardent critics, political scientists and ordinary Americans observed, again, that rabid partisanship had devolved to the point of acts of violent extremism. Continue reading