LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Same pillared House hearing room. Different chairman with his own mission.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler gaveled openWednesday's impeachment hearingsagainst the nation's 45th president, launching the business of actually writing an indictment against Donald Trump.
The big question is no longer whether to impeach Trump. It's on what charges — abuse of power or...
LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee's first impeachment hearing quickly burst into partisan infighting Wednesday as Democrats charged that President Donald Trump must be removed from office for enlisting foreign interference in U.S. elections and Republicans angrily retorted there were no grounds for such drastic action.
The panel responsible for drafting articles...
The cities and unincorporated communities along the border between Southwest Riverside County and North San Diego County include 10 separate school districts. The smallest district in the region serves a little more than 2,000 students. The largest has nearly 30,000 students. Administrators in all of these districts make salaries in the six figures.In 2018, the superintendent of Fallbrook Union High...
The Riverside County Transportation Department is recommending a number of changes to the segment of Clinton Keith Road that opened last year to connect French Valley with eastern Murrieta.Residents of neighborhoods near the extension have been complaining about frequent crashes at the road’s terminus, where it connects with Leon Road via a sharp curve with a recommended speed of...
A winter storm dropped more than 2 inches of rain in some places and even left snow on local mountains over the Thanksgiving holiday.The storm moved in Wednesday, Nov. 27, and by Friday had poured as much as two-and-a-half inches of rain on Beaumont and Murrieta, which were tied for receiving the most rain in Riverside County. Followed by...
The Murrieta Valley Unified School District Board of Education at its Nov. 14 meeting approved a new tentative agreement with the union represents the district’s classified employees.The agreement with California School Employees Association chapter 223, which was reached Oct. 1, grants a 3% raise to all classified non-management staff – a category that includes cafeteria workers, bus drivers and...
CAMP PENDLETON (AP) — Most of the Marines who were labeled as criminals in front of their colleagues at Camp Pendleton after a human smuggling probe won't go to court, the Marine Corps announced Tuesday.
Six Marines have pleaded guilty to various charges in courts-martial but 13 will be dealt with administratively and allowed to leave the service, while only...
BILL BARROW
Associated Press
MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Joe Biden is taking aim at Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren during an eight-day tour of Iowa that the former vice president hopes will help him gain ground in the state that holds the first presidential caucus.
Biden argued Tuesday that Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is riding his coattails...
DAVID KOENIG
AP Airlines Writer
DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials are considering requiring that all travelers — including American citizens — be photographed as they enter or leave the country as part of an identification system using facial-recognition technology.
The Department of Homeland Security says it expects to publish a proposed rule next July. Officials did not respond to requests for...
SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world continues to increase the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide it pumps into the air, but it's not rising as fast as in the previous couple years.
Led by big jumps from China and India, the world is projected to spew 40.57 billion tons (36.8 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide into...