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The fight over MORE’s tax returns has moved to the courts. In recent weeks, the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee has filed a lawsuit in an effort to obtain Trump’s federal tax returns, and Trump has filed a lawsuit to prevent the committee from getting his New York state tax returns. The court cases are sure to b

Last week 20-year-old Jorge Ruiz, an illegal alien from Mexico, was convicted of killing Marlena Hayes in a car crash on October 28, 2018. The conviction came after 19th Judicial Circuit Chief Assistant District Attorney C.J.

Breitbart News reported that an active shooter was reported at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday. Harris tweeted: In fact, Harris sent her tweet a mere two minutes before President Donald Trump tweeted to inform the nation that the gunman behind the shooting had yet to be apprehended. Trump tweeted: Despite not knowing the status of the gunman, in addition to not knowing the status of victims or their numbers, Harris began urging Americans not to tolerate a “g

In other words, the festival had 100 percent gun control as far as it related to law-abiding citizens. The festival was held in Christmas Hill Park where the possession of “pocketknives and weapons of any kind” are clearly prohibited.

Update: Gilroy City Councilmember Dion Bracco told ABC 7 that a suspect is in custody after the Garlic Festival shooting.

‘‘The president says about Congressman Cummings’ district - ” CNN anchor Victor Blackwell paused for 10 long seconds as he considered President Trump’s latest tweets targeting a lawmaker of color Saturday. Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings’s district in Baltimore ‘‘is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,’’ the president had tweeted. ‘‘No human being would want to live there.’’ Blackwell emphasized that word ‘‘human’’ when he launched back into an emotional dissection of the president’s words. His voice shook. His eyes got teary.

President Donald Trump deserves to be impeached, but the House Judiciary Committee is still investigating to determine whether to report resolutions to the full House, the panel’s chairman said. “He richly deserves impeachment. He has done many impeachable offenses. He’s violated the law six ways from Sunday,” Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” one of two TV appearances on Sunday. “The question is: can we develop enough evidence to put before the American people?

Former President Barack Obama, who doesn’t often comment on current politics, seemed to endorse on Saturday an op-ed written by 148 African Americans who served in his administration that called out President Donald Trump for recent comments degrading four congresswomen of color. ‘‘I’ve always been proud of what this team accomplished during my administration.

HARTFORD — A US senator said he’s dropping President Trump from his Twitter feed. Chris Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, tweeted Sunday he’s unfollowing Trump. He says Trump’s tweets are the ‘‘most hate-filled, racist, and demeaning’’ of the accounts he follows, Murphy tweeted, adding that it ‘‘regularly ruins’’ his day. The president hasn’t responded to Murphy. Trump earlier this month tweeted that four prominent Democratic congresswomen of color who regularly disagree with him should ‘‘go back’’ to their homelands.

WASHINGTON — Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month, President Trump announced Sunday, after a turbulent two years in which Coats and the president were often at odds over Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump announced Coats’ departure as Aug. 15 in a tweet that thanked Coats for his service. He said he will nominate Representative John Ratcliffe, Republican of Texas, to the post and that he will name an acting official in the coming days.