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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said he’d never seen President Trump fall asleep during meetings. 

During his second day of testimony on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he hopes that the latest round of high-level political talks between Israel and Lebanon will result in a joint statement on ending hostilities. Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to the U.S. are meeting at the State Department for a second day of negotiations.

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Rep. Ted Lieu, D-California, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a tense exchange in a congressional hearing Wednesday over President Donald Trump dozing off in public appearances, like Cabinet meetings.

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Lieu asked Rubio to focus on the president, whose eyes are closed, in a video of a Cabinet meeting in December.

Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi recently introduced a House resolution, alongside fellow US Congress members Ted Lieu and Pramila Jayapal, condemning the surging racist rhetoric targeting Indian and Chinese Americans. Through the bill ‘H. Res 1322,’ the group of US politicians particularly sought to call out President Donald Trump’s amplification of the same type of derogatory language that they believe should have no place in the United States.

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., called the Trump administration's new "anti-weaponization" fund "unethical" and slammed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

"Let me tell you a little bit about why this nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund is completely unethical and totally ridiculous," Lieu said at a news conference, saying it came from a "fake settlement" with "fake negotiations."

Local high school students took the top two spots in Rep. Ted Lieu’s 12th annual Congressional Art Competition.

Hugh Saetia, a junior at Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, took home gold for his piece “Denial,” while Redondo Union High School sophomore Ayla Dowdell came in second with her painting “Weaving of Cultures.”

Elizabeth Le, a senior at West High School in Torrance, finished in third place for “A Child’s Mind.”

Miraleste Intermediate School will receive $2 million in federal funding for infrastructure improvements.

The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District announced last week that it received the funding through Rep. Ted Lieu’s office.

The funding, the school district’s press release said, came through as part of nearly $14 million in federal funding awarded to 14 projects in California’s 36th Congressional District.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Sunday called a recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling rolling back redistricting in the state “disgraceful,” saying the court “suckered the people of Virginia.”

“So, what the Virginia Supreme Court did was not only wrong, it was disgraceful. They basically said, ‘Hey, Virginia, spend all this taxpayers’ money holding an election, do all this stuff and oh, by the way, just kidding, that election didn’t count,’” Lieu told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan.