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The Trump administration is continuing to make reckless threats against Iran. On Wednesday, in response to recent missile tests, National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn announced the White House was "officially putting Iran on notice," and refused to say whether military force is under consideration.
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Democrats are demanding briefings on a U.S. raid on al Qaeda that left one Navy SEAL dead, along with an unspecified number of civilians.
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) wrote to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry asking for an "urgent briefing." Separately, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said in a statement that he requested a briefing from the Pentagon.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after a report that President Trump, without proper intelligence, approved a counterterrorism operation against Al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula in Yemen over the weekend. Navy Seal William "Ryan" Owens was killed in the raid.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the upcoming full Senate confirmation vote for Betsy DeVos as Secretary of the Department of Education. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has approved DeVos' confirmation by a party line vote.
Last week, the famed Doomsday Clock, created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to sound the alarm over the inherently catastrophic nature of nuclear weapons, was set ahead 30 seconds, to two and a half minutes to midnight, the closest it's been to midnight since 1953.
Barack Obama and his aides expected to take on President Donald Trump at some point, but they didn't think it would happen this quickly.
Now they're trying to find the right balance on issues that demand a response, and how to use Obama deliver the selective pushback. Obama and his team are monitoring what's happening at the White House, and not ruling out the possibility that Obama will challenge Trump more forcefully in the coming months, according to people who've been in contact with the former president.
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1. @LAScanner
Tweets about crimes heard over the police scanner, often hilariously. #ScannerOn forever.
May this be the year where the illegal fireworks cause the dogs & cats to rise up against us. May they win & save us from ourselves.
Republicans hoped he would turn out to be a conventional conservative. Democrats hoped he would not do anything too drastic, and maybe even strike a few deals.
But the best guide to what Donald Trump would do as president appears to be what he said he would do as president.
Crowds have gathered for the second day in a row at LAX to protest President Donald Trump's immigration and travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, CA Congressman Ted Lieu and Congresswoman Maxine Watersand, and actress Ellen Page are reportedly part of a group of hundreds who have descended on the airport to decry the detention of travelers from counties on the list, which includes Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.