Displaying items 13-24 of 694
» View burbankleader.com items only
< Previous
•
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-58
•
Next >
-
Benghazi attack tops Sunday morning news menu
Staff writerThe Benghazi attack will be the main topic this weekend on Sunday morning chat programs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., talk to NBC's "Meet the Press" at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. They will discuss whether there was...Tags: NBC (tv network), Susan Collins, Darrell E Issa, Mike J. Rogers, Meet the Press (tv program)
-
Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee
WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
-
The cost of Guantanamo
The hunger strike by inmates protesting conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is forcing the Obama administration to revisit its policy of indefinite detention without trial for terrorist suspects. It's about time. As Mr. Obama noted...Tags: Politics, Prisons, Punishment, U.S. Congress, Human Rights
-
Stephen Goldstein: Think NRA was winner? Not so fast
The NRA has won the battle but lost the war. The best thing that happened to gun control is its defeat in Congress. Today's losers (Obama, Democrats, the 90 percent of Americans who support sane legislation) will be tomorrow's winners. Today's winners...Tags: Lobbying, Rand Paul, Politics, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives
-
McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...Tags: Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Politics, Rebellions, U.S. Military
-
Erasing the stain of Guantanamo
At his news conference Tuesday, President Obama made a powerful plea for ending the humanitarian and diplomatic disaster created by the continued detention of more than 160 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, more than 100 of whom are engaged in a hunger...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Politics, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Barack Obama, Prisons
-
The GOP's Latino problem
Abel Maldonado, the Republican iconoclast most recently famous for his brief stint as California's appointed lieutenant governor and his unsuccessful run for Congress last year, is making noises about running for governor in 2014 against Jerry Brown....
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Judges, Steve Poizner, Insurance
-
Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rand Paul, Politics, Parties and Movements, U.S. House of Representatives
-
White House suspects Syria used chemical weapons, seeks inquiry
WASHINGTON — The White House said for the first time that there was evidence Syria had used chemical weapons in its civil war, but administration officials called for a broader United Nations investigation and edged away from declaring Damascus...Tags: International Organizations, Politics, U.S. Department of Defense, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Joint Chiefs of Staff
-
Lawmakers cite Boston bombings in questions on immigration bill
WASHINGTON — On the third day of hearings on a bill to overhaul the immigration system, senators took a break from partisan sniping and grilled Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on whether the Boston bombings had exposed shortcomings in...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Janet Napolitano, Chuck Grassley
-
Now in Congress: Bills to expand Yosemite for first time in 75 years
WASHINGTON -- Yosemite National Park would grow by about 1,600 acres, its first expansion in 75 years, to shield its western boundary from potential development under legislation introduced in Congress Tuesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who...
Tags: FBI, Politics, Yosemite National Park, Abraham Lincoln, Tom Berryhill
-
Sens. Feinstein and Boxer keep racking up seniority
WASHINGTON — Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have served longer together than any other pair of California senators — 20 years — and will soon replace Iowa's team as the current longest-serving tandem. In a chamber where the...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Parties and Movements, Don Knabe, Lindsey O. Graham
May 10, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
May 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 5, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Apr 28, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 1, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 21, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Dianne Feinstein topic gallery.
