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California to ask voters to approve new mental health beds
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California to ask voters to approve new mental health beds

Comment on this storyCommentSAN DIEGO — California voters would decide whether to fund a major expansion of housing and treatment for residents suffering from mental illness and addiction, under the latest proposal by Gov. Gavin Newsom to address the state’s homelessness crisis.Newsom announced Sunday that he will ask allies in the Democratic-controlled Legislature for a measure on the 2024 ballot to authorize funding to build residential facilities where over 10,000 people a year could live and be treated. The plan is the latest by the governor who took office in 2019 vowing to own the issue of homelessness in a state where an estimated 171,000 were unhoused last year.“This is the next step in our transformation of how California addresses mental illness, substance use disorder and hom...
NYPD among local, state and federal agencies gearing up for Trump indictment
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NYPD among local, state and federal agencies gearing up for Trump indictment

A law enforcement source said the New York Police Department along with federal, state and local agencies are gearing up for a possible indictment against former President Donald Trump in New York as early as next week.The NYPD and other law enforcement agencies — including the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force — are preparing security plans in and around the Manhattan criminal courthouse where Trump will potentially appear if he is charged in connection with a $130,000 alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star, according to the source. Daniels alleges the money was paid to keep her quiet about a sexual encounter with Trump years earlier.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg addressed the security issue in an email to employees...
A “Stormy” Political Season May be Coming—“The Sunday Political Brunch”
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A “Stormy” Political Season May be Coming—“The Sunday Political Brunch”

Sunday, March 19, 2023 Mark Curtis, MINDSETTER™   View Larger + Former President Donald Trump PHOTO: GoLocal Donald Trump was the Republican nominee for president in the 2016 and 2020 election cycles, winning once and losing once. Now he’s declared a run for 2024, but he faces a mountain of legal and political troubles that threaten to derail his train. Or does he? Let’s “brunch” on that this week.   “The Eye of the ‘Stormy’” – Former porn star Stormy Daniels met with prosecutors in New York City this past week. The impetus was hush money paid to Daniels by Donald Trump’s organization. Towards the end of Trump’s successful presidential run in 2016, Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen said he paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump in...
Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday as DA eyes charges
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Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday as DA eyes charges

Trump says he expects to be arrested as NY prosecutor eyes charges Trump says he expects to be arrested as NY prosecutor eyes charges 00:32 Former President Donald Trump said in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday as a New York prosecutor is eyeing charges in a case examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. Trump said in a post on his Truth Social network early Saturday that "illegal leaks" from the Manhattan distri...
Sen. Matt Lesser filibusters bill for trade groups to offer health plans
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Sen. Matt Lesser filibusters bill for trade groups to offer health plans

The Insurance and Real Estate Committee hit a roadblock Tuesday when Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, spent several hours questioning Committee Co-Chair Rep. Kerry Wood, D-Rocky Hill, over House Bill 6710, which would allow trade associations to offer large group health plans to their members. The bill would make available a new, potentially more affordable insurance option for small businesses and nonprofits, and it has bipartisan support. But the legislation has met with strong opposition from patient advocates concerned that such plans could destabilize the insurance market and may discriminate against people with illness or injuries. Lesser ultimately wrapped up his questions after he said he spoke offline to Gov. Ned Lamont’s staff, who offered to “mediate” over conc...
U.S. invasion of Iraq 20 years later — “Intelligence Matters”
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U.S. invasion of Iraq 20 years later — “Intelligence Matters”

In this special episode of "Intelligence Matters," host Michael Morell speaks with five former senior CIA officers about the agency's work before, during and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. With personal recollections and reflections, Morell offers a candid walkthrough of what the CIA and other intelligence agencies assessed about Saddam Hussein's intentions and weapons programs in the lead-up to the invasion, how intelligence was used within the U.S. government throughout this period, and how the consequences of the CIA's missteps - as well as its successes — continue to reverberate today.  Highlights: Morell on CIA's performance: "As many people know, some of our work reflected the worst the Agency had to offer. Few people know, however, that some of our work also refl...
TikTok ban in U.S. could be imposed by Biden administration if China-owned ByteDance doesn’t divest
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TikTok ban in U.S. could be imposed by Biden administration if China-owned ByteDance doesn’t divest

The Biden administration wants TikTok's Chinese parent company to divest itself of the popular social media platform, or it could face a possible nationwide ban, TikTok confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal said the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) had recently made the divestment request, and a TikTok spokesperson did not dispute that account.The Treasury Department, of which CFIUS is a part, declined to comment. The White House and National Security Council also declined to comment."If protecting national security is the objective, divestment doesn't solve the problem," TikTok spokesperson Maureen Shanahan told CBS News in a statement. "The best way to address concerns about national security is with the transparent, U.S.-based protecti...
Jesús Rodríguez joins The Post as a political reporter in Style
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Jesús Rodríguez joins The Post as a political reporter in Style

Announcement from Features Executive Editor Ben Williams, Deputy Features Editor Mitch Rubin, and Assignment Editor Steve Kolowich:We are excited to announce that Jesús Rodríguez will be joining The Washington Post as a political reporter in Style.Jesús comes to us from Politico Magazine, where he wrote features about politics and law as a staff writer, including on Democrats’ legal strategy against election denialism, the country’s only mobile vasectomy clinic in post-Roe Missouri and George Santos’s life in Congress. Previously, he was a contributing editor there.Jesús, who is originally from Maracaibo, Venezuela, has a bachelor’s degree in international politics and a law degree from Georgetown University. He resides in Washington.His first day will be March 20. Please join us in wel...
House Republicans launch their version of Jan. 6 committee, probing “misconduct” by original panel
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House Republicans launch their version of Jan. 6 committee, probing “misconduct” by original panel

House Republicans are creating a committee to "reinvestigate" the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.  More than two months after the historic House Jan. 6 select committee disbanded and published its final report on the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, House Republicans are launching their own review of the Capitol riot.  They plan to emphasize a different focus Jan. 6 with their panel. And the Georgia Republican who will chair the new panel is using the phrases "investigate both sides" and "show what really happened on Jan. 6" to describe the committee's work. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Republican of Georgia, and chairman of the House Administration subcommittee on Oversight, said his panel will "aggressively" wor...