Month: October 2019

WASHINGTON —  The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly reaffirmed that the U.S. government should recognize the century-old killings of 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide. The resolution, which is not legally binding, marked the first time in 35 years that either chamber of Congress labeled as genocide the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the […]

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ISTANBUL —  Turkey’s foreign ministry said that it summoned U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield on Wednesday over two resolutions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Turkish ministry said in a statement that it rejects the nonbinding House resolution to recognize the century-old mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. The bill passed 405-11. […]

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WASHINGTON —  A State Department foreign service officer will tell House impeachment investigators Wednesday that former national security advisor John Bolton cautioned him that Rudolph W. Giuliani “was a key voice with the president on Ukraine,” and that this could complicate U.S. goals in the Eastern European country. The testimony from Christopher Anderson makes clear that […]

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Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson has called on the city to suspend the approval process for new shops selling cannabis products, arguing that the latest round of the licensing process was “compromised” by some people gaining early access to the application system. In a letter to the Department of Cannabis Regulation, Wesson urged […]

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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Oct. 30, and I’m writing from San Francisco International Airport (and Santa Rosa, Calistoga and Petaluma, earlier in the day). Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter Time collapses in the long shadow of the Kincade fire. Days have passed since the first scream of […]

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The Easy fire is burning out of control in Simi Valley near the Reagan Library. Evacuation area boundaries North: Tierra Rejada South: Olsen Road/Madera Road East: Madera Road West: Highway 23 School closures ACCESS School (Moorpark) ACE Charter High School (Camarillo) Bridges Charter School (Thousand Oaks) Briggs School District CAPE Charter School (Camarillo) Conejo Valley […]

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