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China said to consider ending birth limits as soon as this year
BEIJING -- China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children a family can have, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a historic end to a policy that spurred countless human-rights abuses and left the world's second-largest economy short of workers.
The State Council, China's cabinet, has commissioned ...Read more
Rating changes in 19 House races, all toward Democrats
WASHINGTON -- Despite forecasts of a blue tsunami, it's still not guaranteed that Democrats will win back the House majority. But the playing field of competitive House races is expanding and shifting to almost exclusively Republican territory.
After the latest round of changes, Inside Elections now has 68 Republican seats rated as vulnerable ...Read more
This California congressman is avoiding a #MeToo backlash so far. Here's why
WASHINGTON -- Asked recently whether she would push Rep. Tony Cardenas of California to resign over allegations in a lawsuit that he molested a teenager in 2007, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi threw up her hands and walked away.
That seems to sum up Washington's collective response so far to the latest #MeToo sexual misconduct crisis ...Read more
San Francisco will use new technology to automatically reduce marijuana convictions
When recreational marijuana use was legalized in California, it presented an opportunity to reduce or expunge convictions for possession crimes that made it harder for some people to get ahead in life.
Since then, some counties have worked to address those convictions, taking on the lengthy bureaucratic process so that people would not have to ...Read more
Maduro declared winner in disputed Venezuela presidential election
MARACAIBO, Venezuela -- Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro won the right to rule the shattered nation through 2025, after the government said he convincingly won an election Sunday that dozens of nations, including the United States, are calling a sham.
Electoral authorities said Maduro had won 67 percent of the vote versus the 21 ...Read more
Al Gore urges graduates 'to reclaim the integrity of American democracy'
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Speaking to 2018 graduates at the University of Maryland on Sunday, it wasn't until 19 minutes into a 22-minute speech that former Vice President Al Gore mentioned President Donald Trump's name.
But his address nonetheless marked a commencement ceremony that pushed graduates to fight what both Gore and university President ...Read more
US is putting new tariffs on hold while negotiating with China, Mnuchin says
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration carefully stepped back Sunday from a looming trade war with China, saying that it would refrain for now from applying major tariffs on Chinese goods in the wake of Beijing's promise to ramp up purchases of American products to reduce the trade deficit.
"We're putting the trade war on hold," Treasury ...Read more
Voice recorder found at plane-crash site in Cuba
As Cubans grieved over one of the worst air crashes in the island's history, investigators hoped that the recovery of one of the recorders from a leased Boeing 737 would yield clues to what caused the 39-year-old aircraft to fall from the sky and explode in a yucca field.
The cockpit voice recorder was recovered in good condition, Transport ...Read more
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Populist parties in Italy back single candidate for prime minister
ROME –– Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the far-right League party have agreed to support a single candidate for prime minister, clearing a major hurdle as they enter the homestretch in their attempt to form a new government.
The parties have agreed on the government program, the cabinet and the prime minister, League ...Read more
Trump says he'll order inquiry into informant in Russia investigation
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said on Twitter Sunday that he will order an investigation into whether law enforcement "infiltrated or surveilled" his presidential campaign "for political purposes," escalating an already extraordinary clash between the president and the Justice Department.
The decision could lead to a new level of ...Read more
Catalonia crisis threatens Spain's budget
MADRID –– Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces a resurgent confrontation with Catalonia over the regional government's choice of leaders, threatening passage of his 2018 budget.
Rajoy's government left open the option of vetoing a slate of senior officials proposed by regional chief Joaquim Torra Saturday, saying it's a provocation ...Read more
U.S. puts tariffs against China 'on hold,' Mnuchin says
WASHINGTON –– The Trump administration has decided not to impose tariffs on Chinese products for now, after progress between the two nations on trade issues in two days of talks, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.
"We're putting the trade war on hold, right now," Mnuchin said on "Fox News Sunday."
President Donald Trump has threatened...Read more
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