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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has dismissed claims by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that world will end if global warming is not addressed immediately. The Democrat from New York made the statement in an interview at a Martin Luther King Day event where she spelled out the fears that many millennials in her demographic have, referring to climate change as “our World War Two.” “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address...

The Republican-run Senate this week will call up President Trump’s proposal to end the government funding standoff with a deal trading border wall money for an extension of legal protections for Dreamers. But Democrats who run the House have already rejected Trump’s plan, and will instead take up a series of border security measures and government funding legislation that don’t include any money for a border wall.

Los Angeles teachers are still on strike as of Tuesday morning, after negotiations between the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) union and the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) came closer to an agreement over the long weekend. The talks are being mediated by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, a potential Democratic presidential contender in 2020, though he has no formal authority over the school district. The Los Angeles Daily News reports that there is hope for a deal, and the Los Angeles Times confirms that the two sides are close on details such as salary increases — where the difference...