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Vice President Kamala Harris, who was tapped in March by President Biden to lead his administration’s efforts to address a record surge in migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border has gone 91 days without visiting the region and is beginning to feel more bipartisan pressure to make a trip.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has been tapped as a “special guest” at the upcoming Women for America First summit in Miami — as he battles accusations that he paid for sex with women, including an underage girl. The embattled Republican congressman was announced as a headline speaker at the pro-Trump group’s four-day “Save America Summit” beginning Thursday. “Rep Matt Gaetz has been a fearless leader in DC. Few members of Congress have been more willing than Matt to stand up & fight on behalf of President Trump & his America First Agenda,” Women for America First tweeted Tuesday. “We are...

When Biden initially announced her appointment, he said she would be in charge of working to return migrants to their home countries. "So this new surge we're dealing with now started with the last administration, but it's our responsibility to deal with it humanely and to – and to stop what's happening," Biden said month. "And so, this increase has been consequential, but the vice president has agreed – among the multiple other things that I have her leading – and I appreciate it – agreed to lead our diplomatic effort and work with those nations to accept re- –...

Federal investigators tapped the phone lines of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to a bombshell report by NBC News. The report, citing one source with direct knowledge, said at least one call between the White House and a phone line associated with Cohen was intercepted. The wiretap could dramatically raise the legal stakes for Trump if any potential conversations with his longtime lawyer were swept up by investigators, who are conducting a wide-ranging criminal probe into Cohen’s business activities. According to NBC News, it is unclear how long the phone had been wiretapped or when it was authorized,...

CLEMENTE: “No, there is a way. We certainly have ways in national security investigations to find out exactly what was said in that conversation. It’s not necessarily something that the FBI is going to want to present in court, but it may help lead the investigation and/or lead to questioning of her. We certainly can find that out. BURNETT: “So they can actually get that? People are saying, look, that is incredible. CLEMENTE: “No, welcome to America. All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not.” >Snip< “All of that...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown says he seeks a lot of opinions from around California -- and denies the report from former Speaker Willie Brown suggesting he has tapped former Gov. Gray Davis to help run his transition team. We spoke to Brown, the former two term governor, Sunday regarding the report in the San Francisco Chronicle's Matier and Ross column which is being touted by the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. The Whitman team sent out the comments of Willie Brown to M&R, as the former SF Mayor noted he met up with Davis at a recent...

WASHINGTON – President Bush has nominated Lt. Gen. John Sattler, the commanding general of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, to a key job on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon announced Thursday. Pentagon and Marine Corps sources have suggested that Sattler's selection as the new director for strategic plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs would position him to replace Army Gen. John Abizaid as the commander of the U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for conducting the conflicts in Irag and Afghanistan. Abizaid's normal three-year tour at Central Command would have ended this month, but...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin was appointed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to head the State and Consumer Services Agency. Marin was appointed treasurer by President Bush in 2001 and served until May 2003, when she resigned to return to California. She lost a Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Since then, she has been a member and chair of the state's Integrated Waste Management Board. "Rosario's decades of experience serving and representing the people of California at the federal, state and local levels have given her a unique understanding of the important ways...

WASHINGTON - Two former Vietnam prisoners of war who appear in ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) were appointed by the Bush administration to a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs (news - web sites). The former POWs in the ad, Kenneth Cordier and Paul Galanti, serve on the VA's 12-member Former POW Advisory Committee. VA Secretary Anthony Principi appointed Cordier in 2002 and Galanti in 2003. Cordier said the VA panel has nothing to do with the Bush campaign or the anti-Kerry group. "It's totally apolitical, and we meet twice a year to...

<p>Gov. Gray Davis has quietly nominated a generous political donor for a 12-year term on the University of California Board of Regents -- one of the most-coveted gubernatorial appointments in the state.</p> <p>Norman J. Pattiz, founder and chairman of the nationwide radio network Westwood One, has been serving on the prestigious board since September 2001 when Davis appointed him to finish the three years remaining in the term of S. Stephen Nakashima, who resigned.</p>