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Trump advocates waterboarding enemy combatants Donald Trump says if he’s elected president, he’ll bring back enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding for enemy combatants. “I would bring it back, yes. I would bring it back,” Trump said on ABC’s “This Week" on Sunday. Trump said waterboarding... Read More Trump on protester: ‘Maybe he should have been roughed up’ Donald Trump suggested Sunday the half-dozen white attendees at his campaign rally on Saturday may have reacted appropriately when they shoved, tackled, punched and kicked a black protester who disrupted his speech. "Maybe he should have been roughed up because... Read More Labor Department throws football party, but bans Redskins jerseys When the U.S. Labor Department’s Center for Civil Rights wanted to celebrate its accomplishments last week, its managers threw the staff a football-themed tailgate party in the office parking lot. The invite, distributed across the agency’s official email system, had... Read More Five Syrians Stopped at Laredo International Bridge One Five more Syrians have been stopped at a Laredo port of entry on Friday. This brings the total number of Syrians seeking to enter the US through our city this week up to 13. According to a statement from the... Read More On gun control, Newsom seems to be following Bloomberg’s strategic lead As he pushes a proposed ballot initiative cobbled together from gun-control bills that died in the Legislature or on the governor's desk, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom frames the battle he hopes to wage next year as a personal one. "Since... Read More Brussels reviews security alert, hunts ‘several’ suspects A tense Belgian capital was locked down for a second day Sunday with police and troops patrolling deserted streets as authorities reviewed whether to extend a security alert meant to prevent a repeat of the bloody Paris attacks. With the... Read More