Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    Democrats to grill Trump's AG pick

    by Del Quentin Wilber and Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Jan 14, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - William Barr, President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general, will face a familiar setting on Tuesday - a Senate confirmation hearing.

    It is sure to be the most contentious in the long legal career of the 68-year-old Republican lawyer who served as attorney general for two years under President George H.W. Bush.

    Democrats are gearing up to press Barr on a host of issues, including how he would oversee special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and other crimes.

    "The big question in my mind is will he leave Mueller alone," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times2 min read
    Editorial: Biden Expanded Two National Monuments In California. Three More To Go
    President Joe Biden’s move Thursday to expand two national monuments in California is unquestionably good news for our climate and environment. One proclamation will increase the size of San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly one third, ad
    Los Angeles Times4 min read
    Commentary: My Mother Set Herself On Fire. Why Do People Choose To Self-immolate?
    Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were just blocks from the University of Michigan campu
    Los Angeles Times3 min readCrime & Violence
    UCLA Detectives Use Jan. 6 Tactics To Find Masked Mob Who Attacked Pro-Palestinian Camp
    LOS ANGELES — It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week. The mob violence was captured on live

    Related Books & Audiobooks