President Donald Trump is praising U.S. veterans of D-Day, saying they are “among the very greatest Americans who will ever lived.”
Trump speaking in France at the Normandy American Cemetery near Omaha Beach, where Americans landed on June 6, 1944. Trump said that on that day 75 years ago 10,000 men sacrificed their lives not only for their fellow troops and their countries, but for the “survival of liberty.”
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Governor Abbott is set to sign three school safety bills into law at the State Capitol today. It was one of his top emergency items heading into the legislative session.
The bills strengthen emergency preparedness, increase mental health training for educators and remove the cap on the number of school marshals in public schools. They were inspired by the tragic shooting at Santa Fe High School.
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Today at Austin City Council’s meeting, Councilmember Ann Kitchen will be among those introducing a measure to greenlight a new housing-focused shelter pilot program. She says up until now most of the homeless programs focused on downtown but the homeless are all over the city.
She says staff will reveal where they think in South Austin this type of shelter would be built. Kitchen hopes it opens in the Fall.
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President Donald Trump may have time on his side when it comes to whether Democrats try to impeach him.
There’s been increasing pressure on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to at least start an impeachment inquiry into whether Trump obstructed special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
She’s resisting for various reasons. But the tick-tock of time is key as the 2020 election season approaches.
Many Democrats are unlikely to find it desirable to launch any impeachment proceedings after December.
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The U.S. Border Patrol’s apprehensions of migrants at the border with Mexico hit their highest level in more than a decade, as officials warned they don’t have the money and resources to care for the surge of parents and children entering the country.
Those numbers underpin the problems across the border. Photos of families waiting in jam-packed cells and in outdoor enclosures have sparked outrage.
Six children have died in the last year after being detained by border agents.
