Associated Press and Wire Reports WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump Administration is phasing out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA is an American immigration policy founded by the Obama administration in June 2012. DACA allows certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred
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BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday criticized President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off U.S. trade with countries that deal with North Korea and rejected pressure to do more to halt the North’s nuclear development. Trump issued the threat after North Korea on Sunday exploded a thermonuclear device in its sixth and most powerful nuclear
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s Secretary of State Lawerence Denney has sent President Donald Trump’s commission investigating alleged voter fraud an official public records request form and a bill for $20. Denney has maintained he will treat the commission’s request for detailed voter information as a public records request, meaning Idaho’s Public Records Law —
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By Kimberlee Kruesi /Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Gubernatorial hopeful and Lt. Gov. Brad Little outlined the first details of his economic plan to reduce regulations on Idaho companies and create more job opportunities for Idaho’s young workers if elected governor in 2018. Little delivered his plan Wednesday outside the recently competed $70 million
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is now one of only two states that don’t require personal financial disclosure by state lawmakers and other elected or appointed officials. The Spokesman-Review reports (http://bit.ly/2v133jz) Vermont legislators signed into law last month a series of ethics reforms including financial disclosure rules. That leaves just Idaho and Michigan as the
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials say the state has closed out the budget year with tax revenue exceeding forecasts by nearly $94 million. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on Friday praised the state’s disciplined fiscal policies for the budget surplus. For fiscal year 2017 — which ended June 30 — the state took in almost
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter says he will lead 11 aviation and aerospace companies on a trade mission to Paris. Otter announced Friday that he will be traveling to the International Paris Air Show next week. Along with representatives from the state’s aerospace industry, the Republican governor will be joined by
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By Kimberlee Kruesi /Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Political newcomer Tommy Ahlquist says he’ll cut $100 million from the state budget within his first 100 days in office if he wins the Idaho gubernatorial seat in 2018. The promise is just one of the Republican Boise businessman’s goals he has for the top executive
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By Kimberlee Kruesi/Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — If Lt. Gov. Brad Little wins his bid to be Idaho’s next governor in 2018, he will be the only candidate to already have hands-on experience with the job. The two-term Republican has served as acting governor 373 times since taking over the second-in-command position in 2009,
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Labrador Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, introduced H.R. 2284, a bill to reform the Antiquities Act to restrain unilateral presidential power. Labrador’s National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act requires approval by Congress and any state with a proposed national monument before the President can formally designate a monument. The legislation
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