Speaker Paul Ryan will face well-funded challenger Paul Nehlen in the Wisconsin Primary on August 9.

Friday, May 6, 2016 – 09:30 a.m.

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), who already has a well-funded challenger in millionaire Paul Nehlen, just poured gas on the fire in his own Wisconsin 1st Congressional District.

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Flyers were placed on nearly every door within a mile radius of the ExxonMobil refinery notifying residents of the impending restart of the facility. Thursday, May 5, 2016, Torrance, CA. (Steve McCrank/Staff Photographer)

By Nick Green, Daily Breeze
Posted: 05/05/16 – 8:40 PM PDT |

The February 2015 explosion that shuttered the ExxonMobil plant in Torrance was the costliest disruption at a California refinery in the past 16 years, with motorists paying at least $2.4 billion in higher pump prices in the following six months, according to a recent RAND study.

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This is the map the City Council chose in dividing the city into voting districts, although slight tweaks were made at the meeting Wednesday.

By Imani Tate, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 05/05/16 – 12:15 PM PDT |

CHINO >> Faced with from a Malibu law firm, the Chino City Council this week gave tentative approval to divide the city into voting districts.

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The final voting district boundary map to be put before Rancho Cucamonga residents.

By Liset Márquez, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 05/05/16 – 6:10 PM PDT |

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> Voters in November will decide whether the city should be divided into districts rather than at-large voting for every council seat.

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Three inmates escaped from the Orange County Central Men’s Jail on January 22, 2016. The facility was built in 1968. Erika Aguilar/KPCC

Erika Aguilar
May 05, 2016 – 09:36 PM

Orange County sheriff’s officials have assigned an investigative sergeant to monitor how and if jailhouse informants will be used with the Sheriff’s consultation after deputies failed to disclose records to the court on the department’s inmate informant program.

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Melanie Mason
May 5, 2016 – 2:25 P.M.

Just six days ago, Assembly Republican leader Chad Mayes was the opening act to his preferred presidential pick, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, at the California GOP convention.

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In this Sept. 30, 2014 file photo, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. One of the Obama administration’s harshest congressional critics will get a final high-profile shot Tuesday when the committee grills witnesses about the president’s health care law and a former adviser’s comments that “the stupidity of the America voter” helped Democrats pass the complex legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite – File)

By Joshua Stewart |
May 5, 2016 – 3:16 p.m.

SAN DIEGO — A little over two months after he said that Donald Trump would be disastrous for the Republican Party, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, on Thursday said the business tycoon is the best candidate for president.

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By Erica Werner
May 5, 2016 – 10:04 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan is refusing to support Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president, insisting Thursday that the businessman must do more to unify the GOP.

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