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DENVER — President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the government to speed up environmental reviews and streamline regulations that he says are hindering work on major water projects in California and other Western states. Trump signed a memorandum aimed at helping the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project in California, the Klamath Irrigation Project in Oregon and California and the Columbia River Basin system in the Pacific Northwest. “We will resolve the issues blocking the completion of the Central Valley project,” Trump said in Arizona during a swing through Western states.

The Affordable Care Act’s federal exchange system for insurance was breached and about 75,000 consumer files compromised, the Trump administration said Friday.

Independent Alaska Gov. Bill Walker has suspended his re-election bid with less than three weeks before the general election.

In August, the USDA decided to pull back on a program vital for cattle ranchers. Now, in a sign of ranchers’ political muscle, the candidates in a tight Senate race in Arizona have pledged to help.

Ryan Nelson has racked up more than a dozen speeding tickets; now that he has won a lifetime appointment to one of the highest courts in the land, ‘maybe he will bring a little bit of empathy to recidivists’

Many American companies applauded the country’s move to pull out of an international postal agreement, but some organizations worried it could crimp the flow of global e-commerce.