The U.S.-led military coalition killed the top ISIS leader in Iraq this week in an airstrike intended to beat back a resurging terror campaign after a double suicide bombing in Baghdad this month. The coalition announced on Friday that Jabbar Salman Ali Farhan al-Issawi, 43, known as Abu Yasser, was killed Wednesday in a joint […]
Category: Government
Biden To Get Tough On The Taliban
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is signaling a tougher line with the Taliban than his predecessor, with top officials warning that a planned U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in May could be delayed if the insurgents fail to live up to their promises. A flurry of statements and comments from the White House, State Department […]
Biden Signing Executive Orders At Alarming Rate
President Biden has signed more than three dozen executive orders, actions and directives since he took office just 9 days ago — with Biden officials telling Fox News that the moves are “previews” of the agenda items the president will push in Congress as Republicans rail against the record-making flurry of orders. Just hours after […]
Biden Rolls Back Trump’s Anti-Abortion Laws
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden began rolling back anti-abortion measures put in place by the Trump administration and moved to shore up the Affordable Care Act after four years of efforts to dismantle one of Biden’s top legislative accomplishments as vice president. Biden signed an executive order Thursday directing federal agencies to reverse policies put […]
Biden Begins Process To Overhaul The Supreme Court
The Biden administration has begun setting up a commission aimed at Supreme Court reform and the federal judiciary, according to a Politico report. Sources close to the matter told the publication that nine to 15 people are expected to be appointed to the commission that will study court reform. Those who are expected to be […]
Biden Tells DOJ To End Private Prisons
President Biden on Tuesday ordered the Department of Justice (DOJ) to phase out its use of private prisons. The executive order, signed alongside three others as part of an effort to address racial inequality, largely returns the department to the policy adopted under the Obama administration. “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives […]
Democrats Reintroduce Bill For $15 Minimum Wage
Democrats in both chambers of Congress on Tuesday reintroduced a bill to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time since 2009, setting a $15 an hour target by 2025. That level would be more than double the current rate of $7.25 an hour, which was approved in 2007 and set in place two […]
Supreme Court Delivers Major Blow To Pro-Life Laws
The Supreme Court handed a victory to advocates of abortion rights Monday, wiping lower court rulings off the books that had upheld a Texas order banning nearly all abortions in the state during the coronavirus pandemic. Gov. Greg Abbott ordered a halt to nonessential medical procedures in late March to conserve hospital resources and personal […]
Biden To Allow Transgender People Into US Military
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order repealing the ban on transgender people serving openly in the military, a ban that former President Donald Trump had put in effect, the White House said. In a statement, the White House said Biden’s order “sets the policy that all Americans who are qualified […]
Biden Issues New Travel Bans
President Biden is expected to ban most non-U.S. citizens traveling from South Africa from entering the U.S. due to the COVID-19 variant recently discovered there. A top Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official told Reuters in an interview that Biden will restrict entry for travelers who are not U.S. citizens and have visited […]
Trump’s Senate Trial To Begin Feb. 9th
The Senate will start President Trump’s second impeachment trial during the week of Feb. 8, Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) announced on Friday. “Both the House managers and the defense will have a period of time to draft their legal briefs just as they did in previous trials. … Once the briefs are drafted, the […]
Over 62,000,000 Babies Have Been Aborted Since Roe V. Wade
Friday marks the 48th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, which has resulted in an estimated 62 million abortions, according to one analysis. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLTC), the nation’s oldest pro-life organization, says it reached an estimate of 62,502,904 by tracking data from the Centers for Disease […]