Mitch McConnell’s foot-stomping screed on the Senate floor over the nickname “Moscow Mitch” caused the tag to trend Tuesday on Twitter. The Senate Majority Leader slammed attacks against him as “modern-day McCarthyism” after MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, gave McConnell the pet name for blocking two election security measures late last week. Scarborough initially sparked the […]
Category: Government
Trump Considering A Terrorist Designation For Antifa
President Trump declared Saturday he is considering labeling the militant anti-fascist movement antifa a terrorist organization. “Consideration is being given to declaring ANTIFA, the gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the heads with baseball bats, a major Organization of Terror (along with MS-13 & others),” Trump tweeted Saturday. […]
Trump Scores Huge Border Wall Victory
The Supreme Court late Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to use Defense Department counter-drug money to build a portion of the planned wall along the border with Mexico. By a 5-4 vote, the court lifted a stay imposed in late May by a federal judge in California that blocked the use of […]
16 Marines Arrested For Drugs, Smuggling People Across Border
The Navy has arrested 16 Marines at a major West Coast military base over their alleged involvement in human smuggling, drug offenses and other crimes. On Thursday morning, after some 800 Marines gathered in formation at Camp Pendleton north of San Diego, Marine officials working with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service pulled out the 16 […]
Trump Reinstates Federal Death Penalty
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly two decades. Only three federal executions have taken place since 1988, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. All five of the death-row inmates named in Thursday’s release were convicted for the murders of children. The […]
Mueller Says Trump Could Be Charged After Leaving Office
Former special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday said that he believes President Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office. “Could you charge the president with a crime after he left office?” Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) asked Mueller during the former special counsel’s testimony. “Yes,” Mueller replied. Buck appeared to be […]
Federal Judge Backs Trump’s Asylum Restrictions
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that he would not halt an effort by the Trump administration to restrict Central American migrants’ ability to apply for asylum in the U.S. The order from U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the District of Columbia came in response to a lawsuit filed by Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights […]
US, China To Resume Trade Talks Next Week
Top Trump administration officials will travel to China next week for the first high-level, in-person trade negotiating session since talks collapsed in May. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will travel to Shanghai on July 30 to meet with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said […]
Trump Hides Behind Clinton Conspiracies As Mueller Testimony Looms
President Trump trashed the upcoming blockbuster Robert Mueller hearing Monday as “another bite of the apple” by impeachment-happy Democrats. The POTUS called the special counsel “highly conflicted” and said the hearing set for Wednesday would “be bad for him and the phony Democrats.” In a possible preview of Republican efforts to divert attention from Trump’s […]
Iran Claims To Have Executed Captured CIA Agents
Tehran, Iran — Iran claimed Monday it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and that some have already been sentenced to death. In a Monday morning tweet, President Trump called the report of the arrests “totally false.” The alleged arrests […]
More Than 3,000 Drug Offenders Released Early Under First Step Act
Freedom came Friday for more than 3,000 people. They were released from prisons and halfway houses across the country under the First Step Act signed into law by the president last year. For non-violent drug offenders like Norah Yahya, the new law is a new beginning, allowing some prisoners like her to be released early. […]
Iran Hijacks Another Foreign Tanker In Persian Gulf
TEHRAN — ABritish oil tanker was seized and guided toward Iran in the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces while another was temporarily stopped and sent on its way, according to a U.S. official and the tankers’ operators. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed in a statement that it seized a British oil tanker named Stena Impero […]