Category: Government

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection closed lanes to add ‘port hardening materials’ as nearly 3,000 migrants from caravan arrive in Tijuana, Mexico; William La Jeunesse reports. More than 500 criminals are traveling with the migrant caravan that’s massed on the other side of a San Diego border crossing, homeland security officials said Monday afternoon. […]

Brenda Snipes, the embattled Florida elections supervisor who was the recipient of blistering criticism from President Donald Trump, resigned her post in a letter dated Sunday. “Although I have enjoyed this work tremendously over these many election cycles, both large and small, I am ready to pass the torch,” Snipes, Broward County’s supervisor of elections, […]

CNN and its White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, again accused the Trump Administration of violating their constitutional rights in new papers filed with the U.S. District Court on Monday after spending much of the weekend exchanging legal threats in the wake of Friday’s ruling by a federal judge temporarily restoring Acosta’s credential. Acosta was informed of […]

Republic Police Department Chief Loren Culp is looking to shield his city from a new state law that imposes more strict limitations on firearms. Initiative 1639 was recently approved in Washington and prevents individuals under the age of 21 from buying semiautomatic weapons. The law also creates the potential for someone to be criminally prosecuted […]

President Trump said Saturday that he would deliver his written responses to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller next week. “They’re all done,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn before leaving the White House to travel to California for a visit in the wake of deadly wildfires. Trump also said that he has not […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Fresh off its bungled machine recount, Broward County’s second day of manual recounting temporarily stopped about an hour after it began Saturday when lawyers from both political parties pointed out that volunteers were counting the wrong ballots. Hundreds of volunteers spent most of Friday sorting through 32,000 overvotes and undervotes in […]

President Trump told Fox News’ Chris Wallace that he will kick CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta out of press conferences if he “misbehaves” going forward after a federal judge temporarily restored his press pass. Trump sat down with the “Fox News Sunday” host on Friday for a wide-ranging discussion – the first time Wallace has interviewed Trump […]

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not appear at the court on Tuesday as she continues to recover from a fall that left her with broken ribs. “She continues to improve and is working from home this morning,” said Kathy Arberg, a spokeswoman for the court. Ginsburg fell at her office Wednesday and was […]

A federal judge on Tuesday found that Gwinnett County violated the Civil Rights Act in its handling of absentee ballots during last week’s midterm elections, a ruling that will likely delay the overall vote tally in the state’s tight gubernatorial race. U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May wrote in a 17-page order that the county was found […]

The incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee this week said that when the new Congress is seated in January, Democrats plan to scrutinize whether President Trump abused his authority by taking adverse action against retail giant Amazon and two of his bitter left-leaning media rivals: CNN and The Washington Post. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said in […]

House Democrats are racing to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, and they’re not waiting until they assume the majority to do so. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) organized an emergency conference call on Thursday between rank-and-file Democrats and the top members on investigative committees to discuss President Trump’s decision to fire Attorney […]