Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has taken back his offer of billions of dollars for President Donald Trump’s long-promised U.S.-Mexico border wall. Schumer spokesman Matt House says Schumer’s office notified the White House that Friday’s offer to combine wall funding with legal protections for 700,000 younger immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Trump had rejected […]
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Jeff Sessions Interviewed By Mueller As Part Of The Russia Probe
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed last week by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian election meddling. The Justice Department confirmed a report in The New York Times that Sessions was questioned for several hours. It is the first time that Mueller’s team has interviewed a member […]
Senate Votes To End Shutdown On Day 3
The Senate voted Monday to reopen the government, ending a three-day standoff that left federal agencies shuttered and hundreds of thousands of workers furloughed. Democrats agreed to advance a stopgap spending measure lasting until Feb. 8 after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promised to allow an immigration bill to reach the floor next month. […]
Brand New Navy Warship Trapped In Canada Due To Freezing Weather
The brand-new U.S. Navy warship USS Little Rock is stuck in Canada. The warship has not moved from Montreal since Christmas Eve and will spend the winter stuck due to cold and ice. A brand-new U.S. Navy warship has not moved from Montreal since Christmas Eve and will spend the winter stuck in Canada due […]
Key Ally In Finding Bin Laden Stuck In Pakistani Prison
Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years — since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden’s home, aiding U.S. Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaida leader. Americans might wonder how Pakistan could imprison a man who helped track down the mastermind of […]
Government Shut Down Reaches Day 2 With No End Near
“I think Democrats want to see the president give the State of the Union under a shutdown,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” That address is scheduled for Jan. 30. Both sides are at risk from the shutdown, which began after Senate Democrats and some Republicans in the upper chamber blocked a House bill that […]
Las Vegas Women’s March Serves To Register Anti-Trump Voters
On the heels of nationwide demonstrations to protest against the policies of President Trump, a coalition of liberal activists is headlining a rally in Las Vegas Sunday to kick off a major push to elect Democrats across the country. Nevada is where a “Power to the Polls” initiative will launch that aims to register 1 […]
Cadaver Dogs Brought In To Search California House Of Horrors
Evidence that young victims endured extreme and prolonged physical abuse. Homicide detectives could use cadaver dogs to sniff for the remains of other children in the suburban California “house of horrors,” according to a report. A week after 13 children, ages 2 to 29, were found living in deplorable conditions in the Riverside County home, […]
Government Shutdown Could Be Longer Than Expected
Republican and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill lashed out at each other on Day One of the government shutdown Saturday, trading barbs and casting blame aThe rhetoric took a harsh turn, with Democrats complaining that President Trump is an erratic, unreliable negotiating partner and Republicans bemoaning Democrats’ intransigence over what the GOP sees as unreasonable immigration […]
Mattis Says US Military Losing Competitive War Fighting Edge
WASHINGTON – Countering China’s rapidly expanding military and an increasingly aggressive Russia are now the U.S. military’s top national security priorities, outpacing the threat of terrorism, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday. He said competition with those adversaries has threatened America’s military advantage around the world. Laying out a broad new strategy for the Defense […]
Supreme Court To Rule On Trump’s Travel Ban
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to review the legality of President Trump’s latest travel ban. The decision comes about two months after the court granted the administration’s request to fully reinstate the ban after lower courts blocked the administration from banning people with a bona fide relationship to a person to entity in […]
Robbers Hit Multiple Las Vegas Casinos In Last Week
LAS VEGAS — Bandits have gotten away with cash and chips from four casino-hotels in Las Vegas since last week, leaving police on the hunt for multiple suspects. Three of the casinos targeted by criminals are on the Las Vegas Strip and the fourth one is in the vicinity. The string of incidents comes less than […]