President Trump on Friday signed two spending packages totaling $1.4 trillion, averting a government shutdown at midnight. The bills included all 12 annual appropriations bills for the 2020 fiscal year that started Oct. 1. They also included a slew of tax cuts, extending expiring and expired tax breaks and eliminating other taxes that amount to […]
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50,000 Guns Confiscated After Mass Shooting
New Zealand authorities said Saturday their country will be a safer place after owners handed in more than 50,000 guns during a buyback program following a ban on assault weapons. But critics say the process was flawed and many owners have illegally stashed their firearms. The government banned the most lethal types of semi-automatic weapons […]
Top Christian Magazine Says Supporting Trump Is Anti-Christian
But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral. The reason many are not […]
Trump Accepts Pelosi’s State Of The Union Invitation
Amid the impeachment battle on Capitol Hill and a potential Senate trial beginning in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi extended an invitation Friday to President Donald Trump to deliver the State of the Union address on Feb. 4. A short time later, the White House issued a short statement saying the president “has accepted the […]
MS-13 Round Up Leads To 100 Arrests
New York prosecutors have announced the arrests Friday of nearly 100 members and associates of MS-13 in what officials say is the largest crackdown against the gang in the state’s history. The developments come following a two-year investigation involving law enforcement from the local to the federal level in Suffolk County, one of the gangs’ […]
McConnell Refuses To Call Witnesses In Impeachment Trial
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday hit back at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) upbraiding of the House impeachment votes and questioned why the GOP leader wouldn’t support trial witnesses. “Is the president’s case so weak that none of the president’s men can defend him under oath? If the House’s case is […]
Pelosi Delays Sending Article Of Impeachment To The Senate
House Democrats on Thursday are rallying behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after she said she’ll delay the deliver of impeachment articles to the Senate in an effort to ensure a fair trial. President Trump has urged a speedy trial in the upper chamber, and Pelosi’s allies argue that delaying the delivery of the articles will […]
Mayor Pete Leading Polls In Iowa, Biden In Fourth
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) has a small lead in a new survey of Iowa, but Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are close behind. The latest Iowa State University–Civiqs poll finds Buttigieg at 24 percent, followed by Sanders at 21 percent, Warren at 18 percent and former Vice President Joe […]
Corrupt Former Trump Aide Manafort Hospitalized In Prison
Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager for Donald Trump, has been hospitalized, his lawyer said Tuesday. “His family and friends are extremely concerned about his health and still do not have a full understanding of his medical condition or well-being,” said Manafort’s lawyer, Todd Blanche. Manafort, 70, has been imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institute Loretto […]
Trump Sends Pelosi Scathing Letter Telling Her To End Impeachment
On the eve of an expected historic vote in the House of Representatives to impeach him, President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent an extraordinary personal six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi railing against what he calls an “illegal, partisan attempted coup.” “I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to […]
Trump Takes Lead In Polls Over Top Dem Candidates
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads his top Democratic rivals in his bid for a second, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds. The national survey, taken as the House of Representatives planned an impeachment vote and the Senate […]
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