Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates will plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and making false statements, in the Robert Mueller investigation into Russian meddling it was learned today. The plea is an indication that Gates may …
Continue ReadingA Florida man who was being put to death for the 1993 rape and murder of college student, yelled “Murderers! Murderers! Murderess!” as the execution drugs were being administered, yesterday evening.
Minutes earlier he had addressed corrections officer, …
Continue ReadingPurdue Online Writing Lab, a citation website available for free to the general public has recommended dropping the word “man” from formal and professional writing.
“Although man in its original sense carried the dual meaning of adult human and adult …
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration is set to announce a sweeping new set of sanctions against North Korea in the latest effort to prod the regime to abandon its nuclear weapons development program. President Trump is set to unveil the new sanctions …
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that grants citizenship to newly arrived U.S. immigrants is removing the term “nation of immigrants” from its mission statement.
The old statement read:
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has announced the indictments of sixteen Russian individuals and entities this week in connection to the Russia probe. Later in the week additional indictments of former staffers of the Trump campaign were also announced, including one …
Continue ReadingSpecial counsel Robert Mueller has filed new charges against former Trump campaign staffers Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. The charges, thirty-two counts in all, were returned in a superseding indictment by a federal court in Virginia Thursday.
The charges in …
Continue ReadingThe CEO of National Rifle Association Wayne LaPierre addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference today and reiterated calls to introduce greater security to the nation’s schools in the wake of the deadly school shooting that killed seventeen at Marjory Stoneman …
Continue ReadingAccording to special counsel Robert Mueller Russian operatives pretending to be everyday Americans organized, and even helped fund, political rallies during the 2016 presidential election.
Starting in April 2016 and running all the way through the election, Russian operatives produced, …
Continue ReadingDemocratic congressional leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi have demanded an extra $300 million in funding to protect the U.S. from potential Russian meddling in the 2018 midterm elections. The funding request was made in a letter to …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump announced on Twitter this morning that he will be backing comprehensive background checks for gun purchases with an emphasis, he said, on mental health. He also indicated support for raising the eligibility age for purchases of assault rifles …
Continue ReadingThe indictment of sixteen Russian individuals and entities by special counsel Robert Mueller makes notable mentions of the groups’ use of Facebook, mentioning the social media giant thirty-five times. The group allegedly used the platform to purchase ads, adopt fake …
Continue ReadingPennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey has called a conversation about impeaching Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justices for their decision to redraw the state’s congressional districts “inevitable.”
“Look, I think it’s inevitable that that conversation’s going to take place,” Toomey said. “I think …
Continue ReadingThe criminal gang MS-13 has exploded in growth in the U.S. and has now been linked to crimes in twenty-two states, according to a new report from the Center for Immigration Studies. Since 2012 there have been more than …
Continue ReadingRanking member on the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff said Tuesday night that he plans to have the Democratic memo he and his colleagues wrote to rebut claims in a Republican memo alleging abuses by the FBI in the Russia …
Continue ReadingThe Florida state House of Representatives voted down a bill that would ban many semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines yesterday. The bill, which would ban AR-15 rifles like the one used in the Parkland, FL, shooting, and large capacity …
Continue ReadingVice President Mike Pence had planned to secretly meet with North Korean officials while in South Korea a few weeks ago, but the North Koreans backed out of the meeting, according the Vice President’s office.
Pence was on a trip …
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