Sheriff Richard Jones of Butler Country, Ohio, has already begun the process of training local teachers in firearm proficiency, he wrote on Twitter this week. Jones framed the announcement as local action against the backdrop of government inaction.
“Our teachers …
Continue ReadingAn increasing number of corporations are ending their relationships with the National Rifle Association in the wake of a deadly school shooting that killed seventeen in Parkland, FL, earlier this month.
Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Alamo and National Car Rental …
Continue ReadingDeputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein raised concerns about new information discovered while conducting a background check into presidential son-in-law and top White House adviser Jared Kushner. That, apparently, is what has caused Chief of Staff John Kelly to revise …
Continue ReadingA white Chevrolet van attempted to breach the perimeter of the White House Friday afternoon, causing the building to go into lockdown the Secret Service said. The van struck a security barrier around 3:30 p.m. at 17th St. NW …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump has reportedly directed the Department of Defense to stage a military parade on November 11, Veterans Day, according to a memo written by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. The memo was sent from McMaster to Secretary of …
Continue ReadingThe United States will open its embassy in the city of Jerusalem this May according to the Trump administration, moving the opening date of the facility up by months, if not years. “In May, the United States plans to open …
Continue ReadingFlorida Governor Rick Scott has proposed raising the minimum wage to purchase all firearms in the state of Florida, including assault rifles, to 21 from 18. The requirement already exists for handguns. It is a remarkable announcement considering the support …
Continue ReadingFormer 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:
…Continue Reading“USCIS secures America’s promise
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 …
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