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CNN's Jim Acosta shot video of the crowd at Trump's Tampa FL, behaving like a mob and threatening the press as the hate that Trump has whipped up looks likely to get someone hurt.

Former US Attorney Chuck Rosenberg made an educated guess that the pieces are there to charge a person or people in Trump's campaign for conspiring with Russia.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) blasted the "deeply immoral and haphazard" Trump policy of "systemic separation of immigrant children from their parents without plans to reunite them," saying the Trump policy "may essentially orphan hundreds of immigrant children."

A senior official at the U.S. agency charged with caring for migrant children believed separating them from their parents carried "significant risk" of harm and said on Tuesday concerns had been raised internally before the Trump administration made it official policy.

The White House is publicly claiming that Trump isn't paying attention to the Paul Manafort trial, but privately Trump is watching the television coverage and demanding updates from his lawyers.

A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked the planned release of blueprints for 3-D printed guns hours before they were set to hit the internet, siding with several states that sued to halt publication of designs to make weapons that security screening may not detect.

Every network but Fox News refused to cover his Florida rally, but Trump is so detached from reality that he thinks that the TV networks can't get enough of him.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, linked Trump to the attempted Russian hacking of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).

While collusion is not a technical legal charge, Mueller is probing any coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, and could bring conspiracy charges if he finds that any campaign member worked with Russia to break U.S. law.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE FEDERALIST RADIO HOUR HERE. Emma Green is a reporter at The Atlantic who covers religion and has lived in Israel for the last year. She joins Ben Domenech on this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss the sexual assault allegations rising in the Catholic Church, the politics on the ground in Israel, and how religion impacts both American politics and institutions. “I do think what we are seeing is a group of Americans who continue to behave in a typical way…being committed to civic society…really having those tight-knit ties of community formed and that I think is democratically buoying,” Green said. “But then you also have a tribal affiliation that kind of has a tangential touch point on that religious identity and religious past but isn’t necessarily as buoying for democracy, and in fact can be destructive.” Listen here:

The prosecution on Tuesday portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a man who felt tax and banking laws did not apply to him and described how he opened more than 30 bank accounts in three foreign countries to "receive and hide" income from Ukraine.

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that he and his children had been targeted by hackers.

The U.S. Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, on Tuesday expressed concern about Russian interference in the upcoming November elections, saying President Donald Trump should do more to prevent meddling and that it appears a Russian agency was behind the latest Facebook fake-account controversy.

“It isn’t every day that the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledges formally that the President of the United States lied in a speech to Congress. But that’s how I read a letter I received a few days ago from the department’s Office of Information Policy in connection with one of my Freedom of Information Act … Continue reading "You Lie: Trump’s Own Justice Department Admits That He Lied To Congress"

I'm not trying to talk down a strong economy, but facts still matter even if the president and his supporters don't think they do.

Photos: Protesters disrupted a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Oversight of Immigration Enforcement and Family Reunification Efforts" on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday.

The jury was selected on Tuesday in the trial of U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and opening arguments were set to begin in the afternoon.

Trump blasted out a series of tweets that made it clear that he doesn't care about losing Congress. He wants to shut down the government to get his wall.

Facebook Inc has identified a coordinated political influence campaign through dozens of inauthentic accounts on its platform ahead of November's U.S. midterm election,

What do you when you’ve accomplished all of your major goals? It’s not something most organizations ever need to ponder, as they often spend decades working toward a single legislative victory in Washington. In the case of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), however, it’s no longer an idle question. CUFI, which now boasts 4.3 million members, has had a banner year. Since CUFI’s last national summit , they have scored several major political wins, which CUFI founder Pastor John Hagee called miracles: President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and he withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. Additionally, Congress passed the CUFI-supported Taylor Force Act , which reduces American aid to the Palestinian Authority until they stop financially rewarding convicted terrorists and their families for attacks on American and Israeli citizens. Pastor Hagee told the crowd, “For the first time in a long time, the wind is at our backs. We have an...

In last night’s episode of ABC’s “The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All,” host Chris Harrison interviewed the men Becca Kufrin has sent home thus far. They dished about their experience and secrets. 1. Jordan Sucks Up All The Attention It wouldn’t be “The Bachelor” franchise without the network priming the audience for the next crazy contestant a la Corinne Olympios to appear in next season’s “Bachelor In Paradise.” Jordan, the male model who models his speaking patterns after those of the president of the United States, spent a lot of time onscreen in his underwear. Chris Harrison asks Jordan what he did with the pair of golden underwear that Becca gave him earlier in the season. In response, the male model dropped his pants to reveal that he was wearing them! Talk about a plot twist. “Modeling is so much more than being ridiculously good looking,” he said. “You’re talking gym year-round, tan year-round, salt spray year-round. There’s so much involved, it’s — it’s taxing.” Mmmm, yea...

It was Trump who ended a lawsuit that would have blocked terrorists from being able to download the blueprints for 3-D plastic guns, so if a terrorist ever uses these weapons against American citizens, it will be all on Trump.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the powerful Koch-led political donor network as "globalist" and "a total joke," rejecting the conservative group amid signs of a growing public fissure between the president and business over trade and immigration.

Senior Iranian officials on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's offer of talks without preconditions as worthless and "a humiliation" after he acted to reimpose sanctions on Tehran following his withdrawal from a landmark nuclear deal.

In a new report by a respected investigative journalist, the New York Review of Books is claiming that special counsel Robert Mueller has in his possession pieces of highly incriminating documentary evidence that will clearly implicate President Donald Trump in criminal obstruction of justice. The Review tweeted this early morning a link to the bombshell … Continue reading "New Bombshell Report is “Strongest Evidence Yet” of Trump’s Obstruction of Justice"

Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, earned over $60 million working for Russia-backed Ukraine politicians, according to a new court filing made Monday by special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors. “Paul Manafort earned more than $60 million as a political consultant in Ukraine, Robert Mueller says” Paul Manafort earned more than … Continue reading "Mueller Says Manafort Evaded Taxes on Most of $60 Million He Earned in Ukraine"

The conservative editors of the Wall Street Journal seem to be fed up with Donald Trump’s antics that are turning off moderate suburban voters while he continues his policy of throwing red meat to his nationalistic base of political supporters who want more tariffs and no immigration. “Scathing WSJ editorial: The only explanation for Trump’s … Continue reading "Wall Street Journal Says Trump Wants Republicans to Lose the House"

Tuesday morning’s Morning Joe panel ruthlessly made fun of Donald Trump’s television lawyer Rudy Giuliani for his bizarre series of recent TV interviews that seemed to do Trump more harm than good and left even Fox News hosts completely confused. “’Throw grandpa from the train!’ Morning Joe openly laughs at ‘pathetic’ Rudy Giuliani’s trainwreck TV … Continue reading "Morning Joe Mocks Giuliani: “Throw Grandpa From the Train”"

President Donald Trump went on Twitter Tuesday morning and angrily attacked the Koch Brothers, who have long been two of the biggest donors to the Republican Party. Trump’s attacks were a response to reports on Monday that the Kochs have become very critical of the president and they have started to withhold  donations from pro-Trump … Continue reading "Trump Attacks Koch Brothers For Pulling Support From GOP Candidates"

Self-identified Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is touring the country and selling her promise of a socialist paradise with guaranteed jobs, free college, and of course, free healthcare for all. By sheer coincidence, a  public health crisis  is unfolding in China right now which shows the deep-rooted flaws of socialized medicine. In China, vaccine production is heavily subsidized by the government and vaccines are given to children through the government’s mandatory vaccination program. Sounds pretty good, right? But last Friday, Chinese Food and Drug authorities revealed that one Chinese drug company, Jilin-based Changchun Changsheng Bio-technology, has sold about 252,600 substandard DPT vaccines — used to  prevent diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus — to the Shandong Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a government agency in charge of public health for about 100 million people. The inferior DPT vaccines were given to an unknown...

I’ve been tracking the growing didacticism of today’s art, the tendency of the mainstream culture’s gatekeepers to subordinate esthetic merit to the imperative of blasting a political message that matches the Left’s orthodoxies. Didacticism has been taking over every form of art, from television to movies to fashion to sculpture to poetry. Now it’s coming for the unlikeliest target of all: comedy. Did I hear you say that there’s no way to make comedy didactic, that this is the ultimate contradiction in terms? True enough, which is why the age of didacticism is coming to destroy comedy altogether—and it is openly proclaiming that fact. The latest buzz in the middlebrow media is a stand-up comedy act that The New York Times praises as “comedy-destroying.” [Hannah] Gadsby, an Australian comedian, is the creator of ‘Nanette,’ a stage show turned Netflix special that is lacerating in its fury about how women and queer people like her, and anyone else who might behave or look ‘o...

Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak is nonplussed about video games . Her children are addicted to the popular game Fortnite, so much so that they’ve spent much of their summer indoors. She urges her pale progeny: “Go outside and get a sunburn. Please.” This is a tad ironic coming from the same person who a few years ago indulged in Pokémon Go with her kids all over DC. What is a parent to do? Dvorak summarizes her parental dilemma: cut the cord and isolate her children from all their friends, or allow them to waste their summers away on the couch. From one who once struggled with video game addiction and now has three young ’uns, here’s my advice: keep your kids as far away from these games as possible. I was first introduced to video games when I was five years old — a neighbor had the original Nintendo. Before too long, I’d persuaded my parents to get me a system. Super Mario and some baseball game whose name I’ve long forgotten were my first guilty pleasures. Then there w...

A recent story about a gay teenager being kicked out of his family’s home has stirred up many difficult emotions and spurred outrage from LGBT Americans. A major LGBT online publication, Queerty, first reported on the story with the headline, “ Teen’s parents threw him to the curb for being gay, but just look at him now .” The article summarizes the experience: “After his dad snooped through his phone and discovered Seth is gay, he was thrown out of the house by his zealous parents.” It goes on to celebrate the young man for being co-valedictorian of his class and pursing college despite being “made homeless” by his parents. When I first read this article, it brought back memories of my own involuntary coming out experience. The young man, Seth Owen, and I have a lot in common in this way. When I was 15 years old, my dad stumbled through some of my browsing history on his work computer, where I had begun to explore websites like Gay.com during moments I was alone. He confronted me l...

In May 2018, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman resigned from office in disgrace following reports that he had physically assaulted four women. Before his departure, Schneiderman had launched a year-long investigation into peaceful pro-life protestors. He eventually filed suit against 13 individuals in June 2017, alleging violations of the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and the state and city corollaries. Ironically, in a press release announcing the lawsuit, Schneiderman accused the protestors of “threatening, violent, and obstructive behavior” at Choices Women’s Medical Center, a Queens, New York abortion facility. However, after holding a hearing on the claims, a federal judge found the attorney general’s witnesses were not reliable and “that despite the availability of hundreds of hours of video evidence, the [attorney general] has not cited a single video that corroborates the witness testimony claiming near-weekly violations. Instead, the...

Did Russia commit an act of war by using social media ads to criticize Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign? Yes, say  a not insignificant  number of Trump opponents. To them, Trump’s failure to chant “Russian interference” in unison with his critics  amounts to treason . Let’s stop and think about this before we scramble the jets and start another war. And let’s think about what we’re making illegal before we start throwing people in prison. Saying “Russia interfered with the election!” is a deliberate conflation between two very different things. Does “interfere” mean that Russia actually interfered with the casting or counting of votes? No . As illustrated below, it means that Russia inserted speech and advocacy into the fray of the dueling 2016 presidential campaigns with the goal of influencing voters. If Russia committed a criminal act by sponsoring anti-Clinton speech in social media ads during the 2016 campaign, was it also illegal for a foreig...

In recent weeks, it’s become apparent to me, America’s leading social and cultural critic and guardian of entertainment mores, that comedy must no longer be considered funny. What’s the point of mocking politicians if they don’t immediately drop to their knees and beg forgiveness? How can we laugh at a monkey getting hit in the face with a pie when we know that monkey will spend the night, and all subsequent nights, in a cage? Those of us who’ve chuckled, guffawed, or bleated at the misfortune of others have been forever implicated in a system that can no longer be sustained. Humor has become a furnace, and we’re all wearing the ashes of its victims to create the perfect smoky eye. When Jon Stewart stood in front of a crowd of 10,000 cool kids in Washington DC in 2010 and said “Nya nya nya NAMBLA, hey lady!”—remarks that he later tearfully apologized for—he presaged a moment when humor would no longer matter and the resistance would die in the writer’s room. The days when a well-pla...

In a bizarre tweet last week, the British Broadcasting System featured a video in which toddlers were dressed as the opposite sex. The goal was to ask if parents are forcing sex stereotypes on children. The short video’s undertones made it appear to support a transgender agenda rapidly redefining, or even destroying, traditional ideas about sex. Then the BBC’s hashtag left no doubt: #NoMoreBoysAndGirls. Are you sure you don’t gender-stereotype children? #NoMoreBoysAndGirls pic.twitter.com/iThZ2P6REW — BBC (@BBC) July 28, 2018 It seemed perfectly clear that the tweet intended to make parents more open to the possibility that their little bundles of joy may not turn out to be the boy or girl they thought they were raising. In fact, it strongly suggests that being too forceful in teaching such once-elementary realities as “boys have penises, girls have vaginas” is dangerous and antiquated. Although the video made no mention of sex-change attempts, it clearly suggested that behavio...

James Gunn is only the most recent man (aren’t they all men?) to lose his position because of past insensitivities that transgress our current sensitive cultural climate. The presumed director of the next installment of the Guardians of the Galaxy series was fired by Disney when old tweets surfaced. The transgressions were admittedly reprehensible and deeply disturbing at any time. Yet the swift “no tolerance” response is new to our society, now informed by the #MeToo movement. Even many in Hollywood find themselves in a position of protesting the firing as they advocate for the possibility that people might learn and grow and move beyond their past behavior. What intrigues me here is the parallel to a period in early church history and what we might learn from that similar situation. The early Christians were also zealous for righteousness. They understood their following Christ as a call to the highest standards of holiness. The problem was that not everyone in the Christian comm...