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MSNBC's Ari Melber explained that if Trump tries to ignore House Democratic subpoenas, incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi will sue him and his administration.

Trump was all about voter fraud when he thought immigrants were stealing elections, but now that Republicans have been accused in North Carolina, the president is silent.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon has received a request from within the Trump administration to extend the deployment of troops to the border with Mexico, which otherwise would have ended on Dec. 15, U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Pentagon declined to comment. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who … Continue reading "Trump Ruins Christmas For The Troops By Requesting Military Border Deployment Extension"

U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday drew a tough line against a small band of Democrats opposing her planned return to the speaker's job next year, saying she would not agree to step down early to win their support.

NPR falsely reported Trump, Jr., claimed Michael Cohen was not working on a Moscow deal in 2016. In fact, he explicitly confirmed he was, but that a separate deal attempt had already petered out.

Putin and MBS greeted each other like two despots who know that they own the President Of The United States.

Trump canceled his formal meeting with Putin, and now the White House announced that Trump wouldn't informally meet with him either.

Since the Cold War, Americans have struggled to morally compare themselves to another superpower. That has to change.

The author who wrote a Trump biography detailing the relationship between Donald Trump and the Russian mob is now saying that Russia’s financial ties to the United States extend far beyond the president. In fact, he said, Russia’s influence can be seen throughout Washington, especially among Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress. Craig Unger, author … Continue reading "Trump Biographer: ‘Most GOP Leaders Have Been Compromised’ by Russia"

GOP Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, leader of the House Freedom Caucus, wrote a secret document with his plans to fight back next year against Democratic-led investigations of President Donald Trump. The 28-page document was obtained by Bloomberg News and was watermarked “confidential” on every page. Meadows will be the top Republican on the … Continue reading "Top GOP Rep. Has Secret Plan to Fight Dem Investigations into Trump"

According to the Washington Post, President Donald Trump is now “a major subject of interest” in the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. As a “subject of the investigation,” Trump now has his own legal code name: “Individual 1.” The term “subject of an investigation” has a well-defined meaning. According to the DOJ Handbook, a … Continue reading "Wash Post: Trump Is Now a ‘Central Subject’ of the Mueller Probe"

Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.’s role in seeking to build a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow three years before their father’s presidential campaign, according to Yahoo News. An investigation published Thursday said that the president’s elder daughter, now-White House adviser, and his eldest son worked several years on … Continue reading "Mueller is Investigating Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr."

According to The New York Times all federal workers received a memo this week telling them that they cannot discuss the possibility of Donald Trump being impeached at work. The Times said the memo went to over two million federal employees telling them that it was “illegal for them to participate in such discussions at … Continue reading "Federal Workers Told Not To Discuss Impeachment Or ‘Resistance’"

Watching every single contested congressional race flip from Republican to Democrat days after the election is, as Paul Ryan put it, weird. While Here are six reasons California's election laws are deeply flawed.

Like so many other Trump-Russia collusion theories, this is yet another half-built bridge that doesn’t connect to the other shore.

Penguin Random House thinks this is what will sell to the mainstream educator market. If they are right, children are not learning the actual history of humanity, nor from those who write well.

In the book 'Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall,' Tim Mohr examines the colorful history of East German punk, an account marred only by some knee-jerk politics.

The evidence continues to mount that during the Obama administration, the FBI used George Papadopoulos as a prop to legitimize investigating the Donald Trump campaign.

These comparisons to the Holocaust dishonor the six million Jews who were rounded up to be tortured and murdered.

For a donut-licking child star, 'thank u, next' is surprisingly mature.

Katie Bower recently used her social media platform to lament that one of her five children gets fewer 'likes' than the others.

'The White Album' may not be the Beatles’ best record, but it is definitely the one that's the most fun to sift through, break down, and talk about.

It’s debatable whether the 'green car' industry ever really needed a government subsidy to get going, but it clearly does not need one to keep going.

In the feud between President Trump and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, both are wrong. Judges aren’t partisan hacks, but they do have different approaches to jurisprudence.

Madame Curie became the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate in physics and the first female professor at France’s Sorbonne University. November is the anniversary of her birth.

Trump's eldest son has been worried for weeks that he might be indicted for the same thing Cohen plead guilty to on Thursday.

Ohio's GOP governor had some of his toughest criticism of Trumpism yet, further signaling that he is positioning himself to run for president in 2020.

The fact that Thomas Farr was nearly confirmed for a seat on a federal bench speaks to how far backward the Republican Party has gone.

Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) defended press freedom and expressed grave concern over the threats facing journalists not just around the world, but also here in the U.S.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace reported that Rod Rosenstein is still running and in charge of the Russia investigation even after the installation of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general.

Trump is canceling his formal meetings at the G-20 as it is clear that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has the president rattled.

The incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) said that Michael Cohen's plea deal means that Mueller is closing in on Trump.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) has announced that he will be reintroducing his constitutional amendment to limit Trump's pardon power in the Democratically controlled House.

The man who plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at last year's white nationalist rally in Virginia had every intention to kill, a prosecutor told jurors on Thursday at the start of his murder trial.

Trump on Thursday said he was canceling a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to take place during the upcoming summit for the Group of 20 industrialized nations in Argentina, citing the current Ukraine crisis.

Conveniently, criticism of the liberals' leading funder is beyond the pale, but featuring an intellectual who pals around with a guy who calls Jews termites is okay.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday denied working on a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, which his former lawyer Michael Cohen said they had pursued until June 2016, during the presidential campaign. Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to making false statements to Congress regarding the project, putting fresh pressure on … Continue reading "Trump denies working on Moscow real estate project"

Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pled guilty to a charge that he lied to Congress the efforts to pursue a Trump Tower deal in Russia.

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, has reached a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. According to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Cohen is expected to plead guilty to lying to congressional committees. “Michael Cohen, Pres Trump’s former personal attorney, reaches new plea deal with Mueller this morning.  Expected to enter guilty plea for … Continue reading "Trump Panicking As Cohen Reaches New Plea Deal With Mueller"

President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani may be in trouble. The former New York City mayor, who is adept at sticking his foot in his mouth, may have finally done some things that could lead to him being charged with obstruction of justice. He also may end up being called as a witness in the … Continue reading "Giuliani May Be Charged For Dealings With Manafort’s Lawyers"

When the going gets tough, Donald Trump starts tweeting. And based on the escalating attacks that the Trump is directing toward Special Counsel Robert Mueller, things are getting very tough indeed for the President of the United States. Trump started in early Thursday morning on Twitter doing exactly what he did until late at night … Continue reading "Trump Escalates Attacks On Mueller and “The Democrats”"

Adult entertainer Stormy Daniels appears to be unhappy with her lawyer, Michael Avenatti. Not only may she get a new lawyer, but Avenatti could be facing an ethics investigation in the near future as well. This is because of the public accusations which she made against Avenatti on Wednesday. In a bombshell interview with the … Continue reading "Avenatti May Face Ethics Investigation For Trump Lawsuit"

Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into a series of late-night telephone calls from then-candidate Donald Trump to his confidant Roger Stone during the 2016 presidential campaign, the Washington Post is reporting. According to the Post: Caller ID labeled them “unknown,” but Roger Stone said he knew to pick up quickly during those harried months … Continue reading "Trump’s Late Night Calls To Stone May Help Mueller Prove Collusion"

The Guardian’s story represents the third attempt to convince the American public that the Republican presidential candidate colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election.

Justice John Paul Stevens says Heller was the worst decision during his tenure on the Supreme Court.That tells us plenty about his legacy.

With a recent tweak to their terms of service, Twitter has made it quite clear it’s in the business of exiling anyone who deviates from the new political-religious orthodoxy.

Last Sunday, the Russian military opened fire and seized three Ukrainian ships. How will President Trump respond to Putin flexing his military muscle?

The ease of the screening process and the short timeframe it takes to get a green card have turned U.S. asylum into a haven for fraud. Even the liberal media agrees.

Because apparently nobody had anything better to do Thanksgiving weekend than to tattle on sexy women to government agencies.

To accept transgender people at face value is to deny those who want to be treated for mental illness.

Michelle Obama’s vulnerability can encourage others facing similar struggles to open up. It can also encourage them to view IVF as a viable option. But is it a moral one?

Few Americans are aware of how Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, enables the mass ethnic cleansing of persecuted Christians.

For refusing to support a transgender statement, Isabella Chow has been attacked, threatened, and disaffiliated from the campus organization she was representing as a senator, with nearly no opportunity to respond.

In a speech to the United Nations, CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill said Palestinians ought to be able to use violence to effectively eliminate the state of Israel. 

Platforms like Twitter and Facebook are treated as distinct from publishers in large part because they refrain from discriminating based on ideology. That’s so yesterday.

While Trump's repeated attempts to obstruct justice may have happened in plain sight, that doesn't make them any less criminal.

The NRA is showing signs of serious decline as tax documents show that their income dropped by $55 million last year. The Daily Beast reported on the NRA’s tax documents: More noteworthy than its drop in contributions, though, was its decline in membership dues. The NRA took in more than $128 million in dues last … Continue reading "The NRA Is Dying With A $55 Million Drop In Income Last Year"

Marc Lamont Hill used terrorist language to call for the destruction of Israel. Now he denies it. The truth is evident. Will the left accept it?

Outdoor retailer Patagonia called Donald Trump's corporate tax cut "irresponsible" and pledged to donate its $10 million handout to fight climate change.

The White House has offered no explanation as to why Trump left the event so suddenly without bringing his traveling press pool.

Trump was all about the space force until he got worried that Congress would reject the idea, and he dropped it.

An interview with Jerome Corsi was moving normally until Ari Melber called birtherism a lie, and then all heck broke loose.

Legislation to protect the special counsel's office probe into possible Russian election interference stalled in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, spurring Republican Senator Jeff Flake to make good on his threat of opposing judicial nominations until the bill moves forward.

Baltimore Ravens defensive lineman Michael Pierce is honoring Israel through the NFL's 'My Cause, My Cleats' program. And it couldn't be more timely.

Mollie Hemingway, Ellie Bufkin, and Emily Jashinsky review the 1958 list from McCall's Magazine on tips for women looking to land a man.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has not ruled out granting a pardon to his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who has pleaded guilty to a range of federal charges from money laundering to unregistered lobbying.

U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Chris Coons (D-DE) tried to force a vote on a bill to protect Robert Mueller but were blocked by Sen, Mike Lee (R-UT).

Democratic candidate TJ Cox has increased his lead in the last undecided House race, which means that Democrats are likely to flip a 40th House seat.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Wednesday he would withhold his vote on any key issue, including upcoming spending bills, until the CIA briefs senators about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Some of Trump's answers to Mueller helps to explain why he is losing it. Trump appears to have lied about prior knowledge of the Wikileaks email dump.

Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said that Republicans might allow a vote to protect Mueller if Republican Sen. Jeff Flake and Democrats give Trump more judges.

Ivanka Trump called for an end to the Robert Mueller Russia investigation that has ensnared her father, husband, and brother.

The love fest between Beto O’Rourke and aides and allies of former President Barack Obama is growing. More and more of these “Obama people” are saying that they could support O’Rourke if he decides to run for president in 2020. The charismatic U.S. Representative from Texas has inspired millions of people because of the great … Continue reading "Obama’s People Say They Could Support ‘Superstar’ O’Rourke in 2020"

Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump thinks it is unfair for people to say “lock her up” about her, although it is OK to say about Hillary Clinton. According to the First Daughter and White House adviser, her use of a personal email to conduct official administration business has “no connection” to Hillary Clinton’s use of … Continue reading "Ivanka: ‘No Equivalency’ Between Her Email Use and Hillary’s"

President Donald Trump will prevent CIA Director Gina Haspel or any other United States intelligence officer from speaking to the U.S. Senate concerning the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an exiled Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist. According to a new report by The Guardian newspaper, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and U.S. Secretary of … Continue reading "Trump Stops CIA From Briefing Senate on Khashoggi Murder"

A new political action committee (PAC) backed by Georgia’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia election officials. The suit is requesting that a judge order that extensive problems in the state’s election system be fixed. The PAC, Fair Fight Action, accuses Georgia election officials of grossly mismanaging … Continue reading "Stacey Abrams Sues Georgia Election Officials to Fix Broken System"

During an Oval Office interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday Donald Trump said he has a backup plan he may implement if Congress rejects his demand for $5 billion in funding for his border wall. Such a backup plan might include the ongoing deployment of U.S. Army troops at the border and more extensive … Continue reading "Trump Has a ‘Plan B’ if Congress Won’t Fund His Border Wall"

If this story had been true, it would have been proof of the conspiracy theory the Resistance/Media/NeverTrump has peddled without evidence for years but being upset about it being false means that you're also guilty!

Andrea Long Chu is demanding that doctors cede their ethical purview entirely to the desire of transgender patients.

The public reaction to French President Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax increase that caused this weekend’s protests is making him even less popular and represents a profound challenge to Macron's future.

Not only is the intersectionalism lens incredibly boring, it also often produces one-dimensional or outright false assessments of motivations and actions.

Social media companies got rich with legal protections as platforms, only to turn around and behave like publishers when conservatives started using their publishing services.

Melodramatic headlines that make pro-lifers seem hypocritical are straight out of the mainstream media playbook, designed to deceive. In this case it's more overt than usual.

Nonetheless, Americans should not tolerate double standards, discrimination or blatant racism against any group of people.

For orthodox Christians who hold to the revealed truth of scripture and believe in gospel-focused missions, this whole media circus about John Chau is frustrating.

By eliminating tenure, changing incentive structures, and putting the emphasis back on teaching, colleges can create more value for students.

Over Thanksgiving weekend, social media blew up over an internet subculture of women who trade images of lewd acts for money.

Mississippi was given the opportunity to move out of the dark shadow of its racist past on Tuesday. Voters in the deep-red state declined.

In Paul Manafort's mind, it was more important to stay on the good side of Donald Trump than special counsel investigators.

The fact that some Republicans are willing to support action to protect the environment suggests that the politics of the issue could be shifting. 

While Trump is still living off successes of the Obama administration in many ways, his economic doctrine is finally starting to fear their ugly head.

Trump admitted in a new interview that creating a crisis on the border is a tactic intended to get Democrats to fund his wall.

Voters in Mississippi on Tuesday will decide a U.S. Senate special election runoff marked by racial controversy and capped by a last-minute visit by President Donald Trump to shore up the beleaguered Republican incumbent.

Only after Twitter was faced with threats of a congressional investigation did the social media publisher decide to reinstate Jesse Kelly's account -- without any explanation.

Jerome Corsi told Roger Stone about the Wikileaks plan to dump John Podesta's emails in October, and Stone called Trump the next day.

Senator-Elect Josh Hawley says Twitter's claim to be 'a forum for a true diversity of political discourse' does not appear to be accurate.

Facebook came under fire on Tuesday from lawmakers from several countries who accused the firm of undermining democratic institutions and left out an empty chair for chief executive Mark Zuckerberg after he declined to be questioned.

Amber Smith and Bre Payton discuss our war in the Middle East, PTSD, and the migrant caravan on the Federalist Radio Hour.

Advocates for Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday alleging far-reaching U.S. voting rights violations during the Georgia governor's contest she lost this month to a Republican who ran the election as secretary of state.

Trump friend Jerome Corsi admitted that he and Roger Stone had prior knowledge that Wikileaks was going to dump the hacked Podesta emails as an October surprise.

MSNBC expanded their policy of not giving the White House a platform to lie by opting not to air the White House press briefing by Sarah Sanders.

If Twitter is with the progressive speech police, it cannot be with anybody else.

A new study finds that Trump's trade war is going to slow down the economy and cost 2.75 million Americans their jobs over the next decade.

A white man from Kentucky suspected of killing a black man and woman in a racially motivated shooting attack at a supermarket last month has been charged with federal hate crimes and firearm charges, according to federal officials.

If Paul Manafort lied about meeting with Julian Assange, Robert Mueller already knew because Assange was under surveillance.

Nancy Pelosi was expected on Wednesday to become the Democratic nominee for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, giving her the inside track to reclaim the House's top job in January, unless critics in her own party block her.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over telecommunications companies like Twitter, is now investigating Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for lying under oath during his testimony before the committee.

Paul Manafort visited Wikileaks founder Julian Assange weeks before being named the chairman of the Trump campaign in 2016.

President Trump yesterday said that he doesn’t believe the findings of a major climate report released by his administration last week. The report predicted dire consequences for the United States if it doesn’t take drastic steps very soon to deal with the negative impacts of climate change. “Yeah, I don’t believe it,” Trump responded when … Continue reading "Trump on Climate Change Report: ‘I don’t believe it’"

Trump had a Tuesday morning meltdown over Special Counsel Robert Mueller and likely reason why is that Trump now knows that Mueller has the evidence to disprove his lies.

Many people are very worried about Robert Mueller and his Russia investigation. Some people are worried that Donald Trump will undercut Mueller by issuing pardons. As Jason Easley from PoliticusUSA wrote yesterday: “Democrats have been expecting that Trump would try to abuse the pardon power to obstruct justice since the Mueller investigation began. House Democrats … Continue reading "How Bob Mueller Can Use Paul Manafort to Bypass Matthew Whitaker"

Ohio Democratic Representative Tim Ryan has asked the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee to hold hearings to investigate how General Motors used its massive savings from the GOP tax law that was passed one year ago. GM shocked the country on Monday by announcing that it would soon lay off thousands of … Continue reading "Ohio Rep.Tim Ryan Wants GM to Explain How It Used GOP Tax Savings"

President Donald Trump yesterday used several different arguments in defending the use of tear gas at the Mexican border. First he claimed that the tear gas was “very safe,” then blamed the migrants with children for being in the way of the tear gas, and finally he said that the children were not even theirs. … Continue reading "Trump Defends Use of Tear Gas on Families: ‘It’s very safe’"

Hundreds of migrants from Central America attempted to forcibly enter the U.S. on Sunday, heralding a new and dangerous era in the ongoing migrant crisis.

As more and more of the tools we use in daily life—payment processing, social media, or even Uber—move online, the question of what it takes to be banned only becomes more relevant.

Beto O’Rourke sent a thrill through his most loyal supporters on Monday when he said  that he is no longer ruling out a run for president in 2020. If he does decide to run he will join many nationally prominent Democrats in an already-crowded primary field. “Running for Senate, I was 100 percent focused on … Continue reading "Beto O’Rourke Says He May Run for President in 2020"

As America celebrates National Adoption Month, international adoption remains in jeopardy and countless adoptions are stuck in limbo.

It's disingenuous to link the question of papal authority to the abuse scandal, which remains a problem of conduct, not of doctrine.