As House and Senate Republicans gather in Baltimore for their annual retreat this week, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says Democrats will force votes on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s proposals.
Ambassador John Bolton is endorsing three congressional candidates including Senator John McCain, who’s facing a primary challenge in Arizona.
In response to the violence, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest insisted that President Obama still held gun control efforts at the top of his list of priorities, but that it was up to Congress to address it, arguing that there was bipartisan support for gun control laws. “The president has been quite candid about how this is and has been a source of frustration for him,” Earnest said. He also insisted the “vast majority of the American people” agreed with Obama on some element of gun control but that “fundamental change” in the country was necessary for political action.
ROSEBURG, Oregon — State emergency officials first reported that 7-10 people are dead–with some officials’ reports claiming as many as 13–and at least 20 injured in a school shooting situation at a community college. The school, Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, is reported to have approximately 3,000 students enrolled. Officials were careful to clarify that these are initial reports and the figures are still being investigating.
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Multiple casualties occurred Thursday in a shooting at a community college in southwestern Oregon, authorities said.
A Texas Tea Party just returned a Congressman’s recent $1,000 donation following his recent refusal to sign the ‘Mulvaney letter’ to defund Planned Parenthood.
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina woman says she is happier than ever after fulfilling her lifelong wish of becoming blind.
The mother of Gabrielle Diana Gladu, a 16-year-old transgender Canadian, celebrated the legal changing of the teen’s name with a cake proclaiming, “Congratulations, you are now Gabrielle!”
Gov. Charlie Baker said it is crucial for the state “to be aggressive” in tracking down welfare fraud after a Worcester convenience store owner was accused of operating a $3.6 million food stamp fraud scheme.
As many as 80 conservative Republicans will meet with and vet candidates for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, four separate private groups of members announced on Thursday.
This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which summarizes a year’s worth of violent crime statistics from across the country. At a glance, it shows that violent crime is down across the country and in the State of Texas. However, the data used to make these assessments doesn’t include kidnappings or specify what crimes are drug- or cartel-related, painting a skewed picture of everyday life along some parts of the southwest border.
WASHINGTON D.C. October 1, 2015 – The Breitbart News Network (@BreitbartNews) announced today that it has promoted reporter Matthew Boyle to the role of Washington Political Editor and will focus on investigating reporting and major campaign coverage of the 2016 cycle.
Mitch McConnell and his leadership team appear poised to enact every letter of President Obama’s agenda just to spite Ted Cruz. Mitch McConnell is melting down.
Many Cuban refugees are abusing the American welfare system, with some even living off the generosity of the U.S. taxpayer in their native Cuba, according to an investigation by the Florida Sun Sentinel. According to the Sentinel, Cuban refugees to
Donald Trump on Syrian ‘Migration’: ‘If I Win, They’re Going Back!’
Hillary Clinton supporters may dismiss polls showing a surging Sanders as an aberration of early polling, but Sanders’ money haul is much harder to explain away. Considering the fact that Sanders has a much smaller campaign operation, as David Axelrod conjectured on Twitter, he may actually have more cash-on-hand for the next phase of the campaign than Clinton. A large number of maxed-out donors to Hillary may now give money to Sanders, if only to hedge their bets.
Gov. Chris Christie declared a State of Emergency in New Jersey, although he added it was too soon to effectively predict whether the storm was a direct disaster threat to the residents. “We are not quite yet sure about whether this is going to be a single punch or a double punch,” he said. “There’s no question that there’s going to be a single punch that is going to start this evening.”
With Wednesday’s expiration of the Congressional mandate for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), the American Catholic bishops have formally petitioned Congress to reinstate it.
The author of the stand-alone Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015 that the House approved, Rep. Diane Black was persistent in her message that a government shutdown would not be an effective strategy to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider in the wake of videos exposing its practices of selling the harvested body parts of aborted babies.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech over the weekend that gives further mainstream Democrat legitimacy to the radical anti-law enforcement activist group Black Lives Matter.
The meeting between Pope Francis and Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis came at the invitation of a high-ranking Vatican official connected to the Secretariat of State of the Holy See acting on behalf of the Pope himself, Breitbart News has learned. According to a person involved in arranging the meeting but who requested anonymity, the Vatican official called Robert Moynihan, editor of Inside the Vatican who is well known in Rome. The official asked Moynihan if he could help arrange a meeting while the Pope was in the United States.
As a Member of the House of Representatives, I vote on countless pieces of legislation that never see action in the Senate. In 2015 alone, we’ve taken over 500 votes. The Senate has taken 269; many of them repeated votes to attempt to overcome filibusters.
The $100 million the Chamber plans to spend this cycle is close the triple the amount the group spent in 2012, when President Obama was running for reelection. In 2014, when the Chamber launched its effort to attack conservatives in primaries, the group spent close to $70 million.
Former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) are battling for the establishment vote in the Breitbart Primary.
Businessman Donald Trump won September’s Breitbart Primary with 36% of the vote, as the 171,862 people who voted in the Breitbart Primary last month again overwhelmingly favored non-politicians and anti-establishment candidates.
The four candidates who participated in the last CNN undercard debate–Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, former New York Governor George Pataki, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)–all received 0% in last month’s Breitbart Primary.
