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.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) is endorsing GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina. Jenkins will serve as Fiorina’s co-chair in Kansas, according to the Kansas City Star. Jenkins is ranked fifth among Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives.
At Sunday’s 67th Emmy Awards, a number of actors and other industry figures sported green ribbons over their high fashion choices, in order to support President Obama’s climate change initiative. Stars, including Transparent’s Jeffrey Tambor, Veep’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Louis CK,
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says Pope Francis is wrong on Cuba, as the pontiff met with Fidel and Raul Castro during his visit to the communist country know for persecuting the Catholic Church and political dissidents.
As the Obama administration moves forward with its plans to aggressively accelerate the admission of Syrian refugees, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) is looking to rein in those plans and provide Congress a voice in the matter. “This bill will rein in the Administration’s refugee resettlement plans and give Congress more control over the process by requiring the Administration to get affirmative approval from Congress through the enactment of a joint resolution before any refugees may be admitted into the United States,” McCaul said.
“Garbage men get used to the smell of bad garbage. Prisoners learn how to become prisoners, all right?” Boehner said in a phone interview this weekend from Seattle during a fundraising trip to the Pacific Northwest.
The leader of the black pastors organization that was born during the Civil Rights Movement led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. says the radical Black Lives Matter movement has failed to educate its members about the “real” Civil Rights Movement and is spewing a “twisted view of Christianity.”
The group Senate Conservatives Action is circulating a letter implying that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is deceiving pro-lifers on the question of Planned Parenthood funding.
An Iowa news outlet tried–and failed–to draft Sen. Ted Cruz into the media’s campaign against Dr. Ben Carson, following the doctor’s Sunday declaration of opposition to Islamic ideology.
From fewer than 50 barrels a day in 2009 to 400 barrels today, fracking technology has advanced at a pace that has doubled oil well production every 2 years. That pace of productivity improvement is almost identical to the computer industry’s Moore’s Law, which expects the speed of processing chip to double every 2 years.
On Sunday, roughly one thousand delegates to the California Republican Party’s semi-annual convention adopted the party’s new platform, which drops the term “illegal alien.”
Presidential campaigns are supposed to be about America, or at least what voters want—not Donald Trump’s and Ben Carson’s clumsy statements and political correctness.
Even for a city used to high crime and violence, with 42 wounded and six dead, the toll of violence was high in Chicago over the last three days.
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is standing by his view that a Muslim should not be president of the United States, telling The Hill in an interview on Sunday that whoever takes the White House should be “sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group that advocates for the spread of Islam, is calling on Ben Carson to withdraw from the presidential election for stating that Islam is “inconsistent” with the Constitution.
Frank Gaffney, founder and President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., defended 2016 presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson for his remark Sunday on Meet The Press that he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”
A teenager in North Carolina was arrested and then prosecuted as an adult for allegedly having nude photos of himself on his own cell phone.
On Breitbart News Sunday, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said America must not bring in more Syrian refugees. “I think we need to stop bringing in more refugees not because we haven’t been good-hearted,” Walker said on Sirius XM Patriot channel
Late Saturday night, Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials and others involved in the Phoenix freeway shootings investigation revealed that suspect Leslie Allen Merritt Jr. was discovered and apprehended by using bullet fragments from the first four freeway shootings.
If there’s one thing that’s damaged the credibility of the Catholic Church over the last 13 years, it’s the clergy sex abuse scandal. In addition to making national and international headlines, it has cost the American church nearly $2.9 billion dollars since 2004.
On September 20, a 26-year-old man allegedly opened fire in a church in East Selma, Alabama, wounding his girlfriend, their baby, and the church’s pastor.
A technical glitch during New Year’s Eve turned out to be an information treasure trove for Uber. Last New Year’s Eve in NYC, the surge pricing algorithms failed and didn’t allow Uber to incentivize more drivers to get on the road with higher pay, just as partygoers rushed to call drivers; only 1 in 4 of users who wanted a driver actually got one.
Richard Kirk, 49, of Denver, who murdered his wife while high on marijuana candy on April 14, 2014, has changed his plea of not guilty to a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Former United States Congressman Tom Tancredo joined Stephen K. Bannon on a recent Sirius XM Breitbart News Saturday Radio program, warning of the dangers amidst the “like somebody rang a bell” European migrant crisis. The phenomenon is bringing predominantly young men, “colonists essentially,” from the Middle East to countries with substantial social welfare programs.
On September 18, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that four of Washington DC’s gun registration requirements are unconstitutional.
Two New York legislators are leading a campaign to designate Stonewall Inn as the first national park honoring LGBT history.
