A total of 11 people died in an “attack” in China’s Xinjiang region on Friday, with eight “terrorists” shot dead by police and three blowing themselves up, having injured four people, authorities said. The incident in Aksu prefecture is the
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Congress should finish the job he started by raising the minimum wage to $10.10. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says Americans deserve to know where their representatives stand. He says
Barack Obama announced Saturday morning in his weekly address that he is urging Congress to pass a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage for all workers. Noting that he used an executive action in the past week to
Since 1917, Congress has asserted its constitutional authority to dictate just how America will finance its debt by statutorily limiting how much debt the Treasury Department can issue. In theory, the debt ceiling is there to ensure that public debt
WASHINGTON (AP) — A National Security Agency employee resigned from the agency after admitting to federal investigators that he gave former NSA analyst Edward Snowden a digital key that allowed him to gain access to classified materials, the NSA has
On Valentine’s Day, President Obama told a Univision Radio audience that Congress will deliver a comprehensive immigration reform bill before he leaves office in 2016. “I believe it will get done before my presidency is over,” Obama declared. “I’d like
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) wrote a February letter to Barack Obama that asked him to release the text of the Iran nuclear agreement. Ros-Lehtinen, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, said that
In her first appearance before Congress this week, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen achieved the primary goal of any new Fed chief and avoided any obvious land mines. But what was lacking in the dialogue, both from Yellen and the
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told conservative radio host Mark Levin on Thursday evening that establishment GOP politicians will “never” listen to the American people. “If we wait on the entrenched politicians in Washington, hell will freeze over before that happens,”
Washington Post: Carl DeMaio is a moderate Republican running for Congress in Southern California who is openly gay. On Wednesday, he released a new Web ad that includes footage of him and his same-sex partner, an apparent first in the
Joining with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (MDA) and Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) on February 12, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) charged Congress with “complicity” in gun violence. Murphy specifically took aim at those in Congress who
As they raced to flee the Capitol before an approaching snowstorm, some Republicans were not being too hard on themselves for capitulating and passing a “clean” debt ceiling bill, in the process ending a GOP precedent set to use such
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Doc Hastings, a Republican from Washington state, said on Thursday that he would not run for re-election in November.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (UPI) — Former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul said he is starting a petition drive to provide clemency for fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Paul, a Texas Republican known for his strong Libertarian leanings, said Snowden
Richard Baehr has published a masterful analysis of the decline of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which recently had to back away from Iran sanctions for the first time in two decades. It did so to preserve the
In comments that put illegal immigrants above Americans who were murdered in Benghazi, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday called on House Democrats to press for a discharge petition to force the House to vote on amnesty legislation. If Democrats
On Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, conservative commentator Ann Coulter emphasized the importance of the Republican Party controlling Congress if it wants to push back against President Barack Obama and his policies. She also took on Democratic gubernatorial
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who admits he supports many of President Barack Obama’s policies, warned of the concentration of power shifting to the executive branch of the federal government, especially
The representative of an Iowa homeschool organization says that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will be addressing her group in March because “what he stands for is what we’re about – education freedom.” As reported by Breitbart News’ Tony Lee, Cruz,
America’s president — heir to the world’s greatest document of freedom ever drawn up by man — strode across the hallowed grounds of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. With his hands clasped behind his back as a fuehrer surveying his troops or
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is offering courses to help students attain citizenship in the United States, the school announced this week. The courses, which accompany English and GED courses on their San Antonio campus, are meant to
On Friday, President Barack Obama will travel to Fresno, California, the heart of the state’s hard-hit farming region. Usually, when the president travels to California, it’s to raise money. So observers are scratching their heads. The president “can’t make it
Congressman Alan Grayson (D) is out pushing the political envelope with another controversial email aimed at trying to raise big bundles of cash for his re-election campaign. This time Grayson targets the Concerned Veterans of America, a veterans advocacy group,
I wasn’t surprised when I saw that my opponent, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-Illinois), voted to increase the debt limit with no spending cuts, spiraling us further down a path of unsustainable debt. She is a liberal, and liberals love to
The price tag for Congress suspending the debt ceiling until March, 2015 may give some Americans sticker shock. According to an analysis by the Senate Budget Committee Republican staff, the national debt when the debt ceiling comes back into effect
