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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) joined Breitbart News Sunday SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollack to discuss President Trump’s apparent shift away from his biggest campaign promise to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

North Korea flying missiles over Japan and detonating a potential 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb just turbo-charged what was already the beginning of a Southern California “Star Wars” defense boom.

California legislators voted Tuesday to designate a section of the 134 Freeway in Los Angeles County as the President Barack H. Obama Highway in honor of the 44th President of the United States. In order to place the signs with Obama’s name along

During a Heritage Foundation panel titled, “Iran’s Nuclear, Regional and Proxy Challenges,” there was a consensus among top national security and foreign policy experts that the Iran deal was a grave mistake with lasting consequences.

Author and historian Craig Shirley talked about his new book Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.

During CNN’s coverage of President Trump’s Phoenix speech, anchor Don Lemon stated that former President Ronald Reagan was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease during the final part of his presidency. During a debate with radio host and CNN

Jacob-Rees Mogg, the Conservative rising star affectionately dubbed ‘The Honourable Member for the Late 18th Century’, has outlined his prospective programme for government in a leading newspaper

The Illinois legislature just created a new state commemorative holiday to celebrate the birthday of “favorite son” Barack Obama.

With President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement via Twitter on Friday that he has named a new White House Chief of Staff, ousted staffer Reince Priebus of Wisconsin becomes one of the shortest serving chiefs in U.S. history.

The National Review magazine has published a scathing indictment of the fortunes of the Economist, which has taken a hard stance against President Donald Trump, while supporting the deep state and European integration.

What they say about the weather is also true of politics: If you don’t like what’s happening now, wait a bit—because things will change. The same point holds true for presidential politics. What happens to a president early on is not automatically dispositive to what happens to that president later on. History is full of examples of presidential comebacks, and President Reagan’s first term is a case in point.

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger praised Republican State Assembly Leader Chad Mayes (R-Yucca Valley) on Tuesday, after Mayes led a handful of Republicans to cross party lines and vote to extend the state’s controversial cap-and-trade program.

President Donald Trump pulled the trigger on Tuesday, following through on his promise to “let Obamacare fail” after Republican Senators filed to muster the votes to repeat their 2015 vote to repeal Obamacare entirely.

On Obamacare, Henry Olsen says Reagan would have backed repeal. However, he adds, Reagan also would have wanted to preserve parts of Obamacare.

On Independence Day 2017, President Donald Trump tweeted out wishes for a Happy Independence Day along with video of the “Make America Great Again” anthem premiered at the recent Celebrate Freedom Rally.

Macomb County, Michigan, was home to the famous “Reagan Democrats” who overwhelmingly gave their votes to Trump in 2016. A new report offers insights into the motivations of these working class swing voters that the Trump White House should heed.

Author Henry Olsen, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about his new book, “The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.”

In his new book, “The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism,” author Henry Olsen argues that Republicans today are getting the Reagan record wrong. In misremembering Reagan’s life, they misapprehend Reagan’s legacy. Olsen’s book proves that Reagan was an enemy of LBJ’s Great Society, but not of FDR’s New Deal.

Thirty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan gave one of the most moving motivational speeches to people who had long lived under the yoke of communism. While he spoke in Berlin, Germany, his speech was broadcast internationally and, thus, so too was his message.

New York rapper Nas slammed President Donald Trump in an essay, calling him a racist in what amounted to an open letter to his fans published this week.

Legendary conservative columnist and author Pat Buchanan discussed the firing of FBI Director James Comey with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily. As Kassam humorously observed, the current media firestorm over the ostensibly “Nixonian” firing of FBI Director James Comey was excellent publicity for Buchanan’s new book, “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”

“For conservatives, it was their Camelot.” Those words appear as the epigraph to Craig Shirley’s new book, Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980. In his new volume, Shirley chronicles the years 1976 to 1980, when Reagan, having lost his bid to grab the Republican presidential nomination away from Gerald Ford, was pondering his next political move—if there was to be one. Along the way, we learn much about America in the late 70s—lessons that echo even to this day, as Americans once again see populist insurgency pitted against establishment power.

In a New York Times op-ed, R.R. Reno explains how Donald Trump has redefined the Republican Party from its Reagan-era conservatism to its new populist, nationalist “America First” focus.

During his 1983 speech to the NRA Annual Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona, Ronald Reagan noted that “those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun control laws.”

Measured against his predecessors, Trump’s first 100 days place him in league with Reagan and Johnson, for sheer impact.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an 8-3 en banc ruling Tuesday holding that the term “sex” in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act now includes sexual orientation.

The former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Danish prime minister said on Friday that President Donald Trump should meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko before he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to send a clear message to the Kremlin about U.S. foreign policy.

Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich told reporters Monday that if moderate House Republicans reach out to Democrats they could form a parliamentary majority that could break the current gridlock in Congress.

The leader of the free-market opposition in Albania told Breitbart News Friday that democracy in his country is in great danger, as the left-wing prime minister Edi Rama has allowed corruption and crime to flourish there.

Like Trump, Ronald Reagan had his early—and painful—baptism of fire. But the 40th President bounced back and entered into the pantheon of American immortals. Yes, he made mistakes, but he knew how to recover from them, and keep his eye on the agenda ahead. History smiles on such leaders.

Bestselling author and Reagan historian, Craig Shirley, talked with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday regarding his latest book of his Reagan anthology, “Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980.”

Contents: Champagne corks pop as a ‘Trump rally’ sends Wall Street stocks parabolic; End of debt ceiling suspension on March 15 signals new Washington fiscal crisis; The velocity of money keeps plummeting, indicating no economic growth

A Mexican family whose son was killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the agent violated their son’s constitutional rights by using unnecessary deadly force. A preliminary issue is whether the Constitution applies to someone who is not a citizen of the U.S. and was standing on Mexican soil at the time of the shooting.

A senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee told Brietbart News that retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was treated unfairly–and perhaps illegally–in the scandal that ended his tenure as National Security Adviser.

The senior lawyer for the Oklahoma Republican Party organized 35 of his colleagues to join him in signing a letter to Sen. Charles Grassley (R.-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, supporting President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.

While America was distracted as 500,000 cubic feet per second of water flooded over the Oroville Dam, the Klamath River flooded in what could have been a catastrophe if Gov. Jerry Brown had already completed his funded plan to tear down four of its dams.