Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 1,036 illegal immigrants Wednesday making it the largest group ever. President Trump shared the news on Twitter Thursday saying, “Yesterday, Border Patrol agents apprehended the largest group of illegal aliens ever: 1,036 people who illegally crossed the border in El Paso around 4am. Democrats need to stand by […]
Defense & Security
Latest News
Turkey Frees Jailed U.S.-Turkish Former NASA Scientist…
Turkey has released from prison U.S.-Turkish former NASA scientist Serkan Golge, his wife told Reuters on Wednesday, in a step that could lead to an easing in relations with Washington. Golge was found guilty of being a member of an armed terrorist organization earlier this year and sentenced to seven years, six months in prison…
Senate Committee Votes to Raise Defense Spending for Second Year in a Row to $750 Billion…
The Senate Armed Services Committee advanced a major defense spending bill in a closed session this week, agreeing to the Trump administration’s $750 billion request and raising U.S. defense spending to levels not seen since the height of the Iraq War. If it passes the House and Senate, the bill would authorize the second major […]
Leaked OPCW Report Suggests Syria Gas Attack Was ‘Staged’ MIT Scientist Says…
A newly leaked OPCW assessment challenges the claim that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in Douma in April 2018. Award-winning scientist and MIT professor emeritus Theodore Postol says the report shows the gas attack was “staged,” and undermines the case for the US strikes that followed. “The evidence is overwhelming that […]
“American Taliban” Released and Will Live in Virginia….
The California man who became known as the “American Taliban” after his capture on an Afghanistan battlefield in late 2001 has been released from prison. Thirty-eight-year-old John Walker Lindh was released Thursday from the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, a federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman told The Associated Press. Lindh spent more than 17 […]
TurboTax Uses a “Military Discount” to Trick Troops Into Paying to File Their Taxes…
In patriotism-drenched promotions, press releases and tweets, TurboTax promotes special deals for military service members, promising to help them file their taxes online for free or at a discount. Yet some service members who’ve filed by going to the TurboTax Military landing page told ProPublica they were charged as much as $150 — even though, […]
Hamas-Obsessed NJ Man Spoke of NYC Terror Attacks, Sent Money to Militants and Polled Instagram Audience ‘Should I Bomb Trump Tower?…
A 20-year-old New Jersey man who allegedly sent money abroad to Hamas militants in an effort to support the terror group also spoke of bombing Trump Tower and attacking the Israeli Consulate in New York, authorities say. He also spewed hatred against Jewish people, allegedly vowing in an Instagram Live video that he would go […]
Trump Admin Kicks Off Plan to Foster Israeli-Palestinian Peace…
The Trump administration has started to implement its multi-faceted plan to foster peace between Israel and the Palestinians, a process that will begin in June when Bahrain hosts a forum to promote economic development in key Palestinian territories, according to senior administration officials. The Trump administration’s long rumored peace plan is just beginning to spill […]
Bird Strike Reportedly Suspected of Having Role in Deadly Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max Crash…
Faulty sensors on a Boeing Max jet that resulted in an Ethiopian Airlines crash earlier this year are reportedly thought to have been triggered by a bird strike. The theory suspected by U.S. aviation officials is that a bird strike caused erroneous input to set off the plane’s autopilot system, Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), […]
Trump Rails Against the Military-Industrial Complex When Asked About Iran…
President Donald Trump railed against what he called “the military-industrial complex” when asked about potential conflict with Iran during an interview with Steve Hilton of Fox News Channel Sunday. “Well, I’m the one that talks about these wars that are 19 years, and people are just there, and don’t kid yourself, you do have a […]
Related
Dept of Defense Inspector General Exposes Pentagon Contractor’s 9,400% Profit on Half-Inch Pin…
TransDigm Group Inc. sold the Pentagon “drive pins” for $4,361 each – should only cost $46, a 9,400% gain in excess profits, according to the Inspector General US Department of Defense’s audit labeled “For Official Use Only” obtained by Bloomberg. The inspector general’s audit shows 98 of 100 parts inspected were overinflated in value and […]
Barr: Trump Drives a Stake Through United Nations Gun Control Treaty…
Late last month, President Trump signed an executive memorandum officially notifying the United Nations that the United States was withdrawing its support for a United Nations-backed treaty former Secretary of State John Kerry signed in 2013. With this action — “un-signing” a treaty document — Trump sent a clear, unambiguous, and long-overdue signal to the […]
The Liberal Embrace of War by Matt Taibbi…
The United States has just suspended flights to Venezuela. Per the New York Times: CARACAS — The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South American nation… A disinterested historian — Herodotus raised from the dead — would see this as just the latest volley […]
Guatemalan Ghost Towns: Traffickers Tout U.S. Asylum Laws to Lure Migrants Away from Homeland…
As President Trump continues to battle what he describes as a do nothing congress for a solution to fix the ongoing border crisis, cartels and human trafficking organizations are taking advantage of the situation. They are using the U.S. laws to perpetuate illegal immigration, promising potential migrants guaranteed access to the U.S. from Guatemala where […]
Trump Warns Illegal Immigrants Released in the U.S.: ‘You Will Be Leaving Soon!’…
“Please do not make yourselves too comfortable, you will be leaving soon!” he wrote on Twitter. Trump commented as border officials are daily releasing thousands of immigrants apprehended at the border into the United States as part of the catch and release loopholes in U.S. immigration law. The Department of Homeland Security revealed that about […]
Trump Sending ‘500 Migrants a Month’ to Florida Democratic Strongholds…
President Donald Trump‘s plans to send potentially hundreds of undocumented immigrants each month to the Democratic strongholds of Broward and Palm Beach counties ignited a torrent of criticism from local Florida officials who called the move political. “The blatant politics, sending them to the two most Democratic Counties in the state of Florida, is ridiculous,” […]
‘That’s Just Insane’: Australia’s Secret Deal to Take in Rwandan Guerrillas from the U.S….
For more than a decade, the United States had a problem: three Rwandan men, sitting in jail in Virginia, who had stood accused of brutally murdering tourists in Africa—but now had a chance of winning release onto American streets. The three had been rounded up after a bloody 1999 attack that made headlines across three […]
U.S. Pulls Nonessential Staff from Iraq Amid Mideast Tensions…
The U.S. on Wednesday ordered all nonessential government staff to leave Iraq, and Germany and the Netherlands both suspended their military assistance programs in the country in the latest sign of tensions sweeping the Persian Gulf region over still-unspecified threats that the Trump administration says are linked to Iran. Recent days have seen allegations of […]
The Lunacy of Waging a War on Iran Which China and Russia Will Win…
The scare mongering about an attack on Iran continues. Bolton must be laughing his ass off how easy he can play the issue based on nothing. He simply counters any debunking of the alleged ‘thread from Iran’ by upping the ante. Yesterday a British general denied that any such threat exists in the area of […]
Related
White House to Unveil Sweeping Overhaul of Immigration System, Including Merit-Based Admissions…
The White House is set to unveil a sweeping new plan that would radically transform the makeup of immigrants in the United States, ending the visa lottery program and implementing a comprehensive merit-based admissions procedure, three senior administration officials told Fox News on Wednesday. The move would more than quadruple the number of immigrants admitted […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 118
- 119
- 120
- 121
- 122
- …
- 205
- Next Page »