President Trump’s expected announcement that he is terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has met with widespread criticism over the potential cost to roughly 800,000 children of undocumented parents. While I agree with the same concern over the status of these individuals…
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Betsy DeVos Just Rescinded Title IX Protection for Sexual Assault Survivors…
Betsy DeVos just confirmed what many had suspected: The Trump White House is veering away from Obama-era Title IX protections for sexual assault victims on college campuses. Speaking Thursday at George Mason University’s Law School in Arlington, Va., the U.S. Secretary of Education announced that “the era of…
1913: The Turning Point by Robert Curry…
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson was the newly elected president. Wilson and his fellow progressives scorned the Constitution and the Declaration. They moved swiftly to replace the Founders’ republic with a new regime. There is widespread agreement that Wilson did not always show good judgment – for example…
New Irma Track Points Straight at Miami…But That Could Still Change…
Hurricane Irma may deal a direct blow to Miami, new models suggest, but there’s still plenty of time for that to change. Computer runs that earlier leaned to the east shifted back to the west Thursday evening, putting Miami at the center of the Category 5 hurricane. That could change as models wobble…
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President Trump Strikes Debt Ceiling Deal With Democrats in Exchange for Harvey Relief Funding…
Hostage negotiations are bad ju-ju, until it’s Democrats holding the hostages. You see,… today a funny thing happened on the way to the ‘Trump holds Dreamers Hostage for Border Wall Funding’ party. Apparently the ‘Democrats Held Hurricane Harvey Victims Hostage to a Debt Ceiling Deal’. Huh… funny that…
Charles Manson Follower Leslie Van Houten Granted Parole…
Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted along with other members of Charles Manson’s cult in the 1969 killings of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, was granted parole Wednesday by a panel of state commissioners in Chino. Gov. Jerry Brown must now once again decide whether to release her from prison after 40 years. Brown rejected…
Yet Another Closed-Door Hearing: House Intel Questions Susan Rice…
Former national security adviser Susan Rice is meeting privately Wednesday with the House Intelligence Committee, Fox News has learned, in the latest Capitol Hill session involving an Obama administration official. Rice was expected to face questions in closed session about Russia and the unmasking controversy…
Adding Up the Price of Tragedy in Storm-Ravaged Texas…
Craig Reeves had been in Rockport, Texas, barely 48 hours when he ducked into the gloomy threshold of the condominium, which was darkened by blinds pulled before Hurricane Harvey and filled with a humid, mildewy funk. Reeves, a catastrophe claims adjuster for State Farm, crunched over glass shards in his steel-toed boots…
Hurricane Irma Slams Into Caribbean Islands as It Tracks Towards U.S. East Coast…
Hurricane Irma has wreaked havoc after pummeling exotic Caribbean islands with 185mph winds on its devastating march towards the US east coast. Aid agencies are bracing for a ‘major humanitarian response’ as the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic made its first landfall…
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NAFTA Joint Statement Concluding Round Two – Mexico City…
The second round of NAFTA renegotiation concluded today in Mexico City, Mexico. A joint statement was released: Over the past five days, more than two dozen working groups comprised of trade experts and technical officials worked diligently to advance the discussions and exchanged information and proposals…
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Mort Zukerman Sells New York’s Iconic Daily News for $1…
The owner of two of the country’s largest newspapers has purchased the Daily News, a New York tabloid that is famous for generations of hard-punching reporting and irreverent headlines but that has struggled recently to find its place in the digital age. Chicago-based Tronc Inc., the publisher of the Los Angeles…
Record-Breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson Has Returned to Earth…
Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, ending her record-setting mission. Whitson spent a total of 665 cumulative days in space, setting a new record for any other American or woman. She, along with another American and a Russian, landed in Kazakhstan shortly after sunrise Sunday — Saturday night…
UPDATES: Hurricane Irma and Tropical Storm Jose…
Hurricane Irma – “…POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE IRMA HEADING TOWARD THE LEEWARD ISLANDS… …PREPARATIONS SHOULD BE NEARING COMPLETION IN THE EASTERNMOST LEEWARD ISLANDS”…
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions DACA Announcement – 11:00am Livestream…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be announcing President Trump’s decision about DACA (Deferred Action for Child Arrivals) today at approximately 11:00am EDT…
Mystery Surrounds Disappearance of State Department Security Officer…
The lifeless body of Diplomatic Security Special Agent Kurt Smolek was found in the Potomac River on Wednesday evening. Smolek (45) had been declared a “critical missing person” in a tweet released by the police department of the District of Columbia. According to a Missing Persons report by the DC Metropolitan…
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Admits No Common Ground With Trump on Immigration – Demands Open-Ended Immigration Must Be Maintained…
The open border position of the crony-capitalistic U.S. Chamber of Commerce is only one of the issues that showcases the hidden agenda of their heavily lobbied influence upon Republicans in Congress. The CoC spends hundreds of millions writing legislation and paying off the UniParty to deliver on their multinational corporate…
FDA Approves First ‘Living Drug’ to Treat Cancer…
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever gene therapy to treat cancer in the US. The treatment offers a totally new approach to fighting the disease and could lead to novel treatments of other serious and life-threatening maladies. On Wednesday, the FDA approved a new leukemia treatment from the Swiss…
200,000 Deportation Cases Quietly ‘Closed’ Under Obama…
During the Obama era up to 200,000 deportation cases were “administratively closed” without action, a move that left tens of thousands of illegal immigrants free to roam America, sometimes indefinitely, according to a new report. When added to those cases still pending court action, it brings the backlog of cases…
How One Painkiller Ignited The Addiction Epidemic…
The national drug crisis, which is estimated to have claimed more than 60,000 lives in 2016, is expected to worsen this year and one family-owned company helped set the crisis in motion. President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency Aug. 10 on the advice of a White House commission that pointed…
U.S. Shutters Russian Consulate in San Francisco and Annexes in D.C. and N.Y….
The Trump administration took two major diplomatic steps against Russia Thursday—one that would close Moscow’s consulate in San Francisco and annexes in D.C. and New York and another that aims to block Russia from gaining control of any part of the U.S. energy market owned by Russian ally Venezuela…
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