Politics
By Jason Hopkins – The Democratic-controlled House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Wednesday regarding the southern border wall’s impact on the surrounding environment. One of the hearing’s featured speakers was Ned Norris, the chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, who spoke out adamantly against construction of the wall Read more…
By Jason Hopkins – The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the White House can withhold funds from sanctuary cities, delivering a major victory for President Donald Trump’s fight with jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The Trump administration is legally allowed to withhold millions Read more…
By Andrew Kerr – Hunter Biden is seeking to delay an upcoming child support deposition in Arkansas until April, according to a motion filed by his lawyer Tuesday. Attorneys for former stripper Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of Biden’s child, requested in an email last Monday that he appear in Read more…
By Andrew Kerr – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders should be blocked from running as a Democrat in Florida’s March 17 presidential primary, two Florida Democrats argued in a lawsuit filed Monday. Tallahassee Democrats and military veterans Frank Bach and George Brown, represented by former circuit court Judge Karen Gievers, argued Read more…
By Jason Hopkins – The El Paso Border Patrol union is reportedly investigating the disappearance of roughly $500,000 from its coffers, with the U.S. Border Patrol union president telling local agents that the money was stolen. National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told agents in November 2019 that there Read more…
By Chuck Ross – A federal judge on Tuesday criticized Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson for calling the lead juror in Roger Stone’s trial an “anti-Trump zealot,” though the juror in question has referred to President Donald Trump on social media as “#KlanPresident” and asserted in a Twitter post in Read more…
By Jason Hopkins – Ken Cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), could not definitively rule out the theory that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. Cuccinelli, who serves as a top member on the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, said Monday that the Read more…
By Peter Hasson – Democratic 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2011 promoted an editorial arguing that “the American dream is more apt to be realized” in Venezuela than in the U.S. Sanders’s Senate office posted the editorial, which local Vermont newspaper the Valley News published, on his Senate website Read more…
By Chuck Ross – An FBI agent faulted for some of the most significant problems laid out in the Justice Department’s inspector general report of FISA abuse against a Trump campaign associate has been identified as Stephen A. Somma, a counterintelligence investigator who works out of the FBI’s New York Read more…
By Chuck Ross – The lead juror at Roger Stone’s trial said in a written questionnaire that she was “not sure” whether she posted online about the Russia investigation, though her Twitter feed shows that she posted multiple stories about the probe. Tomeka Hart’s responses on the jury questionnaire, a Read more…