Senators announced a bipartisan plan Tuesday to deny gun sales to those on the FBI’s heightened screening lists, trying to carve a middle path between the extremes that have dominated the debate so far. Those who are on either the no-fly list or the heightened screening list would be prevented from buying firearms, though they […]
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The headline should read: “Congress slams President for seeking to remove Constitutional Rights without an Amendment.” The White House accused Senate Republicans Tuesday of allowing suspected terrorists to “buy guns with impunity” because of they didn’t pass a Democratic gun-control bill. “The situation that is created by republicans blocking the Feinstein amendment is simply that
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How convenient. Illegal aliens are not allowed back into their home countries because they are criminals. Let the USA deal with them. Homeland Security agents release criminal aliens back onto the streets without strict monitoring because their home countries refuse to take them back, the department’s inspector general concluded in a report that exposes serious
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A look at some of the cases that remain; and without Antonin Scalia. Abortion: Texas abortion clinics are challenging a state law and regulations that already have cut the number of abortion providers in half to roughly 20. Fewer than 10 would remain if the 2013 law were allowed to take full effect. One positive
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If the Democrats’ newly announced “Oil is the New Tobacco” campaign catches on, the nation’s potato chip and ice cream manufacturers may want to watch their backs, critics warn. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is scheduled to host a forum Wednesday drawing parallels between the tobacco and fossil fuel industries in support of a coordinated effort
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This is what our American Progressives are fighting to preserve. The lack of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia has created a peculiar phenomenon: Women are so desperate to experience what it feels like to drive that they are flocking to bumper cars at amusement parks. The Al Shallal Theme Park in Jeddah has hours reserved
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German officials built an all-male refugee shelter next to a 111-year-old nudist colony and have ordered its members to stop swimming naked at a nearby lake. A $1.76 million facility for migrants from the Middle East and North Africa now stands next to Radebury property belonging to the Familiensport-und FKK-Bund Waldteichfreunde Moritzburg nudist group. Its
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Scottish locals have erected a Mexican flag next to Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course ahead of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s scheduled visit to the area Saturday. Residents on the Menie Estate said they raised the flag as part of their “Tripping up Trump” campaign against Trump International Golf Links and the Trump Organization, which
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This Associated Press article ran in the newspaper on 5 Apr 1979. This is before global warming became the “settled position” of science.
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Just ran across this article from 1979. If we flash forward to 2016, all Gomes would have had to do was put on a dress, and he could have walked onto the team without question.
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A man who rescued a family from its overturned vehicle after an accident was rewarded for his selfless service with a first-responder bill. Derrick Deanda pulled a man and his three children from their van in Elk Grove, California, in September 2015 after it toppled over. Paramedics with Cosumnes Community Services District took Mr. Deanda’s
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire charged Monday that people who buy the wildly popular AR-15 semi-automatic rifle are buying it “to do bad things.” “I think people need to have their voices heard, and what I’ve heard from people in New Hampshire is that they think there’s reasonable legislation that we can pass including
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So when it comes to the economy, should we trust the soft-socialist who’s never made a profit a day in her life? Or the billionaire who knows how to make a buck? Hillary Clinton on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump’s economic plan and said the billionaire would lead the U.S. back into recession — the latest
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How many people think we should send her to Afghanistan with flowers for the Taliban? Here’s the thing: the only thing that Islam understands is force. It’s a religion of violence, and force is the only thing that they respect. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Florida’s LGBT community that the “most effective” weapon at America’s
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The specter of Donald Trump’s presidential nomination being ripped from under him in a nastily contested Republican National Convention next month is alive — again. Anti-Trump forces appeared to have been defeated after he ousted his remaining opponents from the race in early May and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said lawmakers will vote this week on an amendment that would expand the FBI’s ability to conduct online surveillance and allow the bureau to compel internet companies for their customers’ browsing history and other records without a warrant. Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said Monday the proposal would strengthen the ability
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Rifts have emerged between U.S. military leaders and the Obama White House on Washington’s future role in Libya, with the generals questioning the White House’s argument that the recent success against Islamic State shows Libya can go it alone in the fight against terrorism, without direct U.S. assistance. Marine Corps Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the White
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Sen. Harry Reid took nearly $5,000 in campaign cash from the National Rifle Association the last time he ran for election — which made his vicious attack on the gun group Tuesday striking. After watching his gun control plans founder the night before in competing votes on the Senate floor, the Nevada lawmaker blamed the
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The Clinton Foundation has collected more than $2 billion in revenue since it formed — but has given only the tiniest fraction to veterans groups, instead preferring to focus on international causes and in-house operations that provide far more control and less transparency. Meanwhile, a separate private charity, the Clinton Family Foundation, has donated about
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And the rest of us question Donald’s faith… Via CNN: Donald Trump argued Tuesday that the American public knows very little about Hillary Clinton’s religion, raising questions about how it will impact her leadership should she become president. “We don’t know anything about Hillary in terms of religion,” he said, speaking to a group of
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