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The New York attorney general announced his office will be looking into possible civil rights violations within The Weinstein Co., following a series of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will be looking to see whether the allegations against Weinstein violated women’s civil rights or reveal possible gender discrimination…
The illegal immigrant who shot and killed Kate Steinle in 2015 will go on trial for second-degree murder this week, bringing a conclusion to a case that sparked harsh anti-immigration rhetoric from President Donald Trump and Congress in 2016. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 54, claims his killing of Steinle was an accident, saying that a…
A Colorado baker has a right not to make a wedding cake celebrating a same-sex marriage that is against his faith, and the LGBT agenda is not a new civil rights movement, black Christian leaders said Monday outside the U.S. Supreme Court. The nine leaders spoke in support of Jack Phillips, whose lawyers will ask…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially designated the MS-13 gang as a priority threat Monday, allowing Department of Justice task forces to use every available law to bring down the international organization. The new designation allows Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces to dismantle MS-13 using tax laws, drug laws, gun laws, and “anything else that…
KYIV, Ukraine—I’ve experienced our country’s wars both as a combatant and a witness. I deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq while I was an Air Force special operations pilot, and I’ve been back to report on both of those wars as a journalist. I’ve also reported on U.S. military operations at other places in the Middle…
A retired accountant says Facebook has suspended and otherwise censored him multiple times since the 2016 presidential campaign for posting certain conservative content. Allen Muench, 62, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, said he spends much of his time running a conservative Facebook page that often supports President Donald Trump and is critical of liberals….
Try asking the nation’s top environmental protection official to “describe the shortcomings of the scientific evidence for climate change,” and what type of data he might find persuasive on the subject. You might shake loose news of major policy changes designed to end what President Donald Trump’s team sees as potential conflicts of interest that…
It was Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who launched a broadside against President Donald Trump’s budget nominee over religious views, but it’s the No. 2 Republican in the Senate who is blocking the nomination of Russ Vought from coming to the floor for a vote. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, seemed to clarify in a…
President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in could be set to take an international good cop/bad cop approach in handling the North Korean nuclear threat, one expert suggests in advance of Trump’s two-week trip to Asia in November. “While it’s true many of the things said by President Trump and [North Korea’s] Kim…
Conservatives are blaming the lack of American competitiveness in global markets on burdensome regulations, high taxes, and bad trade deals. The Conservative Action Project said in an Oct. 17 memo, “Economic Competitiveness and the Defense of Intellectual Property,” that the United States is losing “its global status as a manufacturing powerhouse.” It says that a…
HANOVER, N.H.—There is a strong correlation between lack of religious attendance and illicit drug use, research shows in contrasting two states hit hard by the opioid crisis. The parallels are demonstrated by two comparative studies of New Hampshire and West Virginia. West Virginia suffers from an ailing economy, while New Hampshire has a strong economy,…
The presidentially appointed commission raised serious questions about voter registration issues, such as duplicative names. The panel called on sometimes reluctant states to make reforms to ensure the integrity of elections, including sharing registration information with other states. Those recommendations came in 2014 from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, whose members were named by…
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt spoke to me earlier this week at The Heritage Foundation’s annual President’s Club meeting in Washington. We discussed his leadership of the EPA, the agency’s top priorities, and what Pruitt considers true environmentalism. An edited transcript of our interview, along with the full video, is below. Bluey: You've had…
The chief of staff to Rep. Bennie Thompson spends his days in the halls of Congress and his weekends in jail for tax evasion, after the Mississippi Democrat violated his pledge to fire his wealthy chief if the aide was found guilty of stiffing the Treasury of $150,000. Issac Lanier Avant made $170,000 a year…
Longer work weeks could mean quicker votes on two of President Donald Trump’s nominees who Senate Democrats attacked for their religious views. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., responded to demands by some senators by reportedly planning longer work weeks that include Fridays and potentially weekends. This comes after months of a light schedule, with…
More than 30 Senate Democrats voted for President Ronald Reagan’s Tax Reform Act of 1986—including one still in office today—and conservatives say Democrats today have no reason to vote against a similar tax reform package now before Congress. “If I hear any more Democrats talking about ‘the bottom rate is going up,’ I’ll remind them…
Unions across the country donated $765 million to various organizations over the last four years, and 99 percent of that cash went to liberal-leaning causes. Labor unions gave $764,952,394 to left-wing special interests between 2012 and 2016, according to the Center for Union Facts. Of the nearly $765 million, 99 percent of union political contributions went to…
Eleven GOP senators wrote a letter asking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to extend the chamber’s work hours to a 24/7 schedule “ to advance the president’s agenda.” “1,200 nominations are subject to Senate confirmation,” said Caroline Vanvick, deputy communications director to Sen. David Perdue, one of the signers of the letter, in an email…
As two Senate lawmakers float yet another plan to fix problems with Obamacare, another wants to revisit legislation that he says would more substantially repeal the health care law. “Actually, we could have more coverage under Graham-Cassidy than under the status quo,” Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., said Wednesday at an event hosted by online media…
A predominantly black public school in Mississippi named after Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States in the 1860s, will be renamed after former President Barrack Obama, according to a report released Wednesday. Stakeholders in the school voted earlier this month at the Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees meeting to change the elementary school’s…