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DHS asks tech giants to make sure social media platforms aren’t used as tool to promote riots

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020March 5, 2025

National News

John Bolton is a Dr. Strangelove throwback who set himself up as a White House warlord

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 28, 2020

National News

Biden VP hopeful Karen Bass slammed over past praise for Fidel Castro

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020August 9, 2025

National News

Occupy City Hall grows in numbers as NYPD budget deadline looms

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020March 29, 2025

World

Trump pushes back on NY Times report on Russian Afghan attacks, says ‘nobody briefed’ him, Pence

by USNN World NewsJune 28, 2020June 13, 2025

President Trump announced Friday that he signed an executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues and threatened those who try to pull them down with “long prison time.” “I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues - and combatting recent Criminal Violence,” Trump tweeted. “Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!” The new order enforces laws prohibiting the desecration of public monuments, the vandalism of government property, and recent acts of violence, withholds federal support tied to public spaces from state and local governments that have failed to protect public monuments, and withdraws federal grants for jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies that fail to stop their desecration. It also provides assistance for protecting the federal statues. Meanwhile on Friday evening, Attorney General Bill Barr directed the creation of a task force to counter anti-government extremists, specifically naming those who support the far-right “boogaloo” movement and those who identify as Antifa. The task force will be headed by Craig Carpenito, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the district of Northern Texas, and will be composed of U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the FBI and other relevant departments, according to a press release. The group will share information with local and state law enforcement and will provide training on identifying anti-government extremists, according to an internal Justice Department memo. The president has been teasing his order related to memorials all week, as historic monuments and statues have become the targets of anger and vandalism during Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd's police custody death in Minneapolis at the end of May. DC'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATE WANTS 'PROBLEMATIC' LINCOLN STATUE REMOVED FROM LINCOLN PARK placeholder The initial statues under fire were Confederate soldiers and generals largely in the South due to the treatment of African-Americans, and even some high-level military officials called for the renaming of Army bases named after Confederate generals. The anger has since spread to monuments of former presidents and others deemed to be “colonizers,” such as Christopher Columbus, and even some who fought against slavery. On Friday night, protesters plan to try to tear down the Emancipation Statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park. The statue shows the 16th president holding the Emancipation Proclamation next to a kneeling, shackled slave. Protesters say it does not depict the role slaves had in securing their own freedom. TRUMP ISSUES WARNING AMID VANDALISM, EFFORT TO TOPPLE ANDREW JACKSON STATUE Washington, D.C.’s congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, said Tuesday she would introduce a House bill to remove the “problematic” statue. Last weekend protesters tied ropes and tried to topple a statue of former president Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square Park, but were stopped by law enforcement. In San Francisco, protesters defaced and toppled a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, who led the Union Army during the Civil War. Protesters that same night also tore down statues of St. Junipero Serra and Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner." This week McConnell listed the monuments that have been defaced in recent days—noting that in Portland, Ore., a mob “graffitied a statue of our first President, pulled it down, and burned an American flag over his head. This is George Washington.” placeholder McConnell said another Washington statue was defaced in Baltimore, a statue of Thomas Jefferson was ripped down in Portland, and others were targeted. “This is the general and first President who built our nation, and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Genius statesmen who helped begin this grand experiment that has brought freedom to hundreds of millions and saved the world a few times for good measure,” McConnell said. “And yet a crazy fringe is treating their monuments like vanity statues of tinhorn tyrants.” He added: “Our Founding Fathers are being roped to the ground like they were Saddam Hussein. The list goes on.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP McConnell was referring to the famous moment in 2003 when a 40-foot bronze statue of the Iraqi dictator was roped and pulled to the ground, symbolizing the end of his regime. Fox News' John Roberts, Jake Gibson and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

National News

Trump signs executive order to protect American monuments, memorials and statues

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking. Population: 328.2 million (2019) Trending Capital: Washington, D.C. Unemployment rate: 14.7% (Apr 2020) President: Donald Trump

National News

House passes DC statehood bill: Here’s how it would work

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020May 11, 2025

National News

‘I hope it’s true’: Trump responds to claim he was chosen by God

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

Department of Justice

Cuomo, de Blasio wrong to limit worship services, condone mass protests: federal judge

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020March 26, 2025

National News

Biden says he would use federal power to require Americans to wear masks in public

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

National News

Joe Biden ‘greeted’ by Trump supporters outside Pennsylvania campaign stop

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

National News

Trump fields audience questions on mail-in voting, riots, says Democrats ‘destroying our country’

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

NATIONAL NEWS

Trump campaign blows past 2020 Dems with latest fundraising haul, sitting on over $100M

By Brooke Singman | Fox News President Trump’s campaign raked in a whopping $46 million in the fourth quarter of 2019, fueled in part by a backlash from ...

Dana Perino on 2020 fundraising numbers: ‘If I were the Democrats, I’d be kind of worried’

By Victor Garcia | Fox News Former White House press secretary Dana Perino said Thursday that Democrats should be concerned about President Trump’s huge fundraising haul for the final quarter ...

Dana Perino calls Bloomberg’s ‘open office plan’ the ‘worst’ idea of Democratic primary

By Victor Garcia | Fox News Dana Perino criticized Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s “open office plan” idea that the former New York City mayor tweeted about on Monday, ...

The surprising impact that Californians flooding Texas may have on 2020 election

By Matt London | Fox News The latest Census Bureau data shows that more than 86,000 California residents moved to Texas in 2018 alone and that’s raising the question of whether or not they ...

CA mayor on exodus from blue states: ‘I can’t blame them’

By Julia Musto | Fox News A mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of residents in blue states was to be expected because of their extremely high cost of living, Laguna Hills, Calif., ...

Tomi Lahren rips Beto O’Rourke as he blames gun laws for Texas church shooting

By Matt London | Fox News Fox Nation’s Tomi Lahren did not hold back on “anti-gun rights” Democrats in the aftermath of Sunday’s shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, ...

Hunter Biden fires back after PI claims secret bank records ‘verify’ $156M counterfeiting scheme

By Gregg Re | Fox News Hunter Biden’s attorneys fired back Monday after a private investigation firm again attempted to stage a highly unusual intervention in his ongoing child-custody dispute in Arkansas, ...

Strzok claims anti-Trump texts protected by 1st Amendment, administration violated his rights

By Gregg Re | Fox News Former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who is suing the government in a bid for reinstatement, argued in a court filing in Washington, D.C., federal ...

Industry and State Department Battle Over 5G Standards

By Bonnie Evans WASHINGTON—In the push to develop 5G—the next generation of wireless networks, a gap has emerged between the priorities of industry and government. Industry ...

Most Likely Voters Say Senate Won’t Convict Trump on House Impeachment Charges

By Mark Tapscott Seventy-three percent of respondents just before Christmas said they think it’s “unlikely” or “not at all likely” two-thirds of the Senate will vote to ...

Judge Rules Georgia Must Make ‘Reasonable Effort’ to Inform Residents About Registration

By Katabella Roberts A federal judge has denied an effort to restore 98,000 Georgia voters to the state’s electoral rolls. They were removed because they didn’t ...

Mike Pompeo: Running for Senate ‘Not Something I Want to Do’

BY ZACHARY STIEBER Former Congressman and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Dec. 30 he wasn’t ruling out running for a U.S. Senate seat ...