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Kellyanne Conway says US should prioritize schools over bars in coronavirus plans

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Thomas Sowell tells Mark Levin left-wing ideology ‘falls apart like a house of cards’ when you demand facts

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Never Trumpers cross line with party operatives by targeting GOP senators: ‘Taking it too far’

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Protesters set up guillotine in front of Jeff Bezos’ DC home

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Washington Post mocked for claiming Trump was wrong about violence in Dem-run cities: ‘Worst fact check ever’

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McEnany: Pelosi ‘playing politics’ with ‘false reporting’ on Russian bounties for US troops

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Nunes: Twitter, Google, Facebook are ‘tech tyrants’ that censor conservatives

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Missouri Democratic mayor accused of intimidating defund police protesters after reading names, partial addresses on livestream

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

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

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Occupy City Hall grows in numbers as NYPD budget deadline looms

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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.

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

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

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Former Twitter Execs Set to Testify Before Congress on Hunter Biden Laptop Case

By Ryan Morgan Former executives of Twitter are scheduled to testify before Congress about the company’s decision, ahead of the 2020 election, to suppress reporting about ...

Biden Announces $1.2 Billion in Mega Grants as Republicans Target ‘Wasteful Spending’ in Debt Cap Standoff

By Tom Ozimek President Joe Biden on Jan. 31 announced nearly $1.2 billion in mega grants for a series of infrastructure projects, including $292 million to build ...

GOP Governors Call on Biden Admin to Delay Changing the Definition of US Waters

By Chase Smith Republican governors called on President Joe Biden to delay the implementation of a new federal water rule pending a Supreme Court decision ...

Arizona the Next Big Push for Drug Cartels as Border Crisis Worsens

By Allan Stein SAN LUIS, Ariz.—A tangled coil of razor wire marks the end of a segment of the border wall between San Luis, Arizona, ...

House Intelligence Committee Chair Says ‘Grave Concern’ Over Contents of Biden, Pence Classified Documents

By Katabella Roberts House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) said on Jan. 29 that there is “grave concern” about the contents of classified documents found at the homes of ...

Ernst Decries Thousands of Federal Workers Who Fraudulently Received COVID Unemployment Checks

By Mark Tapscott Thousands of federal workers applied for and received COVID-19-related unemployment benefits and continued getting their regular paychecks during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Sen. ...

Scandal? What Scandal?

By Cal Thomas Commentary In our relativistic age in which everyone has his or her own “truth” and none is to be preferred over another so ...

‘Zuck Bucks 2.0’ Gears up for 2024

By John Haughey The same nonprofit that distributed nearly $420 million in privately funded pandemic and operations grants to election offices nationwide before the 2020 ...

Trump Begins 2024 Campaign in New Hampshire, South Carolina

By Frank Fang Former President Donald Trump visited two early-voting states New Hampshire and South Carolina on Jan. 28, hitting the campaign trail for the first time ...

Protests Erupt in US Cities After Memphis Releases Tyre Nichols Video

By Caden Pearson Protesters have organized in several U.S. cities on Friday night following the release of body camera footage of the killing of Tyre ...

Irvine Won’t Investigate Attempted Bribery of Councilors by Consultant Melahat Rafiei

By Jack Bradley The Irvine City Council Jan. 24 failed to pass a motion to launch an independent investigation after political consultant Melahat Rafiei last week admitted ...

California to Release More Water to Communities in Wake of Storms

By Brad Jones The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced Jan. 26 it expects to deliver 30 percent of requested water to its public ...