United States - USNN World News

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

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

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

Trump tells 'Hannity' town hall crime in these Dem-run cities 'worse than Afghanistan'

National News

Trump says violence in Chicago, Baltimore, other US cities like ‘living in hell,’ in ‘Hannity’ town hall

by USNN World NewsJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020

National News

BET founder Robert Johnson says Dems taking black voters ‘for granted,’ calls for BLM to form party

by USNN World NewsJune 25, 2020August 4, 2024

National News

Biden cancer nonprofit paid its top execs millions. It spent little to eradicate cancer

by USNN World NewsJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020

National News

NASCAR: Driver’s ‘Hate Crime Noose’ Was Really A Garage Pull Rope

by USNN World NewsJune 24, 2020February 26, 2025

NATIONAL NEWS

Social Security Will No Longer Withhold 100 Percent of Monthly Benefits to Recover Overpayments

By Naveen Athrappully The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a new measure on Friday, slashing the amount that social security beneficiaries must pay to the ...

RFK Jr. Draws Fire From All Sides After VP Pick

By Jeff Louderback OAKLAND, Calif.—Moments after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Silicon Valley lawyer and entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate on March 26, ...

Slow Progress On Biden’s EV Charger Rollout With Just 7 Built So Far

By Tom Ozimek President Joe Biden’s pledge to use money from the $1 trillion infrastructure bill to build 500,000 electric vehicle (EV) chargers by 2030 ...

RNC Files Election Integrity Lawsuit Targeting Michigan’s Handling of Absentee Ballots

By T, J. Muscaro The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed another election integrity lawsuit against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Together with the Michigan ...

Trump Appeals Ruling That Allowed Fani Willis to Stay on Georgia Case

By Catherine Yang Judge McAfee found a clear appearance of impropriety, and further criticized Ms. Willis for her public comments, saying some remarks had been ...

California’s Capital Declares Itself a Transgender Sanctuary City

By Brad Jones Dozens of transgender activists clashed with several parental rights protesters outside Sacramento City Hall on March 26 preceding public debate over a ...

Mayorkas Impeachment Articles to Be Sent to Senate on April 10

By Jackson Richman, Mark Tapscott and Joseph Lord The House of Representatives will send the articles of impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to ...

Democrat Congresswoman Annie Kuster Joins Exodus, Will Not Seek Reelection

By Samantha Flom Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), leader of the House’s New Democrat Coalition, has announced that she will not seek reelection in November, continuing ...

Donald Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Enters 500 Richest People List

By Naveen Athrappully Former President Donald Trump has entered Bloomberg’s list of top 500 global billionaires after his stake in Truth Social was valued at ...

6 Presumed Dead After Baltimore Bridge Catastrophe

By Lawrence Wilson and Jackson Richman A massive cargo ship lost power and struck a major bridge in Baltimore in the early hours of March ...

Chicago Board of Elections ‘Mistakenly’ Left Out Over 9,000 Mail-In Ballots in Primary Election

By Tom Ozimek A Chicago Board of Elections official said Sunday that he had “mistakenly” left out over 9,000 mail-in ballots from one of the ...

Trump Says He’ll Post $175 Million Bond in Fraud Case After New Court Order

By Catherine Yang The New York state Supreme Court’s First Judicial Department Appellate Division has granted a stay of enforcement on the $464 million judgment ...