Posted inWeather

Hurricane Dorian, Category 5 storm, bears down on Bahamas while islands hunker down, ‘taking no chances’

By Travis Fedschun | Fox News A menacing Hurricane Dorian is taking aim at the northern Bahamas early Sunday, strengthening to a “catastrophic” Category 5 storm — packing winds of 180 mph and the threat of torrential rain that could last for days as millions in the U.S. along the Southeast coast from Florida to North Carolina are keeping an eye on where the storm may head next. […]

Posted inDepartment of Justice

Republicans predict IG’s Comey rebuke is tip of the iceberg for FBI, DOJ over anti-Trump ‘biases’

By Alex Pappas | Fox News Republicans on Capitol Hill said Thursday they believe the searing reprimand of former FBI director James Comey by a Justice Department inspector general is only the start of a series of blows to the reputations of key law enforcement figures. “This is the first of what I expect will be several more ugly and […]

Posted inDepartment of Justice

DOJ files brief with Supreme Court opposing workplace discrimination claims by transgender workers

By Shannon Bream, Bill Mears | Fox News The Justice Department is signaling its opposition to providing federal protections for transgender employees who claim workplace discrimination. In a brief filed Friday at the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is opposing the position taken by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which had been supporting a transgender employee in her lawsuit against a […]

Posted inImmigration

ICE raids on Mississippi food processing plants result in 680 arrests

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Wednesday that its officers had raided seven food processing plants in Mississippi and detained approximately 680 “removable aliens” in what a federal prosecutor described as “the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in our nation’s history.” Nearly 600 ICE agents swarmed the plants in Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol, […]

Posted inNational News

Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common… and it’s not guns

Revisiting an article written by Dan Roberts Manasquan, NJ –– Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and its not the weapons used. The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is […]

Posted inNational News

US to Resume Federal Capital Punishment, Starting With Executions of Five Murderers

BY ZACHARY STIEBER The federal government is resuming capital punishment after a pause of nearly 20 years. Attorney General William Barr said in a July 25 announcement that he has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt an addendum to federal protocol, which will clear the way for the U.S. government to resume capital punishment. The executions will […]

Posted inNational News

Young Conservatives Feel They Can’t Express Themselves on Social Media

BY BOWEN XIAO WASHINGTON—Students feel they can’t express themselves properly on social media because of big tech censorship and, for some, the fear of being bullied into silence, with many experiencing or witnessing some form of shadow banning—the surreptitious suppression of a user’s content by the platform. Students at Turning Point USA’s Teen Student Action Summit reported encountering such […]

Posted inDepartment of Justice

Barr says Mueller asked DOJ to send letter limiting testimony to ‘boundaries’ of report

By Jake Gibson, Alex Pappas | Fox News Attorney General Bill Barr told Fox News on Tuesday that it was former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team who asked the Justice Department to send Mueller a letter telling him to keep his upcoming testimony to House lawmakers “within the boundaries” of the public version of his Russia probe report. The letter provoked criticism […]

Posted inBudget & Spending

Trump announces ‘real compromise’ on budget deal, as fiscal hawks and some Dems cry foul

By Gregg Re | Fox News The Trump administration and congressional leaders, including Democrats, have reached a critical debt and budget agreement that all but eliminates the risk of another government shut down this fall — but that has already drawn fierce blow back from fiscal conservatives worried about overspending, as well as progressives unhappy with where the money could […]

Posted inNational News

Poll: 54 Percent of Americans in the South Approve of President Trump

By Janita Kan A new poll has found that 54 percent of Americans in the south approve the way President Donald Trump is handling his job as the country’s commander-in-chief. According to the recent NBC News|SurveyMonkey online poll (pdf), conducted between July 2 and 16, 38 percent of Americans in the south “strongly approve” of Trump’s job as president, while […]