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Trump administration threatens to cut off funds to California over abortion-coverage mandate

The Trump administration threatened Friday to cut off certain federal funds to California over its requirement that medical insurers cover elective abortions, hours before President Trump made history by speaking at the March for Life.

January 24, 2020

Al Gore compares ‘climate crisis’ to 9/11 terrorist attack at Davos

Former Vice President Al Gore raised a few temperatures with his recent comment comparing the "climate crisis" to the 9/11 terrorist attack.

January 23, 2020

Trump administration replaces Obama-era Waters of U.S. rule by limiting federal role

The Trump administration finalized Thursday its replacement for the Waters of the United States rule, eliminating the federal government's role in regulating the stock ponds, irrigation ditches and seasonal streams encompassed under the broad Obama-era regulations.

January 23, 2020

Bernie Sanders’ campaign calls cops on Project Veritas in South Carolina

A Bernie Sanders field office in South Carolina called police on Project Veritas investigators seeking comment from campaign officials on a staffer caught on hidden-camera video expressing radical left-wing views.

January 23, 2020

‘Guillotine the rich’: Project Veritas exposes another radical, pro-gulag Sanders staffer

Project Veritas has apparently snared another pro-Soviet, pro-gulag Bernie Sanders campaign staffer, this one saying in a hidden-camera video released Tuesday that he was ready to "get armed" for the "revolution" and musing about sending Republicans to "reeducation camps."

January 21, 2020

White antifa activists accused of harassing black conservatives at Denver MLK Day parade

For the ninth year in a row, the Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives marched in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Denver, only this time, they were followed.

January 20, 2020

Australia bush fires blamed on green forestry policies

Australia's catastrophic bush fires have been widely blamed on human-caused climate change, but evidence is mounting that the devastation has more to do with environmentalist policies than fossil fuel emissions.

January 20, 2020

Jerry Nadler: Republicans seek to ‘smear’ Hunter Biden by calling him as impeachment witness

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerold Nadler wants to see a slew of additional witnesses called during the Senate impeachment trial, just not Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.

January 20, 2020

Alan Dershowitz lays out Trump impeachment defense

The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump could be exceedingly brief if legal scholar Alan Dershowitz has his way.

January 19, 2020

Hunter Biden testimony questions loom over Senate impeachment trial

With the Senate impeachment trial slated to start Tuesday, the question on everyone's mind is: Will Democrats succeed in calling new witnesses, and if so, will Republicans then call Hunter Biden?

January 19, 2020

Lindsey Graham: Nancy Pelosi ‘orchestrated the church of holy hell’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has insisted that she prays regularly for President Trump, but Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham says her actions speak louder than words.

January 19, 2020

Lindsey Graham: Republicans lack votes to dismiss Senate impeachment trial

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham conceded Sunday that the idea of Senate Republicans voting to dismiss immediately the House impeachment articles was "dead for practical purposes," saying that the GOP majority lacked the votes.

January 19, 2020

Hugh Hewitt to vote for Bernie Sanders in Virginia Democratic primary

Conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt surprised viewers Sunday by announcing that he was voting this week in the Democratic presidential primary -- for Bernie Sanders.

January 19, 2020

David Perdue dismisses Lev Parnas as impeachment ‘distraction’

Sen. David Perdue, Georgia Republican, dismissed efforts by Democrats to inject Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas into the impeachment proceedings as a "distraction" based on "second-hand information."

January 19, 2020

Adam Schiff decries Alan Dershowitz’s ‘absurdist’ Trump legal defense

In a preview of the Senate impeachment trial, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff tangled Sunday with constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Trump's legal team, calling his anti-impeachment argument "absurdist."

January 19, 2020

Kellyanne Conway: ‘History will not look kindly’ on impeachment ‘instigators’

When the history books are written about early 2020, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway predicted the focus would be on the historic trade deals and economic boom, not impeachment.

January 19, 2020

Women’s March struggles to regain footing with 2020 anti-Trump march

The Women's March hobbled along Saturday at its fourth annual march, drawing feisty but smaller crowds and fewer big names after a tumultuous year that saw the top leadership step down amid anti-Semitism allegations.

January 19, 2020

Fired Denver Post columnist says he was canned for insisting ‘there are only two sexes’

A right-leaning columnist for the Denver Post has been fired for what he said were his politically incorrect statements on transgender rights, including his insistence that "there are only two sexes."

January 18, 2020

Ninth Circuit throws out ‘children’s climate lawsuit’ in defeat for global warming movement

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out Friday the "children's climate lawsuit," ruling that the effort to force the federal government to take action on climate policy falls under the purview of the legislative and executive branches, not the judiciary.

January 17, 2020

Nick Sandmann CNN settlement ignored by ABC, CBS, NBC

The three major networks -- ABC, NBC and CBS -- ignored CNN's settlement with Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann, and CNN gave the story less than 30 seconds of airtime, according to a media analysis.

January 15, 2020