Valerie Richardson

NFL denies #PleaseStand ad for Super Bowl

For a moment there, it looked as if the National Football League would make it through the Super Bowl without another take-a-knee uproar, and then NFL officials rejected an ad from a leading veterans group with the phrase #PleaseStand.

January 23, 2018

Al Gore snubbed by Hollywood as ‘Inconvenient Sequel’ misses out on Oscar nod

Former Vice President Al Gore may need some ice for that burn after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday snubbed his climate-change documentary "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power."

January 23, 2018

Ryan Zinke signs agreement to allow lifesaving road between Alaska tribal village, airport

Alaskan tribal members have fought for decades to win approval for a 12-mile road between their remote Aleutian fishing village and a critical all-weather airport, and the federal government's shutdown wasn't going to get in their way.

January 22, 2018

Colin Kaepernick donates $10K to leading Soros-backed resistance group

Colin Kaepernick entered the home stretch of his Million Dollar Pledge last week with a donation to one of Democratic moneyman George Soros's favorite left-wing resistance groups.

January 21, 2018

Mick Mulvaney, budget director: Trump wanted to avoid shutdown while Obama wanted to ‘weaponize it’

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday the difference between the 2013 and 2018 federal shutdowns is that President Barack Obama wanted it and President Trump didn't.

January 21, 2018

Luis Gutierrez, Illinois representative, willing to fund ‘idiotic’ border wall in exchange for DACA

Rep. Luis Gutierrez said he's willing to pay for a border wall in exchange for protections for illegal immigrants known as "Dreamers."

January 21, 2018

Trump ad says Democratic foes will be ‘complicit’ in murders by illegal immigrants

The Trump campaign released a tough ad saying that Democrats will be "complicit for every murder committed by illegal immigrants."

January 21, 2018

Federal prosecutors drop charges against 129 Trump inauguration protesters

Federal prosecutors said Thursday they will dismiss the charges against 129 of 188 activists facing trial for rioting and vandalism during the Trump inauguration, a month after a jury found the first batch of six protesters not guilty.

January 19, 2018

Three D.C. metro sites make short list for Amazon’s second headquarters

Amazon released Thursday its short list of destinations for its second headquarters, and three of the finalists are located in the greater Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

January 18, 2018

Landmark British study debunks UN’s worst-case global-warming scenarios

A groundbreaking British study throws cold water on the U.N.'s most extreme climate-change scenarios, finding little chance that the planet will heat up by 4 to 5 degrees over the next century.

January 18, 2018

Dakota Access activist accused of firing at officers agrees to plea deal

Red Fawn Fallis would serve seven years in prison, avoid jury trial. .

January 17, 2018

Twitter political bias seen in Project Veritas video

Conservatives have griped for years about being undermined by Twitter, but after listening to the Silicon Valley giant's staffers admit on hidden camera to political bias, the right wants answers.

January 16, 2018

Four people injured by rioters at Milo Yiannopoulos event sue Berkeley

Four Bay Area ticket-holders who tried to attend a Milo Yiannopoulos speech but were instead attacked by masked radicals have filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the University of California, Berkeley.

January 16, 2018

NFL’s kneeling protesters miss playoffs

NBC plans to televise any players who refuse to stand for "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl, but there may be nothing to show.

January 15, 2018

Environmentalists urge Feds to launch another operation to seize Bundy cattle

It's hard to imagine how the 2014 federal effort to impound Cliven Bundy's cattle could have gone any worse, but environmentalists are demanding that the Bureau of Land Management go back and try it again.

January 11, 2018

Northern spotted owl being poisoned by California’s illegal marijuana grows

Pot smokers, beware: The northern spotted owl, the bird that brought down the Pacific Northwest timber industry, is circling California's newly legalized marijuana market.

January 11, 2018

Bill de Blasio divests New York pensions, sues oil companies for climate change

A week after a brutal snowstorm froze New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered a one-two punch Wednesday in the name of climate change, announcing he will seek billions in damages from five major oil-and-gas companies while moving to divest from fossil fuels.

January 10, 2018

Cliven Bundy may sue federal government for malicious prosecution, civil-rights abuses, lawyer says

Rancher Cliven Bundy no longer faces federal charges in the 2014 Nevada standoff, but that doesn't mean his legal fight with the Justice Department is over.

January 10, 2018

ExxonMobil: Calif. localities suing over climate change failed to mention alleged risks to investors

The risks posed by human-caused climate change were apparently alarming enough to prompt seven California municipalities last year to sue ExxonMobil, but not serious enough to disclose in full to their investors.

January 9, 2018

Judge throws out case against Bundys, bars retrial in devastating defeat for federal prosecutors

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy could have spent the rest of his life in jail, but instead he walked away Monday a free man, the case against him and his sons thrown out over what the judge decried as "outrageous" misconduct by federal prosecutors.

January 8, 2018