At Gorsuch Hearing, Parties Strike Different Notes

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, testifying as the Senate Judiciary Committee opened confirmation hearings Monday, portrayed himself as an apolitical jurist striving to get his cases right and a plain-spoken Westerner who embodies values of family, friendship and fairness. "Putting on a robe reminds us that it's time to lose our egos and open our minds," Judge Gorsuch said.

Trump Administration Gives Details on Border-Wall Plans, Costs

The Trump administration provided details on its request for $3 billion in immigration enforcement spending for this year, telling Congress on Monday that the new funding will pay for some additional fencing and a combination levee and wall system in the Rio Grande Valley area. According to the proposal, it will cost between $18 million and $24 million for each mile of additional barriers along the border with Mexico,... Despite enthusiastic backing for President Donald Trump and pleas for a stronger border, Arizona ranchers are conflicted in their support for Trump's promise to build a wall along the border with Mexico.

Team Trump Meets a Messy World

The Trump administration is trying to show it values traditional allies and alliances, despite the president's rhetoric suggesting the contrary In fits and starts, the nascent administration of Donald Trump is trying to show that it really does value traditional allies and alliances, despite the president's past campaign rhetoric and current Twitter flourishes suggesting the contrary. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to have a tense first meeting, based on their interaction at a photo-op after their Oval Office meeting.

Trump Calls Suggestions of Collusion with Russia ‘Fake News’

President weighs in on issue in early morning tweets, hours before a House committee holds a hearing to examine questions of Russian interference in last year's elections President Donald Trump dismissed as "FAKE NEWS" any suggestion that he "colluded" with Russia, weighing in on an issue that has shadowed his young presidency hours before a House committee is to hold a hearing that will examine questions of Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

LSU hosts human rights activists for panel discussion on the legacy of Castro and Cuba’s future

Here is something you don't see every day; the truth about the horrors of communism and the evil Cuban dictatorship being told on an American college campus. Though most consider communism to be a thing of the past, speakers from "Castro's Legacy and the Future of Cuba," a luncheon panel that was open to all University students on Wednesday in the LSU Student Union, pushed this idea aside.

Judge Resigns After Telling Woman In Rape Trial ‘Pain And Sex Sometimes Go Together’

A Canadian judge has resigned from his post after he was found guilty of victim-blaming throughout a rape trial in which he asked the alleged victim why she didn't just "keep her knees together" to avoid the assault. Justice Robin Camp's resignation is the result of a 15-month investigation into his handling of the trial of a man accused of raping a young woman as she sat in a bathroom sink in 2011, reports The Independent .

Feminism: Reality Is a Social Construct

Feminism was always crazy, but since the 1990s, the movement's inherent madness has been augmented by the French-influenced postmodernism of academic intellectuals. The enormous influence of Professor Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity has served as the vehicle by which French philosopher Michel Foucault became a feminist idol.

O’Reilly, Bob Woodward square off over Trump administration leaks

Bill O'Reilly and Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward faced off in a testy debate Wednesday over the Post's reporting of classified information in stories about the Trump administration on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor." At one point, O'Reilly asked Woodward if he believed the Post was being "used" when details of then-national security adviser Michael Flynn's phone calls to the Russian ambassador to the U.S. were leaked to the paper.