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Oh, grow up. Not even Republicans believe this would offend POTUS. His position on gay marriage was ably summarized by Ramesh Ponnuru a week ago: He consistently says he's against it but he's also consistently signaled that he doesn't much care.
The Justice Department is offering lawmakers a new look next week at classified documents on the FBI's use of an informant in the Russia investigation. The move comes as Republican congressional leaders are publicly disputing President Donald Trump's claims that the government planted a spy in his 2016 campaign "to help Crooked Hillary win" - a reference to his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
The Trump administration said in a court filing late Thursday that it will no longer defend key parts of the Affordable Care Act , including the requirement that people have health insurance and provisions that guarantee access to health insurance regardless of any medical conditions. The decision, announced in a filing in a federal court in Texas, is a rare departure from the Justice Department's practice of defending federal laws in court.
It's never a good sign when your socialist President sends his police and unofficial goon squad into the street to start shooting protesters against his regime. We've seen this playbook recently in Venezuela under President Nicolas Maduro and now something very similar in Nicaragua where former socialist revolutionary Daniel Ortega seems intent on ruling for life.
In this April 30, 2018, file photo, former FBI director James Comey speaks during a stop on his book tour in Washington. Comey is about to get dinged in an internal review by the Justice Department, and President Donald Trump says he can't wait.
A PR stunt of near genius. For the price of not even a hundred grand, the company's all set for a multitude of photo ops with adorable tykes who've been harassed by the bureaucratic state at its very dumbest and most soulless.
The fiercest primary election battle in Nevada this year is ... . FILE - In this May 8, 2018 file photo, Clark County Commission member Steve Sisolak speaks during a forum for Nevada gubernatorial candidates in Las Vegas.
President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration has already led to overrun detention facilities, long lines of asylum seekers camping out at the U.S.-Mexico border and a decision to separate young children from their parents indefinitely. Now, the administration is sending more than 1,600 immigrants - including some of those parents - to federal prisons amid a lack of space in other jails.
'If Facebook granted Huawei special access to social data of Americans, it might as well have given it directly to the government of China' Amid the uproar over Facebook's admission that it shared user data with Chinese device makers is an undercurrent of tension between the United States and China over technological dominance. Not only was Facebook passing previously undisclosed personal information to other companies, but also one of the dozens of firms involved was Huawei, a Chinese firm flagged by US intelligence officials as a national security risk because of its alleged ties to China's government.
A hand recount has confirmed a two-vote win by Jack Zika in the Republican primary election in Oregon's 53rd House district. Early results had shown Zika leading opponent Ben Schimmoller by 11 votes, but that lead shrunk to two Monday after officials counted additional votes.
PHOENIX>> An Arizona appeals court today upheld a Phoenix anti-discrimination law that makes it illegal for businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples because of religion. Breanna Koski, left, and Joanna Duka in Phoenix.
Four doctors and the CEO of a pain clinic in Detroit are accused of a $200 million opioid fraud scheme that funded a luxury lifestyle of exotic cars, a $7 million mansion and rare designer watches. A federal indictment handed down by the Department of Justice Wednesday outlines what prosecutors say is one of the largest cases of health care fraud in Detroit's history.
President Donald Trump teed off on Sen. Jeff Flake again on Thursday, ridiculing his persistent Republican critic from Arizona as "humiliatingly forced out of his own Senate seat without even a fight." Trump's tweet appears to be a preemptive strike against Flake, who on Thursday delivered the latest in a series of Trump critiques from the Senate floor.
The Trump administration told a federal court Thursday it won't defend Obamacare against a lawsuit that's trying to strike down most of the law. It's a notable stance that means it will be up to Obamacare fans such as Democratic governors to step in and defend the Affordable Care Act against on onslaught from GOP attorneys general, who say after Congress nixed the individual mandate at the heart of the law, the rest of it should follow.
About 1,600 people Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained will be sent to federal prison, according to a Thursday Reuters report. Five federal prisons will hold the detainees, who are awaiting immigration civil court hearings, an ICE spokeswoman told Reuters.
Billed to be the "most powerful AR platform carbine ever produced, exceeding the ballistics of the .450 Bushmaster, .458 SOCOM and .500 Beowulf," Wilson Combat's introduction of the .458 HAM'R combines a big-bore proprietary cartridge with a newly designed AR platform the Wilson crew likes to describe as an "AR-12." Innovations like these drive the firearms industry, and when a company like Wilson Combat, revered for its custom 1911s, both develops a new cartridge and then builds a radically new platform around it, it's sure to whip up some attention.
Influential news aggregator Matt Drudge is the embodiment of evil itself, according to the head of a top liberal think tank. Center for America Progress President Neera Tanden, a close ally of failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, leveled the accusation while appearing on a National Review podcast, The Jamie Weinstein Show .
President Trump honored Otto Warmbier's family, an American who died as a result of his custody in North Korea, at a Thursday press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "I'd like to just close by paying my highest respect and regards and love, frankly, I have gotten to know them very well, to the Warmbier family, the incredible family of Otto Warmbier who was a brilliant, beautiful, terrific young man," the president said.
House GOP: Session could crash again without reforms Gov. John Bel Edwards is expected to issue Friday a call for a third Special Session of the spring. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's House Republican Caucus has sent a letter to Gov. John Bel Edwards saying its members can't support more taxes to address the state's budget without spending reforms and transparency.
A day after Stormy Daniels accused her former lawyer of being a "puppet" for President Donald Trump, the attorney countersued the porn star and her new attorney for defamation and accused Trump's personal attorney of illegally recording their telephone calls. The countersuit was filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles - hours after Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed Daniels isn't credible and has "no reputation" because she's a porn actress.