Editor Brian Harrod Provides Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, with aggregated news from sources all over the world from the Roundup Newswires Network
In this Monday, Feb. 26, 2017, file photo, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court, in Washington. Gov. Rauner plans to veto legislation that would require gun retailers to be licensed by the state of Illinois.
President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending measure Friday averting a government shutdown at midnight, acting just hours after saying he was considering a veto. Trump complained that the legislation does not fully fund his plans for a border wall with Mexico and does not address some 800,000 "Dreamer" immigrants who are now protected from deportation under a program that he has moved to eliminate.
Even for an administration that seems to thrive on wrong-footing allies and opponents alike, the last 24 hours has been remarkable. Early this morning, Donald Trump tweeted out that he might veto the omnibus bill that his White House had pledged he'd sign.
The truth behind Elon Musk's inter-galactic family feud: Billionaire's father, 72, had a baby son with his 30-year-old STEPDAUGHTER who he has brought up since she was FOUR Iowa family-of-four are all found dead in their Mexican vacation home from suspected gas leak one day after being reported missing by friends Out-of-control Chinese space station will 'crash into Earth over the Easter weekend' with New York one of the areas most at risk from being hit Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner, 72, says #MeToo movement is a 'witch hunt', three months after being accused of sexual assault by male friend who says he attacked him after a night of cocaine and booze in 1983 Trump says Democrats in Congress are 'using' DACA recipients as political pawns and insists Republicans tried to save them in $1.3 trillion budget deal Elon Musk abruptly DELETES SpaceX and Tesla's Facebook pages after Twitter ... (more)
You know what would have been a better idea? Making clear that the bill would be vetoed before Congress voted on it and began leaving town for their two-week break, with a shutdown looming. Republicans rubber-stamped the omnibus having been led by the White House to believe that Trump would sign it .
Ever since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida last month, a group of students have been making the rounds on television demanding that we do something. The students, especially Hogg, have mostly brushed off numerous law enforcement failures before and during the shooting.
Former President George W. Bush says "a great patriot has passed away" in former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia. Bush said in a statement Friday that Miller "was an example of service before self, country before party, principle before poll."
The law would allow waitstaff tips to be shared with cooks and other back-of-the-house restaurant workers, but prevents owners from getting a cut. It also allocates some smaller amounts: the money customers leave behind as tips in restaurants, nail salons, and other businesses.
Today's hot topics on Relevant Radio: Hollywood virtue signaling, attacks on faith-based adoption services, Washington follies, and more! Once again, I get to step outside the box and guest host on Relevant Radio's Drew Mariani Show from 3-6 ET today! The Catholic talk-radio network is heard nationwide on the air after its merger with Immaculate Heart Radio, as well as online and through their free mobile app that plays live and podcast shows. We may add more before the show starts today, plus we will have the chaplet of Divine Mercy in the second hour.
Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee have requested that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify before their committees. The letter from the House Energy and Commerce Committee came from chairman Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican, the committee's top Democrat Frank Pallone Jr., Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection subcommittee chairman Bob Latta, ranking Democrat Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Communications and Technology subcommittee chairman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and ranking member Mike Doyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat.
During the omnibus bill signing today, President Trump offered a surprisingly strong message to DACA recipients. Ed noted earlier that Trump's Twitter threat to veto the bill was based on DACA.
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin has spent the last six months attempting to do the impossible: find a solution inside the US Capitol to an immigration quagmire. Standing on a marble staircase just off the Senate floor, he lamented Thursday that one of his worst legislative fears had come true: after a brief shutdown over immigration, fits and starts of negotiations with the White House and more than one bipartisan bill, Congress would leave for the Easter recess without enshrining in law a program that has given individuals who entered the US illegally as children a chance to live, work and be educated in the United States without fear of deportation.
We collect zip code so that we may deliver news, weather, special offers and other content related to your specific geographic area. We have sent a confirmation email to {* data_emailAddress *}.
President Trump's incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, ran a political action committee that paid Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of the Facebook controversy, $811,000 for data. John Bolton's super PAC paid more than $800,000 to Cambridge Analytica President Trump's incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, ran a political action committee that paid Cambridge Analytica, the firm at the center of the Facebook controversy, $811,000 for data.
Zell Miller, the former Georgia governor and U.S. senator, has died following a battle with Parkinson's Disease, his family said Friday. He was 86. A lifelong Southern Democrat, Miller famously famously spoke at the 2004 GOP convention as a Democrat in support of former President George W. Bush's re-election campaign.
Senator John McCain on Friday pressed President Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA director, Gina Haspel, for information about her ties to the agency's past use of harsh interrogation techniques, underscoring challenges she faces winning confirmation. FILE PHOTO: Gina Haspel, a veteran CIA clandestine officer picked by U.S. President Donald Trump to head the Central Intelligence Agency, is shown in this handout photograph released on March 13, 2018.
NNU members are expected to join in marches scheduled in Parkland and Sarasota, Fl.,, Washington D.C., Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, Tx., Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Ca. "The activist students deserve the nation's thanks for demanding policy makers finally pass needed reforms as well as stimulating a national dialogue on what steps we should, as a nation, take to protect our children, our families, and all of our people from what is clearly a preventable form of violence," said NNU Co-President Jean Ross, RN earlier this month.
U.S. President Donald Trump made a surprising threat on Friday to veto Congress' newly passed $1.3 trillion spending bill, a move that raised the specter of a government shutdown ahead of a midnight deadline to renew funding for federal agencies. In a tweet on Friday morning Trump said he was displeased about immigration issues in the bill, even though the White House had given assurances on Thursday that he would sign it.
The letters printed on Sunday highlighted your two favorite targets - President Donald Trump and Pastor Robert Jeffress. The seemingly endless drumbeat of negative coverage of these two men rarely mentions their great accomplishments.