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Jan 31 2016
News
WH: It Does Not Seem Hillary Will Be Indicted, 'Based on What We Know'
There has been widespread speculation over whether Hillary Clinton will be indicted for her email scandal, but on Friday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggested that she wouldn’t be, at least “based on what we know from the Department of Justice.”
TownhallMay 19 2017
News
DHS Drastically Reduces Number of Countries That Refuse to Take Back U.S. Deportees
One of the many issues Department of Homeland Security officials have faced in trying to remove criminal aliens from the U.S. is the fact that many countries refused to take back their citizens. A 2001 Supreme Court ruling complicated matter in ruling that illegal immigrants whose home countries won’t take them back cannot be detained indefinitely. Thus, many ended up on the streets,
TownhallSep 11 2019
Opinion
John Bolton’s legacy: Chaos, dysfunction and no meaningful accomplishments
THE DEPARTURE of John Bolton as national security adviser on Tuesday — President Trump said he fired him, and Mr. Bolton maintained that he quit — was logical and overdue. A rigid ideologue, Mr. Bolton has a long record of championing military action against U.S. adversaries, which Mr. Trump resists, and opposing negotiation with the likes of North Korea and Iran, which is the president’s
Guest Writer - LeftJun 24 2017
News
Refugee arrivals down drastically under Trump: DHS
The number of refugees entering the U.S. decreased by nearly half during President Trump’s first three months in office, newly released immigration data reveal.
About 13,000 refugees entered the U.S. during the first three months of the Trump administration, down from roughly 25,000 during former President Obama’s last months in office, according to statistics published by the
Guest Writer - RightMay 27 2016
News
Obama calls for end to nuclear weapons, but U.S. disarmament is slowest since 1980
Speaking from Hiroshima, the site of the first war-time atomic weapon detonation, President Obama on Friday called for the pursuit of "a world without nuclear weapons."
Only a few days prior, his Department of Defense published new data revealing that the government Obama oversees -- a government which manages the second-largest nuclear stockpile in the world -- had dismantled fewer of
Washington PostMar 04 2015
News
Ted Cruz Says GOP Leaders Planned To Cave On Immigration All Along
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) charged Tuesday that Republican leaders in Congress had planned all along to capitulate in their battle to defund President Barack Obama’s immigration actions.
Cruz’s remarks came soon after House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) decided to bring up a “clean” bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, backing down from the effort to use department funding to
HuffPostMar 20 2020
News
'I love this city to my bones': How Mayor Jenny Durkan leads Seattle
Washington was the first state hit with the new coronavirus, meaning its leaders had no U.S. peers to look to for guidance. At the epicenter, near Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan has relied on science, teamwork – and speed.
It was Monday, March 2, when Mayor Jenny Durkan took the call at her Seattle home. On the line was Harvard-trained epidemiologist Trevor Bedford, who had caught the
Christian Science MonitorJan 22 2016
News
Hillary Clinton's email scandal puts presidential aspirations in peril
Hillary Clinton is vehemently disputing new charges that she sent top-secret information from a nonsecure email account while at the State Department, but analysts say the scandal has already damaged her so deeply that her presidential ambitions are at risk.
Washington TimesMar 19 2019
News
Oh, So This Is Why The FBI Couldn't View The Clinton Foundation Emails On Hillary's Unauthorized Server
I know it’s a story that isn’t as dominating as the 2020 contenders, the college admission scandal, or the horrific shooting in New Zealand, but the Department of Justice/FBI meddling in the 2016 election is still news. We all had suspicions that there were top-level folks screwing around. I mean, we just had revelations that top officials at the DOJ were discussing ways to remove Donald Trump
TownhallAug 07 2020
Opinion
The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically
In March, tens of millions of American workers—mostly in white-collar industries such as tech, finance, and media—were thrust into a sudden, chaotic experiment in working from home. Four months later, the experiment isn’t close to ending. For many, the test run is looking more like the long run.
Google announced in July that its roughly 200,000 employees will continue to work from home
The Atlantic