California prison officials said almost 18,000 inmates in state prisons are being released because of the coronavirus — an increase of 70 percent from earlier release estimates. And details are surfacing about who these prisoners are, including a report issued by KTLA in Los Angeles: Among those released last week […]
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Just one day after Democrats at a Senate hearing on destructive riots in Portland denied that description and claimed otherwise peaceful protests turned violent because of the presence of federal officers, the state police declared a riot, which included gunfire, a stabbing, and setting the Portland Police Association building on […]
Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church in a Los Angeles suburb have been served a letter from the city threatening to impose a $1,000 daily fine if the church does not comply with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order for some churches in the state to be shuttered because of the […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution that the nightly assaults on the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, required government intervention, because local law enforcement refused to quell the attacks on the building and the federal officers already stationed on the […]
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Thursday that schools will stay closed for the first term and that all learning will be virtual, citing the well-being of students as the top priority. But on Friday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), […]
New York City officials estimate that it will take weeks to clean up the mess and damage left by the Occupy City Hall protesters after police in riot gear forced the remaining people inside to leave the facility. The cleanup includes removing large amounts of debris, human waste, and graffiti […]
The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced Thursday that it has approved the logistics for the Alaska Liquified Natural Gas Pipeline Project. The announcement from the agency made sure to address how the project is both good for the U.S. economy and safe for the environment. “With this approval, the […]
House Democrats have passed legislation to remove 15 statues because of their connection to the Confederacy, slavery, or white supremacy, 13 of whom were Democrats. “It’s time to sweep away the last vestiges of Jim Crow and the dehumanizing of individuals because of the color of their skin that intruded […]
Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, wrote in an online post on Wednesday titled “Pulling Down Our Monuments,” that the once conservation now environmental activist group must face its role in promoting white supremacy. “The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which […]
President Donald Trump is trying to keep his promise to help the American coal industry, but Democrats in four states hope to thwart that effort by filing a lawsuit that claims environmental concerns should halt leases on public land. Xavier Becerra in California, Hector Balderas in New Mexico, Letitia James […]
Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, hit back at a press conference in DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday against media reports that the Trump administration has sent anonymous, military-style forces into Portland, Oregon, where violent riots have taken place nightly for weeks. Wolf vowed, […]
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), part of United States Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning a mission for 150 federal agents to assist other federal law enforcement efforts in Chicago, where homicide rates have soared. “So far in 2020, Chicago has experienced one of its […]
Video on social media shows protesters linked to Black Lives Matter rioting in Seattle on Sunday, including smashing windows and looting an Amazon store while protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detaining illegal migrants. Breaking: Anti-police brutality protests have turned violent in Seattle, Washington. A video shows rioters looting […]
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) paid tribute to civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who died Friday, but mistakenly posted pictures of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who died in October. “It was an honor to know & be blessed with the opportunity to serve in Congress […]
In the San Francisco Bay Area of California, where racial justice protesters are calling for defunding the police, the homicide rate has risen 14 percent so far in 2020. One member of the city council in Vallejo, which has the highest number of murders, blames the increase on “systemic racism.” […]
President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, who was cut from the family’s fortune by her grandfather and visited the White House as recently at 2017, is making the rounds to promote her book trashing her uncle as being “unfit for office.” In an interview with tax-payer funded National Public Radio, she […]
The San Francisco Police Commission voted this week to require police stations throughout the city to display Black Lives Matter posters, despite pushback from union members. The left-wing and Marxist Black Lives Matter political organization has been at the forefront of calls for police to be defunded across the country […]
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf condemned the violence of mobs in Portland, Oregon that are destroying property and posing a threat to public safety in a report on the city’s condition posted on the agency’s website on Thursday. The wave of violence started as protests against the death […]
The United States Supreme Court on Thursday said it would not overturn a federal appeals court’s decision that blocks some Florida felons from voting. The decision impacts as many as 1.4 million people in the battleground state, the Washington Post reported: The decision lets stand a temporary halt by the […]
Gallup, the “global analytics and advice firm,” is weighing in on the current debate on race in the U.S. by launching the Center on Black Voices, which it says begins a 100-year-commitment to understanding how black Americans “actually experience their lives.” Jim Clifton, who has been the CEO of the […]
The Hispanic food company Goya has been in the spotlight in recent days after its president Bob Unanue praised President Donald Trump while at the White House for the launch of the Hispanic Prosperity Initiative, but critics of his remarks have been overshadowed by those who have supported the company, […]
For the first time in 75 years, the famed Rose Parade will not travel down Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California, because of fears that the coronavirus will still be a threat on the first day of 2021. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association announced on Wednesday that the annual parade […]
The White House Coronavirus Task Force beginning on Wednesday will start receiving all data related to the virus directly from hospitals instead of using the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as a clearinghouse between the front lines and the experts tasked with reporting to the American people about the disease. […]
Former vice president and Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said Tuesday the United States only has nine years to address climate change as he vowed to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 — 30 years from now. “We’ll lock in progress that no future president can roll back or undercut to […]