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The Justice Department moved Tuesday to fight a federal judge’s order that its lawyers undergo mandatory ethics training, digging in after the DOJ was accused of misleading the courts over President Obama’s immigration executive actions.
In filings Tuesday, the department said the order would “far exceed the bounds of appropriate remedies” and would cost the department millions. Continue reading “DOJ fights federal judge’s order for lawyers to attend ethics training”
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An outbreak of measles that began with an inmate at a federal detention center for immigrants in central Arizona has now grown to 11 confirmed cases.
Seven of those infected are inmates at the Eloy Detention Center, and four are workers at the facility, Pinal County Health Services spokesman Joe Pyritz said. Continue reading “Measles Outbreak Traced Back to Inmate at Arizona Immigrant Detention Facility as Confirmed Cases Continue to Grow”
The director of the zoo where a 4-year-old boy fell into a moat that housed a silverback gorilla Saturday said he stands by the decision to kill the 400-pound animal.
“We stand by our decision, and we’d make the same call today,” Thane Maynard, director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, said at a press conference Monday. He added that people who second-guess the decision “engage in Monday-morning quarterbacking and do not understand primate biology.” Continue reading “Zoo that killed 400-pound silverback Harambe to protect boy ‘stands by decision’”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A writer for The Huffington Post is still waiting for an explanation as to why editors deleted his piece reporting that the FBI will pursue an indictment against Hillary Clinton.
Huffington Post freelance contributor Frank Huguenard, a scientist and public speaker, wrote a report for the liberal site Sunday entitled “Hillary Clinton to be Indicted On Federal Racketeering Charges.” But the piece was not up for long before the Huffington Post pulled it down and replaced it with a “404” Error screen. Continue reading “Huffington Post Writer: Editors Deleted My Article on Hillary’s Imminent Indictment, Disabled Me from Writing”
Immigrants fleeing gang violence in Central America are again surging across the U.S.-Mexico border, approaching the numbers that created an immigration crisis in the summer of 2014. While the flow of immigrants slowed for much of last year, nothing the U.S. government does seems to deter the current wave of travelers. Continue reading “U.S.-Mexico Border Sees Resurgence Of Central Americans Seeking Asylum”
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On May 19, the House of Reprehensibles passed a proposal that would essentially ban the display of Confederate flags from national cemeteries. The amendment was added to a Veteran Affairs spending bill. Continue reading “Long Live the Flags of Dixie!”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Memorials to veterans in a Los Angeles neighborhood and a town in Kentucky, as well as a Civil War veterans cemetery in Virginia, were damaged as the nation prepares to mark Memorial Day, officials said.
A Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles has been extensively defaced by graffiti. The vandalism occurred sometime during the past week, KCAL/KCBS-TV (http://cbsloc.al/1RAa3mg) reported. The homespun memorial painted on a block-long wall on Pacific Avenue lists the names of American service members missing in action or otherwise unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Continue reading “Veterans sites in California, Kentucky, Virginia damaged”
Louisiana’s hate-crime protections now cover law enforcement and first responders. Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the legislation on Thursday after it had passed easily in the Republican-controlled Legislature, NPR’s Debbie Elliott reports.
People convicted of intentionally targeting police officers, firefighters or emergency medical crews will now face stricter penalties — as one would for targeting someone for race or gender, The Two-Way has reported. Other protected classes in the state are age, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national origin and ancestry. Continue reading “In Louisiana, It’s Now A Hate Crime To Target Police Officers”
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe invited the Chinese businessman whose donations to him have been named as a focus of Justice Department investigators to a 2013 fundraiser at Hillary Clinton’s personal Washington, D.C., residence.
Wang Wenliang, a Chinese national with U.S. permanent residency, briefly shook Clinton’s hand at the Sept. 30 event, a representative for Wang told TIME. An American company controlled by Wang made a $60,000 contribution to McAuliffe’s campaign three weeks before the fundraiser. Less than a month later, a separate Wang company pledged $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the first of several donations that eventually totaled $2 million. Continue reading “Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Invited Chinese Donor to Hillary Clinton’s Home”
OREGON INLET, N.C. – The U.S. Coast Guard responded about 25 miles off the North Carolina coast Thursday morning after receiving reports of a collision between two planes.
According to the Navy, the incident involved two F/A-18F Super Hornets that were flying approximately 24 nautical miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras.
The Navy confirms that the jets were from Strike Fighter Squadron 211 (VFA-211) based at Naval Air Station Oceana. Continue reading “Four pilots recovered after Navy jet collision off North Carolina coast”
Grumbling that the Obama administration has done all it can to restrict gun ownership at the federal level, Vice President Joe Biden recently urged state and local officials to pick up the task of subverting the Second Amendment.
Biden, who convened a conference of like-minded elected officials from the states Tuesday, griped about a “dysfunctional” Congress — a Congress he said will not accept the gun control agenda pushed by the administration — and said the most meaningful debate is outside of Washington. Continue reading “WH Makes Final Push to Take the Guns”
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(Reuters) – Officials from 11 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday to overturn a directive telling schools to let transgender students use bathrooms matching their gender identity, decrying the policy as “a massive social experiment.”
Ramping up the simmering battles over contentious cultural issues in America, the states, led by Texas and most with Republican governors, accused the federal government of rewriting laws by “administrative fiat.” Continue reading “States ratchet up transgender battle with lawsuit against U.S.”
(BEECH GROVE) Many Beech Grove residents were woken up early Tuesday morning by the sound of gunshots at the former St. Francis Hospital in Beech Grove.
Beech Grove Police say the U.S. Army Special Operations Command was conducting military training in urban terrain.
At least 100 military personnel were involved in the exercise which started around midnight. Continue reading ““Military exercise” startles Indianapolis residents”
GMO giant Monsanto rejected a $62 billion takeover bid by the German pharmaceutical Beyer, saying the price was too low but adding it remained “open to further talks.”
Monsanto can “see the logic” of combining with the German corporation, and believes the merger could get the required approval from regulators, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters. However, the St. Louis, Missouri-based company believes its shareholders deserve a better offer. Continue reading “Monsanto rejects $62 billion bid from Bayer”
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Federal Reserve gave three state-owned Chinese banks its stamp of approval Thursday to expand their presence in the United States.
The central bank accepted an application from Industrial and Commerce Bank of China Ltd. (IDCBY) (ICBC), along with China Investment Corporation and Central Huijin Investment, to become bank holding companies by purchasing up to an 80% stake in New York-based Bank of East Asia U.S.A. Continue reading “Flashback 2012: Three Chinese banks expanding in U.S.”
Close Clinton operative Terry McAuliffe is under federal investigation for campaign contributions from a Chinese billionaire who has also donated $2 million to the Clinton Foundation.
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Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department’s public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say. Continue reading “First ‘Clinton Cash’ Domino to Fall: FBI Investigating Hillary Bagman Terry McAuliffe”
The IRS says the agency’s commissioner won’t appear at a House hearing on Tuesday examining whether he deserves to be impeached.
A statement by the IRS on Monday says that John Koskinen has not had time to prepare for the House Judiciary Committee hearing because of recent travel and because he must also get ready for a second, unrelated hearing. Continue reading “IRS chief won’t appear at House hearing on his impeachment”