USA Today – by Greg Toppo

A week-long manhunt for a suspect who wounded an Illinois police officer ended Sunday in a shootout more than 200 miles south that wounded an FBI agent and left the suspect dead.

Police in southern Illinois said that after the shootout, a police robot entered an abandoned house in near Eddyville, Ill., near the Kentucky border, and found the body of Dracy “Clint” Pendleton on the second story. Officials did not immediately say whether he was killed by police or himself.   Continue reading “FBI agent wounded in Ill. shootout; police shooting suspect killed”

ABC News

The French foreign minister met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Sunday and said an upcoming Paris summit aimed at restarting peace talks will proceed, despite Israeli objections that direct negotiations are the only way forward.

Paris is to host an international meeting in May of 20 countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to discuss the peace process. Israel and the Palestinians have not been invited.   Continue reading “Paris Peace Summit to Proceed Despite Israeli Concerns”

Illegal Alien Crime Report

ALEXANDER, AR (KATV) — Authorities arrested an undocumented immigrant, originally from Mexico, accused of raping a 5-year-old in Alexander.

Jose-Manuel Garcia Gonzalez, who goes by “Manuel Gonzalez”, has been charged with rape and sexual grooming after being arrested Wednesday morning.   Continue reading “Illegal Alien Raped 5-Year-Old Girl In Arkansas”

Yahoo News

Target CEO Brian Cornell says the company isn’t backing down from its stance on transgender bathrooms, despite a widespread backlash.

More than 1.2 million people have signed a pledge to boycott Target after it announced last month that it would welcome transgender customers to use any bathroom or fitting room that matches their gender identity.   Continue reading “Target CEO fires back at boycott threats”

Fox News Latino

Montana state officials are not allowed to report the immigration status of people seeking state services, the state’s high court ruled on Tuesday.

In a unanimous decision, the court struck down the last piece of a voter-approved law meant to deter undocumented immigrants from living and working in the “Treasure State.” It upholds a 2014 ruling stating that the law denying unemployment benefits, university enrollment and other services to people who are in the country illegally was unconstitutional.   Continue reading “Montana court strikes down anti-immigrant law, allows undocumented to get services”

Investor’s Business Daily

A new investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton took in at least $100 million from Middle East leaders. Can such a financially and ethically compromised candidate truly function as our nation’s leader?

The investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation has uncovered a disturbing pattern of the Clintons’ raising money for the Clinton Foundation from regimes that have checkered records on human rights and that aren’t always operating in the best interests of the U.S. By the way, the $100 million we mentioned above doesn’t appear to include another $30 million given to the Clintons by two Mideast-based foundations and four billionaire Saudis.   Continue reading “Hillary’s Latest Scandal: She And Bill Siphoned $100 Mil From Mideast Leaders”

Yahoo News

The Obama administration tomorrow will instruct public school districts nationwide to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, sources tell ABC News.

As a condition of receiving federal funds, “a school may provide separate facilities on the basis of sex, but must allow transgender students access to such facilities consistent with their gender identity,” reads a letter outlining guidance for schools, obtained by ABC.   Continue reading “Obama to Order Public Schools: Allow Transgender Students Access to Bathrooms”

ABC News

In cities across America, the middle class is hollowing out.

A widening wealth gap is moving more households into either higher- or lower-income groups in major metro areas, with fewer remaining in the middle, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.

In nearly one-quarter of metro areas, middle-class adults no longer make up a majority, the Pew analysis found. That’s up from fewer than 10 percent of metro areas in 2000.   Continue reading “Middle Class Shrinks in 9 of 10 US Cities as Incomes Fall”

CNS News

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said yesterday that Border Patrol agents on Monday found “37 illegal immigrants” in a house in southern Texas that featured a shrine to “La Santa Muerte” or the “goddess of death.”

“Border Patrol agents along with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers conducted a traffic stop on a known smuggler which led to the discovery of the stash house,” CBP said in a release published on Wednesday. “After obtaining consent to search the residence, agents found 37 individuals inside. Among them were three juveniles from Mexico and Honduras. All subjects were transported to the McAllen Border Patrol Station and were processed accordingly.   Continue reading “Border Patrol Finds 37 Illegal Immigrants in House Featuring Shrine to ‘Goddess of Death’”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday handed a victory to congressional Republicans who challenged the implementation of a provision of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law involving reimbursements from the government to private health insurers.

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, based in Washington, ruled that the Obama administration cannot spend funds Congress did not appropriate in reimbursing insurance companies for reductions they are required to make under the law to customers’ out-of-pocket medical payments.   Continue reading “U.S. judge hands win to Republicans in Obamacare challenge”

Press TV

It seems the Pentagon is planning to implement former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger’s strategy of world domination, says Don DeBar, an American journalist and political commentator.

DeBar made the remarks while commenting to Press TV on Wednesday, after US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter presented Kissinger with the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award, the Pentagon’s highest honorary award for private citizens and foreign nationals.   Continue reading “‘Pentagon wants to implement Kissinger’s world domination plan’”

Business Insider – by Alex Dobuzinskis

(Reuters) – Environmental groups have asked the U.S. government to seize hundreds of jailed militant rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle, saying unregulated grazing of his herd on public lands in Nevada threatens habitat for federally protected desert tortoises.

The request from nine organizations in a letter sent on Monday to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the potential to increase tensions in the debate over federal control over vast areas in the West.   Continue reading “Groups ask U.S. to seize rancher Bundy’s cattle to protect tortoises”

Richmond Times Dispatch

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Maryland’s ban on assault weapons and large-capacity gun magazines is back before a federal appeals court.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond raised concerns about the constitutionality of the restrictions in February. The panel sent a lawsuit challenging those provisions back to a judge who upheld them and ordered her to take another look using a more rigorous legal standard.   Continue reading “US appeals court to hear Maryland gun-control case”

Fox News

A Wyoming man threatened with $16 million in fines over the building of a stock pond reached a settlement with the Environment Protection Agency, allowing him to keep the pond without a federal permit or hefty fine.

Andy Johnson, of Fort Bridger, Wyoming obtained a state permit before building the stock pond in 2012 on his sprawling nine-acre farm for a small herd of livestock.   Continue reading “Wyoming welder, facing $16M in fines, beats EPA in battle over stock pond”

Oregon Live – by Maxine Bernstein

Ammon Bundy led the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge intending to force a civil court to take up the constitutionality of federal land management policy, his lawyers contend in new court papers filed Monday.

He had expected the government to issue an eviction or ejection claim instead of arresting and indicting the occupiers on federal charges in criminal court.   Continue reading “Ammon Bundy had intended refuge occupation to end up in civil court, lawyers say”