For the second time this year, a federal judge in Alaska has blocked the Trump administration’s resource development plans in the far north, this time halting a move to make thousands of acres in America’s largest national forest available for … Continue reading Federal judge blocks logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
A Michigan election official has been charged by the state with six felony counts of voter fraud in connection with the November 2018 elections. Southfield City Clerk Sherikia Lavette Hawkins, 38, a Democrat first elected to the post in November … Continue reading Michigan election official charged with 6 felony counts of voter fraud
News Analysis The embattled far-left Southern Poverty Law Center flew past the half-billion-dollar mark in assets for the first time, ending the last tax year with $518.3 million in assets—after raking in $122.9 million that year, according to a newly disclosed IRS … Continue reading UPDATED: As fundraising shoots up, lawsuits threaten Southern Poverty Law Center
A day after Democrats vowed to open a formal impeachment inquiry, President Trump dropped a bombshell Sept. 25 by releasing the transcript of a conversation he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Trump’s enemies insist is the smoking gun … Continue reading Democrats bet it all on Trump’s telephone call transcript: The president breaks no law – but facts elude Dems in full Trump Derangement meltdown
Bowing to pressure from student protesters, Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University announced it is ending a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide emergency medical training to federal agents. ICE has been a target of open-borders activists who … Continue reading Johns Hopkins will no longer provide medical training to ICE
For the record, I am writer and researcher Matthew Vadum. I am the author of four published books. They are: *Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011) *Team Jihad: How … Continue reading Matthew Vadum’s work is cited in 108 books (so far), 97 times on Google Scholar, 34900 times on Google
Yes, I was the first to report that the Southern Poverty Law Center was stashing cash in offshore tax havens. Thanks for the acknowledgment, in your new book, Open Borders Inc., Michelle Malkin! Continue reading Author Michelle Malkin cites me in her new book Open Borders Inc.
A woman diagnosed with gender dysphoria can sue a Catholic hospital for refusing to surgically remove her uterus as part of the sex-reassignment process, despite the hospital’s religious objection to performing the operation, an appeals court in California ruled. The … Continue reading Court rules that gender concerns override religious principles
Commentary The myth that black teen Trayvon Martin was a victim of racist violence set race relations back and was foisted on Americans by unscrupulous prosecutors in Florida who perpetrated “the most spectacular case of identity fraud in modern American judicial history” … Continue reading Film tells story of racial hoax surrounding Trayvon Martin’s death
News Analysis WASHINGTON—The Trump administration told the Supreme Court in a new filing that a rule that the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau can only be fired by the president for cause is unconstitutional. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) … Continue reading President seeks power to fire head of consumer bureau at will
Facebook’s 2.4 billion monthly active users will soon be able to appeal takedown decisions to a new “oversight board” that its CEO once likened to a “Supreme Court” that will have the power to override the company’s own content-moderation decisions, … Continue reading Responding to critics, Facebook ‘Oversight Board’ to monitor content decisions
Unless he convinces Israeli lawmakers from outside his party to join him in a national unity government, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 10-and-a-half-year run in office may soon end following inconclusive results in his country’s parliamentary elections this week that … Continue reading Bibi in Trouble? Netanyahu may have to master the art of the deal to stay in power
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Sept. 16 that the city of Phoenix can’t use a criminal law to compel two artists to produce custom wedding invitations for LGBT couples because that would force them to express messages that conflict with their personal … Continue reading Arizona court allows artists to refuse to express LGBT messages
A federal court dismissed a racketeering lawsuit brought by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) against leaders of the Southern Poverty Law Center for blacklisting it as a “hate group.” CIS Executive Director Mark Krikorian told The Associated Press … Continue reading Court dismisses lawsuit over ‘hate group’ label
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is proposing that immigrants be required for the first time to provide information about their social media accounts as part of the application process for U.S. citizenship and other immigration-related benefits. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants … Continue reading Trump administration to look at immigrants’ social media accounts
Search engine giant Google is denying wrongdoing after being sued for $50 million for undermining Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign by suspending its online advertising after Gabbard’s attention-grabbing performance in the first candidates’ debate June 26. “We filed a lawsuit against Google … Continue reading Gabbard campaign sues Google over suspending ads, suppressing free speech
A former campaign staffer for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel being sued for extortion by a third party has claimed that an “underworld network” of Ukrainian computer hackers engaged in mischief during the 2018 election intended to benefit Nessel, according to a … Continue reading Michigan election hacking alleged amid charges of extortion
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court threw out an Obama-appointed judge’s nationwide injunction late on Sept. 11, clearing the way for President Donald Trump to enforce his asylum policy that requires some claimants to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration processing. The Trump administration policy … Continue reading Supreme Court quashes district court’s national injunction on asylum policy
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ideologically evolving 9th Circuit, which until recently routinely resisted President Donald Trump’s policies, dramatically struck down an Obama-appointed district judge’s nationwide injunction against Trump’s asylum policy mere hours after it was issued. Conservatives have … Continue reading Trump administration scores win on asylum policy in 9th Circuit decision
WASHINGTON—Top federal officials defended the Trump administration’s plan to end federal control of the financially recovering but once troubled secondary mortgage market titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as they faced sometimes aggressive questioning by senators from both parties. The Trump administration wants … Continue reading Cabinet secretaries defend plan to end federal control of mortgage market titans