Florida elections officials are racing to recount ballots this week with the state’s contests for the U.S. Senate and governor too close to call. Republicans took the lead in last Tuesday’s elections, but state-mandated recounts were ordered after the processing of more than 8 million ballots. President Donald Trump is calling for the recounts to […]
The first gathering of the nation’s Catholic bishops since this summer’s wave of anger and recrimination at the hierarchy’s handling of clergy sex-abuse opened Monday with a stunning announcement: The prelates would not take a promised vote on a series of new accountability measures– and it was the Vatican that ordered them to hold off. […]
There’s been a lot of talk about veterans in recent years, and much of it has not been good. In 2014, we learned that the VA hospitals were treating our vets more like enemies than heroes—falsifying records, neglecting their treatment, in some cases forcing them to wait so long that they died before they got […]
The incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee this week said that when the new Congress is seated in January, Democrats plan to scrutinize whether President Trump abused his authority by taking adverse action against retail giant Amazon and two of his bitter left-leaning media rivals: CNN and The Washington Post. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., […]
The Eagles’ locker room was a dejected place when Sunday turned into Monday and the players started to realize the stunning reality of a 27-20 loss to the rival Dallas Cowboys. What pained and perplexed them even more was that they have felt that way too often during a season in danger of escaping them. […]
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions has drastically limited the ability of federal law enforcement officials to use court-enforced agreements to overhaul local police departments accused of abuses and civil rights violations. In a major last-minute act, Sessions signed a memorandum on Wednesday before President Trump fired him sharply curtailing the use of consent decrees, court-approved […]
There are still 171 children from separated families in US custody more than four months after a judge ordered the US government to reunite the undocumented immigrant families it had split up at the border, according to court documents filed Thursday. Of the children who remain in custody, there are seven who are in the […]
The move to replace Sessions with Matt Whitaker, who has been openly critical of the special counsel, comes as the White House prepares written answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller. As acting attorney general, Whitaker also now takes over Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s role in overseeing the special counsel probe, which seems […]
An armed man dressed in black opened fire late Wednesday night inside a crowded country and western dance hall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., killing at least 12 people, including a sheriff’s deputy who had responded to the scene. The gunman was also dead. The shooting came just over a year after 58 people were killed […]
President Trump abruptly announced on Twitter Wednesday that Jeff Sessions is no longer the U.S. attorney general. “We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our Country […]
A Philadelphia police officer was shot in a thigh Wednesday morning when he and his partner “interrupted a shooting” in Kensington and got into a gun battle with at least one of the suspects, Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. Officer Paul Sulock, 31, was in stable condition and in good spirits at Temple University Hospital […]
As I watched election results roll in last night, and listened to breathless commentators trying to will their party to victory, it hit me that the only thing that matters is our vote. Not how many times Oprah campaigns with you. Not how many times Obama shows up. Not how many liberal journalists try to […]