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Mainstream news coverage does not reflect the political make-up of the Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Mainstream media is exceedingly likely to cover news through a partisan filter. So it’s no surprise ...

Democrats are considering punishing Israel for its right to deny two anti-Semitic Congresswomen from entering the nation after it was revealed their trip was sponsored by a group sympathetic to terrorism. Rep. ...

As Americans learn more about the much talked about federal “red flag” gun confiscation bill, support for it among Republicans, gun-owning Democrats and President Donald Trump is dropping. Trump initially offered his ...

Here’s today’s news briefs: US authorities struggle in dealing with robocalls The billions of illegal robocalls inundating Americans are being facilitated largely by small telecom carriers that transmit calls over the internet, but authorities ...

There’s not much that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on these days. Unless you’re talking about bi-partisan support for Israel. They can agree on that. Support for Israel regularly brings people ...

Disability rights advocate Sara Hart Weir recently announced that she is running against Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids in Kansas’s 3rd District congressional race. Elizabeth Arnold, a progressive political activist from Johnson County, ...

After having been breached by Russian military nuclear expansion, the treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation is dead. The United States on Aug. 2 formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces ...

Baltimore residents are now coming out in defense of President Donald Trump’s recent comments about conditions in the city. Trump made comments condemning the poverty and crime in the city which is ...

Sen. Rand Paul’s team has responded after Rep. Ilhan Omar shared a post celebrating the violence against Paul that left him with broken ribs. Omar on July 29 shared a post by ...

Democrats are being criticized for creating a race incident where none exists after President Donald Trump criticized the living conditions and crime in Baltimore. The district, which has some of the highest ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has separated from her husband with plans to divorce him, according to a new report, amid calls for investigators to probe Omar’s marriage history after it was recently found she ...

During the day July 24, political commentators following the appearance of former special counsel Robert Mueller repeatedly called his testimony a disaster for Democrats. From CNN to MSNBC, anchors and pundits expressed dismay at ...

Former special counsel Robert Mueller appeared flustered while answering questions from congressional members on July 24, repeatedly asking for questions to be repeated and reversing his answers multiple times. Mueller was answering ...

Former special counsel Robert Mueller, who is testifying on the Trump-Russia probe before Congress today, is  accompanied by his right-hand aide and lawyer, Aaron Zebley. Zebley who served as deputy special counsel under Mueller ...

The head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference has returned from an investigative tour of conditions surrounding asylum seekers at border facilities in Texas. Rev. Samuel Rodriguez stated he wanted to ...

President Trump has stood firm on comments in which he suggested some liberal legislators in the Democrat Party should go back to their “broken and crime infested” home countries, saying that their ...

A bipartisan group has organized a private, after-hours tour of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., for members of Congress on July 16. An invitation was released on Thursday by ...

House Democrats are calling out the chief of staff for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) over comments about a Kansas Congresswoman. The latest split on the left that highlights established lawmakers’ growing impatience with radical ...

Last November, the Democratic Party gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives after eight years in opposition, and the historically Republican stronghold of Orange County, California unexpectedly gained national attention. Four ...

President Donald J. Trump described a new plan to gather information about the citizenship status of people living in the United States, both legal and illegal, in a Rose Garden announcement Thursday afternoon. Trump ...

Attorney General William Barr ruled the Trump administration can legally add the citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that the rationale the administration provided for adding the ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is throwing her weight behind legislation that would have the government catalog hate crimes, something the FBI already does. But waste and redundancy are nothing new in ...

President Donald Trump said on July 5 he is considering issuing an executive order to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. The order is one of “four or five” options on the ...

Christian singer Nicole Nordeman has publicly asked evangelist Franklin Graham to be the catalyst and light the way for critical aid needed by migrants at the southern US border. Democrats have been ...

The Supreme Court decided June 28 to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s highly controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. For seven years the executive order, which many scholars believe was ...