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Ford Motor Company has announced plans for a worldwide corporate restructuring, and thousands of employees will soon be out of work. Montie Montgomery reports.

The College Board announced it is calculating an "adversity score" for the SAT in order to boost the chances for students living in the midst of great hardship to get accepted into college. The adversity score takes 15 different factors into account, including the crime rate and poverty level in a students neighborhood and high school. “There are a number of amazing students who may have scored le...

According to Broward County officials, Florida is set to receive many illegal immigrants but has no plan on how to care for them. Montie Montgomery reports.

The United States reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico to lift the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The news comes as a breath of fresh air to investors and President Trump in the midst of deteriorating trade relations between the U.S. and China. The Trump administration hopes lifting the tariffs will help in the ratification of the USMCA trade agreement signed...

During an interview with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer on Friday morning, United States Attorney General William Barr offered more insight into his order for an internal probe into the Justice Department's handling of the Russian investigation. Barr selected FBI prosecutor John Durham to examine the origins of the FBI and DoJ’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016, citing “strange development...

Sex-trafficked children are the third largest criminal commodity in the United States.  Only illegal drugs and guns are more prolific.  In the first installment of our Essence of Evil series, we examined the scope of the child sex trafficking, the horrors endured by the victims, and how this became a big business.  Here in part two of our series, we examine how children - mostly girls - are lured...

The College Board announced it will be instituting an adversity test for the SATs in 150 schools to measure the level of difficult faced by each student. The new system will take into consideration the socio-economic upbringing of each student. The change seeks to better represent students who accomplished more with less; considering the poverty and crime rates faced by students over the course of...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, who until recently was silent on the debate sweeping the nation over her state's anti-abortion bill, certainly had something to say when it came to signing the bill into law. Montie Montgomery has more.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020. De Blasio’s bid appears to be a longshot as he would be the first president to ever rise directly from city hall to White House. New Yorkers meanwhile do not appear too excited about their mayor criss-crossing the country to campaign for president. Matt Fisher reports.

Last month, Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead wrote a column that once again alerted the nation to a horrifying fact: that adults purchasing children for sex is a booming business in America.  He cited stomach-wrenching statistics like adults paying to rape kids 2.5 million times each year.  And while the statistics vary, there is no question that tens of thousands of American children...

On Friday, President Trump announced tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, a move he says will help push China to a freer, fairer trade relationship but which a leading taxpayer advocate says will make life more expensive for all Americans. The trade partnership estimates that tariffs implemented in 2018 costs families an average of $767 per year. Another estimate suggests an additiona...

The United Nations reports that human-caused climate change now threatens one million plant and animal species in the coming years if urgent global action is not taken, but a scientist who frequently butts heads with the UN says that conclusion is "absolute rubbish." The report on biodiversity says a half-million land species "have insufficient habitat for long-term survival" and will likely go ex...

Former FBI Director James Comey is busy writing opinion columns and appearing on cable news town halls about the Mueller report, but a former top official at the bureau says Comey has three very good reasons to be worried as the Department of Justice examines how the Trump-Russia probe started in the first place. Kevin Brock served 24 years in the FBI, including a stint as deputy director for inte...

The abortion debate is intensifying on multiple fronts, as pro-life lawmakers make Georgia the latest state to ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected and a Pennsylvania lawmaker comes under fire for harassing pro-life activists outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia. On Tuesday, Georgia became the latest in a string of states to outlaw abortion once the baby's heartbeat can b...

The U.S. likely stopped an Iranian attack on American personnel or other interests with little time to spare by announcing an aircraft carrier and bomber group are headed to the Middle East, and retired U.S. Navy Captain Chuck Nash says the statement released by the Trump administration tells us a lot even if we have no deals about the thwarted plot. National Security Adviser John Bolton announced...

On Thursday, supply-side economist Stephen Moore withdrew his nomination for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors after weeks of scathing criticism from Democrats, the media, and even several GOP senators. The last straw for the Moore nomination seems to be a column he wrote in the early 2000's that many deemed disparaging to women.  But long before that writing was unearthed, the effort was wel...

The Trump administration badly wants Nicholas Maduro out of power in Venezuela for for Juan Guaido to assume the presidency on an interim basis, but the failure of this week's effort to turn the military against Maduro demonstrates why this effort will take time - if it happens at all. On Tuesday, Guaido called for the nation to rise up against Maduro.  Standing alongside some troops who switched...

House Democrats are launching a serious effort to create a single-payer health care system branded as 'Medicare for All,' but a leading health care policy expert says the idea is a Utopian fantasy that is unaffordable and will lead to far worse care. Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner joined experts from multiple perspectives testifying Tuesday before the House Rules Committee.  Chairman...

There were plenty of fireworks in Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Attorney General William Barr, but former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy says the biggest pieces of news concern the investigation still to come about how the government's probe of the Trump campaign got started in the first place. According to McCarthy, the first interesting revelation deals with the...

Free college.  Free tuition.  Student loan forgiveness.  All of these ideas are being pushed by Democratic presidential candidates, but is what looks like a compassionate effort to help college students escape years or decades of crippling debt really just perpetuating a vicious government cycle? Many candidates are advocating for free tuition at public universities and community colleges.  Recent...

President Trump is taking heat from political adversaries and international activists for withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, but one of the nation's leading crime researchers says the tactics used in the treaty have never been used to solve any crime. The Obama administration signed onto the Arms Trade Treaty shortly before Trump took office.  It would require...

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday that judges in the state can force parents to provide counseling, therapy, and other services or a child who identifies as a different gender than their biological sex. The decision partially strikes down a 2018 Appeals Court ruling which gave more deference to parents.  The case in question involved a divorced couple in a dispute over how to raise their bi...

North Korea demanded $2 million in exchange for the return of a comatose American prisoner, and even though the U.S. never actually paid for his release one of the leading experts on the North Korean threat says President Trump needs to get much tougher on the communist regime and the sooner the better. On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that North Korea demanded $2 million for the return o...

President Trump is applying stiff sanctions against Venezuela and demanding that Nicholas Maduro give up power, but Maduro isn't leaving and the tough U.S. stance may actually be helping China, Russia, and Iran gain a foothold in the Americas. The Trump administration wants to see Maduro go in favor of Juan Guaido, but instead of folding under the pressure of U.S.-led diplomacy, Maduro is now cozy...

We just passed the deadline for filing federal income taxes, and as the debate continues over who got tax cuts and how big they are, how much did the new laws save Americans in time and money spent preparing those returns? The National Taxpayers Union ran the numbers for both individuals and businesses.  In this podcast, National Taxpayers Union President Pete Sepp explains the impact the new laws...