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On Friday, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Anchorage, Alaska, buckling roads and causing considerable damage to homes and businesses, but thus far there are no reports of deaths or serious injuries. Alaska is the most seismically active U.S. state, according to U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist John Bellini.  He says 4.0 magnitude earthquakes are a daily occurrence in the state and 5.0 ma...

It's been a rough week for former allies of President Trump, with Special Counsel Robert Mueller scrapping the plea agreement with former campaign chairman over allegations of  lying and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleading guilty once again to lying under oath - this time to congressional investigators about Trump's business dealings in Russia.   And while Trump critics lick their chops i...

President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan are leading the push to enact the bipartisan FIRST STEP Act, which supporters say will do much more to help prepare convicts to benefit society upon re-entry and address sentencing guidelines for some non-violent offenders. The House has already passed the bill and a strong majority of senators are expected to support it if it comes to the floor in this...

Just a few days remain for Congress to tackle major issues before the end of the year, and Judicial Crisis Network Chief Counsel Carrie Severino says the Senate can do the nation a great service by confirming at least three dozen more judicial nominees and easing a massive backlog of vacancies on the federal bench. Severino says 14 percent of the federal judicial positions are vacant, which is eve...

Did the winner of the Georgia's governor's race engage in significant voter suppression or was he just following a law passed and signed by Democrats decades ago? Was the Senate race in Florida in the process of being stolen before Republican cried foul or were officials just making sure all votes were counted? The media and many Democrats say voter suppression is real but vote fraud is not. Are t...

A Florida physical education teacher is facing punishment after refusing to supervise a biological female undressing and showering in the boys' locker room. Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver says Pasco County, Florida, schools disciplined the teacher after he refused to monitor a girl who identifies as male change clothes and shower with boys. Furthermore, Staver says the school district deli...

There is no shortage of pundits or experts telling us exactly what happened in last week's midterm elections, but what the actual voters said might surprise some people. Extensive exit polls were conducted on Election Day and other surveys quizzed tens of thousands of likely voters. Some conventional wisdom turned out to be right, but some did not. Take health care. It was the number one issue giv...

California firefighters are battling the largest, deadliest, and most destructive wildfire in state history, and while politicians and activists blame climate change for the this and other massive fires, critics argue that federal policies designed to protect the environment are actually leaving the land and the people at greater risk for devastation. Pacific Legal Foundation is representing a 77-...

Evidence is growing that North Korea is refusing to wind down its ballistic missile program and even appears to be adding sites while failing to report them. As part of the framework agreed to between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong -Un in June, North Korea was supposed to pursue the dismantling of its nuclear program and its ballistic missiles. Earlier evidence showed North Kor...

As our nation formally observes Veterans Day Monday, U.S. Army veteran and former Pentagon official Van Hipp is teaching his children and all Americans why this day is so special and what our veterans truly mean to us. In an "open letter" on FoxNews.com, Hipp says Americans need to recognize that veterans fulfill the main purpose for which the federal government was created in the first place. "Al...

Sunday marks 100 years since the armistice that officially ended World War I, a conflict that greatly impacts the world we live in today and long ago triggered the creation of an institution dedicated to honoring America's war dead. We commonly observe November 11 as Veterans Day, but it was originally known as Armistice Day because the guns of World War I fell silent at 11 a.m. on November 11, 19...

Controversy has erupted in Florida, as Democrats in Broward County say they are still counting votes and want to be sure every voice is heard while Republicans say officials are violating canvassing laws and might be engaging in vote fraud as the newly found votes are breaking massively for Democratic candidates. A lot is at stake in who wind the governorship, the U.S. Senate seat, and a number of...

Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver is reacting to the forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying Sessions has many fine qualities but made a terrible mistake that cast a shadow over everything else he did at the Justice Department. "Jeff Sessions is a good man. He's an honorable person and he's done very well on religious freedom. However, anybody who serves under the preside...

Democrats succeeded in taking back the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday but the blue wave never happened in the Senate, as Republican challengers instead washed out four incumbent Democrats and helped to tighten the GOP's grip on power. "This was quite a cycle for high-quality conservative candidates and we're just very pleased with how it all ended up," said Senate Conservati...

In late October, a major European court ruled that punishing someone for defaming the Islamic figure Mohammed is not an infringement of free speech, a ruling that one expert says amounts to a slippery slope that end in "the death of free speech." Last month, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) upheld a 2011 conviction of "Mrs. S" after she held two seminars in Austria called "Basic Informati...

Democrats and Republicans have high hopes in Tuesday's midterm elections, and while Democrats are fired up to throw up political roadblocks to President Trump, Republicans are also energized by lacking consistency in their closing message. Conservative syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock says Republicans should not be talking about the migrants headed for the southern border when Republicans boast...

On Friday, economists across the political spectrum praised the October jobs report showing 250,000  new jobs and the lowest unemployment since 1969, but one economist says the best news was something else - the fastest-rising wages in a decade.  Listen to Greg's conversation with Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute, as he explains why wages are rising and seemingly simple way Washington can ke...

On Friday, the Labor Department reported a net increase of 250,000 new jobs in October, with the unemployment rate holding steady at the lowest level in nearly half a century and hundreds of thousands of people re-entering the labor force.  Mercatus Center Research Scholar Michael Farren joins us to explain why the economy is humming along at such a strong pace, what could make it even stronger. a...

Democrats have big plans if they win congressional majorities, and those plans would mean less money in your wallet. Americans for Tax Reform compiled numerous promises from Democrats to raise taxes as an effort to reverse many of the reductions in the 2017 tax reform legislation.  Democrats are pushing a 30 percent hike in the corporate income tax and want to return small business tax rates and r...

The explosion of technological advancements in the past generation are stunning. Less than a quarter-century since the internet became available to the masses, we now have even greater innovations that make our lives easier but also bring major challenges. The internet and social media make it much easier to connect and share ideas but they also erode our privacy and drive a compulsion to be popul...

President Trump says he can end birthright citizenship with the stroke of a pen, while his critics say that's blatantly unconstitutional, but a a former immigration official says any such move would be resolved at the U.S. Supreme Court and predicting the final verdict is difficult. At issue is language in the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, which was drafted following the Civil War to c...

With thousands of Central American migrants headed to the U.S.-Mexico border, a longtime immigration law expert says current law will actually allow them to enter the United States and facilitate many of them staying here. The law does not intend for most of them to stay.  Center for Immigration Studies Research Fellow Andrew Arthur says the law is actually designed to remove them as soon as possi...

Republican candidates are talking about how Democrats treated Brett Kavanaugh and what will happen if Democrats take control of the House and possibly even the Senate. But a prominent conservative columnist says GOP candidates should really have one dominant message: the economy is the best it's been in generations. "Are you better off now than you were two years ago?  It's a very simple question,...

Vote fraud charges in Texas come just a couple of weeks ahead of the midterm elections, and one of the nation's top election law experts says this case shines the light on one of the greatest concerns for election integrity - absentee ballot fraud. Last week, four Texas women were charged with a total of 30 counts for carrying out a vote fraud operation during the Democratic presidential primary i...

President Trump is under pressure to declare the Saudi government responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, earlier this month, but one expert on the region says some critical questions need to be asked and investigations completed before reaching any conclusions. "The facts need to play out.  We need to question them.  There are so many competing ag...