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Jeffrey Epstein's suicide on Saturday continues to spark questions and conspiracies. Attorney General Bill Barr will continue the probe into his death and crimes. Julie Mitchell reports.

Former Chief Asst. U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy says second amendment defenders ought to get behind so-called red flag laws so long as the legislation is written responsibly. Red flag laws would allow a court to assess whether a person is a threat to themselves or others, remove the guns if the person is deemed a threat, and then re-evaluate their case at various intervals. Supporters say red...

In wake of three horrific mass shootings, demands for gun control legislation are intensifying. Supporters of the movement insist universal background checks, assault weapons ban, red flag laws, and other measures will reduce the odds for more atrocities like we witnessed over the weekend in El Paso and Dayton. But while you might not know it from watching and reading mainstream media sources, the...

Former Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III offered his highly anticipated testimony on Wednesday, but the day turned out differently than Democrats or Republicans anticipated. Democrats clearly tried to assert that Mueller would have indicted President Trump for obstruction of justice of Justice Department policy did not forbid the indictment of a sitting president.  Republicans were determined...

Eager to avoid a debt ceiling showdown, the Treasury Department and congressional Democrats appear to be on the brink of a budget agreement that could saddle taxpayers with an additional $2 trillion in debt over the next decade. According to reports, the agreement runs through July 31, 2021.  It would effectively end all remaining elements of the 2011 Budget Control Act known as sequester, while a...

In recent weeks, massive protests in Hong Kong drew the world's attention, but while the media focused on the political issues at hand, little was made over the fierce battle over Christianity between Hong Kong and the communist Chinese regime. The latest round of unrest was triggered by a proposed law allowing the extradition of people in Hong Kong to mainland China.  Millions of people poured in...

Veterans are still facing long wait times to see doctors at some VA facilities. Those long wait times can mean worse illnesses and injuries. Of particular concern are veterans who live hundreds of miles or more away from VA facilities and have a difficult time ever seeing a physician. Now the VA, American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars are teaming up with Philips North America for a pilot pro...

Former Vice President Joe Biden is once again staying very close to President Obama, this time billing his health care plan as Obamacare 2.0 and even promising once again that Americans who like their private health coverage can keep it. The Obama-Biden administration repeated that promise over and over as part of the debate over the Affordable Care Act.  Due to the regulatory changes of the law,...

Nearly 30 years ago, the United States and millions of others in the West cheered the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and, eventually, the Soviet Union.  Now, just a few decades later, one prominent U.S. presidential candidate openly declares himself a Democratic Socialist and several other candidates are advocating for government-run health care, taxpayer-funded college, and other high-dollar progra...

The latest report from the Treasury Department shows a record level of spending for the first nine months of the current fiscal year, and the U.S. is on it's way to a one trillion dollar deficit by the time the year is through. According to Treasury, expenditures from October through June totaled nearly $3.356 trillion.  Revenues came in at just over $2.6 trillion, leaving the nation with a defici...

A former Jackson County, Florida, sheriff's deputy is facing 52 felony charges in connection with allegedly planting drugs on motorists he pulled over. According to the charges and released body cam footage, Zach Wester allegedly framed a minimum of 10 people, some of whom were involved in court-ordered recovery programs. One victim even lost custody of his daughter because of Wester's corrupt act...

On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments over whether the repeal of the tax penalty for refusing to buy health insurance makes the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. Texas is leading a coalition of states trying to get the law declared unconstitutional. Rob Henneke of the Texas Public Policy Foundation is arguing for the law to be struck...

In the second part of our interview with American Commitment President Phil Kerpen, we examine why Republicans failed to coalesce around a health care reform bill despite controlling the House, Senate, and White House and having seven years to prepare. Kerpen explains how close Republicans came on multiple occasions and why they landed on the best approach when it was too late.

Some Democratic presidential candidates want to enact a single-payer, Medicare for All health care system operated by the federal government. Others want to pursue a public option that Americans can enroll in that would compete with private insurance plans. And while supporters of the public option approach say their plan would allow Americans to stay with their private coverage, is that really tr...

On July 9, the Virginia General Assembly will enter into a special session ordered by Gov. Ralph Northam to address gun violence. Northam is specifically asking the Republican-led legislature to enact universal background checks, a ban on "assault weapons," reinstating Virginia's one gun per month law and more. But Republicans are planning a much different approach. Del. Nick Freitas is a member o...

The indictment of Jeffrey Epstein on child sex trafficking charges is drawing a lot of attention. It should draw attention to the fact that child sex trafficking is a booming business in the United States. But how do predators and traffickers find children to target? How do adults find kids to abuse sexually and pay more than two billion dollars a year to do it? And what can parents do to protect...

The media and political junkies are closely following the horrific allegations of child sex trafficking filed against longtime political operative and fundraiser Jeffrey Epstein. But while partisans wait to see which famous figures might be tarred by the Epstein scandal, the horrific case is a sobering reminder that child sex trafficking is much bigger than Jeffery Epstein. In fact, American adult...

In the final installment of our series, we examine what law enforcement and lawmakers are doing to confront the horrific big business of child sex trafficking, what individual citizens can do to root out the problems in their own communities, and how to best stay on top of our kids' internet activity and spot the signs that a predator has already made contact with them.

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 b...

Many Americans are rightly appalled by the child sex trafficking allegations against longtime political operative and fundraiser Jeffrey Epstein. But the scourge of child sex trafficking is much bigger than one case. Sadly, it's a multi-billion dollar business In April, Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead wrote a column that once again alerted the nation to a horrifying fact: that adults...

Most Americans know about Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. Many are also familiar with Sam Adams and John Hancock. But how much do you known about the other 51 men who risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to declare independence from Great Britain 243 years ago. Who was the signer who completed a Paul Revere-like ride to arrive in time to vote for independence and pos...

In the first round of Democratic presidential debates in the 2020 campaign, multiple Democrats announced their goal to decriminalize illegal immigration, end deportations of people who commit no other offense than entering the country illegally, and extend government-funded health care to those who broke the law to get here. With both parties now acknowledging a humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mex...

Some Democratic presidential candidates want to pursue a single-payer, government-run health care system. Virtually all who don't want to go that far endorse adding a public option to the existing structure. Seems like a compromise, right? A decade ago, a public option was dropped from the Affordable Care Act because even some Democrats thought it was putting too much power in the government. In t...

President Trump opted for additional sanctions against Iran in response to the shooting down of a U.S. drone last week, and one expert says the new economic penalties will make Iran leaders even less popular among its own people. The new sanctions are aimed at key individuals inside the regime, including Supreme Leader Ali Khameini as well as military officials and even Foreign Minister Javad Zari...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts do not have the constitutional right to interfere in partisan gerrymandering claims. Julie Mitchell reports for Radio America.