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Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before congress on July 17th. Matt Fisher reports.

The House and Senate will need to reconcile vastly different bills designed to provide billions of dollars in emergency aid for the humanitarian crisis building on our southern border. On Wednesday, The Senate rejected legislation passed by House Democrats and approved its own $4.6 billion measure.  House Democrats say the Senate bill is a non-starter. While the two chambers head to the reconcilia...

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who was punished by the government for refusing to design a wedding cake for a same-sex couple based on his sincerely-held Christian beliefs.  But Jack Phillips is headed back to court yet again after refusing to make a cake celebrating the coming out of a transgender person. Alliance Defending Freedom is defending Phillips again.  Seni...

A leading Iranian resistance group urges President Trump to demonstrate strength and resolve in confronting Iran over its provocative actions against the U.S. and others in the region, insisting that such pressure will assist the Iranian people in toppling their own government. Alireza Jafarzadeh is deputy director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which is th...

President Trump authorized military strikes against Iran but cancelled the attack just minutes before the missiles would have launched, a move that retired U.S. Navy Capt. Chuck Nash says sent an unmistakable message to the mullahs in Iran. "I think this was putting a gun to their head, cocking the hammer, and then pulling it off and uncocking it and saying next time I may pull the trigger," said...

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled that a Maryland war memorial in the shape of a giant cross does not constitute government endorsement of a particular faith and can stay in place, a ruling hailed by religious freedom advocates and slammed by secularists. In his majority opinion in American Legion v. American Humanist Association, Justice Samuel Alito says the "Peace Cross" in Bladensburg, Mar...

President Trump announced via Twitter that he is ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport millions of people illegally in the United States. Why would Trump announce this publicly? How does the timing of this intersect with his recent immigration deal with Mexico? How active has the Trump administration been in deporting illegal immigrants to this point? And how is ICE likely to prio...

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan withdrew his nomination for Defense Secretary Tuesday after allegations of domestic abuse surfaced. Montie Montgomery has more.

The United States and China are engaged in high-level trade talks punctuated by tariffs inflicted in both directions, and while U.S. consumers may soon feel the pinch of higher prices, a leading China expert says the communist regime in Beijing is suffering far more. "China has a trade-dependent economy and we do not," said Gordon Chang, an East Asia policy expert and author of "The Coming Collaps...

Harvard University revoked the acceptance of Parkland survivor Kyle Kashuv over controversial remarks he made with friends, Henry Erlandson reports.

Illinois now has perhaps the most permissive abortion laws in the nation after Democrats pushed an expansive new bill through the legislature and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed it into law on Wednesday. Democrats billed the proposal as shoring up existing law over concern that the U.S. Supreme Court could soon reverse Roe v. Wade, but Republican State Rep. Tom Morrison says the legislation w...

The US Office of Special Council released a statement saying Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway should be fired for violating the Hatch Act. Donald Trump in an appearance on Fox and Friends disagrees. Montie Montgomery reports.

The nation's largest technology giants are abandoning their positions as free speech advocates and actively taking sides to silence and punish conservatives, and Project Veritas President James O'Keefe says Pinterest's treatment of his group and the pro-life organization Live Action is the latest proof. A whistleblower reached out to Project Veritas to report that Live Action was inaccessible on P...

Republicans denounce remarks from President Trump about foreign meddling, Henry Erlandson reports.

The United States is accusing Iran of attacking two oil tankers Thursday. Montie Montgomery reports.

More than a million people flooded the streets of Hong Kong on multiple occasions this week in an effort to derail legislation that opponents believe is the last chance to save the business hub from the clutches of the communist Chinese regime in Beijing. Wednesday's protests turned violent as local authorities lashed out at the demonstrators who succeeded in delaying a vote on extradition legisla...

Government waste is on the rise. The 2019 Congressional Pig Book reveals hundreds of earmarks costing taxpayers billions, Henry Erlandson reports.

Former Virginia Rep. Dave Brat is now thoroughly enjoying the private sector as dean of the business school at Liberty University. However, the prominent conservative and former member of the House Freedom Caucus has plenty to say about the first few months of this Congress. What is the role of the Freedom Caucus in the new Congress? How does he respond to accusations that the Freedom Caucus is no...

President Trump promised to impose an extra $300 billion in tariffs against China should President Xi Jinping not attend, Henry Erlandson reports.

On Monday, former Nixon White House counsel John Dean testified before Congress about what he sees as troubling information in the Mueller Report and the parallels he sees between Watergate and Trump's actions concerning the Russian attempts to meddle in the 2016 elections. Dean became a hero on the political left for testifying against Nixon and his White House colleagues. But what many Americans...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, are facing scrutiny over charges of corruption concerning infrastructure grants and the 2020 election. Matt Fisher reports.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler reached an agreement with the Department of Justice regarding key documents in the Mueller report. Meanwhile, former Nixon White House Counsel John Dean testifies before Congress. Matt Fisher reports.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly rejected Sen. Rand Paul's plan to cut spending by two percent per year over five years, with all Democrats present opposing the plan and a majority of Republicans in the chamber voting against it. Early in the week, the Senate defeated a procedural motion on the so-called Pennies Plan, 69-22.  All 43 Democrats present in the chamber opposed the plan.  Among Republica...

Russia and the United States are both disputing what happened when a their ships almost collided. Montie Montgomery reports.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is calling a special session to push new gun laws in the wake of last week's deadly mass shooting in Virginia Beach, but a pro-second amendment lawmaker sees Northam's move more as an attempt to burnish his own image than to seriously address incidents of deadly violence. Earlier in the week, Northam called for seven specific items to be enacted, including universal bac...