News That Defies The Status Quo!

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Monday it had built new barracks for troops on a disputed chain of islands near Japan and would build more facilities for armored vehicles, prompting a diplomatic protest from Tokyo. Russia‘s Ministry of Defence said it planned to shift troops next week into four housing complexes on two of the […]

Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Ted Cruz (Texas) introduced a resolution on Tuesday encouraging the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights. The resolution’s aim is for the U.S. Senate to recognize Israel’s 51 years of control over the contested region. Israel took control of the region in 1967, during the Six […]

The Connecticut Communist Party honored a pair of union organizers, including an official who nearly captured the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, at its annual awards ceremony. The party presented the People’s World Amistad Awards to Eva Bermúdez Zimmerman in recognition of her upstart challenge against establishment Democrat, as well as longtime union official Shellye Davis. The party described […]

The Donald J. Trump Foundation is shutting down permanently after a judge allowed a lawsuit against it by the state of New York to go forward. New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood and a lawyer for the foundation signed the agreement stipulating that the foundation will be dissolved and its assets distributed to other nonprofits. […]

Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) repeated her call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment Tuesday, describing it as a matter of not if, but of “when and how.” Speaking with John Berman on CNN’s “New Day,” Omar first outlined some of her policy initiatives. She described her goal of “uplifting and restoring our democracy.” Berman pointed […]

Former CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill called radical Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan “my brother” in a new interview and said it was a double standard to demand African Americans distance themselves from him. In an appearance Friday on the popular radio show “The Breakfast Club,” Hill recounted the online furor over a photo […]

The Senate voted Monday night to advance the FIRST STEP Act, setting up what is likely to be a contentious fight over a number of proposed amendments before a final vote later this week. If it clears these hurdles, the bill will represent a significant policy achievement for the White House, and especially for presidential […]

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders suggested Tuesday the Trump administration wouldn’t force a partial government shutdown over funding for its long-promised border wall. Speaking with Fox News, Sanders said there were other ways to attain the $5 billion it wants to build the wall, which President Donald Trump previously said Mexico would pay […]

A new Oxford University study arguing Russian actors used social media platforms to help elect President Donald Trump was conducted by the same group behind a flawed study that claimed Trump supporters share the most fake news on social media. An Oxford University working paper released Monday, titled, “The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization […]

Republican Arizona Rep. Martha McSally lost her race to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate last month. She’s going to the upper chamber anyway. Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Tuesday he will appoint McSally to fill the seat being vacated by Republican Sen. John Kyl on Dec. 31. Kyl, who previously served in the […]

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Stealing packages off of peoples’ doorsteps has become an unfortunate annoyance for many in the golden age of online shopping. Porch pirates roam through neighborhoods, searching for unattended parcels, swiping them and causing dread for many, especially during the holiday season. But, thieves beware… your next “victim” may be pulling a fast one on you. […]

A couple of White House reporters shouted at press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders after she left an exceptionally short press briefing today. “This was a ten-minute briefing, Sarah!” Exclaimed NBC White House reporter Kristen Welker, while Breakfast Media White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg shouted at the flack to “do your job!” — a comment he took credit for on […]

After today’s White House press briefing, CNN’s Dana Bash picked up on a particularly baffling comment from Sarah Sanders. Sanders was questioned a lot about Michael Flynn today, and Sanders insisted that whatever actions he did had nothing to do with President Donald Trump. She said, “Maybe he did do those things, but that doesn’t […]

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders gave her first press briefing in weeks on Tuesday, and she faced a barrage of questions over President Donald Trump‘s demand for border wall funding. ABC News’s Terry Moran was scathing in his questioning, directly confronting Sanders over Trump’s nonsensical claim that his USMCA trade deal with Mexico will […]

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducted her first press briefing since Nov. 27 and addressed a number of questions from the press corps, many of which focused on Michael Flynn’s sentencing hearing earlier Tuesday. While the sentencing was delayed to mid-March 2019, Flynn refused to retract his guilty pleas of lying to FBI […]

Earlier today White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders baselessly claimed the FBI “ambushed” Michael Flynn in how it conducted his interview. At today’s press briefing, following Flynn’s sentencing hearing, she was confronted on those remarks. CBS News Radio’s Steven Portnoy, who was in the courthouse, noted how much the judge excoriated Flynn and how […]

Outnumbered had a lot to sort through on Tuesday reacting to the shocking developments at Michael Flynn‘s sentencing hearing. Harris Faulkner asked the panel whether President Donald Trump should pardon Flynn for his lies to the FBI, Lisa Boothe said it was “troubling” Flynn didn’t register as a foreign agent while serving as White House […]