Once an indispensable sports powerhouse, cable TV network ESPN has gone from must-see-TV for millions of sports fans to financial boondoggle for owner Disney with the network losing up to 10,000 subscribers a day, a report says. “A floundering ESPN, with rising costs and declining viewership, continued to sink Disney’s DIS, +0.24% financial results during…
White House National Security Advisor General Michael Flynn has resigned after controversy surrounding his communications with Russia. Here is the full text of Flynn’s resignation letter, bolding is mine: In the course of my duties as the incoming National Security Advisor, I held numerous phone calls with foreign counterparts, ministers, and ambassadors. These calls were…
San Francisco’s federal appeals court asserted a novel theory on Thursday to claim jurisdiction over the legal challenge to Executive Order 13769, affirming the lower court’s order halting President Trump’s temporary travel-restriction policy. Federal appeals courts lack jurisdiction to review a district court’s temporary restraining order (TRO), which is a stop-gap measure that lasts for…
The Senate early Friday morning confirmed President Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, placing him in position to lead the way in dismantling Obamacare. Price is a veteran House member and orthopedic surgeon who Republicans call a knowledgeable pick for the job. Democrats say he’s an ideologue whose policies…
With the final confirmation vote of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to become our next attorney general imminent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the floor to deliver her remarks. It was another tirade of course. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, who says she’s a fan of her, says that the angry liberal act is getting tiresome. “I’ve got…
A Texas man whose life sentence on drug charges was commuted by former President Obama is back behind bars after cops caught him with more than two pounds of cocaine following a high-speed chase, according to a report. Robert M. Gill, 68, had been imprisoned in 1990 for for cocaine and heroin distribution before Obama…
The intense national debate over President Trump’s refugee executive order could be headed to the Supreme Court, as the dispute quickly works its way up the judicial food chain – while adding another dimension to the confirmation fight over the president’s pick to fill the high court’s vacancy. “I have no doubt that it will…
Lady Gaga performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show, and by all accounts, she absolutely slayed the performance. The 13-minute show had everything: a sparkly football, drones making an American flag, a keytar, acrobatics, and some incredible singing and dancing. What it did not have, however, was an overt political message. For most normal humans,…
File this one under Fake News. The Associated Press’ report Wednesday stating that President Trump threatened to invade Mexico if the country doesn’t handle its “bad hombres down there” was so inaccurately reported that the Mexican government issued a statement calling out the news organization. First, relevant portions from the AP story: President Donald Trump threatened…
In his first television interview as Homeland Security secretary, retired four-star Marine Gen. John F. Kelly told Fox News he wants the U.S.-Mexico border wall finished in two years – setting an ambitious schedule for the project ordered last week by President Trump. “The wall will be built where it’s needed first, and then it…
Federal agencies are working side by side with state and local law enforcement to ensure safety in Houston…. From Foxnews.com
Speaking from the East Room of the White House Tuesday, President Donald Trump officially nominated U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill late-Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court. “When Justice [Antonin] Scalia passed away suddenly last February, I made a promise to the American people if I were elected President, I would find…
President Trump launched into a fiery Twitter defense of his controversial refugee and immigration restrictions Monday, blaming protesters and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s ‘tears’ for difficulties at U.S. airports, and urging his opponents to “study the world!” Trump signed an executive order Friday that imposed a 120-day suspension of the refugee program and a…
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus took to the Sunday talk shows to defend President Trump’s executive order on immigration, which denies entry for 90 days to people from seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa known to be terror hot spots. Even after widespread backlash from politicians, pundits, and protesters over…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez has instructed county jails to comply with all federal immigration detainer requests on Thursday, only one day after President Donald Trump issued an executive order to cut federal funding from sanctuary cities. In 2016, the county ignored approximately 100 detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which would have cost…
The Trump administration will publish a list of crimes committed by illegal aliens in sanctuary cities weekly, according to an executive order released Wednesday. “To better inform the public regarding the public safety threats associated with sanctuary jurisdictions, the Secretary shall utilize the Declined Detainer Outcome Report or its equivalent and, on a weekly basis,…
According to reports, President Trump will sign an executive order Friday ending “unconstitutional executive amnesty,” which translates to President Obama’s 2014 executive actions on illegal immigration. Former Townhall White House correspondent Conn Carroll covered the details of Obama’s moves at the time: What actions is Obama taking specifically? The key to Obama’s new immigration policy…
President Trump announced Wednesday that he will be asking for a “major investigation” into alleged nationwide voter fraud — a day after his press secretary was grilled on Trump’s claims that 3 million to 5 million people had voted illegally in November. Trump announced the move on Twitter, and said the probe will focus on…
President Donald J. Trump is set to sign executive orders today that will clear a path for the construction of a border wall with Mexico and target sanctuary cities. It’s making good on his promise to strengthen the border, an issue that catapulted him to front runner status in the GOP primary. It was the…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to cut funding for one county after its sheriff announced the agency would be scaling back its cooperation with federal immigration. Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez announced last week she’s scaling back the amount of aid her department provides federal immigration agents in detaining suspects who might be in the…
