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To hear Lev Parnas tell it, as he did in interviews this week with Rachel Maddow and Anderson Cooper, his laser-like focus on getting rid of the American ambassador to Ukraine was purely in service of President Trump and Rudy Giuliani. In his interviews, which aired Wednesday and Thursday, Parnas apologized for his role in forcing Marie Yovanovitch’s removal from ...

The Army Times named a 28-year-old former Democratic aide as its top editor Jan. 10. Sarah Sicard has been vocal about hating President Donald Trump and previously worked as a spokeswoman for a New York councilman who describes himself as a “moderate Democrat.” The Army Times is one of the oldest and largest papers catering to the military, which according ...

New England Patriots football player Benjamin Watson does not shy away from standing up for his beliefs. The father of seven emphasizes the importance of engaging others in conversations on politics and culture, just as he does with his teammates. “We have those conversations,” he said. “And then we kiss and makeup and go play football.” Benjamin Watson is not ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenaed Denver authorities for information on four illegal aliens who were previously arrested by the city for various violent crimes.  The agency says it’s being forced to ratchet up its approach with “sanctuary” jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, leading to the subpoenas against the Denver government.  The four illegal aliens in question ...

Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing whether former FBI Director James Comey leaked classified information about a possible Russian disinformation campaign to journalists, according to a bombshell New York Times report. The inquiry, which kicked off in recent months, appears to focus on information from documents that Dutch intelligence obtained from Russian computers and provided to the U.S. government, The Times reports, ...

California’s privacy law giving customers the right to their personal data is based on a European law that inadvertently lets hackers gain widespread access to people’s credit card numbers and home addresses. The California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect Jan. 1 and effectively gives citizens the ability to obtain and delete whatever data companies have on them. It’s also ...

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday called for the U.S. government to cease detaining illegal immigrants. Omar tweeted an ABC News story about a tiny Georgia town having more detained illegal immigrants than residents. Her takeaway: America shouldn’t be detaining those who cross the border illegally. “This should never be the case,” she wrote. “The cruelty of our immigration ...

Lev Parnas’s comments to The New York Times on Wednesday appear to conflict with what CNN reported about the Soviet-born businessman back in November.  Parnas told the Times that he did not speak directly with President Trump about his Ukraine-related efforts. Instead, Parnas worked closely with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. CNN reported on Nov. 16 that associates of Parnas’s said ...

One man the FBI arrested for his alleged involvement in a white supremacist hate group is a Canadian national living illegally in the U.S. Authorities took three men — who are suspected of belonging to a neo-Nazi organization known as The Base — into custody Thursday morning, The New York Times reported. The men reportedly had weapons in their possession ...

Two leading Republican lawmakers pressed the judge presiding over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on Thursday to explain his choice of former Justice Department official David Kris to monitor the FBI’s proposed reforms in response to an inspector general’s report regarding surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser. “If the FISC’s goal is to hold the FBI accountable for its ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Thursday, citing concerns that the trade deal doesn’t adequately address global warming. “Despite the fact that it contains very good labor provisions, I am voting against USMCA because it doesn’t address climate change, the greatest threat facing the planet,” the New York senator said in a press statement ...

A Muslim refugee and journalist is challenging Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar as a Republican, saying the Minnesota representative “divides” the United States. Dalia al-Aqidi promises unity rather than division as she announced her campaign Thursday. The journalist, who has formerly been shadow-banned from Twitter after criticizing Omar, fled with her mother from Iraq as a child, just as Omar ...

A judge appointed by President Donald Trump refused Wednesday to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender child pornographer. Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan denied a motion Wednesday from federal prisoner Norman Varner to change the prisoner’s name to Katherine Nicole Jett and to call the prisoner by his preferred pronouns. Authorities sentenced Varner to 180 months in prison and 15 ...

Hundreds of Central Americans are headed toward the United States, but the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the border programs it has put in place, along with international cooperation, will keep the migrants at bay. A caravan of hundreds of migrants formed near San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Wednesday and began traveling toward the Guatemalan border, the first international ...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized the Democratic majority’s impeachment efforts Wednesday, saying there has been an “issue with fairness” ever since the process began.   “Let’s be honest — this was never about persuasion, it was never about the rule of law,” McCarthy said of impeachment proceedings. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to ...