FBI fires agent Peter Strzok for anti-Trump efforts
He sent messages referring to Trump as an “idiot” and mocking Trump supporters. Strzok also wrote to Page on Aug. 8, 2016 that “we’ll stop” Trump from becoming president.
Trump blasts British spy dossier author, says AG Sessions is ‘scared stiff’
President Trump leveled a multi-front attack on Saturday against dossier author Christopher Steele, the media, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Federal deficit increases by 20 percent due to increased spending and tax cuts
The federal deficit rose 20 percent due primarily to an increase in spending, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday.
Florida restaurant sticks it to NFL for anthem protest by canceling football package
Curtis West decided to cancel his Florida restaurant’s NFL DirecTV package due to players kneeling during the national anthem.
Twitter plans to ramp up censorship of some users at urging of employees
Washington Free Beacon editor Sonny Bunch wrote Wednesday that “those who refuse to see this as the first step toward a more aggressive campaign of de-platforming conservatives are being obtuse.”
De Blasio attacks free press amid social media censorship of conservatives
While not specifying what exactly he meant, the mayor also said “media we don’t agree with” shouldn’t get “a free pass on what they have done to all of us.” He also went as far as blaming Fox News for the nation’s divisive politics.
N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes move to take down the National Rifle Association
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has been in a protracted battle with the National Rifle Association. Now he’s using a state agency to hound the pro-Second Amendment organization with costly regulatory threats, as well as to convince financial institutions not to do business with the NRA.
Most candidates socialist Ocasio-Cortez endorsed lost in the primaries
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed several candidates in the primary elections, but three out of five of those competing in the Tuesday races lost.
Trump to cut green cards for welfare users, blocking noncitizens from taxpayer handouts
“The administration is committed to enforcing existing immigration law, which is clearly intended to protect the American taxpayer by ensuring that foreign nationals seeking to enter or remain in the U.S are self-sufficient,” a DHS spokeswoman said.
Connecticut Democratic senator praises Big Tech censorship move as ‘good first step’
Murphy also said websites like Facebook and YouTube need to push even harder in the future with their censorship of harmful material.
Sessions blasts activist federal judge for reinstating DACA
“We have recently witnessed a number of decisions in which courts have improperly used judicial power to steer, enjoin, modify, and direct executive policy,” Sessions wrote.
Minimum wage hike cost teenagers thousands of jobs, study says
Minimum wage laws in a dozen states will cost the U.S. roughly 261,000 new jobs in 2018. New York will be hit the hardest where various state and municipal minimum wage hikes will suppress job growth by nearly 100,000.