Ola Olugbemi
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Leftist media organizations such as Salon and ThinkProgress are working overtime to create enmity between the Trump administration and the LGBTQ community after the administration voted "no" on the latest United Nations death penalty resolution.
Instead of reporting the actual reasons why the U.S. voted against the resolution, the left honed in on a single section of the resolution that called…
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President Donald Trump took time to comment on gun control before leaving for Puerto Rico on Tuesday, telling reporters, "we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by."
Addressing a crowd of reporters in front of the White House, the president also made it clear that now was not the time to talk about changing the laws.
"Look we have a tragedy, and what happened in Las Vegas is in many ways…
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In a sudden twist of political fate, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced that she may leave the Senate and run for governor in her state.
This news came at a critical time in the American political landscape, as Collins, one of the Senate's least conservative Republicans, has consistently voted "no" against attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
When asked why she wanted to…
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For the first time since the late 1940's, a predominantly Muslim Syria has elected a Christian as the speaker of the Syrian parliament.
According to a report from the Syrian Arab News Agency, the Syrian People's Assembly elected Hammoudeh Sabbagh as speaker of the Assembly. Although little is known about Sabbagh's political history, the 58 year-old Orthodox Christian won 77 percent of the vote (…
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In a statement that ran contrary to claims made by a local anti-Trump politician, Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló praised the Trump administration for its relief efforts on the island, saying that despite popular rumor, the federal government is meeting Puerto Rico's requests for assistance.
"We need to do a lot more in order for us to get out of the emergency. But the other thing that's also…
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could potentially strike down mandatory fees for public sector unions in at least 22 states.
The new case is being brought by Mark Janus, an Illinois state employee represented by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. According to a New York Times report, Janus sued the union on the grounds that he did not…
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On Thursday, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. declined to revisit a prior court decision barring D.C. officials from enforcing the District's strict concealed carry laws. The decision follows a prior July appellate ruling against the restrictive laws against owning firearms, and was delivered without explanation.
Back in August, D.C. Attorney General, Karl A. Racine, had asked the 11-…
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On Thursday, the Islamic State issued a recording of their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom British and Russian monitoring agents once believed to be dead.
Using the messaging app Telegram, the Islamic State issued a 46 minute-long audio message, with the opening narration, "May Allah protect him," as a way to seemingly prove that the leader was still alive and encourage ISIS troops to…
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It looks like "Rocket Man' Kim Jong-un is truly burning out his fuse up here alone.
According to an Associated Press report, the Chinese government ordered all North Korean businesses in the country to close on Thursday. The Chinese also cut off foreign revenue to the North Koreans, as a result of heavy U.N. sanctions over the North Korea's refusal to terminate its nuclear and missile programs…
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Cellphone video showing yet another person being dragged off an airplane went viral this week. This time, it was a woman on a westbound Southwest flight to Los Angeles from Baltimore who demanded that two dogs, one of which was a service animal, be removed from the cabin.
The woman claimed to have a life-threatening allergy to dogs and asked flight attendants to remove the pets from the flight.…