(Headline USA) With the outbreak of a global war to ensure limited public vetting, President Joe Biden laid his opening bid in a Supreme Court battle by casting off a candidate who had broad bipartisan support in favor of a more radical judge backed by radical activist groups.
Biden on...
(Headline USA) Oklahoma's U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, says he will step down before his six-year term is up and that he is “absolutely” at peace with the decision.
In an interview published Friday by The Oklahoman, the 87-year-old Inhofe said he...
UPDATE: After the column was submitted, news reports indicated that Biden planned on Friday to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is viewed as being among the most radical of the candidates on his shortlist.
Original column below:
(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) President Joe Biden promised to replace retiring Supreme Court Associate...
(Headline USA) When relatives of American oil executives jailed in Venezuela met virtually with a senior Justice Department official this month, it didn't take long for their frustrations to surface.
They pressed the official on the prospects of a prisoner exchange that could get their loved ones home but were...
(Headline USA) The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature planned to send a dozen election- and voting-integrity bills to Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday in an attempt to rectify loopholes that led to suspicions of widespread vote fraud in cities like Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Kenosha.
Republicans argue the fast-tracked bills are...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department is scrapping the name of a Trump-era initiative that was intended to crack down on economic espionage by Beijing but has been criticized as unfairly targeting Chinese professors at American colleges because of their ethnicity.
The decision to abandon the China Initiative and to impose...
(Headline USA) The two prosecutors in charge of the Manhattan district attorney’s partisan witch hunt investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business dealings suddenly resigned Wednesday, throwing the future of the probe into question.
A spokesperson for leftist District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed the resignations of Carey Dunne and...
(Headline USA) There’s little support among Americans for a major U.S. role in the Russia--Ukraine conflict, according to a new poll, even as President Joe Biden imposes new sanctions and threatens a stronger response that could provoke retaliation from Moscow.
Biden has acknowledged a growing likelihood that war in Eastern...
(Headline USA) With the smell of war in the air over Europe, world leaders got over the shock of Russian President Vladimir Putin's order to deploy troops to separatist regions of eastern Ukraine and they are focused on producing as forceful a reaction as possible.
Germany made the first big...
(Headline USA) Russia announced Tuesday that its recognition of independence for areas in eastern Ukraine extends to territory currently held by Ukrainian forces---further raising the stakes amid Western fears that a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine is imminent.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia has recognized the rebel regions’ independence...
(Headline USA) China said Monday it will impose new sanctions on U.S. defense contractors Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin due to their arms sales to Taiwan, stepping up a feud with Washington over security and Beijing’s strategic ambitions.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced the move at a daily press...
(Headline USA) The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet announced Monday the launch of a new joint fleet of unmanned drones with allied nations to patrol vast swaths of the region’s volatile waters as tensions simmer with Iran.
Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who leads the 5th Fleet, told the Associated Press...