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FPI / March 15, 2019 By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The Demilitarized Zone that’s divided North from South Korea since the Korean War evokes images of the Berlin Wall that divided East from West Berlin from 1961 to 1991 but shows no signs of going down after the second summit between President Donald Trump and […]

FPI  / March 14, 2019 Facebook was down for users around the world on March 13. “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” Facebook tweeted. The Facebook outages began Wednesday afternoon ET and appeared to affect people […]

FPI  / March 14, 2019 Gambino crime boss Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali was rubbed out in a gangland hit outside his home in Staten Island on March 13. “Cali, 53, was shot several times and run over in front of his brick mansion in the lavish Todt Hill neighborhood at about 9:20 p.m.,” the New […]

FPI  / March 15, 2019 Though it ended its cooperation with the Pentagon, tech giant Google has no problem boosting China’s military, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said. “The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military and I’ve been very public on this issue as […]

FPI  / March 14, 2019 Iran on March 13 was named to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, a committee which judges complaints of women’s rights violations. In announcing Iran’s appointment to the committee, the UN said the Islamic Republic will judge violations such as “stereotypical attitudes towards role of women; violation […]

FPI  / March 14, 2019 Enes Kanter, a Turkish national and player for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, says, despite death threats, he will not back down on criticism of the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who Kanter called a “freaking lunatic.” Kanter, a 6-11 center, told Fox 11 TV that he receives […]

FPI  / March 15, 2019 After 12 Republicans voted to strike down his border national emergency declaration, President Donald Trump said at a press conference that America’s immigration laws are “stupid,” “ridiculous” and must be changed. The Senate on March 14 voted to block Trump’s national emergency. The president said he would veto the Senate’s […]

FPI  / March 14, 2019 An illegal immigrant who has been deported twice was arrested in Marshall County, Alabama and charged for the rape of a 12-year-old girl. Marshall County Sheriff Phil Sims said the suspect, 29-year-old David Gonzalez, was deported from the U.S. to Guatemala in 2008 and 2009. “He’s used more than 10 […]

FPI  / March 13, 2019 A coalition composed of organizations, PACs, and media members has formed to counter the efforts of Media Matters to target advertisers for the cable news show of Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Founder David Brock once described the George Soros-funded Media Matters as aiming to wage an all-out campaign of […]

FPI  / March 13, 2019 House Judiciary Committee Republicans on March 12 released transcripts from a closed-door session last summer in which FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted the FBI was ordered by the Obama Department of Justice not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information. Rep. John Ratcliffe, […]

FPI  / March 13, 2019 Several developments on the Middle East peace front are taking place in the run-up to the Trump administration’s expected unveiling next month of its peace plan for the region. On March 11, the Trump administration’s Middle East peace team met in Washington with Jordan’s King Abdullah II. On March 12, […]

FPI  / March 13, 2019 Ohio’s decision to cut funding to healthcare groups, including Planned Parenthood, which perform abortions has been ruled constitutional by a federal appeals court. In 2016, Ohio passed a law which prohibits the state health department from funding organizations that “perform nontherapeutic abortions.” Two Planned Parenthood groups in Ohio sued the […]

FPI  / March 13, 2019 On Feb. 5, the Elk Grove, California school board unanimously approved new history and social science textbooks for the 2019-20 school year for grades K-8 which includes chapters on historical LGBT figures. Critics argued that elementary school students are too young to learn about such figures. One of the LGBT […]

FPI  / March 12, 2019 One of a “vast empire” of Democratic “dark money” groups linked to liberal activists, including George Soros, gave more than $2 million to an organization which hired Fusion GPS and anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele to continue investigating alleged Trump campaign “collusion” with Russia in the 2016 election, a report […]

FPI  / March 12, 2019 A government watchdog group has filed an official complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics concerning Rep. Adam Schiff’s contacts with congressional witnesses Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS co-founder, and Michael Cohen, former attorney for President Donald Trump Michael Cohen. The complaint filed by Judicial Watch asks that Schiff, California […]