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FPI / January 27, 2019 Columnist and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein is not on board the AOC train. Stein told Fox Business last week that newly-minted lawmaker and leftist media celebrity Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s rhetoric is not only misguided, but dangerous. “We have a society in which there are an awful lot of people […]

FPI / January 27, 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling on all nations to follow the United States’ lead in recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela. “Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games. Either you stand with […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 President Donald Trump could cite his authority under the National Emergencies Act to declare a state of emergency at the U.S.’s southern border and free up $7 billion in federal funds for a border wall, a report said. Under the emergency declaration, Trump would order the Pentagon to immediately begin […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 As he prepares for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, U.S. President Donald Trump is hitting back at critics who claim there has been little progress made from the first summit’s stated goal of the North’s denuclearization. “The Fake News Media loves saying ‘so little happened at […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 By John J. Metzler BUENOS AIRES — Two of Latin America’s political heavyweights have put the squeeze on Venezuela’s increasingly authoritarian regime. In a meeting between Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his new Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsanaro, the leaders of the region’s two largest economies have stepped up pressures on […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 About 1,500 private jets will have flown a lot a very wealthy and influential people to Davos, Switzerland this week to engage in discussions at the World Economic Forum such as “Safeguarding Our Planet”. “We have had bookings from as far as our operations in Hong Kong, India and the […]

FPI / January 24, 2019 By Donald Kirk The revelation of another “undeclared” North Korean missile base should send shock waves through all those concerned about the safety and security of the region, notably South Korea. Actually, however, it’s hard to find ordinary people too worried about the latest report by esteemed experts at the […]

FPI / January 24, 2019 Gannett, which includes USA TODAY and large regional newspapers such as the Arizona Republic and Des Moines Register, began laying off employees at its media outlets across the country on Jan. 23. Poynter.com reported that the layoffs were a cost-cutting measure that was planned before the recent news that Digital […]

FPI / January 24, 2019 Operatives for the Hillary Clinton campaign approached the Department of Justice and pushed an unsubstantiated theory that a secret server at Trump Tower was directly tied to a Moscow bank linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to congressional testimony. Testimony from James Baker, the former FBI general counsel and […]

FPI / January 24, 2019 President Donald Trump on Jan. 23 nominated enough judges to fill one-third of all federal court vacancies. Acting to bolster the conservative credentials of the federal courts, Trump renominated 51 judges who were not confirmed by the last Congress. Of the nominees, 37 were to district courts, nine to circuit […]

FPI / January 24, 2019 North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song criticized what he called Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine and, in an apparent shot of the U.S., blasted some permanent members of the UN Security Council for what he called a “double standard” attitude the Israel-Palestinian issue. Song delivered the comments […]

FPI / January 23, 2019 Fuel is being illegally shipped from Iranian ports to Yemen to support the Houthi rebels in their war against the Yemeni government, the United Nations said. In an 85-page report to the UN Security Council on Jan. 18, a UN panel tasked with monitoring the Yemen conflict said it found […]

FPI / January 23, 2019 Amid preparations for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, U.S. President Donald Trump is turning up the heat on Seoul by demanding it pay more for the 28,500 U.S. military personnel stationed in the South. Some Korea analysts say that U.S.’s leverage with Pyongyang, backed by severe […]

FPI / January 23, 2019 The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame announced four new members on Jan. 22. Mariano Rivera (100 percent of the vote), Edgar Martinez (85.4 percent), Roy Halladay (85.4 percent) and Mike Mussina (76.7 percent) all passed the 75 percent threshold needed in balloting from the baseball writers to be voted […]

FPI / January 23, 2019 With support from the U.S., opposition leaders in Venezuela have sparked what they hope is the beginning of the end of the socialist regime of President Nicolas Maduro. Reports on the ground say smaller-scale demonstrations that began on Jan. 21 began to spread on Jan. 22 with protests erupting in […]