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FPI / February 13, 2019 Public opinion has turned against the media in the 754 days since President Donald Trump took office, according to a new poll. An IBD/TIPP poll which asked about “the public’s perception of the mainstream news media” found that “fully half the country says its trust in the media decreased over […]

FPI / February 13, 2019 Lawmakers in D.C. continue to haggle over how much, if any, funding will go toward President Donald Trump’s border wall. Meanwhile, on the ground at the U.S.-Mexico border, the wall is being built. “We’ve actually started a big, big portion of the wall today at a very important location, and […]

FPI / February 12, 2019 Democrats must push for the U.S.-Mexico border to be demilitarized and all border barriers destroyed to allow migrants to freely flow into the United States, an op-ed in The New York Times says. “Democrats should follow their voters, who increasingly want more open borders, and reframe the immigration debate by […]

FPI / February 12, 2019 The Iranian regime should make the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution count, because there might not be many more such celebrations, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton warned. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said last week that the slogan “Death to America”, which Iranians regularly shout at rallies, is […]

FPI / February 12, 2019 The FBI, prodded by Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, moved swiftly in the days preceding the 2016 presidential election to stress that the agency concluded that material found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop would not change the conclusion that Clinton should not be charged for mishandling classified information, newly released documents reveal. Documents […]

FPI / February 12, 2019 During radio host Rush Limbaugh’s Feb. 5 broadcast, a caller voiced concern on how the next generation of Americans “aren’t being taught about God.” Limbaugh responded: “It’s not just they’re not being taught about God. God is being systematically eliminated. Now, to people who might… Not everybody believes in the […]

FPI  / February 11, 2019 House Democrats plan to move legislation this week that would ban the private sale of guns. The House Judiciary Committee will mark up the bill, known as the Bipartisan Background Checks Act, on Feb. 13 and send it to the House floor for a vote, committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told […]

FPI  / February 10, 2019 A British woman was arrested in her home in front of her two young children on charges of calling a woman transgender activist by her former male name – or “deadnaming” – in a Twitter argument. In comments posted to the Mumsnet online forum, Kate Scottow of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, said she […]

FPI / February 11, 2019 The use of blackface in the United States goes back to around the 1830s when white actors in minstrel shows darkened their faces and used exaggerated stereotypes to dehumanize black people. In January, Florida’s Republican secretary of state, Michael Ertel, resigned after it was revealed that, in 2005, he used […]

FPI  / February 11, 2019 Rep. Adam Schiff, wielding his new power as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said he plans to launch a wide-ranging new investigation into President Donald Trump and his “family” with a focus on alleged money laundering. Schiff, a vocal proponent of the unsubstantiated anti-Trump dossier funded by the Clinton […]

By Parris H. Chang FPI / February 8, 2019 Forty years ago, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made a celebratory tour of the United States in the wake of the U.S. recognition of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Deng’s trip from Jan. 28 to Feb. 5, 1979, started in Washington, and made stops in Atlanta, […]

FPI / February 10, 2019 The alleged murderer of a pregnant New York City woman is facing lesser charges due to the state’s newly-signed abortion law. Anthony Hobson was charged on Feb. 8 with the murder of his girlfriend, Jennifer Irigoyen, 35, who was five-months pregnant. He was not charged for killing her unborn baby, […]

FPI / February 10, 2019 President Donald Trump said during his State of the Union address on Feb. 5 that America would “never be a socialist country.” Democrats seem to think otherwise. According to a Gallup poll from August 2018 Gallup, 57 percent of Democrats view socialism in a positive light, and 47 percent saw […]

FPI / February 10, 2019 Iran’s “Death to America” chants are aimed at President Donald Trump and the U.S.’s other “rulers,” and will continue to be used at state-organized rallies and events, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said. ” ‘Death to America’ means death to Trump, [national security adviser] John Bolton, and [Secretary of […]

FPI / February 10, 2019 By Donald Kirk NEW DELHI ― The prospect of President Trump abandoning friends and allies resonates here for reasons that have nothing to do with North or South Korea. While focusing on whatever deal he is likely to cook up with Kim Jong-Un, let us not forget the priorities in […]