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FPI / January 16, 2019 One of the organizers of a new caravan of migrants that seeks to reach the U.S.’s southern border has been arrested by police in Honduras on a rape charge. Honduran authorities confirmed the arrest of 26-year-old Juan Carlos Molina. Reports on previous caravans have said that women and children who […]

FPI / January 16, 2019 After scoffing at Iran’s claim that its military personnel were only in Syria as advisers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he “advised” Iran to “get out” of Syria – now. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahrem Qasemi had claimed that “Iran does not have a military base and military presence […]

FPI / January 16, 2019 As of today, Jan. 16, the partial shutdown of the U.S. government is in its 26th day. In four more days, a threshold will be reached which will enable the permanent layoffs of federal workers who have been furloughed for 30 days or more. Swamp – meet drain. Has President […]

FPI / January 16, 2019 The year 2018 was one messed up 365 days, humor columnist Dave Barry noted. The good news, at least it wasn’t a leap year. “What made this year so awful?” Barry asked in his 2018 year in review column for McClatchy Newspapers. “We could list many factors, including natural disasters, […]

FPI / January 14, 2019 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged health care for all New Yorkers, including illegal immigrants, and hinted that paying for it could come down to getting the money out of the hands of the “wrong people.” De Blasio had reportedly said last week that “there’s plenty of […]

FPI / January 14, 2019 On the same day that some 800,000 federal workers missed their first paycheck due to the government shutdown, a group of 30 Democratic Party lawmakers headed to sunny Puerto Rico to party. The Democrats hopped a charter plane to mingle on the Caribbean island over the weekend with 109 lobbyists […]

FPI / January 14, 2019 Playing the lead role in the typical Hollywood blockbuster, “The gun brings in more in box office than George Clooney, Chris Pratt or Quentin Tarantino could ever hope to generate,” said filmmaker Abigail Disney. Meanwhile, from behind their solid security walls and amid the protection of armed guards, Hollywood’s wealthy […]

FPI  / January 10, 2019 Italy and Poland are set to spark a “European spring” in which anti-immigration populists will look to take down the “French-German axis” in May’s European Union parliamentary elections, Italy’s interior minister said on Jan. 9. “We are preparing a new equilibrium and new energy in Europe and Poland and Italy, […]

FPI  / January 11, 2019 Since President Donald Trump took office, the United States has “reasserted its traditional role as a force for good” in the Middle East, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech delivered at the American University in Cairo on Jan. 10. In a scathing rebuke of Obama administration policies, […]

FPI / January 11, 2019 Facebook has created a “cult-like” environment where workers are discouraged from dissent and pretend to always act as if “everything is fine,” a number of former employees said. The social media behemoth presses employees to place the company above all else in their lives, and do it with a smile, […]

FPI  / January 13, 2019 Pakistan, a country with a 90 percent Muslim population, was among the first to criticize China’s detention of more than one million Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities. Many of the Uighurs being held in re-education camps in China’s Xinjiang province are the wives of Pakistani men. Pakistan’s criticism of […]

FPI / January 13, 2019 Americans are hearing often about welcoming people in to a society, whether legal or not. But since homeless encampments began springing up near their lavish homes and adjacent to their ritzy golf courses, the elites in Venice Beach, California were not so welcoming. There are currently some 1,000 homeless in […]

FPI / January 13, 2019 CNN reportedly asked a local TV station in San Diego to contribute a “local view” to a CNN story on whether border walls work. The station, KUSI, offered reporter Dan Plante, who has extensive experience in reporting on immigration in the area. KUSI said it informed CNN that “most Border Patrol […]

FPI / January 10, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump on Jan. 9 signed into law the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act, authorizing $430 million to further combat human trafficking. “This is an urgent humanitarian issue. My administration is committed to leveraging every resource we have to confront this threat, to support […]

FPI / January 10, 2019 The founder of Swiss America Trading says he has no problem with no government. Financial analyst Craig R. Smith contends that the partial government shutdown has little impact on everyday life for anyone in the United States not employed by the federal government. “From a personal perspective, ask yourself, is […]