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Trump Administration Cracks Down on Chinese Diplomats in U.S.

Washington Free Beacon Oct 17, 2019 Adam Kredo
The Trump administration issued new restrictions on the actions Chinese government diplomats are permitted to take in the United States in response to the communist government blocking American personnel stationed in Beijing from meeting with key assets, according to U.S. officials. The State Department will now require all Chinese foreign mi... Read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook Begs for Mike Lee’s Green Card Giveaway to Big Tech

Breitbart Oct 17, 2019 John Binder
Apple CEO Tim Cook is begging the Senate to pass Sen. Mike Lee’s green card giveaway plan to reward multinational tech corporations after years of them importing foreign visa workers to take American jobs. On Thursday, Lee failed for the fourth time to get his legislation, S. 386, passed out of the Senate. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. K... Read more

JW INVESTIGATES IF OUSTED UKRAINE AMBASSADOR ORDERED STATE DEPT. TO MONITOR JOURNALISTS, TRUMP ALLIES

Judicial Watch Oct 17, 2019 Judicial Watch Staff
Judicial Watch is investigating if prominent conservative figures, journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump were unlawfully monitored by the State Department in Ukraine at the request of ousted U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, an Obama appointee. Yovanovitch testified “in secret” to the House impeachment inquiry against Trum... Read more

Report: Amazon Makes Aggressive Push into Elections, Security Experts Concerned

NewsBusters Oct 17, 2019 Alexander Hall
With experts warning about hackers and insider sabotage as Amazon expands into the business of elections, should American voters worry about officials putting all their eggs in one basket? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has increasingly become involved with both “state and local elections,” noted Reuters inn an article titled “How Amazon.com move... Read more

Surge: 14.3 million illegal immigrants in US costing taxpayers $130B

Washington Examiner Sep 24, 2019 Paul Bedard
Fueled by lax laws, promises of sanctuary, and a growing threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border, the illegal immigrant population in the United States has surged nearly 2 million to 14.3 million, according to a new calculation from a key immigration policy group. Citing several reasons for the growth over the past two years, the Federatio... Read more

Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden Made a Deal with China that ‘Nobody Else Has’

Breitbart Sep 24, 2019 Joshua Caplan
Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel with Sean Hannity, Breitbart News senior contributor and Secret Empires author Peter Schweizer elaborated on the troubling circumstances surrounding Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China and Ukraine, noting that his $1.5 billion private equity deal with the Bank of China remains unprecedented in the i... Read more

At U.N., Trump Pushes Religious Freedom at Event Slamming China Over Uighurs

Washington Free Beacon Sep 24, 2019 Michelle Nichols and David Brunnstrom
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to religious persecution on Monday at a U.S. event on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations featuring a woman whose Uighur father has been imprisoned in China. China has been widely condemned for setting up complexes in remote Xinjian... Read more

Saudi oil attack was approved by Iran's supreme leader, U.S. official says

CBS Evening News Sep 18, 2019 David Martin
The recent attack on Saudi oil facilities was approved by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, but only on the condition that it be carried out in a way that made it possible to deny Iranian involvement, a U.S. official told CBS News. Saudi Arabia on Wednesday displayed wreckage of what it said were Iranian cruise missiles and drones. T... Read more

Chinese National Pleads Guilty to California ‘Birth Tourism’ Plot

Washington Free Beacon Sep 18, 2019 Graham Piro
A Chinese national pleaded guilty to running an illegal "birth tourism" scheme in California, where she charged clients thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States in order to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children. Dongyuan Li, 41, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud and one count o... Read more

6.2 Million Individuals Off Food Stamps Under Trump

Breitbart Sep 08, 2019 Katherine Rodriguez
More than 6.2 million individuals dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump completed his first full month in office, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The most recent USDA data shows that 6,268,285 individuals discontinued their participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progr... Read more

Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes Submits Resignation

Washington Free Beacon Sep 08, 2019 Paul Crookston
Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes has taken her final bow in a storied career of election mishaps. Brenda Snipes’ spokesman confirmed Sunday she has tendered her resignation following another episode of errors and confusion during the Nov. 6 midterm election, NBC 6 Miami reports. Snipes’ tenure helped to make Broward nation... Read more

Restless Genes

National Geographic Sep 07, 2019 David Dobbs
The compulsion to see what lies beyond that far ridge or that ocean—or this planet—is a defining part of human identity and success. Read more

Sources: Omar's husband confirms she was married to her own brother

WND Sep 03, 2019 WND Staff
The legal husband of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and the father of her three children, Ahmed Hirsi, has confirmed to friends that the congresswoman married her brother in a fraudulent immigration scheme, according to sources who spoke to Powerline blogger Scott Johnson. Hirsi has said, however, that he did not know at the time that Omar wa... Read more

The top 5 fundraising Democratic presidential candidates share some big-name contributors that millions of ...

The Blaze Sep 03, 2019 Chris Field
As the slew of Democratic presidential primary candidates has jostled for the political and electoral support of the liberal base for the last few months, they've also been avidly seeking the left's financial support. And so far this year, no one in the party has been been able to top Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' massive haul of nearly $50 milli... Read more

Reports: Mainland Chinese Joining Pro-Democracy Hong Kong Protesters

Breitbart Sep 01, 2019 Kristina Wong
China’s worst nightmare may be happening: Mainland Chinese citizens are now participating in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, according to recent reports. Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that a “small cohort of mainlanders have joined the demonstrations, taking extraordinary risks to support a society that offers freedoms unavailab... Read more

Amid Crisis, China Rejected Hong Kong Plan to Appease Protesters – Sources

Washington Free Beacon Sep 01, 2019 James Pomfret, Greg Torode
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Earlier this summer, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, submitted a report to Beijing that assessed protesters’ five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition bill could help defuse the mounting political crisis in the territory. The Chinese central government rejected Lam’s proposal to wi... Read more

Activist: Elizabeth Warren’s ‘White Squatter’ Ancestors Were ‘Complicit in Cherokee Dispossession’

Breitbart Aug 23, 2019 Hannah Bleau
A Native American activist and citizen of Cherokee Nation slammed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in a Huffington Post op-ed Friday, calling on her to “tell the truth” about her ancestors’ interactions with indigenous tribes — alleging that her maiden family, the Crawfords, were “white squatters” on Cherokee land. Read more

How China used Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to spread disinformation about the Hong Kong protests

How China used Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to spread disinformation about the Hong Kong protests Aug 23, 2019 Emily Stewart
Facebook, Twitter, and Google are dealing with the fallout of disinformation spread from another state actor on their platforms: China. On Monday, both Facebook and Twitter announced plans to take action on coordinated attempts by the Chinese government or those associated with it to manipulate information on social media about massive protes... Read more

DNC Speaker: Socialism Endorsed By Constitution, Bible

Washington Free Beacon Aug 23, 2019 Cameron Cawthorne
A speaker at the Democratic National Committee summer meeting Friday said if free health care is labeled "socialism" by Republicans, then they should "acknowledge that the Bible must then promote socialism." "When we embrace moral language, we must ask does our policy care for the least of these? Does it lift up those who are most marginalize... Read more

Best states for concealed carry — ranked worst to first

Washington Times Aug 15, 2019 Washington Times Staff
Concealed carry regulations vary widely across the country. Guns & Ammo magazine looked at the most up-to-date laws in each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, and ranked the states from worst to first. Criteria included ease of acquiring a concealed carry permit, costs associated with licensure, training hours required and reciproc... Read more