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Despite Increased Tax Revenue, New Chicago Mayor Faces $740 Million Budget Shortfall

Washington Free Beacon May 17, 2019 Charlie Hoffmann
A new report from the city of Chicago's outgoing chief financial officer indicates Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot faces an estimated $740 million budget shortfall as she prepares to take over for Rahm Emanuel. Initially, Emanuel's administration predicted the budget shortfall would be around $500 million but Wednesday's report suggested they were... Read more

SAT to Give ‘Adversity Score’ Reflecting Students’ Social and Economic Background to College Admissions

Breitbart May 17, 2019 Dr. Susan Berry
Students who take the SAT college entrance exam will now be assigned an “adversity score” to inform schools of their social and economic background, including the crime rate in their neighborhoods and the poverty levels of their high schools, says the College Board. As the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, the College Board, whose CEO is... Read more

BLACKOUT: Networks Still Refuse to Cover Serial-Killing Illegal Alien

NewsBusters May 17, 2019 Bill D'Agostino
Back in January, the MRC noted that broadcast networks had ignored completely the story of an illegal immigrant suspected of murdering multiple elderly Texas residents. That same man has since become an accused serial killer with at least 12 alleged victims, yet the networks continue to conceal the story from their viewers. The Dallas Mornin... Read more

White House declines to back Christchurch call to stamp out online extremism amid free speech concerns

Washington Post May 15, 2019 Tony Romm and Drew Harwell
The United States broke with 18 governments and five top American tech firms Wednesday by declining to endorse a New Zealand-led effort to curb extremism online, a response to the live-streamed shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 51. White House officials said free-speech concerns prevented them from formally signing onto the la... Read more

Jim Jordan Urges Democrats to Release Coordination Agreement to Attack Trump

Breitbart May 15, 2019 Sean Moran
House Oversight and Reform ranking member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Wednesday requesting he release the non-public memo he and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) wrote regarding their efforts to attack President Donald Trump’s administration. Jordan urged Cu Read more

Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major outlets

Columbia Journalism Review May 15, 2019 Nicholas Diakopoulos
In the last week of April, nearly 23 percent of all traffic to news sites tracked by web analytics firm Parse.ly came from search engines. Google alone accounts for nearly half of external referral traffic—traffic, that is, that comes from platforms, apps, and other outside sources— to news sites. Together with the fact that Facebook referral tr... Read more

Bernstein: Only a 'Miracle' Can Save Trump from Criminal Prosecution

NewsBusters May 13, 2019 Nicholas Fondacaro
For the final guest of CNN’s so-called “Reliable Sources”, host and media janitor Brian Stelter brought on CNN political analyst and Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein to sing the media’s praises and rail against the President. According to Bernstein’s rambling, Trump was “the most authoritarian president in our history” who got his “Roy Cohn” in... Read more

Mueller Report Proves That It’s Time to Investigate the Investigators

Judicial Watch May 13, 2019 Tom Fitton
Now that President Trump has been exonerated of the false accusations of collusion and obstruction, it is time to investigate the investigators. The White House has justly praised the outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation for clearing the president of the odious charges that have hung over his presidency since even before ... Read more

Judge Rejects Leniency Plea From Former De Blasio Fundraiser, Sentences Him To 4 Years For Bribery Scheme

Daily Caller May 13, 2019 Evie Fordham
A judge rejected a plea for leniency from Jeremy Reichberg minutes before sentencing the former fundraiser for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to four years in prison for his role in a police bribery scheme. Reichberg was arrested in 2016 after participating in a scheme that showered New York Police Department officers with gifts including... Read more

Maxine Waters Paid Daughter $50K from Campaign Funds for Accrued Debt

Washington Free Beacon May 11, 2019 Joe Schoffstall
Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) paid $50,000 from her campaign's coffers to her daughter in recent months to chip away at six figures of accrued debt for an operation that pulls in large sums of money for the congresswoman's campaign committee, Federal Election Commission filings show. Rep. Waters's committee disbursed two payments to her dau... Read more

James Comey Didn’t Know Whether Dossier Claims Were True – Yet Still Used Info in FISA Applications

Breitbart May 11, 2019 Aaron Klein
NEW YORK — Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey conceded that when it came to details inside the infamous anti-Trump dossier his FBI “didn’t know whether they were true or false.” Yet in late October 2016, Comey signed the first of three successful FISA applications to obtain warrants to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The sec... Read more

EXCLUSIVE: The Mexican father of alleged Colorado school shooter Alec McKinney, 16, was jailed for domestic...

Daily Mail May 11, 2019 Alan Butterfield
The father of one of the alleged STEM School Highlands Ranch shooters in Colorado is a serial felon and illegal immigrant from Mexico, DailyMail.com can reveal. Jose Evis Quintana, the father of alleged 16-year-old killer Alec McKinney was once jailed for 15 months for domestic violence against Alec's mother and 'menacing with a weapo Read more

Navy Sends Warships to Challenge PLA In S. China Sea

Washington Free Beacon May 08, 2019 Bill Gertz
The Navy conducted the latest freedom of navigation operation in the contested South China Sea on Monday, sending two guided missile destroyers near the Spratly Islands. "The guided missile destroyers USS Preble and USS Chung Hoon conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea May 6," said Lt. Cmdr. Tim Gorman, a spokesman... Read more

Remember when Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress? Here's what Rep. Nadler did in protest

The Blaze May 08, 2019 Breck Dumas
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) has led the charge to hold U.S. Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not complying with the panel's subpoenas regarding special counsel Robert Mueller's report. But when former Attorney General Eric Holder faced a House vote that ultimately led to him being held in contempt for ... Read more

Rand Paul Slams ‘Republican’ Richard Burr for Don Jr. Subpoena: ‘Didn’t Get Memo–Case Closed’

Breitbart May 08, 2019 Matthew Boyle
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is slamming Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), the GOP chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, for contradicting direct orders from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Russia investigation and issuing a subpoena of Donald Trump, Jr., despite McConnell’s statement that the case is closed. Burr, as Breitbart News and ... Read more

RIP, Turkish Democracy With his iron fist, President Erdogan has crushed a decades-long period of free and...

Washington Free Beacon May 07, 2019 Aaron Kliegman
In May 1950, the ruling political party in Turkey, which had governed for 27 straight years, held a free and fair election and lost—badly. Rather than contest—or worse, ignore—the results, the Republican People's Party handed over power to the victorious opposition. There was no bloodshed, no attempt to hold onto power. A deeply entrenched, some... Read more

Joe Biden: We Need to Deal with Second Amendment ‘Rationally’

Breitbart May 07, 2019 Awr Hawkins
During his Tuesday speech to Nevada Democrats, Joe Biden acknowledged that there is a Second Amendment but said we need to deal with it “rationally.” Biden did not provide any clues of how to deal with it in his speech, but he highlighted the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas shooting and the December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.... Read more

Trump vindicated in court battle on 'Return to Mexico' asylum policy

The Washington Times May 07, 2019 Stephen Dinan
President Trump won a surprise victory before a usually antagonistic appeals court Tuesday when judges ruled he could continue his “Return to Mexico” policy that allows the government to make some illegal immigrants seeking asylum wait in Mexico while their cases are being heard. The policy, which the administration officially calls the Migra... Read more

Donald Trump Jr: ‘How Long Before Tech Companies Silence You?’

Breitbart May 03, 2019 Lucas Nolan
In a recent Twitter post, Donald Trump Jr. claimed that Facebook is “taking their censorship campaign to the next level” following the banning of a number of prominent conservative users after they were branded “dangerous” by the company. He added, “Ask yourself, how long before they come to purge you?” The Hill reports that in a recent tweet... Read more

Journalism Institute Poynter Tries to ‘Blacklist’ 29 Conservative Outlets as ‘UnNews’

NewsBusters May 02, 2019 Corinne Weaver
The attack on the conservative internet has reached a new low. Poynter, the journalism institute responsible for training writers and reporters, decided to promote a left-wing smear of conservative groups online. The result was a hit job written by someone who works for the anti-conservative Southern Poverty Law Center for a journalism organi... Read more