President Joe Biden privately admitted to Democrat mayors and governors last week that a planned hike in the federal minimum wage is “dead” and that it will not be included in the forthcoming COVID-19 relief bill, Politico reports. Democrats had demanded that a gradual hike, ending at a $15 minimum wage across the country in […]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears to have reached the end of her patience with the Chicago Teachers Union, which pushed negotiations on whether Chicago teachers would return to in-person instruction into another day, effectively delaying the start of classes until next week. In a fiery speech Thursday morning, broadcast live on most local news networks, […]

The New York Times praised President Joe Biden’s faith on Saturday, calling Biden the “most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century” and crediting him with ushering in a “different, more liberal Christianity,” by publicly attending Catholic Mass — even though Biden has run afoul of Catholic hierarchy for his recent change of […]

Agents of the Federal Protective Services confronted crowds of rioters in Portland, Oregon, again Saturday night, firing rounds of tear gas and non-lethal pepper balls at “anti-Fascist” protesters attacking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Saturday night marked the fourth night of rioting in Portland, and the fourth night of a federal response — a […]

In an interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested that now-former President Donald Trump could be held as an “accessory” to murder for “instigating” an “insurrection” at the United States Capitol. Pelosi, who presided over a vote to impeach Trump a second time but has yet to send […]

The United States Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., is opening an “excessive force” probe into the death of pro-Trump protester Ashli Babbit, who was shot and killed while she and others attempted to storm a Congressional chamber during a riot at the United States Capitol last Wednesday. Babbit, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from California, […]

President Donald Trump tweeted Saturday that he intends to “declassify everything,” over his own apparent concern that the Department of Justice and Attorney General William Barr withheld information about an ongoing DOJ investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Hunter Biden acknowledged this week that he is under investigation over […]

A longtime aide and confidante of former President Bill Clinton claimed to Vanity Fair magazine this week that, despite his denials, Clinton indeed visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James, which reportedly served as a hub for Epstein’s global sex trafficking operation. Doug Band, who served as Clinton’s right-hand man for years after he […]

Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Wednesday that black members of Portland’s Black Lives Matter movement are tired of their anti-racism demonstrations being hijacked by the mostly white “Antifa” anarchists and are working to separate the two movements as protests continue. “Tensions between Black activists fighting for racial justice and anti-establishment protesters have bubbled beneath the surface […]

On Thursday, the judge overseeing the case against four former Minneapolis police officers charged with killing George Floyd dismissed a third-degree murder charge against lead officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin will now face charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, both of which carry much heavier penalties than the third-degree charge. KARE Minneapolis reports that all […]