PARIS — After a quiet summer, France’s yellow vest protesters were hoping for a busy fall. So when Amandine Cantournet saw a call last month touting a “historic” 45th gathering on the Champs-Elysees in the heart of Paris, she was willing and ready to make the five-hour drive from her home near the Swiss border…
President Trump has stoked his political base by touting the withdrawal of more than 1,000 U.S. troops from Syria as keeping his 2016 campaign promise to end American involvement in foreign “forever wars.” The problem is that the Pentagon’s near-simultaneous deployment of some 3,000 troops and advanced missiles to Saudi Arabia is likely to trigger…
Prosecutors last week announced a second sanctuary city-related murder case involving an illegal immigrant in the Seattle area, but that has yet to shake local officials who despite the brutality of the slayings say they are not yet ready to begin working with ICE. The latest homicide was particularly vicious, with police saying Carlos Orlando…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — When the top Democratic presidential hopefuls take the debate stage Tuesday, America will see a race that has changed dramatically since the candidates faced off just a month ago. The new dynamics include Joseph R. Biden fending off accusations of nepotism and corruption involving his son Hunter, Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s answer to a question at last week’s LGBTQ Town Hall meeting went viral, when she suggested that opposition to gay marriage was the result of incel frustration. But the questioner appears to be a maxed-out donor to Ms. Warren’s campaign — a fact CNN did not disclose. According to a report Monday…
The popular pro-Trump meme maker known as “Carpe Donktum” had his Twitter account briefly suspended Monday under circumstances he says are likely tied to his support for Project Veritas. A February 2018 post that violates copyright laws was given as the rationale for the ban, although Carpe Donktum, whose real name is Logan Cook, told…
Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea don’t see eye to eye on transgender self-identification, it was revealed in a new interview after the younger Clinton declared that a man with a beard and penis can identify as a woman. In an interview with the Sunday Times of London, journalist Decca Aitkenhead asked the Clintons if a…
The University of Maine sent a campuswide email disavowing a Facebook post by the school’s College Republicans chapter that defended Christopher Columbus and slammed the “Radical Left-Wing agenda” of erasing U.S. history. Maine this year became one of a growing number of states to change the Oct. 14 “Columbus Day” holiday to “Indigenous People’s Day”…
Montgomery County Police are searching for the person who fatally shot an officer Monday morning in a Silver Spring parking garage — the county’s first fatal shooting of an on-duty police officer since 2003. At an afternoon press conference at the county administration building in Rockville, acting Police Chief Marcus Jones said Officer Thomas J.…
President Trump on Sunday ordered another pullback of U.S. troops inside Syria as a Turkish military invasion gains steam and the geopolitical situation deteriorates, with American-backed Kurdish forces now pursuing an alliance with Moscow and the government of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Amid reports of violence against Kurdish civilians and the escape of hundreds of…
