Two border disputes enter 2024 politics as tensions flare in Texas and D.C. efforts stumble

Two border disputes enter 2024 politics as tensions flare in Texas and D.C. efforts stumble

There are now a pair of border crises coming front and center into the race for the White House. The first is occurring hundreds of miles from either Mexico or Canada, in Washington D.C., where lawmakers recently learned their months-long efforts at reaching a compromise over new border security legislation may have been torpedoed by … Read more

Poilievre calls UNRWA ‘terrorist’ organization, after Canada pauses funding following allegations

Poilievre calls UNRWA ‘terrorist’ organization, after Canada pauses funding following allegations

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has accused UNRWA, the United Nations relief and works agency, of being a “terrorist” organization and promised to cut back its funding if he becomes prime minister. Israel last week alleged that some members of UNRWA’s staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas-led militants on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 Israelis. Palestinian … Read more

Tim Scott, James Lankford Pressed on E Jean Carroll Verdict

Tim Scott, James Lankford Pressed on E Jean Carroll Verdict

Republican Senators James Lankford (OK) and Tim Scott (SC) shruged off Friday’s verdict against Donald Trump — who was ordered to pay $83 million in damages for defaming the woman he was previously found liable for sexually abusing. ABC News’ Martha Raddatz interviewed Scott on Sunday for This Week, and she started with Friday’s verdict … Read more

Biden is trying to balance Gaza protests and free speech rights

Biden is trying to balance Gaza protests and free speech rights

By Colleen Long | Associated Press MANASSAS, Va. — It was President Joe Biden’s first big campaign rally of the year, a chance to spotlight the issue of protecting abortion rights. Instead, at least a dozen times during Biden’s 22-minute speech, demonstrators scattered throughout the audience rose to shout out demands for a cease-fire in … Read more

Facebook and Instagram accounts can be disconnected in Europe

Facebook and Instagram accounts can be disconnected in Europe

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Meta Marketplace, and Meta. According to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) law, these are all gatekeeper services. Meta is a gatekeeper company as a whole. Therefore, Meta has to make changes according to the EU regulations by March 7th or risk penalties. With that in mind, hearing that … Read more

Biden and senators on verge of striking immigration deal aimed at clamping down on illegal border crossings

Biden and senators on verge of striking immigration deal aimed at clamping down on illegal border crossings

Eagle Pass, Texas — A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress is on the verge of striking a deal with the Biden administration that would enact sweeping new border controls, including the authority to pause asylum processing during spikes in migrant crossings, three people familiar with the talks told CBS News.  After weeks of closed-door … Read more

Boebert finishes 5th in 4th Congressional District straw poll

Boebert finishes 5th in 4th Congressional District straw poll

FORT LUPTON — Lauren Boebert landed in fifth place in a straw poll conducted at a 4th Congressional District debate this week, a decidedly middle-of-the-pack showing among the nine Republican candidates who showed up for the event. While the survey of just over 100 Republicans on Thursday at the Fort Lupton Recreation Center is a … Read more

Biden Caves to ‘Young People and Frontline Communities,’ Halts Natural Gas Export Approvals

Biden Caves to ‘Young People and Frontline Communities,’ Halts Natural Gas Export Approvals

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, President Joe Biden continues to want Americans to see climate change — not nuclear war with Russia or China, not radical Islamic terrorism — as the greatest threat to humanity. At least, that was what he claimed in a Friday news release in which promised to raise U.S. … Read more

Biden Promises to “Shut Down” Border If Congress Can Pass Bipartisan Deal

Biden Promises to “Shut Down” Border If Congress Can Pass Bipartisan Deal

President Joe Biden urged Congress on Friday to pass a bipartisan bill that he argued would address an escalating immigration crisis, vowing to “shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed.” “What’s been negotiated would – if passed into law – be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever … Read more