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By Kody Fairfield Fox News star Megyn Kelly is said to be leaving her home network of 12 years in order to take on a “broad new role” with NBC, reports the New York Times (NYT). According to the NYT, people briefed on the negotiations have said that Kelly will be leaving the Fox News network, a station on which she…
By Saagar Enjeti President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the U.S. should not let any more terrorists out of Guantanamo bay, rebuking President Barack Obama’s plan to release 18 more prisoners before he leaves office. There should be no further releases from Gitmo. These are extremely dangerous people and should not be allowed back onto the…
By Blake Neff In an abrupt move made without the backing of their leaders, Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to dramatically scale back an independent congressional ethics office created eight years ago. The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) was created eight years ago, in the wake of several high-profile congressional scandals. OCE is designed…
By Kody Fairfield “Our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party.” That is how Wikileaks founder Julian Assange responded to Fox News host Sean Hannity when he was asked if he could “unequivocally” say that he did not receive information about the DNC and John Podesta’s emails from Russia. HANNITY: Can you say to the American…
By Jonah Bennett A Delaware man shot during the Istanbul nightclub attack on New Year’s Eve says he survived the massacre because he pretended to be dead. William Jacob Raak, a 35-year-old business owner from Greenville, Delaware, said he played dead on the ground at the nightclub Reina as a last-ditch effort to stay alive, The Associated…
By Kevin Daley The James Madison Project, a transparency and accountability group, has filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding that several security and intelligence agencies furnish evidence that foreign interests interfered in the November election. The U.S. government publicly accused Russia of orchestrating hacks of Democratic and Republican political organizations in October. President Obama…
By Eric Lieberman Van Jones, a political pundit and outspoken critic of President-elect Donald Trump, said Sunday that the Clinton family’s influence is finished while commenting on the state of the Democratic party. “You have to understand, I think that the Clinton days are over,” Jones told CNN host Jake Tapper. “This idea that we’re going to be this…
By Michael Bastasch A New York Times article on the limits of federal power in rolling back the green energy “transition” makes the prediction that sea level rise and heat waves will continue to get worse under President-elect Donald Trump. NYT reporter Justin Gillis wrote “as Washington goes into reverse gear on climate policy, seas…
By Kody Fairfield The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is reporting that their staff reporter, Dion Nissenbaum, was detained by Turkish authorities for 2 1/2 days this past week for allegedly violating a government ban on publication of images from an Islamic State video. Nissenbaum, who is a United States citizen and returned to the US on Saturday, was taken…
by Micah J. Fleck According to a new report mere hours ago, the Obama administration has identified malware it calls “Grizzly Steppe” as being present in a Vermont utility. The report states: A code associated with the Russian hacking operation dubbed Grizzly Steppe by the Obama administration has been detected within the system of a…