LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi had planned to retire from Congress if Hillary Clinton won the presidential election. “If Hillary had won, I was ready to go home,” she told reporters Friday. Instead, she opted to stick around and try to fend off Republican efforts to dismantle…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The owners of the Washington, D.C., establishment Cork Wine Bar are suing President Donald Trump and the new Trump International Hotel, alleging that Trump is unfairly hurting their business. Cork Wine Bar offers 200 international wines to its customers, but now the owners Khalid Pitts and Diane…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Washington Post labeled Planned Parenthood — an organization that spent 99 percent of its political contributions on Democrats in 2016 and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president — as “nonpartisan” in a story Thursday. Amber Phillips uses the label in an explainer on the Republican plan to replace Obamacare,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Police busted a heroin, meth and cocaine distribution operation running out of a residence in Indianapolis, Ind., where a 10-year-old was also living. Authorities initially grew suspicious after multiple overdose calls to the residence in Wayne Township. Officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department executed a search warrant…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A former New York Police Department officer killed himself after the FBI approached him during a traffic stop Wednesday. Gerard Benderoth, also a bodybuilder, shot himself in the head when the FBI and state agents came up to arrest him, reports the New York Daily News. “While…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin promised Sunday that President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal will not include cuts to major entitlement programs, like Social Security and Medicare. If Mnuchin’s comments are correct, the president would be making good on his campaign promise to not make cuts to Social…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson A Russian intelligence official will reportedly face indictment for plotting a coup to stop Montenegro from joining NATO by assassinating its prime minister. Eduard Sismakov, an officer with the GRU military service, allegedly ran a network of Serbian and Russian nationalists and paramilitaries who tried to disrupt the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, criticizing his former colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg for inappropriate interventions in political questions. Ginsburg and Silberman served together on the D.C. Circuit, widely…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The father of a U.S. Navy Seal killed in the Yemen raid in late January refused to meet President Donald Trump during the transfer of his coffin to the U.S., the Miami Herald reports. Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens’s coffin arrived at Dover Air Force base Feb…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Judge Army Col. Jeffery Nance has tossed out arguments from Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s defense team that President Donald Trump’s harsh comments have prevented Bergdahl from receiving a fair trial. According to Bergdahl’s lawyers, Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail ruined the ability of potential jurors to…