[ad_1] US 20:57 GMT 13.12.2020Get short URL Ivanka Trump is frequently mentioned as desiring a political career of her own and during her time working for Donald Trump has sought to position herself as a more media-friendly version of her father. Speculation about the post-White House career of President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior aide

[ad_1] Dec. 13, 2020 | The United States Dear Washington, This will be my last letter. Since I began writing you in January, our country has been turned upside down. The president, after being impeached by the House of Representatives, was acquitted by the Senate. A lethal pandemic has claimed the lives of nearly 300,000

[ad_1] On the Second day of Christmas, Anti-Gun Reps Gave to Thee: A Ban on Private Gun Sales  ‘Tis the season at the Texas Capitol for extreme gun control bills; lumps of coal stuffed in stockings and hung on mantles for gun owners in advance of the 2021 legislative session.  Pre-filed by anti-gun politicians who were backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg and BETO

[ad_1] On the first day of Christmas, Rep. Terry Meza (D-Dallas) gave to thee: A DUTY TO RETREAT ‘Tis the season at the Texas Capitol for extreme gun control bills; lumps of coal stuffed in stockings and hung on mantles of gun owners in advance of the 2021 legislative session.  Pre-filed by anti-gun politicians who were backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg, and BETO

[ad_1] Dustin Racioppi   | Trenton Bureau Voters rally for Trump in Ridgewood Voters gathered near Ridgewood Village Hall to support President Donald Trump and participate in march to Van Neste Park Republican Party Chairman Doug Steinhardt announced Friday he is running for governor in next year’s contest, pitching himself as a pro-Trump, gun-toting Everyman who

[ad_1] On Wednesday, the Senate Government Oversight and Reform Committee passed important No Duty to Retreat Legislation, Senate Bill 383. This self-defense measure now heads to the Senate for floor action, and your Senator needs to hear from you!  Please contact your State Senator and ask that they SUPPORT Senate Bill 383. Senate Bill 383

[ad_1] ABC After dragging Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump and his cohort for gaining access to VIP COVID antibody cocktails that the general public can’t access yet, as well as Rudy’s right-hand woman Jenna Ellis for getting COVID after claiming “there is no pandemic,” Jimmy Kimmel dedicated a sizable portion of Thursday night’s monologue to another

[ad_1] Here’s what you need to know: President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to Georgia next week to campaign for two Democratic Senate candidates.Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. this week urged a group of civil rights activists to remain quiet about plans to overhaul policing until after

[ad_1] Here’s what you need to know: President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will travel to Georgia next week to campaign for two Democratic Senate candidates.Credit…Hilary Swift for The New York Times President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. this week urged a group of civil rights activists to remain quiet about plans to overhaul policing until after

[ad_1] Welcome to The Hill’s annual list of top lobbyists. 2020 was a chaotic year for K Street, with the coronavirus pandemic and lobbying battles for COVID-19 relief legislation consuming much of the year. The presidential and congressional elections also kept lobbyists busy while they tried to find ways to network under the new normal

[ad_1] The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general led by New York said they filed antitrust complaints against Facebook Wednesday, alleging the company stifled competition from rivals in order to protect its monopoly in social media. The lawsuits seek court orders unwinding Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, according to copies of the complaints provided by the

[ad_1] McAuliffe, 63, made a wide-ranging pitch, promising to build a “stronger and fairer” economy, continue the fight for civil rights, ensure access to affordable health care and boost wages, affordable housing and clean energy. But his focus Wednesday was education, as he rolled out a detailed, $2-billion-a-year plan to raise teacher pay above the

[ad_1] OK, you monolith lovers, look what you’ve done. You have pooped all over the desert. This is the kind of s–t you can expect from people. The mysterious monolith in the Southern Utah desert was unknown until a state helicopter team spotted it in a small, remote drainage, placed there, no doubt, by aliens.

[ad_1] Amplified by powerful conservative media outlets, President Trump’s baseless assertions of mass voter fraud are eviscerating trust in American elections. Indeed, according to one poll, only 3 percent of Trump voters believe President-elect Biden won the 2020 election. Far worse, death threats against election officials – most of them Republicans – are met by

[ad_1] John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono on Tuesday marked the 40th anniversary of the legendary musician’s shock murder with a call for gun control. “The death of a loved one is a hollowing experience,” tweeted the 87-year-old artist, who still lives in the Dakota building in Manhattan outside of which her husband was shot four

[ad_1] Here’s the part where we tell you how bad 2020 was while we make a vague promise that it can only get better. Then, we would expand on the fact that because of the global pandemic we were all stuck inside this year and pretend that was somehow unusual as if we aren’t always

[ad_1] Join NRA-ILA for the annual 2020 Virtual NRA-ILA Firearms Law & The Second Amendment Symposium on Friday, December 11th. This year’s event will be a free, live, online event. For more information, please visit: NRA-ILA 2020 Law Symposium Focusing on recent developments in our nation’s courts and legislatures regarding the Second Amendment, speakers will discuss a variety

[ad_1] In late November, the Trump administration took its firmest action yet to counteract ongoing banking discrimination against businesses that serve America’s gun owners. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a significant banking regulator, issued a proposed rule to prohibit politically-motivated service denials and to ensure large, nationwide banks would have to make

[ad_1] November 2020 saw, among other things, another new firearm background checks record. This, after this record, this record, and this record. The FBI NICS office conducted 3,626,335 total background checks last month. November is always a busy month with elections, Black Friday, and holiday deals to be had. Even the year-to-date streak of record

[ad_1] Barack Obama is still upset about just how bitterly so many Americans cling to their guns. During an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired November 17, the former president expressed his anger with the fact that gun owners successfully organized to defeat his radical gun control agenda in early 2013. When asked by Winfrey

[ad_1] If you thought endless COVID-19 orders and lockdowns were enough to satisfy the United Kingdom government’s totalitarian impulse, think again. Even as millions of Brits are losing their livelihoods, the busybodies in Her Majesty’s Government are hard at work looking for new ways to diminish their rights through gun control. With the UK already

[ad_1] There is new evidence of problems with the implementation of the “assault weapons” ban imposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on May 1st. Readers will recall that under the Liberal Government’s scheme, over 1,500 firearms and devices listed in a government regulation immediately became a “prohibited” firearm or “prohibited device,” as did “any

[ad_1] Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Anti-gun jurisdiction maintains a restrictive may-issue firearm licensing scheme. Scheme results in alleged bribes for licenses scandal. On November 23, the Santa Clara County, Calif. District Attorney announced that a grand jury had indicted a county undersheriff and sheriff’s captain for “requesting bribes for concealed firearms

[ad_1] Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., opposed Dr. Vivek Murthy’s previous nomination for a Cabinet role, as President-elect Joe Biden tapped him to serve in his administration on Monday. Murthy was nominated and confirmed for the role of surgeon general during the Obama administration, but in December 2014, Manchin issued a press release detailing his reasons why

[ad_1] Twenty-year-old Madeline Ranalli announced her campaign in the special election for the vacant Newton City Council at-large seat in Ward 1 on Tuesday. Ranalli, who graduated from Newton North High School in 2019 and is currently a sophomore at Harvard University studying government and environmental science, is running on a platform of advocacy, she

[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden has picked Xavier Becerra, shown here in a 2018 file photo, as his nominee for Health and Human Services secretary. Stephen Lam/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Stephen Lam/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden has picked Xavier Becerra, shown here in a 2018 file photo, as his nominee for Health and Human

[ad_1] And her campaign website bragged about an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association. “She’s going to be a conservative voice and she’s tenacious, as you would expect from someone who is elected from Wyoming,” says Senator John Barrasso, a Republican and the state’s senior senator, who serves on Senator Mitch McConnell’s leadership team.

[ad_1] What is this All-American family’s future? Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images No matter what they are or are not saying publicly, the members of Donald Trump’s immediate family know he’s leaving 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in January, ending (for now, at least) any further opportunity for them to participate in the mismanagement of their

[ad_1] Last week, Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a pair of  pro-Second Amendment bills that had passed both chambers of the Legislature with solid support.  The move was not unexpected, given that the anti-gun Governor has been unilaterally demonstrating his disdain for freedom and liberty for months. Nevertheless, we want to thank the legislators who took a bold stand for the rights of Pennsylvanians.  House

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