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"ISIS bride" Hoda Muthana, who has been asking to return to the United States, is not an American citizen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Wednesday, contrary to her family lawyer's assertion.

An American woman captured by Kurdish forces after fleeing the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic State says she “deeply regrets” travelling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama. Once one of Isis’s most prominent online agitators who took to social media to call for the blood of Americans to be spilled, Hoda Muthana, 24, claims to have made a “big mistake” when she left the US four years ago and says she was brainwashed into doing so online.

Desperate to bring the Tyranny of the Majority to our representative democracy, on the first day Democrats assumed control of the House of Representatives, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) submitted a bill to kill the electoral college.

One solution to income inequality is giving out free cash, according to the British billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson. “A basic income should be introduced in Europe and in America,” Branson told David Gelles of The New York Times. Branson was responding to the question, “What do you think those in positions of power should do to address social problems like income inequality?”

President Trump says in a fundraising email that Democrats “only care about ‘equal rights’ if you’re a liberal,” citing the left’s harassment of his top advisers and declaring, “not on my watch.” Two days after Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California urged Americans to harass Trump officials in public, the Trump campaign issued a warning in the email Tuesdaynight. The email, entitled “Harassment,” states: “Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant. “[Homeland Security Secretary] Kirstjen Nielsen was harassed in her own home.

What are we to believe? The evidence of our eyes and ears or the tall tale from the Rose Garden? When the president says that Iran won’t get nuclear armaments on his watch, he’s right if the ayatollahs stick by his version of the so-far unestablished rules of the Lausanne negotiations. With all the disagreement as to what’s in the unwritten agreement, Obama’s claim may or may not have teeth. Either way, by his own admittance Iran will eventually obtain nuclear weapons (some in his hire say it already has the capacity), just not while he’s in office. According to...

Egypt was a famous Christian nation going back to the times of The Apostles. Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined muslim Arabs threatening their livelihoods. Then one day an army of terrorist muslims ruthlessly attacked the peace loving Egyptians for one purpose: Force islam down their throats. So many analysts on the right and left miss the reality of this historical fact when reporting on Egypt. They only focus on the islamic brotherhood, Al-Qaida , Hamas, Hezbollah, or other organizations, while avoiding the elephant in the room. Muslim historical documents reveal Mohammad and faithful muslims glorifying rape,...

SALT LAKE CITY - Over the course of two weeks, Utah Republicans had the chance to see the two most talked-about potential presidential candidates in their party. Mitt Romney attended an event for ADX security systems and Sarah Palin visited to sign her bestselling book. The Utahpolicy.com, Fox 13 Insider Poll finds that Mitt Romney is taken far more seriously as a potential presidential candidate. 53.5 percent of Republicans say they expect Romney to be the Republican party candidate to face Barack Obama. 31.3 percent of Democrats think Romney will be the candidate. Only 4.7 percent of Republicans and 6.3...

Yuma city councilman says not on my watch BY JEFFREY GAUTREAUX, Sun Staff Writer Sep 7, 2005, 9:49 pm Yuma City Council member Al Krieger showed Tuesday that he wants to cut down on crime in Yuma. Even if he has to do it himself. Krieger helped Yuma police arrest a man who allegedly attempted to carjack him after the man crashed his vehicle into a street sign on 32nd Street. "That's my neighborhood," Krieger said. "I'm not going to tolerate that stuff. I think people need to do what they're able to do." About 10:45 a.m., Krieger said he...

... The leaders could decide to call up a bill that would allow parties to the case, which has been tried in Florida courts, to petition to have it heard in Federal District Court. Alternatively, the GOP leaders could decide to try to move a private bill dealing specifically with the Schiavo case. ... Santorum said that Schiavo, based on brain activity, was close to equivalent of someone with the disease cerebral palsy and that he wouldn’t let the courts allow her to die, adding, “That’s not going to happen on my watch.” Santorum said that if it was apparent...