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A year ago, a deadlock over the wall led Trump to spark a 35-day partial government shutdown. The eventual agreement that emerged produced a template for the current pact: no “poison pill” policy provisions on topics such as abortion and the environment that could not pass muster with both Democrats and Republicans.

Mitch McConnell made a fairly rare, long-ish appearance on the Sean Hannity Tick-Tock hour last night. – The Senate Majority Leader made a lot of very important statements during this interview, including an ironclad guarantee – a la Joe Willie Namath before the 1968 Super Bowl – that there is “zero chance” the President will be convicted and removed by the Senate. Given that the media reports I’ve seen on it are woefully inadequate, I thought it was important to provide readers here a more fulsome summation of the interview. Because the segment is almost 11 minutes long and the...

Veteran film actor Danny Aiello, known for his roles in "Do The Right Thing" and "The Godfather Part II," has died. He was 86. His literary agent told Fox News on Friday that the actor died Thursday night. Per TMZ, who was first to report the news, the actor’s family said he died at a medical facility in New Jersey where he was being treated for a sudden illness. The outlet reports that he was dealing with an infection related to an injection site and died shortly after his family left following a visit.

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They could have treated it like an isolated incident. Instead, Pleasant Grove High School held a community meeting to talk about it.

Huh?

Jeremy Corbyn has announced plans to resign as leader of the Labour Party following the party's crushing defeat in Thursday's general election. Speaking after his reelection as a member of Parliament for Islington North, he said he would remain in his post while the party "reflected" on the result but would not lead the party into another general election. "I will not lead the party in any future general-election campaign," he said. "I will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going...

The founders of Fusion GPS, the Democrat-backed consulting firm behind the famously discredited Christopher Steele dossier at the heart of the Russia hoax, are blaming Russia for the liberal Labour Party’s loss in the U.K. elections Thursday. Seriously. Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch penned an editorial published in the The Guardian, a British newspaper, asserting Russia was behind the triumphant re-election of Brexit-supporting conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Simpson and Fritsch are now urging the British government to launch an investigation into Russian interference in its elections mirroring the size and scale of the U.S. Robert Mueller probe, a two-year...

This is a Livestream of the House Judiciary Debate and vote on Articles of Impeachment. Democrat Chair Jerry Nadler scheduled this vote for 10am eastern for better media ratings. The abrupt bush league scheduling and other actions by democrats regarding impeachment have been partisan and uncivilized. I will be at work for most of this broadcast. Breitbart livestream link & other items if I can find it https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/videos/438979630127257/ / Like, share and comment on this or anything that actually matters.

Eddie James, a veteran black worship artist and minister who joined a diverse coalition of artists like Kari Jobe and her husband, Cody Carnes, at the White House Dec. 6 to worship and pray with President Donald Trump, has pushed back at critics of the group, telling them to “check your heart” if they found the visit problematic.“Anyone who has a problem with us worshiping at the #WhiteHouse and praying for President @realdonaldtrump need to prayerfully check your heart! Everything this nation needs is found in Jesus! The beautiful people in this picture released His presence and it was...

There was a time when news of last days’ significance was sporadic. I could easily do a weekly radio program and hit the highlights of the week in an hour or two on air. In the last decade, that has all changed. Now, when trying to prepare a new message on the signs of the times, I find myself having to leave out information due to volume. Some things just have to be set aside. In light of that, let me present what I think are the top ten Bible prophecy signs of 2019. As stated, I could present 110....

A 13-year-old boy has been arrested after confessing in the stabbing murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors in Morningside Park, a high-ranking source confirmed to The Post on Friday. The teen had a knife on him when he was picked up Thursday night in the lobby of a building close to the park, the source said. He was taken to the precinct on trespassing and weapons charges — and then confessed to the murder, telling investigators that he and two friends tried to rob Majors, 18, before stabbing her, the source added.

So mainland commentator Ren Yi – otherwise known as Chairman Rabbit – hath spoken. The people of Hong Kong were wrong to vote overwhelmingly in favour of pro-democracy candidates in the district council election last weekend. They should have voted in favour of the pro-government candidates of course – can’t they see that this is the only way they will get the civil and political rights, the democracy and the high degree of autonomy they were promised under the Basic Law? The message here seems to be that only if you vote the way you are expected to will you...

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he will follow direction from President Trump’s lawyers during an impeachment trial. “Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House counsel,” McConnell told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday. “We’ll be working through this process, hopefully in a short period of time, in total coordination with the White House counsel’s office.” “I’m going to take my cues from the president’s lawyers,” the Kentucky Republican added.

It appears that Nancy Pelosi’s initial political instincts were right: Impeaching President Trump over a phone call would be bad politics. And now with the hearings held and the two milquetoast articles of impeachment on the table, which do not even mention a Constitutionally requisite crime, it may be worse than she thought. It’s so sudden that we are seeing about a dozen House Democrats in Trump-won districts publicly stating they would prefer censure over impeachment. They will likely be strong-armed into voting for impeachment, but we can only imagine what their internal district polling must look like. FiveThirtyEight has...

It didn’t take long for Lamar Jackson to change the NFL, and get the respect of his fellow players. There have been plenty of moments this season that have belonged to the Baltimore Ravens quarterback, whether it was the crazy spin move against the Cincinnati Bengals or the “Monday Night Football” five-touchdown party against the Los Angeles Rams that practically ended the MVP race. Thursday night brought another of those moments, and it wasn’t necessarily the five touchdown passes he dropped on the New York Jets in a 42-21 win that clinched an AFC North title. It came afterwards, when...

Monday’s release of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s 476-page tome on the Department of Justice and FBI’s misconduct in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2016 presidential election continues to make news—and rightly so. That the DOJ and FBI obtained a surveillance order from a secret court to spy on Carter Page with a series of applications riddled with errors, fabrications, and inexcusable omissions of material fact is shocking. The shocking breadth of the government’s misconduct raises an interesting corollary question: How will Judge Emmet Sullivan react to these devastating revelations? Sullivan has been hunkered down in his chambers...

Reaching an interim trade deal could ease tensions between China and the United States for the time being but would not necessarily bolster relations in the long run, according to diplomatic observers. A so-called phase one agreement may offer only initial relief as both countries’ governments face uncertainties at home, the observers said, cautioning that some of the remaining points of dispute were likely to resurface in subsequent talks, along with the unpredictability of US President Donald Trump. Although there were rallies and upbeat sentiments across global markets on Friday after US reports that consensus on an agreement had been...

“Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed” (Proverbs 13:21).