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WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Thursday that a massive prayer event will be held on the National Mall this coming May — declaring it is time “to rededicate America as one nation under God,” as the nation celebrates its 250th birthday this year. Trump revealed the event during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton, where he also doubled down on his commitment to religious liberty in the US. Trump did not specify why May 17 was selected, however, shortly before the Declaration of Independence, the colonial Congress had declared May 17, 1776, a national day of...

Transcript SummaryThe transcript is from an interview on The Rubin Report between host Dave Rubin and Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the DOJ.Dhillon discusses a case involving an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. She describes it as the "Church Cities case" (referring to Cities Church), not specifically the "Don Lemon case," though Don Lemon is one of the indicted individuals.The charges stem from violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act of 1994, which protects abortion clinics and houses of worship from obstruction,...

Encrypted Signal messages show 'rapid responders' mobilized demonstrators to harass federal agents, then socialist groups capitalized on killing to foment protests. The skirmish that led to Saturday's fatal shooting of an agitator by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis and the response that followed were driven by a complex network of far-left organizations with a wide range of causes, a Fox News Digital investigation found. A coordinated web of encrypted chats, street alerts and tracking of ICE "Abductors" in a sophisticated database reviewed by Fox News Digital shows that agitators were already mobilized at the scene where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was...