Deneen Borelli is the author of Blacklash: How Obama and the Left are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation._x000D_ Deneen has written for TheBlaze.com, TheDailyCaller.com, Newsmax Insider, and Fox News Opinion and her commentaries on the importance of freedom and limited government have been published by newspapers such as the Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Sacramento Bee, Baltimore Sun, Washington Examiner and Washington Times.

Empire star Jussie Smollett is in the hospital after two people allegedly assaulted him on the streets of Chicago around 2:00 a.m. last night.

Less than an hour before news broke that Empire star Jussie Smollett was beaten in the Chicago subway in what is termed a racially motivated attack, the claims of a hoax already started creeping up from right-wing corners of the internet.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is close to finishing his sprawling 20-month investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and other crimes, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Monday.

Some of the most influential forces in Democratic politics revolted Monday against former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's prospective presidential bid, insisting that an independent run would unintentionally help President Donald Trump win another four years in office.

In a sweeping move to further influence federal courts with conservative picks, President Trump on Wednesday renominated 51 judges who saw no action in the last Congress.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its December jobs report Friday morning, showing nonfarm employment was up by 312,000, stronger than analysts expected.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet presented her economic agenda, but one of the economists she has turned to for advice has published an aggressive blueprint for rewriting 35 years of policies that he says have led to a vast concentration of wealth among the richest Americans and an increasingly squeezed middle class.

resident Donald Trump's confidant Roger Stone was charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's 2016 election bid, with prosecutors alleging that senior Trump campaign officials sought to leverage the publication of the stolen material into a White House victory.

Nobel Prize winning economist and former vice-president of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, praised Venezuela's economicgrowth and "positive policies in health and education" during a visit to Caracas on Wednesday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet presented her economic agenda, but one of the economists she has turned to for advice has published an aggressive blueprint for rewriting 35 years of policies that he says have led to a vast concentration of wealth among the richest Americans and an increasingly squeezed middle class.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself the country's interim president amid nationwide protests Wednesday, in a bid to seize power from sitting leader Nicolás Maduro.

Some Dems ready to give in on the border wall funding _x000D_ Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.) is bucking his party's leadership and calling for Democrats to approve funding for a wall on the southern border.

In an age of instant communication, quick responses usually take precedence over careful deliberation. Hot takes are valued; "cold takes" are not a thing. But truth can be a casualty when social media hordes leap to vent anger at bits of information that look offensive.

Like many people who spend too much time on Twitter, I watched with indignation Saturday morning as stories began appearing about a confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial between students from Covington Catholic High School and American Indians from the Indigenous Peoples March.

His name, which the internet will inevitably turn up, really doesn't matter. It matters to his parents, of course-and to his teachers. I hope they will be reflective, and I know they should be ashamed: of this smirking young man and the scores of other (nearly all white) students from a Catholic school in Kentucky.

Over the past 24 hours, journalists and public figures on Twitter have deleted previous posts slamming a group of MAGA hat-wearing teens for allegedly taunting a Native American vet, after more footage was released disputing the initial story.

BOSTON — President Barack Obama’s thrashing of Mitt Romney exposed glaring structural weaknesses in the GOP that will shut the Republicans out of the White House until they find a way to appeal to a rapidly changing America.

President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.

Jonathan Gilliam is a retired law enforcement officer and US Navy SEAL.

One by one, we have seen the 2020 candidates for the Democratic nomination - both presumed and declared - voice support for a "Green New Deal." The mere fact that this idea is being taken seriously

A fight to block alternative fuel development that could replace oil-burning power plants for communities along the Nantucket Sound has created an unusual alliance on Capitol Hill, with Sen.

Johnny Chung, 43, who delivered a $50,000 campaign contribution to the White House and escorted Chinese businessmen to a presidential radio address, is cooperating with the Justice Department's investigation of finance abuses in the 1996 campaign._x000D_ _x000D_ As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in March, Chung was charged with funneling illegal contributions

President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations - one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign, POLITICO has learned._x000D_ _x000D_ The fine - laid out in detail in FEC documents that have yet to be made public - arose from an audit of the campaign, which was published in April

New York Times has been writing the same Trump/Russia garbage for years. In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president's behavior

Anti-Trump agents within the FBI implied that the President was literally answering to Putin. In the chaotic aftermath at the FBI following Director James Comey's firing, a half-dozen senior FBI officials huddled

When the recently arrived White House counsel Pat Cipollone took up his post, he could have had no illusions that the president he served would make his professional life easy.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will miss a second week of oral arguments as she continues to recover from cancer surgery she underwent last month