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A Senate committee will vote next week on whether to give Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) authority to issue subpoenas for records and testimony relating to Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s probe of 2016 Russian election interference and the Trump campaign. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs members will vote June 4 in Washington, according to a … Continued

President Donald Trump says he wants churches to reopen as quickly as possible as they are so important to the “psyche” he believes if they remained closed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic “you’ll break the country.” “We want them (churches) to reopen. I mean literally, I just got off the phone with CDC … Continued

The Russia collusion investigation led by then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller was artificially prolonged in the hope that President Donald Trump would move to terminate it and thus be accused of obstruction of justice, according to former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. Whitaker, who led the Department of Justice (DOJ) between Nov. 7, 2018, and Feb. 14, 2019, said … Continued

Former Whitewater prosecutor Robert Ray said the investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the origins of the Russia investigation likely will spark indictments of bureau officials as new information continues to emerge. “It is a criminal investigation with grand-jury authority, and I don’t think the attorney general expects this is going to be just left to the side of history without actual prosecutions being brought to hold those … Continued

New CDC guidelines recommend separating new moms, who have the coronavirus, from their newborns. That means they could be separated for up to two weeks. The goal is to keep newborns from contracting the respiratory disease. The CDC says the mothers should be involved in the decision and health workers should discuss the risks and … Continued

President Donald Trump accused Twitter of election interference after it added fact-checking labels on his Twitter posts for the first time on Tuesday. The Trump campaign also separately responded to Twitter’s move in a statement, accusing the platform of having a “clear political bias.” “Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,” Trump wrote late Tuesday on … Continued

A second night of protests follows the death Monday of 46-year-old George Floyd, a black man, whose arrest, videotaped by a bystander, shows a police officer kneeling on a handcuffed Floyd’s neck until he became unresponsive. Floyd can be heard saying, “I can’t breathe.” Floyd died later at a hospital. Four police officers were fired … Continued

President Trump says he is making inroads in taming Washington’s permanent bureaucracy, which he likes to call the “deep state.” “What am I doing? I’m fighting the deep state,” Trump said in an exclusive interview with Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson. “I’m fighting the swamp…If it keeps going the way it’s going, I have a chance to … Continued

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a man who wrestled with the dichotomy between church and government. As an evangelical German pastor and theologian before World War II, he noticed the atrocities the Nazis were committing as they rose to power. When he was offered the opportunity to defy the Nazis and join the resistance, he again … Continued

In a spirited briefing on Friday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany turned the tables on the press corps.  Usually an exercise in attempts at “gotcha” games against the administration, Press Secretary McEnany took the press to school instead–journalism school.  With no articles coming forth from the mainline press about what the White House is … Continued

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current “best estimate” for the fatality rate among Americans with COVID-19 symptoms is 0.4 percent. The CDC also estimates that 35 percent of people infected by the COVID-19 virus never develop symptoms. Those numbers imply that the virus kills less than 0.3 percent of … Continued

We’re all in this together. Stay home—stay safe. We’ll get through this. It’s our new normal. These words have been repeated so many times, you’d think they’re used for selling the latest superfood. They’re not selling a superfood, but is it possible they’re trying to sell us something? A Sequence of Events [My wife] and I … Continued