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Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, 43-years-old, was indicted in federal court on five counts of conspiracy to provide material support to ISIS; providing personnel, training, expert advice, assistance, and weapons to ISIS and ISIS fighters; as well as receiving military training from ISIS fighters. Asainov, according to federal prosecutors, traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in December 2013 with the intention of going on to Syria to fight for ISIS.

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The Gathering Threat to the Electoral College—and to the U.S. Senate The left has a hot new cause: getting rid of the Electoral College.  As is so often the case with leftist causes these days; the spearhead is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York; being social-media-savvy and telegenic, she’s the star of the progressive A-Team.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors enflamed controversy in September when they voted unanimously to declare the NRA a “domestic terrorist organization.” The San Francisco board also proposed that the city and county of San Francisco should take every step to limit its relationship with vendors that do business with the NRA, given that they declared it a “domestic terrorist organization.” Since the board declared the NRA a “domestic terro

After facing ridicule for suggesting over the weekend that Hurricane Dorian might strike Alabama, Donald Trump showed reporters a map on Wednesday that appeared to attempt to prove his point. During a briefing on the storm’s threat to the U.S. east coast, the president held up an August 29 map from the National Weather Service showing initial projections of Dorian’s track into Florida.

WASHINGTON — Top Democratic presidential contenders talked tough Wednesday on cutting climate-damaging emissions from oil, gas and coal, turning their focus to global warming in a marathon evening of town halls that gave the candidates a chance to distinguish themselves on a topic of growing importance to their party’s liberal base. The lengthy climate conversations promised to hand Republicans ammunition for next year’s general election fight by emphasizing one common element in the Democrats’ climate change plans: their overwhelming — and overwhelmingly costly — scope.

President Trump displayed what appeared to be an altered map of Hurricane Dorian’s track on Wednesday, doubling down on his insistence that the storm was set to hit Alabama despite National Weather Service information to the contrary. The map, which featured what appeared to be a crudely drawn semi-circle around portions of Alabama, led to instant mockery from critics online, and some i

If you’re in New York City for a nationally-televised forum on climate change, it’s probably not a good idea to take an SUV. That could explain the recent flurry of presidential candidate sightings on buses and trains. Thursday morning, former congressman Beto O’Rourke posted a photo of himself waiting for a BoltBus in New York City to take him to Boston, where he was expected to hold events in Medfo

WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Dorian unleashed torrential rains on the Carolinas on Thursday, President Trump continued to push his erroneous contention from the weekend that Alabama could have been affected by the life-threatening storm. In morning tweets, Trump insisted that what he first said in a Sunday tweet was accurate at the time and attacked the news media. ‘‘What I said was accurate!

Democratic presidential hopeful MORE and “enablers” in Congress for the nation's inaction on climate change. “It’s not just him. It’s all of the enablers in the Congressional GOP,” Buttigieg said at CNN’s climate town hall. “I mean, Congress right now it's like it's like a room full of doctors arguing about what to do over a cancer patient. And half of them are arguing over whether medication or surgery is the best approach.