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WASHINGTON — Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian award, at the White House Thursday afternoon and declared the honor “allowed me to complete my life circle.” “I can stop chasing the bouncing ball,” he said during the Oval Office ceremony. President Trump recognized Cousy for his skills as a Hall of Fame point guard and integral member of six Celtics championship teams but also for his support off the court of his black teammates through the fraught period of racial integration of the National

MORE on Wednesday said his administration is once again seriously considering an executive order to end birthright citizenship months after several lawmakers cast doubt on his ability to take such action. "We're looking at that very seriously," Trump told reporters as he left the White House for Kentucky. "Birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land — walk over the border, have a baby, congratulations, the baby's now a U.S. citizen." "We are looking at birthright citizenship very seriously," he added.

MORE, facing criticism on multiple fronts from his handling of the economy to his relationship with the NRA and statements on Jewish Democrats, unleashed on the press Wednesday during lengthy comments to reporters. The president defended himself against the idea that he's waffling on support for stronger gun background checks; rejected allegations of anti-Semitism for questioning Jewish Americans' loyalty; slammed Danish leaders for dismissing a possible sale of Greenland to the U.S.; and insisted his posture on the economy was a winning one despite signs of a possibl

Washington Gov. MORE (D) dropped out of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday. Inslee told MSNBC's

MORE’s decision to pick a fight with Denmark has stunned foreign policy experts already accustomed to being surprised by the White House's unconventional approach to traditional U.S. allies. Trump on Wednesday branded Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s remarks rejecting his proposal to purchase Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, “nasty” and “inappropriate.”  “She’s not talking to me. She’s talking to the United States of America.

MORE has adopted a curious strategy for courting Jewish Democrats to the Republican side: He's attacking them. Over the past 48 hours, Trump has suggested Jewish Americans are ill informed on policy for siding overwhelmingly with Democrats and “disloyal” to Israel for opposing his presidency. "In my opinion, if you vote for a Democrat you’re being very disloyal to Jewish people and you're being very disloyal to Israel,” he said Wednesday at the White House, amplif

Coulter said: Coulter quipped, “The media are liars. They can’t be reformed.

Spletstoser, 51, has claimed that Hyten, who is the commander of Stratcom, had initiated unwanted touching or kissing beginning in early 2017, and that in one instance, he came to her hotel room during a work trip to Simi Valley, California, in December 2017, forcibly kissed her and pressed himself against her, and ejaculated on their clothes. However, a recently released final report of an investigation into Spletstoser for toxic leadership during that time showed that she never once mentioned anything negative about Hyten — even in her lengthy rebutta

AG Landry spoke with Breitbart News as a Wall Street Journal report revealed that many state attorneys general could launch an antitrust investigation into America’s largest technology companies as soon as September.

Root claimed that Jews in Israel loved him as much as the “King of Israel” or the “second coming of God.” During his Newsmax show, he said: The president on Wednesday shared Wayne Allyn Root’s statement on Twitter. “Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words,” he wrote, adding “Wow!” Trump was criticized for saying at the White House Tuesday that Jews who supported Democrats