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According to data obtained by the Muslim Advocates organization, followers of Islam represent about nine percent of the state prison population in Washington, DC, and 34 states, including Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Je

The questionable behavior by Ohr and the FBI during the investigation of the Trump campaign was revealed in FBI interview records known as “302s” recently obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. “Ohr was corruptly used by the FBI as a conduit to Clinton spy Christopher Steele and the Clinton-DNC spy ring at Fusion, and we now have received 34 pages of ‘302’ report material from the FBI interviews of Ohr — documents that Congress has been seeking but have been unable to get for over a year,” Judicial Watch said in a statement. The 302s also

In August 2018, Bahena Rivera, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was charged with Tibbetts’ murder after police said he admitted to confronting and chasing down the young woman. After a nationwide search, Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The illegal alien lived in a region of Iowa that was surrounded by sanctuary cities, as Breitbart News 

NEW YORK — President Trump began a fund-raising swing through the Hamptons on Friday, a visit that’s spurred threats of boycotts and employee complaints against high-dollar donors for supporting a leader many Democrats say is racist. The president landed just before noon and traveled to the first of two fund-raisers, each closed to media.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican and Democrats in Congress teamed up Friday to oppose what appears to be a Trump administration plan to cut the foreign aid budget. The administration hasn’t announced whether it plans to seek the cut. But the Office of Management and Budget instructed the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development last weekend to freeze unspent money in their budgets.

Senator Elizabeth Warren outlined a series of measures Saturday with an ambitious goal of slashing rates of gun deaths by 80 percent, pitching her ideas for firearms licensing, an assault weapons ban and other major changes ahead of a gun safety event in Iowa that follows mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. Warren pledged to enact many of her proposals — a combination of executive actions and legislation — within the first 100 days of her presidency if elected, she wrote in a Medium post. Acknowledging her 80 percent goal as daunting, Warren likened it

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday placed responsibility for inaction on gun violence in the hands of President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, in the face of broad national support for some gun control measures. ‘‘If most Americans insist that something be done and it doesn’t happen, it means we need fundamental reform,’’ Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said at a presidential forum on gun violence in downtown Des Moines. The forum comes a week after a pair of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas

WASHINGTON — It’s not quite ‘‘Trump-McConnell 2020,’’ but it might as well be. As he runs for reelection, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is positioning himself as the president’s wingman, his trusted right hand in Congress, transformed from a behind-the-scenes player into a prominent if sometimes reviled Republican like none other besides Donald Trump himself. ‘‘In Washington, President Trump and I are making America great again!’’ he declared at a rally in Kentucky. Other than Democrat Nancy Pelosi — and more recently Alexandria Ocasio-Cort

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