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Key Democrats in Congress are already voicing serious doubts that Congress will take meaningful action on gun control in response to the back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. While lawmakers in both parties are feeling heavy pressure to fight America’s gun violence epidemic, the Democrats say it will be difficult to get a deal amid a heated, polarized presidential election cycle. “Nothing is going to happen,” predicted one Democratic senator, whose state suffered a mass shooting. The skepticism reflects a long history of congressional inaction in the wake of scores of mass shootings a

In a letter to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the non-profit legal firm representing three female athletes, OCR granted the request to investigate the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) which adopted the policy allowing transgender biological males claiming to be female to compete in the girls’ athletic events. Since CIAC adop

KY3 reports that Springfield Police “responded to a call of an active shooter at the Walmart: Neighborhood Market at Republic Rd.” They arrived to find the suspect wearing “body armor and military fatigues” and being held at gunpoint by an off-duty firefighter. Police said the man was carrying weapons and 100 rounds of ammunition, and that he had entered the Walmart, grabbed a cart, and pushed it around the store.

As Breitbart News has chronicled, Jose Rodriguez, a 27-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, is accused of running a red light on June 22 in the sanctuary state of Illinois, causing him to hit and kill 39-year-old Corey Cottrell, who was riding his motorcycle at the time and was on his way to see his mother, Kathy. Rodriguez was 

A study commissioned by the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future and conducted by Navigant Consulting found that “adding a government-run insurance plan could decimate rural hospitals.” Former Vice President Joe Biden’s healthcare plan would create a “public option,” allowing a government health insurance option to compete with private health insurance on the Obamacare exc

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said on Wednesday night that she believed President Donald Trump was a white supremacist, broadly accusing him of dividing Americans along racial lines and providing direct and tacit support to those who believe white people are superior to other races. Asked in a brief interview with The New York Times if she thought Trump was a white supremacist, Warren responded without hesitation: “Yes.” “He has given aid and comfort to white supremacists,” Warren said during a campaign swing in western Iowa.

US Representative Seth Moulton has been running for president for nearly four months.

Jimmy Aldaoud crouched on a sidewalk, miserable, hungry and short on insulin. The 41-year-old with diabetes and severe mental illness had spent nearly his whole life in Detroit until just over two months ago, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported him to Iraq - a country he’d never set foot in. ‘‘I don’t understand the language,’’ Aldaoud said in an undated video shared to Facebook on Wednesday night. ‘‘I’m sleeping in the street. I’m diabetic. I take insulin shots. I’ve been throwing up, throwing up, sleeping in the street, trying to find something to eat.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has crossed the border into Mexico for the funeral of one of the 22 people killed in a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. The former El Paso congressman said Thursday he came to the border city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, ‘‘to remind the world that we are a binational community.’’ O’Rourke says the family that invited him to the funeral asked that he not identify the victim. Mexican officials have said eight of the people killed in Saturday’s attack were Mexican nationa