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Several Democratic presidential hopefuls visited Selma, Ala., on Sunday to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in the city. Sens.

MORE on Sunday appeared to point blame at Democrats for the collapse of his negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week. "For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the “walk” Never done when a president is overseas.

Congress is poised to block MORE's national emergency declaration, paving the way for the first veto showdown with Trump's White House. The collision course was set when Sen. became the fourth GOP senator to say he would vote against Trump's declaration to fund the U.S.-Mexico border wall. Paul, speaking in Kentucky over the weekend, said he couldn't support giving a president "extra-constitutional powers." “I can’t vote to give the president the power to spend money that hasn’t been appropriated by Congress.

A plan to circumvent the Electoral College is gaining momentum among blue states after Democrats suffered two crushing defeats in presidential elections over the past two decades. The plan has been given new impetus after Colorado Gov.

On Catch and Release During his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump denounced the Catch and Release program where illegal aliens and border crossers are routinely released into the interior of the U.S. after being apprehended by Border Patrol. “We want to end Catch and Release. We catch them, we realize they are a criminal, we have to release them,” Trump said. “Think of this, they come onto our land … we now have to take them through a massive court trial. Who does this?

Democrat lawmakers are pushing a red flag law to empower police to seize firearms from Colorado residents. KRDO reports that the red flag legislation is headed for the Colorado House floor for a vote where it is expected to pass. Custer and Freemont Counties have both declared themselves “Second Amendment Sanctuaries” to signal that sheriffs are not obligated to enforce the gun control.

It seems that Facebook censors—oops, I mean content monitors—have developed new techniques in their endless quest to make us all live up to their high standards.

“This is an existential threat. The American people are not prepared to deal with it, but this will be the challenge of our generation, and maybe later ones as well,” said Gordon G. Chang, author and expert on China. The panel, entitled, “China, the Global Menace,” was one of several during the three-day conference exploring the challenge to the U.S.