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Arabic is the fastest-growing language in American households — and that’s leading the US Census Bureau to explore the tricky task of adjusting its questionnaires to ­accommodate the language’s right-to-left script. The bureau is using focus groups to explore possible changes to the 2020 census questionnaires for Arabic speakers who are not English-proficient, the Pew […]

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out Friday at the United States, Britain and Israel as the Islamic republic’s “main enemies,” accusing Washington of procrastinating over Tehran’s landmark nuclear deal. “It’s the US, the evil Britain, and the damned and cancerous Zionist regime. These are the main enemies,” Khamenei said in a televised speech […]

State Department Blocks Release Of Hillary Clinton-Era TPP Emails Until After The Election Trade is a hot issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. But correspondence from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides about a controversial 12-nation trade deal will not be available for public review — at least not until after the election. The […]

President Barack Obama had a message for Muslim Americans preparing to observe the beginning of Ramadan on Sunday: He’ll protect them from people like Donald Trump who threaten their religious liberties. In an official statement, Obama said America would continue to welcome immigrants and refugees, despite “the voices that seek to divide us.” Obama’s official […]

The San Jose police department is under increasing scrutiny over charges that they allowed Trump supporters to be attacked by violent rioters following a Trump event. The police chief Eddie Garcia has adamantly denied the charges. The Mercury News reported:   San Jose police chief defends officers accused of failing to protect Trump supporters from […]

In his zeal to put convicted drug dealers back on the street, Pres. Obama defied his own calls for tougher gun laws Friday by commuting the sentences of ten people convicted of firearms charges related to drug trafficking. Since entering the White House, Pres. Obama has freed 49 drug dealers who were also convicted of […]

    HORROR! New Video Show Hispanic Trump Supporters TERRORIZED, BRUTALLY BEATEN in San Jose Jim Hoft Jun 6th, 2016 8:35 am 22 Comments On Thursday night Trump supporters were assaulted, spit on, beaten, cold-cocked, egged, chased, tackled and bloodied as they left the San Jose Trump rally by mobs of far left, Mexican nationalist, […]

Charlotte Marine veteran Allen Thornwell, who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, was fired by Time Warner Cable for lowering the company’s flag to half-staff on Memorial Day. Thornwell was employed in technical support after serving as a radio operator in the Marine Corps from 2005-2014. A manager at the veterans placement company who arranged […]

President Obama offered a strong vote of confidence to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald, just weeks after the agency head stirred controversy for comparing the waits at VA hospitals to lines at Disneyland. “I think Secretary McDonald has done a terrific job,” Obama told the Colorado Gazette in an interview published Sunday. “Since […]

NPR award-winning photojournalist David Gilkey was killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan along with interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna, NPR reported. Gilkey had extensive experience covering conflicts worldwide, as well as such disasters as the Haiti earthquake. The New York Times reported that Gilkey was the first American journalist killed during the Afghan conflict, although since […]