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The Department of Health and Human Services issued a final regulation Friday that will pressure health insurers to cover sex change operations, which could then be subsidized by taxpayers through Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare. The final rule comes the same day the Obama administration ordered schools to let children use whatever bathroom or locker room […]

Al Qaeda magazine calls for targeting American business leaders The latest issue of Al Qaeda’s online magazine Inspire released Saturday calls on would-be jihadis to undermine the American economy by targeting business leaders and entrepreneurs, according to analysts who monitor web chatter from the jihadist organization. The newest edition obtained by the Middle East Media […]

CHICAGO (CBS) — Travelers flying out of Chicago just can’t catch a break. With increasingly long lines to get through security at the city’s airports, many travelers have been missing their flights, and some ended up sleeping at O’Hare International Airport on Sunday. Officials at O’Hare put out cots for those who missed their flights […]

Pelosi “Very Proud” Obama Is Mandating Transgender Access To School Restrooms, Locker Rooms… House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that she is “proud” of the “directive” from the Obama administration that says federally funded schools must allows students to use restrooms and locker rooms according to their “gender identity” rather than their biological […]

Movement accused of fostering anti-police sentiment nationwide (Infowars) – A Wisconsin school has proposed allocating close to half a million dollars towards a program teaching a Black Lives Matter-aligned curriculum. A line item indicating $471,073 to be spent on a pilot partnership program with “Black Lives Matter” appears on the Milwaukee Public Schools 2016-2017 Superintendent’s Proposed Budget. […]

The man charged with setting a fire that burned down the massive downtown Los Angeles Da Vinci complex in 2014, causing $100 million in damage, allegedly claimed to have been inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. During a preliminary hearing on the arson case in court on Tuesday, a witness, Popaul Tshimanga, said Dawud […]

(LA Times) – In a new U.S. administration blocks the flow of remittances — the estimated $20 billion that Mexicans working in the U.S. send home each year –  then joint efforts to stop money laundering and other illicit forms of finance will be dealt a dangerous setback, a senior Mexican official warned Thursday. Donald […]

WASHINGTON — The Navy has fired the commander of the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf and were captured and held by Iran for about 15 hours. In a statement Thursday, the Navy said it had lost confidence in Cmdr. Eric Rasch, who was the executive officer of […]

American Special Operations troops have been stationed at two outposts in eastern and western Libya since late 2015, tasked with lining up local partners in advance of a possible offensive against the Islamic State, U.S. officials said. Two teams totaling fewer than 25 troops are operating from around the cities of Misurata and Benghazi to […]

President Obama’s new executive order ordering public schools to allow transgenders to use the bathroom with which they identify is already stirring emotions in statehouses and living rooms. Reaction from Texas came fast and furious in advance of the directive being disseminated Friday to schools nationwide, The Washington Post reported. “I got news for President […]