During a gay pride event last week, John Kerry spoke about Ted Osius nomination as a U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam said, “(Osius) will be the first openly LGBT officer nominated to serve in Asia,” and “I’m working hard to ensure that by the end of my tenure, we will have lesbian, bisexual, transgender ambassadors in our ranks as well.”
More than 52,000 unaccompanied minors have entered the U.S. illegally and have been arrested since October. In order to handle the increased numbers of minors, the United States is converting a 55,000-square-foot warehouse into a processing facility near the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, the Associated Press reported.
A magnitude-7.9 earthquake off the coast of Alaska triggered a tsunami warning.
According to a newly declassified Justice Department memo, released by a Federal Appeals Court Monday, the U.S. Government can kill an American overseas if authorities cannot apprehend them, whose “activities pose a continued and imminent threat of violence,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
A student in Connecticut was conducting research for a debate to learn both sides of an issue, only to find that the school district blocked conservative web sites across the board, while web sites espousing liberal viewpoints weren’t.
The U.S. Military successfully intercepted a target fired from the South Pacific with a rocket launched from California, more than 2,400 miles away marking its latest achievement toward a Homeland Ballistic Missile Defense System, the Pentagon stated on Sunday.
The United States has been cooling since the 1930’s. However, climate records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are ‘adjusted’ according to computer models, instead of data from true temperature readings, the Telegraph reported.
Thousands of illegal kids entering the United States can live in American cities, attend public schools and work without ramifications due to an “overburdened, deeply flawed system of immigration courts and a 2002 law intended to protect children’s welfare,” the Associated Press reported.
The Federal Government, in order to alleviate the workload at the Texas Border, will fly nearly 300 Central American illegal immigrants from Texas to California for processing, the Washington Times reported.
A petition drive is taking place in California to get the “Six Californias” initiative on the 2016 ballot. The plan is to divide the state into “Six Californias” because advocates say the state is too big to govern effectively. However, Republicans and Democrats ridiculed the measure because even if the measure acquires the 807,615 signatures to get to the ballot, and if it’s approved by the citizens of California, it still must be approved by the Californian legislature as well as Congress. And politicians say that will not happen.
The September 11 Memorial Museum opened last month controversially as a 17-foot-tall steel beam ‘cross’ was part of its exhibit. However, atheists find the cross objectionable and filed a lawsuit to have it removed. Now, a federal appeals court told the atheist group they must provide a better explanation why the artifact is offensive and violates members’ constitutional rights.
Wall Street is smiling going into the weekend as stock markets continued their blistering pace as the Dow and S&P 500 closed at all -time highs on Friday. The Nasdaq wasn’t far behind as it hit a 14-year high.
While California is suffering from severe drought, nearly 33 percent of the state — up from 25 percent last week, is now suffering from “exceptional” drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Despite rising costs of gasoline, two senators proposed raising the federal gasoline and diesel tax a total of 12 cents per gallon to replenish the Highway Trust Fund.
When the Supreme Court struck down the constitutionality of part three of the Defense of Marriage act, the Obama Administration proceeded to review all federal regulations and their application to same-sex couples. Nearly a year later, the Labor Department plans changes to the “Family and Medical Leave Act” to include same-sex couples. President Obama also plans changes to all federal benefits, including Social Security, are extended to same-sex couples, the Washington Examiner reported.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee targeted judges yesterday at “March for Marriage” saying the country was facing a “judical coup d’etat,” and warned, “if we reject His [God’s] hand of blessing, we will feel His hand of judgment.”
Americans have completely lost faith of those who serve on the Hill, as a recent Gallup poll finds only 7 percent of citizens have a ‘great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in Congress, the lowest rating of any institution in the history of Gallup.
At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York, President Barack Obama prided himself on his administration’s record promoting the LGBT agenda across the nation.
According to the latest Gallup poll, public confidence in television news hit an all-time low with only 18 percent of Americans surveyed expressed a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in TV news.
President Obama told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto that immigrants crossing into the United States illegally will not qualify for legalized status or deferred deportation, including children, the Washington Times reported.