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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s threat of federal intervention in Chicago is getting blasted by the left and the right. Some of his fellow Republicans protest that it’s not the federal government’s role to take over cities. Democrats complain that his idea, expressed in a terse late-night tweet, is little more than another example of

Patriotic Americans disagree on many things. But one thing almost all of us can agree on is that we are nation of laws and that no man or woman is above the law. And in our system of government, the supreme law that stands above all else is our founding charter, the Constitution of the

A mangled quote by ABC News about White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s job performance forced the network to apologize late Tuesday. Complaints by former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer regarding the way “Nightline” represented his opinions prompted him to defend President Trump’s attacks on the media. The network said it would fix a

PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republicans opened their retreat in Philadelphia with lofty plans to address tax and health policy issues, but swiftly slipped off message, thanks to President Donald Trump’s latest announcements Wednesday. Trump’s decision to investigate unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and the administration’s apparent interest in reviewing the ban on enhanced interrogation techniques were

Washington (dpa) – The White House denied Wednesday that it was considering ordering a review of US interrogation policies of terrorist suspects and the use of CIA “black site” prisons. “I have no idea where it came from or where it originated, but it is not a White House document,” spokesman Sean Spicer said. President

PHILADELPHIA — Chaka Fattah’s new residence on the edge of the Allegheny National Forest doesn’t quite have the charm of the Poconos vacation home he bought in 2012 with help from a $18,000 bribe. But on Wednesday, the man who represented Philadelphia in Congress for the last two decades moved into a federal prison camp

MIAMI — President Donald Trump has called for a national investigation into voter fraud, including people who registered to vote in two states — despite the fact that his campaign chief registered in both Florida in New York. The voter registration of Stephen Bannon drew a complaint during the campaign from a group that opposed

DETROIT — Detroit police are investigating the shooting death of a father who was executed in front of his son’s school in southwest Detroit Wednesday morning. According to police, the man was shot in the head shortly after his son exited the vehicle and entered Mark Twain Elementary School. The boy did not witness the