Brexit party spikes while support for Conservatives slides

According to a recent poll, support for Nigel Farage’s Brexit party has surged in popularity, reaching a projected 35 percent of the public vote just several weeks after the party was first launched and less than a week before Britons head to the polls to vote in the European Parliament elections. The new figures come from YouGov – a major pollster – and have remained relatively unchanged from last week’s figures which showed the Brexit Party at a historic 34 percent. Meanwhile, the same poll showed that support for the…

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Trump Administration Reallocating Billions for Border Wall

If you thought President Trump had given up on the border wall, think again. As promised, the Administration unveiled a plan that pulls $2.5 billion from the Defense and Justice Departments and $600 million from the Treasury Department to pay for border wall construction.  “How you will see this materialize in the next 6 months is that about 63 additional new miles of wall will come online,” said Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan. “So about half a mile a day will be produced.” The plan will be challenged in court…

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Barr Defends His Actions Regarding the Mueller Report

Attorney General William Barr is defending his actions related to the release of the Mueller report, saying that he felt that the rules were being changed to hurt President Trump. Barr said that his handling of the report and its aftermath is rooted in a desire to defend the power of the executive branch rather than personal support for President Trump. “I felt the rules were being changed to hurt Trump, and I thought it was damaging for the presidency over the long haul,” Barr told The Wall Street Journal…

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Immigration Reform The Way It Should Be

It seem like instead of your “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…President Trump only wants countries to send their “top talent” to our shores. Trump has just unveiled his long-awaited immigration overhaul that would dramatically alter how the US accepts people into the country, upending the system in order to favor admissions based on merit rather than family ties. “If adopted, our plan will transform America’s immigration system into the pride of our nation and the envy of the modern world,” Trump said from the Rose…

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Rashida Tlaib Defends Her Offensive Holocaust Remarks

Controversial Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, doubled down on her polarizing remarks about having a “calming feeling” whenever she thinks of the Holocaust, and that Palestinians created a “safe haven for Jews” after the Holocaust during her recent appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” suggesting that here words were taken out of context and she should be speaking to “racist idiots” at a fourth-grade level. Her remarks to Meyers followed comments which drew the ire of her critic she made during a Yahoo News podcast interview, where she said that…

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Trump could sign executive order prohibiting Huawei Telecom equipment, according to new report

President Trump supposedly will sign an executive order sometime this week which bans telecom companies in the U.S. from using equipment considered risky to national security. Sources have told Reuters that the order isn’t expected to specifically target any individual countries or companies, but will unquestionably have the greatest impact on the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Reuters quoted three officials within the U.S. government who mentioned that the Trump administration had been working on the plan to implement the executive order for more than a year, postponing it a number…

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Mnuchin Thumbs His Nose at Dems Request for Trump’s Tax Returns

In a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Richard Neal, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has denied the Committee’s request for President Trump’s tax returns, saying the request lacked a “legitimate legislative purpose.” “As you have recognized, the Committee’s request is unprecedented, and it presents serious constitutional questions, the resolution of which may have lasting consequences for all taxpayers,” the letter read. Mnuchin told the Massachusetts Democrat he relied on the advice of the Justice Department. He concluded that the department was “not authorized to disclose the requested returns…

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Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, and other high profile conservatives banned from Facebook for being ‘dangerous’ individuals

This Thursday afternoon, Facebook announced that it had banned a number of prominent figures in conservative media from all social media platforms owned by the tech giant. InfoWars founder Alex Jones and conservative media personalities Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, and Laura Loomer have all been booted from the platform. Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the black nationalist Nation of Islam movement, also was banned. The social media company headed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a public announcement on Thursday that it removed the accounts, fan pages, and group pages…

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Hungary’s Orban deems Italy’s Salvini the most important person in Europe

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has lauded Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and pre-eminent national populist leader Matteo Salvini, naming him Europe’s most important person just ahead of the Italian leader’s visit to Hungary this week. The two national populist leaders – Orbán and Salvini – are scheduled to meet in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, on Thursday in what’s the most recent meeting between the two heads of state. The two have become closer allies over the past year. During an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa the night before…

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U.S. Census Bureau – Immigration responsible for half of the country’s population growth

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, immigration to the country is now driving nearly half of all population growth instead of increased birth rates among the native population. The most recent Census Bureau estimates on the U.S. population show that around 48.5 percent of all population growth has been propelled by the country’s mass illegal and legal immigration policy which admits over 1.5 million foreigners into the country every single year. Some have referred to this policy as ‘replacement migration’. However, the concept remains a source of controversy. Even if…

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