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Trump threatens to have military build border wall if Pelosi, Schumer won’t budge (FOX News)
President Trump threatened Tuesday to have the military “build the remaining sections” of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, appearing to revive a call to use Pentagon money to finish the project as he braces for a tense meeting with congressional Democratic leaders opposed to the president’s funding request.
“People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!” Trump vowed, capping a series of tweets meant to set the stage for the White House summit. [Read More]
Time’s 2018 ‘Person of the Year’: Killed and imprisoned journalists (NBC News)
“The Guardians.”
That’s what Time magazine is calling the journalists behind 2018’s “Person of the Year,” which was revealed exclusively Tuesday morning on “Today.”
With a record number of reporters behind bars around the planet — the Committee to Protect Journalists documented 262 cases in 2017— an avalanche of misinformation on social media and government officials from the United States to the Philippines dismissing critical, real reporting as “fake news,” Time is spotlighting a handful of journalists who have one thing in common: They were targeted for their work. [Read More]
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday the Senate will have a chance to vote on a criminal justice reform bill favored by President Trump by month’s end.
“At the request of the president and following improvements to the legislation that have been secured by several members, the Senate will take up the recently-revised criminal justice bill this month,” McConnell said in a Senate floor speech. “I intend to turn to the new text as early as the end of this week.”
The FIRST STEP Act, would, among other things, reduce some federal prison sentences, passed in the House of Representatives earlier this year. But it has sharply divided the Senate Republican Conference, with Sen. Tom Cotton, Ark., leading the charge against it as soft-on-crime legislation. [Read More]
Transgender students in Stafford County Public Schools could use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their gender identities under a proposed policy that would be the first of its kind in Virginia.
The School Board will hear a presentation on Superintendent Scott Kizner’s proposal at a meeting Tuesday, but is not scheduled to take formal action until next month at the earliest. The policy’s stated purpose is to “foster an educational environment that is safe, welcoming and free from discrimination for all students, regardless of the student’s gender identity or expression.”
Teachers would also be required to use transgender students’ preferred names and pronouns under the policy. That is a timely topic, as a West Point high school teacher was fired just last week for refusing to use male pronouns when referring to a transgender boy. [Read More]
GOOGLE EMPLOYEES SOUGHT TO BLOCK BREITBART FROM ADS, EMAILS SHOW (The Daily Caller)
Google employees sought to block Breitbart from Google AdSense less than one month after President Donald Trump took office, leaked emails from the company reveal.
Google employees sought to use alleged “hate speech” as a pretense for banning Breitbart from taking part in the advertising program, the emails show.
Barring Breitbart from the advertising program would have a devastating effect on the site’s ad revenue as Google accounts for roughly 37 percent of all digital advertising revenue. [Read More]
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