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Pets traveling in the plane’s cargo hold were presumed dead, said Kaylee LaRocque, a spokeswoman for the naval air station. Navy personnel had not been able to reach the cargo hold, which took on water, Ms. LaRocque said. “We can’t get them out because the aircraft is not safe right now,” she said. Four pets were listed on the flight manifest, though more could have been taken aboard at the…

Video North Korea reportedly launches short-range ballistic missile South Korea media is reporting North Korea has launched a missile. North Korea reportedly launched multiple unidentified short-range “projectiles” off its eastern coast Saturday. Word of the firings was reported by South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, which cited South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). The South initially reported that the Communist North fired short-range missiles but later retracted that statement. The projectiles were fired from North Korea’s…

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This is an opinion cartoon. After a contentious day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr grew tired of splainin’ why he sugar-coated the Mueller Report in his 4-page letter to Congress. So he was a no-show at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday. Trump’s attorney general was replaced by an empty chair and a ceramic chicken. Good move. That ceramic chicken was…

Attorney General William Barr three times now has tread on the dangerous ground of asserting that the president can assess his own guilt or innocence and, by extension, of the culpability of underlings as well. Barr’s claims are meretricious nonsense. The first assertion came by implication, but not fully stated, in Barr’s April 18 press conference before he released the Mueller report on Russian malfeasance. The next two, from his…

CLOSE Tensions between DOJ leaders and special counsel Robert Mueller’s team broke into public view in extraordinary fashion as Attorney General William Barr pushed back at complaints over his handling of the Trump-Russia investigation report. (May 1) AP, AP WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump praised Attorney General William Barr’s performance during a four-hour long Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying “he did a fantastic job” and dismissing calls for his resignation as…

Video Judge Napolitano: Barr may have misled lawmakers when he failed to tell them about Mueller’s complaint Attorney General Bill Barr testified he had no knowledge of frustrations with the with his public summary of the Mueller report weeks after the special counsel sent him a letter criticizing the document. A line of questioning between Sen. Patrick Leahy and William Barr on Wednesday over past statements the attorney general made…

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Video Rabbi at Chabad of Poway speaks out for first time following shooting William La Jeunesse reports. The Rabbi who was shot inside a Southern California synagogue on the last day of Passover said Sunday that it was nothing short of a miracle that the gunman’s semiautomatic rifle jammed and prevented what would have been a “bloodbath.” Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein appeared in bandages during a press conference outside Chabad of Poway on Sunday….

INDIANAPOLIS — Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, on Friday applauded gun-rights activists for their advocacy over the years, saying they helped tip the balance in the 2016 presidential election. “I thank each and every one of you,” Mr. LaPierre said. “Together, we’ve made possible in this country a historic restoration of our freedoms.” The NRA spent big in 2016 to elect President…

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Video Joe Biden: America’s coming back like it used to be; ethical, straight, telling the truth Raw video: Former Vice President and newly announced 2020 Democratic candidate responds to reporters’ questions. The latest entry in the 2020 race, former Vice President Joe Biden, promised Thursday that “America is coming back,” which many critics compared to President Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Biden, who officially launched his 2020…

Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said Thursday that he thinks Attorney General William Barr is wrong on obstruction and called Trump’s actions as described in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report as “unlawful.” Napolitano said in a Thursday op-ed for Fox News that he believed that Trump obstructed justice and that the reason why Mueller didn’t recommend an indictment was because he knew that Barr would block it given his…

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Video Gregg Jarrett on Mueller probe Todd Starnes speaks with Fox News Channel legal analyst Fox News legal analyst and commentator Gregg Jarrett told “The Todd Starnes Show” on Wednesday that Democrats should not try to impeach President Trump after the release of the Mueller report because “it is a poison for them.” ILHAN OMAR CLAIMS US FORCES KILLED ‘THOUSANDS’ OF SOMALIS DURING ‘BLACK HAWK DOWN’ MISSION, RESURFACED TWEET SHOWS Portraying himself as…

Caption Close A divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday denied Jasper killer John William King’s petition for a stay of execution, moving the last-minute legal maneuverings to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Texas justices ruled 5-4 to allow King’s scheduled execution to go forward on Wednesday. The four judges who voted to grant King’s motion for a delay cited “substantial questions,” including unresolved ones regarding his potential innocence….

Right now, Robert Mueller’s report gives Democrats a clear political advantage over President Trump. The report lays out, in ample detail, the chaos, pettiness, self-centeredness, and borderline corruption with which Trump has imbued the Oval Office. Trump’s poll numbers, already low, have taken yet another hit since the report’s release, tying his prior presidential nadir. Meanwhile, Democrats determined to impeach Trump show political ineptitude, misapply constitutional principles, and abdicate their…

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Cardinal Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Ranjith, has condemned a series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka and compared the perpetrators to animals. Scores of people have been killed and hundreds injured in explosions at churches and hotels. Three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo’s Kochchikade district were targeted during Easter services. Read more: Scores die in Sri Lanka church attacks

Video Jerry Nadler issues subpoena for unredacted Mueller report Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee seeks the full special counsel report with all underlying records and grand jury material by May 1; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports from Washington. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-NY, argued on Sunday that, despite Special Counsel Robert Mueller deciding not to charge President Trump with obstruction of justice, he believes there…