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os Angeles (AFP) - US President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to withdraw federal funds from UC Berkeley after violent overnight protests against a planned appearance by a controversial editor of conservative news website Breitbart. Hundreds of students and other protesters chanting "shut him down" smashed windows at the University of California campus, set wooden pallets on fire and threw fireworks and rocks as police in full riot gear responded with tear gas. The university was placed on lockdown as the sold-out appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative firebrand, was canceled Wednesday evening. "If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech...

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS? Retweets 14,712 Likes 46,452 3:13 AM - 2 Feb 2017

CNN host Jake Tapper called on Laura for an audience question about sanctuary cities. Laura shared how her son had been "tortured," "tied up like an animal," and set on fire by an illegal immigrant in 2010. "I am not a one-story mother. This happens every day because there are no laws enforcing the border," Laura said. "How do you reconcile in your head about allowing people to disavow the law?" "The second part of my question is this: if you need to go home tonight and line up your babies as you say, and your grandbabies, which one of...

from lobbying Published January 28, 2017 FoxNews.com Facebook Twitter livefyre Email Print Now Playing Trump's targeting of sanctuary cities sparks debate President Trump on Saturday signed one executive order and two memoranda -- to lengthen the ban on administration officials working as lobbyists and two related to national security, particularly strengthening efforts to defeat the Islamic State terror group. The order on the lobbying ban extends the existing one from two years to five years and puts in place a lifetime ban on ex-officials lobbying for foreign countries. Trump vowed on the campaign trail to make such changes and others,...

What's going on over there? The body count is rising with each major attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Germany (that doesn't include injuries, rapes, other sexual assaults, etc) How many more people are going to die before you deal with the obvious source of the problem?

Obama should submit any Putin documents to WikiLeaks to be authenticated to our standards if he wants them to be seen as credible.https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/809739918847176708

The United States must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was "indecent" of the United States to "groundlessly" accuse Russia of intervention in its elections, Russian state news agency Tass reported. "They should either stop talking about that or produce some proof at last. Otherwise it all begins to look unseemly," Peskov reportedly said about the latest accusations that Russia was responsible for hacker attacks.

More than 500 women were assaulted or robbed by mobs of migrant men The harrowing cries of a girl can be heard on the video from New Year's Eve Video also shows fireworks being launched into huge groups of people Another victim of sexual assault has come forward with her recollection ===== Newly-released footage from the New Year's Eve sex attacks in Cologne show how powerless the vastly-outnumbered police were in handling the out-of-control crowd. More than 500 women were assaulted and robbed by mobs of immigrant, mostly North African men in the German city during last year's New Year's...

Hillary Clinton’s top political adviser John Podesta said the campaign is supporting an effort by members of the Electoral College to request an intelligence briefing on foreign intervention in the presidential election. “The bipartisan electors' letter raises very grave issues involving our national security,” Podesta said in a statement Monday. “Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed.”

Trump said in a statement. “He is the right person to spearhead the urgent mission of stopping illegal immigration and securing our borders, streamlining TSA and improving coordination between our intelligence and law enforcement agencies." Accepting the appointment, Kelly said that "the American people voted in this election to stop terrorism, take back sovereignty at our borders, and put a stop to political correctness that for too long has dictated our approach to national security.

The Coptic Christians were in mid-prayer Sunday when the ear-splitting blast tore through their church in Egypt's capital, spraying shrapnel into icon-covered walls and blowing out the tiled roof. Witnesses said the smoke then cleared to reveal a tangle of splintered pews and body parts. "It was terrifying. Things were falling down on us. I couldn't get down from behind the altar because of the smoke," said church volunteer Tadros Zaki, 63. There were too many people. Destroyed, in pieces... people on top of people," said Romany, who rushed to the church to help after the bombing. The health ministry...

Masayoshi Son CEO of Softbank "I just came to celebrate his new job. We were talking about it. I said I would like to celebrate his presidential job and commit because he will do a lot of deregulation. I said this is great. The United States will become great again. ...[We'll] invest in new startup companies in the United States" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son

DALLAS — I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president. People have asked me to change my vote based on policy disagreements. In some cases, they cite the popular vote difference. I do not think presidents-elect should be disqualified for policy disagreements. I do not think they should be disqualified because they won the Electoral College instead of the popular vote. However, now I am asked to cast a vote on Dec. 19 for someone who shows daily he is not qualified for the office. Mr. Trump lacks the foreign policy...

"It is ridiculous to think that a phone call upsets decades of anything," he said. "But I do think it is important that people understand that the President of the United States should talk to whoever he wants, if he thinks it is in the interests of the U.S. Nobody in Beijing gets to dictate who we talk to. My view has been for some time that we should be upgrading our relations with Taiwan, and I know that is going to caus heartburn in Beijing, but it is a reality." "This is a nation of over 20 million people....

Trump tweeted: In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

“I got a call from Tim Cook at Apple, and I said, ‘Tim, you know one of the things that will be a real achievement for me is when I get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States, where instead of going to China, and going to Vietnam, and going to the places that you go to, you’re making your product right here.’ Trump told the NYT on Tuesday. ‘I think we’ll create the incentives for you, and I think you’re going to do it. We’re going for a...

And instead of feeling gloomy about the future, many Americans are feeling really good about what is ahead for the first time in a very long time. The following are 12 signs of extreme optimism in America now that Donald Trump has been elected… #1 The U.S. dollar is once again the strongest currency in the world. It has soared in value since Trump’s stunning election victory and on Wednesday the U.S. dollar index hit the highest level that we have seen since March 2003. #2 Stocks continue to skyrocket in the aftermath of Trump’s win. On Wednesday, the Dow...

In the days following the election, Trump expressed deep frustration about how Christie was handling the transition. In particular, he vented about how the governor had loaded up the team with lobbyists, the very class of people Trump had campaigned against, with his calls to “drain the swamp” in Washington. The president-elect also noticed that Christie had stocked his team with old New Jersey friends and allies. There were other issues. Once the dust settled from their surprise win, the Trump team noticed that Christie had done little to vet potential administration picks or to dig into potential conflicts of...

I for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country," Bezos tweeted, two days after the election. In August, prominent venture capitalist Chris Sacca knocked “Trump's erratic behavior, repeatedly demonstrated ignorance of economics, and reckless statements." Sacca now says he's willing to give Trump a chance. “We in the tech community are open to helping President Elect Trump in any way he needs to help those Americans who need it most,” Sacca wrote in an email to The Hill. “We are hopeful he will immediately reach out to the tech...

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bannon said if Trump’s White House delivers, “we’ll get 60 percent of the white vote, and 40% of the black and Hispanic vote and we’ll govern for 50 years.” Democrats, he claimed, had “lost sight of what the world is about…the issue now is Americans looking to not get f—ed over.” Bannon rose to immense political power by orchestrating Trump’s stunning White House victory, an accomplishment he suggested Friday puts him in the company of ex-vice president Dick Cheney, Darth Vader — and even the devil himself.