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FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- After protestors stormed a U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the 82nd Airborne Division based out of Fort Bragg is preparing to be deployed to Kuwait, according to officials. Defense Secretary Mark Esper later announced that "in response to recent events" in Iraq, and at Trump's direction, he authorized the immediate deployment of an infantry battalion of about 750 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the Middle East. He did not specify their destination, but a U.S. official familiar with the decision said they will go to Kuwait.

US faces new crisis in Iraq BY REBECCA KHEEL AND BRETT SAMUELS - 12/31/19 02:55 PM EST 160 The U.S. mission in Iraq ended the year on a violent note Tuesday as supporters of an Iran-backed militia breached the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, vandalizing the property and causing U.S. diplomats to hide in lockdown. The developments put a question mark on the future of the U.S. presence in Iraq, as lawmakers and others in Washington debated the significance of the crisis and how the United States should respond. President Trump and his supporters put the blame for...

Japan Times Obama weighed pre-emptive strike against North Korea after fifth nuclear blast and missile tests near Japan in 2016, Woodward book claims Herald of South Korea Obama mulled preemptive attack on N. Korea: book Washington Post It’s certainly unconventional. But is it working? Trump’s North Korea strategy wins over some experts. This article from the Washington Post shows how far up their rear ends the reporters (and editors) are for this paper. Little CNN (or CNN Cr@p) Trump claims (without evidence) Obama nearly launched war with North Korea The above from CNN proves what HORSE MANURE CNN reporting is......

'3 years of litigation' unneeded had former president acknowledged 1st Amendment! The Trump administration has resolved a dispute over Obamacare’s abortion mandate that the previous administration refused to address even though U.S. courts ordered it to be fixed. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Hobby Lobby case that the federal government could not force a for-profit business to subsidize abortion in health-care insurance plans in violation of the owners’ religious beliefs. Later, the court ruled in the Little Sisters of the Poor case that faith-based nonprofit ministries are exempt. The Supreme Court, pointed out First Liberty Institute, ordered the...

A Slide Fire bump stock in action. (Photo: Slide Fire/Facebook) The association representing current and former ATF employees has pushed back against critics blaming the agency for approving bump stocks. The ATF Association said the agency “does not have the legal authority to regulate” bump stocks, which allow semi-auto rifles to mimic full-auto fire. “The bump slide, and several other similar after-market accessories that increase the rate at which a shooter can pull the trigger, are engineered to avoid regulation under Federal law,” said Michael Bouchard, ATFA president, in an open letter last week. “The notion that ATF chose not...

Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews. Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks...

Multiple reports have detailed the equipment and nearly $6 million a Pakistani family of IT specialists allegedly took from the U.S. government while running computer networks for numerous congressional Democrats. But that’s only money and equipment, says a U.S. congressman who contends that the biggest problem is the classified information to which the Awan family had access. The taxpayers’ dollars confiscated from Congress is “not the highest of our concerns,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told WND in an interview about the case of IT staffer Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and their wives Natalia Sova and Hina Alvi.

Former President Barack Obama will stump in Virginia next week for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam, the Northam campaign announced Wednesday. The rally — Obama's first public campaign event since leaving office — will take place in Richmond on October 19. The event is one of only two public campaign appearances on the books for Obama this year. The former president is also expected to campaign for New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Phil Murphy, although a date has not yet been set. And the announcement comes a day after the Northam camp said that former Vice President Joe Biden will appear...

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said it is "indisputable" President Trump's actions concerning nuclear-armed North Korea and the Islamic State have made a greater impact than the Obama administration."It's indisputable that President @realDonaldTrump has done more to isolate North Korea & defeat ISIS in 8 months than Obama did in 8 years," she tweeted Monday night. Additionally, she included a statement from Vice President Mike Pence."While critics engage in empty rhetoric and baseless attacks, under the President's leadership, ISIS is on the run; North Korea is isolated like never before; and our NATO allies are doing more to pay...

News reported that up to 100 instructor pilots were refusing to fly the aircraft citing problems with its oxygen system. “We take the concerns of our aircrew seriously and have directed a ... safety pause for the T-45 community to allow time for Naval Aviation leadership to engage with the pilots, hear their concerns and discuss the risk mitigations as well as the efforts that are ongoing to correct this issue,” Navy spokeswoman Cmdr. Jeannie Groeneveld said in an email to Fox News Wednesday.

The On Your Side Investigators revealed the colossal cost of Cover Oregon for the first time Monday and it shows how much of your tax money has been spent on the failed website. KATU learned Cover Oregon and the Oregon Health Authority collectively spent just shy of $200 million on its Cover Oregon website, which has been plagued with problems for months and still hasn't enrolled a single Oregonian for health insurance since the site launched Oct. 1, 2013. The state health insurance exchange's top dogs have been back and forth for months, extending the date when the website likely...

On Thursday, with about five days left until the end of open enrollment, House staffers trickled out of the health benefits fair with packets of new insurance information and knowledge of a new roadblock. “Apparently the site is down, so I can’t register,” said a man who identified himself as a Republican staffer as he waited to catch the elevator on the third floor of the Cannon House Office Building, clutching a packet from Kaiser. DC Health Link experienced “technical difficulties with their website,” according to a mass email sent to all Senate staff at 11:32 a.m. The glitch meant...

It is the hope of this author that more and more people will re-name 'Obamacare' as 'ObamaMESS'. With so many people out of work, and people so frustrated, it is time for a change. Clearly, polls show that Terry McAuliffe is now in a very tight race with Ken Cuccinelli. I hope 'ObamaMess' will make Ken Cuccinelli the next Governor of Virginia, though the principles that Ken has are great example for conservatives everywhere. The Drudgereport today (November 1) is reporting that Democrats are 'running scared' and are afraid of getting tossed from office. Conservatives must (figuratively) smell blood and...

Since Terry McAuliffe is the former Democratic National Chairman, what part does he have in the 'formation' and 'creation' of Obamacare (rapidly becaming more 'ObamaMess' than Obamacare). This should be a focus of the Virginia election! As the someone who helped run the Democratic National Party, does he have some ownership of Obamacare?

"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." This was one of President Obama's key talking points when selling the Affordable Care Act, and it was never true — as many of the 14 million Americans currently covered by individually-purchased health plans are now learning. As Kaiser Health News reports, individual market insurers are sending out rafts of cancellation notices, telling subscribers they have to change to new plans starting in 2014. Here's why:

Has anyone seen a news outlet or website that is defending Obamacare today? - Not selling it like Obama did in the White House Rose Garden with his human props, but somewhere where they are saying the GOP is full of lies and that Obamacare is great! In truth, even Obama couldn't defend it. He scolded that "time for folks to stop rooting" for the failure of the program..." Don't you just "love" how he constantly calls us "folks?"

White House press secretary Jay Carney hedged Monday on whether ObamaCare’s individual mandate could be delayed because of problems with the healthcare law’s enrollment web site. Carney did not directly say the individual mandate could be delayed, but he did say that if people could not get access to ObamaCare, they would not be penalized. Under the healthcare law, uninsured Americans are required to sign up for health insurance. If they don’t, they could be hit with a fine. Carney was asked Monday if people would have to pay a fine if they couldn’t enroll in ObamaCare because of a...

President Obama tried to put a happy face Monday on the disastrous rollout of the Obamacare website, urging frustrated consumers to call a toll-free number or mail in applications via “snail mail” while the administration works feverishly to fix computer glitches. “Nobody is madder than me about the fact that the website isn’t working as well as it should, which means it’s going to get fixed,” Mr. Obama said at the White House. “In the meantime, you can bypass the website.” In a stunning admission of the HealthCare.gov website’s early failure, Mr. Obama said call centers are being filled with...