By Tyler Olson | Fox News In the wake of George Floyd’s death, calls to “defund the police” have in a matter of days escalated from a fringe campaign to a celebrity-backed cause to part of the municipal mainstream — and now appear primed to spur official action, to varying degrees, in cities across the country. The stunning momentum behind the movement has fueled Republican […]
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NY Times editorial page editor resigns amid staff fury over Tom Cotton op-ed
By Bradford Betz | Fox News The New York Times announced Sunday that Editorial Page Editor James Bennet is resigning — amid reports of anger inside the company over the publication of an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton about the George Floyd unrest last week. Bennet, the brother of 2020 White House candidate Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., had apologized late last week after previously […]
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Buffalo cops caught on video pushing 75-year-old to the ground plead not guilty
By Chris Irvine | Fox News Two Buffalo police officers have pleaded not guilty to assault after they were caught on camera shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground during George Floyd protests in the New York city. Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski were both charged with second-degree assault, a class D felony. They were both released without bail […]
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McCabe Kept Comey Memos Secret From Rosenstein Until They Were Leaked
BY IVAN PENTCHOUKOV Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe kept his boss in the dark for a week in May 2017 about the existence of highly consequential memoranda drafted by the then-recently fired FBI director, James Comey, until after the documents had been leaked to the media, according to Rod Rosenstein, who was the deputy attorney general at the time. Rosenstein, […]
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Biden Says 10-15 Percent of Americans Are ‘Just Not Very Good People’
By Tom Ozimek Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden said Thursday that while he believes the “vast majority” of Americans are decent, he estimated that there around 10 to 15 percent “that are just not very good people.” Biden made the remarks during an online forum moderated by the actor Don Cheadle. The two discussed race relations in […]
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Lindsey Graham fires back at Gen. Mattis: You’re buying into an ‘unfair’ narrative
By Talia Kaplan | Fox News Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., pushed back Thursday on former Secretary of Defense Gen. Jim Mattis’ criticism of President Trump’s handling of the unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody. “It is so fashionable to blame President Trump for every wrong in America,” Graham said on “Fox & Friends,” the morning after an extraordinary rebuke […]
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Trump touts surprise job gains, calls on states to end coronavirus lockdowns
By Tyler Olson | Fox News President Trump declared Friday that jobs are coming back on the heels of a surprise labor report that may indicate the start of an economic recovery amid historic job losses, as he also upped his demands on states to lift lingering coronavirus-related lockdowns. “We’re bringing our jobs back,” Trump said during upbeat remarks to members […]
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Project Veritas Infiltrates Antifa, Reveals Organized Training in Violent Action
By Petr Svab At least some parts of the anarcho-communist movement Antifa are highly organized, including initiation procedures, security protocols, and “lectures” on violent action, according to an undercover reporter who infiltrated one of the Antifa cells on behalf of Project Veritas, an investigative journalism nonprofit. The reporter, who concealed his face on camera and didn’t reveal his […]
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Violent, armed looters overrun Santa Monica Music Center: ‘They took everything from us, and no one stopped them’
By Hollie McKay | Fox News For almost five decades, Santa Monica Music Center was an oasis of arts and education that gave all walks of life the opportunity to bond over melodies. But in the riots that reached Santa Monica on Sunday, almost everything inside was damaged or pilfered as the distraught owners looked on, and those who tried to […]
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Is America being torn apart by a total, complete — but provable — lie?
By Tucker Carlson | Fox News For many of us, this has been one of the saddest, most painful weeks in memory. Depressing doesn’t even begin to describe it. We have watched as mobs of violent cretins have burned our cities, defaced our monuments, beaten old women in the street, shot police officers and stolen everything in […]
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Feds investigating whether criminal actors exerting ‘command and control’ over unrest as bricks thrown at cops
By Jake Gibson, Alex Pappas | Fox News Federal law enforcement officials are probing whether “criminal actors” are coordinating violent activities during protests and are looking into reports that “rocks and bricks” have been dropped off to throw at police and other law enforcement as cities across the country grapple with the uptick in violence, a senior Department of Justice […]
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George Floyd riots — how to stop the mob in 9 steps
By Newt Gingrich | Fox News Six nights of violent riots and looting in America’s major cities, following the horrific death of George Floyd last week, have gripped the nation. The liberal news media wants to ignore the depth of the violence and the forces causing the violence. They want to simply rerun their permanent refrain that this is all about racism (see […]
