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Video Chris Wallace reflects on Ross Perot’s political career Ross Perot crusaded against the deficit and was an early opponent of NAFTA, says ‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Chris Wallace. Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace said Tuesday, following the death of Ross Perot, that former President George H.W. Bush always felt that the Texas billionaire cost him re-election in 1992 against Bill Clinton. “I spent some time in his post-presidency…

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that President Trump cannot block people he disagrees with from his Twitter account. Above, Trump’s Twitter feed is seen on June 27. J. David Ake/AP hide caption toggle caption J. David Ake/AP On Tuesday, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that President Trump cannot block people he disagrees with from his Twitter account. Above, Trump’s Twitter…

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross abruptly canceled a long-planned meeting with Britain’s Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox Tuesday because the British Ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch was also due to attend. A Trump administration source said that the meeting was jettisoned because of the row over leaked secret cables from Darroch that described President Trump as “inept” and “incompetent.” The source said that it showed the rift…

DALLAS (AP) — H. Ross Perot (pur-OH’), the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who twice ran for president, has died. Family spokesman James Fuller says Perot died early Tuesday. He was 89. Perot rose from Depression-era poverty to become one of the nation’s richest men as the founder of computer services giant Electronic Data Systems Corp. In 1992, Perot jumped into the presidential campaign as an independent candidate, challenging President George…

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The Affordable Care Act is being challenged in the courts yet again — and a Fifth Circuit decision could help determine whether that fight winds up going any further. ON Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in the case of Texas v. Azar, a suit brought by 20 state attorneys general — and endorsed by President Donald Trump’s administration — that marks the…

Video Hannity: Election interference did happen on Biden and Obama’s watch Biden slams Trump’s diplomatic efforts, claims there would have been no Russian election interference ‘on my watch.’ Fox News’ Sean Hannity highlighted the very public infighting between Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., saying “this is all going to get worse” before the 2020 elections. “Look at the feud erupting right now between Speaker-In-Name-Only…

”The proper way for Mrs. Lam to ‘kill’ the bill is to invoke article 64 of the Rules and Procedures, to FORMALLY WITHDRAW the bill,” tweeted Joshua Wong, the student activist recently released from prison. “However, she fully IGNORE this procedure in her speech,” Wong wrote.

Video Authorities urge anyone who may have been victimized by Jeffrey Epstein to come forward Hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein pleads not guilty to sex trafficking charges; Bryan Llenas reports from New York. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Monday called on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to step down for what she called an “unconscionable agreement” with Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged earlier with sex trafficking in New York City federal…

Media captionCarrie Lam said there is “no such plan” for the controversial extradition bill Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said the controversial bill that would have allowed extradition to the Chinese mainland “is dead”. In a press conference on Tuesday, Ms Lam said the government’s work on the bill had been a “total failure”. But she stopped short of saying it had been withdrawn completely, as protesters have been…

“We don’t really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction riven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept.” The publication of those words will likely end Sir Kim Darroch’s tenure as Britain’s ambassador to the United States. It comes from one of numerous diplomatic cables leaked to the Daily Mail, and the words make Darroch’s position untenable. Not that this is exactly fair…

Felicia Sonmez Matt Zapotosky July 8 at 10:29 PM The legal battle over the Trump administration’s efforts to put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census further escalated on Monday as the plaintiffs argued that Justice Department attorneys should not be allowed to withdraw from the case because they have not given “satisfactory reasons” for seeking to do so. The Trump administration has not demonstrated that the withdrawals “will not…

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Deanna Paul July 8 at 5:27 PM Jeffrey Epstein, a Wall Street billionaire and political financier, was charged with sex trafficking girls as young as 14, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. He is accused of luring the girls to his homes in New York and Palm Beach, Fla., to perform sex acts. Allegations against Epstein are not recent, though. Claims of sexual abuse against minors have been lobbed…

Video Boris Johnson officially launches his bid to become Britain’s next prime minister Raw video: MP Boris Johnson officially launches his campaign to succeed Theresa May as party leader and prime minister while speaking to fellow Conservatives in London. President Trump announced Monday that the U.S. will “no longer deal” with the British ambassador to the United States, after leaked diplomatic cables showed the ambassador secretly slamming Trump in frank and personal terms. The…

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – The National Hurricane Center (NHC) continues to monitor the chances for tropical development in the Gulf of Mexico, and ‘Barry’ is likely to form by the middle of the week.

Video Iran plans to ‘take the next step’ to enrich uranium closer to weapons-grade levels Iran wants to set new terms for the nuclear deal with the E.U. by July 7th. While national security experts will debate the merits of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration for years to come, one thing is clear: the pact always ensured Washington and Tehran were headed towards a nuclear crisis….