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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The final weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday passed without a grand jury decision on whether to indict a Ferguson police officer, fueling new speculation about the timing as protesters demand justice for Michael Brown. After meeting Friday but apparently not reaching a decision, the grand jury was widely expected to reconvene on Monday to consider possible…

The White House worked to bolster the legal case for President Obama’s immigration action Thursday night, releasing a letter from a group of prominent legal scholars arguing that the president’s moves were within his legal authorities. The group included three law professors from the University of Chicago — where the president taught constitutional law before his election — as well…

President Barack Obama announced new executive actions on immigration Thursday evening in a primetime address to the nation. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other…

President Barack Obama announced new executive actions on immigration Thursday evening in a primetime address to the nation. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery: My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other…

Krauthammer: Obama’s move on immigration a “distraction” Charles Krauthammer said Thursday on “Special Report with Bret Baier” that while Republicans can’t do much right now without control of the Senate, they should make sure they don’t “lose their heads” following President Obama’s remarks on immigration. “This is an obvious attempt by the president to distract the Republicans, to enrage them,…

Republicans broadly slammed President Barack Obama’s executive orders to give work permits and defer deportations to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants, with some legislators telling Newsmax on Thursday that his unilateral actions amounted to a declaration of war. “He’s throwing down the gauntlet — and this is really a political tactic,” said Texas Rep. Steve Stockman. “It’s to…

President Obama announced a plan Thursday night to mainstream millions of illegal immigrants with an executive order allowing them to stay instead of facing deportation, bringing howls from Republicans who complained about so-called ‘anchor babies’ helping their illegal parents remain in the U.S. The president calmly explained in a 16-minute speech – subtitled in Spanish – the parameters of what…

Since the indignities of the Great Depression swept Franklin Roosevelt and his crack team of social engineers into the highest offices in the land, the Left’s primary political strategy has been to pass as big an expansion of government as is feasible in their brief moments of ascendancy and then to dare the dissidents to take its fruits away when,…

President Barack Obama plans to describe the steps he will take to fix the immigration system in an address to the nation on at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, the White House said on its Facebook page Wednesday. “Everybody agrees that our immigration system is broken. Unfortunately, Washington has allowed the problem to fester for too long,” Obama said…

Hamas was copying the Islamic State (ISIS) in its bloodthirsty attack on Jews praying inside a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday, renowned legal expert Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax TV.  “Hamas today tried to emulate ISIS,” Dershowitz, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School, said to J.D. Hayworth on “America’s Forum.” “These were essentially beheadings — people came in with axes to try to…

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Calling today’s terrorist attack of Palestinians against worshipers in aJerusalem synagogue “barbaric, raw evil,” former presidential candidate Gary Bauer, well-known for his advocacy of a strong relationship with Israel, the United States’ only reliable, democratic ally in the Middle East, called on the Obama Administration to stop the flow of U.S. funds to any…