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Black Lives Matter slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee after a memo leaked late Wednesday seemed to show the group carefully coaching candidates on how to avoid angering the "radical" activists. The November 2015 memo included tips like: Do not offer “support for concrete policy positions;” be sure to "lead from behind;" stick to "small" meetings; and avoid mentioning terms like "black-on-black crime." On its Facebook page, BLM said officials should "stop pacifying" them. “We are disappointed at the DCCC’s placating response to our demand to value all Black life. Black communities deserve to be heard, not handled. People are dying,” the organization said, in respo...

President Obama may be struggling to tilt the balance of the Supreme Court – but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t already made his mark on the bench. The president, over the course of his two terms, has appointed hundreds of justices to the lower federal courts, leading to a majority of appeals courts now dominated by Democratic picks. While those nomination battles aren’t nearly as high-profile as they are for the high court, the impact of the appointments is just as pronounced. “It's often overlooked, but nominees to the lower courts ... are often one of the most important legacies a president leaves behind,” said Elizabeth Wydra, president of the Constitutional Accountability Center. ...

Donald Trump walked a political tightrope Saturday -- promising in heartland Iowa to help farmers across the country by cutting taxes and federal regulations while continuing his stark appeal to potentially disaffected minority voters in U.S. ier cities. “We are going to end this war on the American farmer,” Trump told the crowd at Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Est’s influential “Roast and Ride” rally in Des Moines. In a roughly 45-minute address in which Trump largely stuck to measured and prepared remarks, the Republican presidential nominee also repeatedly tried to distinguish himself from Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and appealed to evangelicals and others to assist him in helping minor...

People walk around the Princeton University campus in New Jersey (Reuters) Princeton has become no man’s land. The famed Ivy League institution rolled out a series of gender-neutral terms aimed at removing the word “man” and other male-leaning language from official school material. As first reported Thursday by the conservative campus news outfit The College Fix, Princeton’s Human Resources and Office of Communications issued a four-page memo filled with examples of gender-neutral terminology that must now be used in official school documents, such as: The word “actress” should be replaced by “actor.” A “cameraman” must now be called a “camera operator.” There will be no more references...

EXCLUSIVE:Shortly after Hillary Clinton left the Obama administration, the State Department quietly took steps to purchase real estate in Nigeria from a firm whose parent company is owned by a major donor to the Clinton Foundation, records obtained by Fox News show. On March 20, 2013, William P. Franklin, an “inteational realty specialist” at the State Department, emailed Mary E. Davis, an American diplomat stationed in Africa, instructing her to “put on Post letterhead” an “expression of interest” by the department in purchasing property at Eko Atlantic, a massive real estate development off the coast of Lagos. Franklin further instructed that the signed letter was to be “delivered ...

BANGKOK – Coordinated explosions targeting some of Thailand's most popular resort cities and beach towns killed at least four people and wounded dozens more. Police said Friday that 10 foreigners were injured in the violence, some of the worst here since the military seized power in a coup two years ago. It was not clear who was behind the attacks Thursday and Friday, but police ruled out links to inteational terrorism or a low-level insurgency in the country's Islamic south. The timing and scope of the attacks suggested the bombs were set off by opponents of the Southeast Asian nation's ruling junta, which last weekend organized a successful referendum on a constitution that critics...

Satellite photos released on Monday appear to show China making progress on construction of at least two dozen hardened concrete hangars suitable for housing Chinese air force planes, including strategic bombers and inflight refuelers, on disputed islands in the South China Sea. The photos were collected and studied...

The backdrop at Hillary Clinton’s Orlando-area rally couldn’t get much stranger. In a startling appearance Monday evening, the father of ISIS-inspired Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen showed up just steps away from the Democratic nominee, cheering her on and waving an American flag in the background – even as she p...

The backdrop at Hillary Clinton’s Orlando-area rally couldn’t get much stranger. In a startling appearance Monday evening, the father of ISIS-inspired Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen showed up just steps away from the Democratic nominee, cheering her on and waving an American flag in the background – even as she p...

BEIJING – China'sair force said Saturday that it has conducted a combat air patrol over disputed areas of the SouthChinaSea to improve its fighting ability. The aouncement comes after Beijing said it wanted to tamp down tensions following its strong rejection of an inteational tribunal that ruled that its claim to virtually all of the SouthChinaSea has no legal basis. Chinarefused to take part in the case taken by the Philippines to the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration and continues to assert that islands in the SouthChinaSea are its territory. The air force didn't say when the exercises took place. Last month, after the July 12 ruling, the air force said that it had conducte...

Nov. 27, 2015: Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, left, and his chief of staff Josh Alpert visit the Hazelnut Groove homeless camp in North Portland, Ore. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, File) PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on Tuesday aounced the end of pilot program that allowed homeless people to sleep on the streets undisturbed by law enforcement, saying it created confusion because some believed it legalized public camping, but defended his overall approach. The so-called "Safe Sleeping Guidelines" policy will end immediately, but several other pilot programs that also were rolled out in February in the famously liberal City of Roses will continue or even expand, the ma...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A plane has crash-landed at Dubai Inteational Airport, before bursting into flames on the runway. Emirates airline has confirmed that a jet carrying 282 passengers and 18 crew has been "involved in an accident". It said the flight involved was EK251 coming from Kerala, India. Footage from the airport posted online showed flames bursting out of the front of the Boeing 777-300. Clouds of black smoke could be seen billowing from the plane, in other pictures posted to social media. BREAKING: #Dubal #EK521 explosion over right wing shortly after coming to stand still pic.twitter.com/vp1YFhfIe0 — Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) August 3, 2016 A spokesman for Dub...

Nov. 27, 2015: Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, left, and his chief of staff Josh Alpert visit the Hazelnut Groove homeless camp in North Portland, Ore. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, File) PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on Tuesday aounced the end of pilot program that allowed homeless people to sleep on the streets undisturbed by law enforcement, saying it created confusion because some believed it legalized public camping, but defended his overall approach. The so-called "Safe Sleeping Guidelines" policy will end immediately, but several other pilot programs that also were rolled out in February in the famously liberal City of Roses will continue or even expand, the ma...

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. – Historic, low-lying Ellicott City, Maryland, was ravaged by floodwaters Saturday night, killing two people and causing devastating damage to homes and businesses, officials said. Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman told The Associated Press by phone Sunday that the body of a man had been recovered, along with a woman's body that was recovered earlier Sunday in the Patapsco River. Everyone else had been accounted for, he said. The town about 14 miles west of Baltimore received 6.5 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service, and most of it fell Saturday evening between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. [embedded content] Videos posted on social media showed floodw...

Key lawmakers are demanding an explanation for the FBI’s decision to drop Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen from its terrorist watch list, despite signs the Orlando gunman had ties to radical Islam. In a Tuesday letter to the Department of Justice’s inteal watchdog, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Govemental Affairs asked for a thorough examination of the agency’s “decision to add—and, later, to remove” Mateen from the Terrorist Screening database. Mateen killed 49 and wounded 53 inside a gay nightclub in Florida on June 12, and pledged his allegiance to ISIS during the attack. “It is unclear how the FBI made the decision to remove Mateen from the TSDB, despite the co...

Key lawmakers are demanding an explanation for the FBI’s decision to drop Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen from its terrorist watch list, despite signs the Orlando gunman had ties to radical Islam. In a Tuesday letter to the Department of Justice’s inteal watchdog, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Govemental Affairs asked for a thorough examination of the agency’s “decision to add—and, later, to remove” Mateen from the Terrorist Screening database. Mateen killed 49 and wounded 53 inside a gay nightclub in Florida on June 12, and pledged his allegiance to ISIS during the attack. “It is unclear how the FBI made the decision to remove Mateen from the TSDB, despite the co...

CANBERRA, Australia – A cold and exhausted 65-year-old Russian balloonist came back to Earth safely in the Australian Outback on Saturday after claiming a new world record by flying solo around the world nonstop in 11 days, an official said. Fedor Konyukhov landed 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of the town of the Northam, where he started his jouey on July 12, about three hours after he flew over it on his retu, flight coordinator John Wallington said. "He's landed, he's safe, he's sound, he's happy," Wallington said from the landing site. "It's just amazing." "It's fantastic — the record's broken, everyone's safe. It's all good," he added. Konyukhov demonstrated precision navigation of h...

CANBERRA, Australia – A cold and exhausted 65-year-old Russian balloonist came back to Earth safely in the Australian Outback on Saturday after claiming a new world record by flying solo around the world nonstop in 11 days, an official said. Fedor Konyukhov landed 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of the town of the Northam, where he started his jouey on July 12, about three hours after he flew over it on his retu, flight coordinator John Wallington said. "He's landed, he's safe, he's sound, he's happy," Wallington said from the landing site. "It's just amazing." "It's fantastic — the record's broken, everyone's safe. It's all good," he added. Konyukhov demonstrated precision navigation of h...

Donald Trump said goodbye to ClevelandFriday, pronouncing the Republican National Convention a yuge success and launching a barrage of parting shots at GOP rival Ted Cruz, who refused to endorse Trump in a controversial speech that got the Texas senator booed off the stage. The vindictive victory lap laid bare Trump's simmering anger at Cruz, who brought drama to Quicken Loans ArenaonWednesdaywhen he began a speech to cheers and ended it by gaering a raucous chorus of boos after he refused to endorse the man who had bested him. “I like Ted, he’s fine,” Trump said in a trademark, ad-libbed press conference. “I don’t need his endorsement. If he gives it to me, I will not accept it.” Trum...

Donald Trump said goodbye to ClevelandFriday, pronouncing the Republican National Convention a yuge success and launching a barrage of parting shots at GOP rival Ted Cruz, who refused to endorse Trump in a controversial speech that got the Texas senator booed off the stage. The vindictive victory lap laid bare Trump's simmering anger at Cruz, who brought drama to Quicken Loans ArenaonWednesdaywhen he began a speech to cheers and ended it by gaering a raucous chorus of boos after he refused to endorse the man who had bested him. “I like Ted, he’s fine,” Trump said in a trademark, ad-libbed press conference. “I don’t need his endorsement. If he gives it to me, I will not accept it.” Trum...