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The Black Lives Matter movement has a new victim: 14-year-old Jesse Romero, who was shot and killed by police Tuesday evening after being caught writing graffiti in Los Angeles. The only problem: Romero also allegedly fired a revolver at police.

It has been the Democrats’ strategy all along to associate Trump with violence. And for that purpose, it did not matter whether the violence was caused by Trump supporters, or by his opponents.

The Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins attempts to debunk Breitbart News’ argument that anti-Trump sensation Khizr Khan is, in fact, an enthusiast for sharia law.

The feminist activist group UltraViolet condemned Donald Trump’s comments on the Second Amendment on Tuesday, saying that he had threatened violence against Hillary Clinton, and that he had done so because she is a woman.

The Daily Caller’s Senior Writer Jamie Weinstein, a member of the “NeverTrump” faction, has proposed a “negotiated Republican surrender” to Hillary Clinton. The proposed deal rests on the assumption that Clinton is “on a glide path to the White House,” and that Republicans would do best to appease her now.

There is a repeated theme in the arguments made by “NeverTrump,” those Republicans who have sworn not to vote for the party’s nominee, Donald Trump. That theme is: “I, me, mine.”

Susan Collins, like the rest of the NeverTrump faction, is about preening, not principle. She would rather cede the White House, and the Supreme Court, than endure Trump’s poor taste. That is pure, elitist vanity.

The New York Times has admitted that journalists are biased against Donald Trump. However, according to Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg, it’s Trump’s fault.

With Hillary Clinton now favored to win the White House, attention turns to her likely policies, appointments, and aides. Her long-suffering assistant and adviser, Huma Abedin, may be moving into the White House, according to one unsubstantiated report last year.

Last weekend, the Chabad of Pacific Palisades honored local police and firefighters with a community barbecue that drew guests from well beyond the Jewish community itself.

Obama was unfit for the presidency — and remains so. He leaves office as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history. Here are five ways Obama was unprepared* — and the results:

Democrats and the media have already begun to blame Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for the possibility that Los Angeles will lose its bid to host the Olympics in 2024.

Donald Trump has made mistakes, yet it is also worth remembering the huge obstacles any Republican candidate faces in a presidential election — even against a rival as flawed as Hillary Clinton.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has reached a point of crisis. Media reports suggest that senior campaign staff and party leaders want an “intervention” and a “reset.”

In the new version of the video, the children are watching Hillary Clinton instead — fuming about Benghazi, gloating about the death of Muammar Gaddafi, lying to Congress about her emails, and flip-flopping on her ideological views.

Donald Trump has lost the Harvard Republican Club. In a statement published to the group’s Facebook page Thursday, the student leaders lash out, accusing Trump of “poisoning our country and our children.”

Democrats have a new goal: not just to defeat Republican nominee Donald Trump in the November election, but also to “destroy” the movement behind him.

The Black Lives Matter platform introduced on Monday includes a plank that accuses Israel of “genocide … against the Palestinian people.”

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) has launched an online petition to force the Republican Party to submit presidential nominee Donald Trump to a psychiatric examination.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called the $400 million airlifted to the Iranian regime in hard foreign currency in January “ransom to the ayatollahs.”

The Obama administration continues to deny that a $400 million cash payment to the Iranian regime in January was a ransom for American captives released that month — even though the Iranian regime has described it as such.

Khizr Khan’s public statements repeat several lies the left has perpetuated to crush opposing views, which must be exposed.

Donald Trump is in danger of losing the presidential election, and becoming a historical laughingstock. It’s not over yet for The Donald, but unless he makes drastic changes to his campaign in the next few days, he will be in a death spiral to defeat.

The ongoing effort to paint Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as an enemy of American veterans is nothing new. In fact, it follows the typical Democratic Party playbook for the last several elections.

Dr. Jill Stein hopes to attract former supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) The problem: her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, has bashed Sanders, repeatedly.

Pence’s response was gracious, measured, and strategic. He began by defending the woman who asked the question; lauded her son’s service — and Khan’s; avoided mentioning the Khan family; and pivoted to Donald Trump’s policies on the military.

The California State Assembly is to consider a bill Monday declaring August “Muslim Appreciation and Awareness Month,” in accordance with a resolution proposed by Assemblyman Bill Quirk (D-Hayward), and supported by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Millennial voters — defined as those born since 1981 — are becoming a larger share of the electorate, and few are voting Republican. Yet polls suggest that while many millennials reject GOP nominee Donald Trump, many are also unwilling to vote for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Ross Douthat of the New York Times has admitted that Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton passed up the opportunity to reach out to “#NeverTrump” conservatives in her convention speech, offering them “nothing” to entice them to switch.

Khizr Khan, the bereaved father of fallen soldier Capt. Humayun Khan who attacked Donald Trump last week in a speech at the Democratic National Convention, told CNN’s Jim Acosta Sunday morning that terror has “nothing to do with Islam.”

Donald Trump is embroiled in another media controversy, this time over his reaction when asked about the emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention by the bereaved parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, an immigrant soldier who died in Iraq in 2004.

The Obama administration has approved the use of U.S. civilian jets owned by foreign carriers to travel to Iran for 72 hours, according to a notice issued by the U.S. Treasury late Friday afternoon.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) told Breitbart News on Thursday night on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia that the party officials who brought up Bernie Sanders’s religion should be fired.

Democrats put on a show of patriotism at election time, but they share the broader left’s belief that America is flawed, that it is the problem in the world rather than the solution. They are waving the flag at Trump because they have run out of ideas.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The City of Brotherly Love lived up to its name this week, thanks in part to a group of people the Democratic Party couldn’t quite bring itself to thank properly: the men and women of law enforcement.

When Bill Clinton ran for President in 1992, his unofficial campaign motto was: “It’s the economy, stupid.” But his wife, Hillary, failed to describe any economic policies in her Democratic National Convention speech.