Dylann Roof

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland struggled Monday with questions about the death penalty during his confirmation hearing in the Senate.

Former Obama official and 2020 candidate Julián Castro participated in MoveOn.org’s “Big Ideas” forum in San Francisco Saturday and floated universal pre-k as a potential solution for “police brutality.”

Deputy District Attorney Amy Hunter indicated Monday in court that alleged Antioch church shooter Emanuel K. Samson intended to kill at least ten white churchgoers.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said white men who commit crimes are “almost immune” from being labeled as domestic terrorists.

This week, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) endorsed a plan that would allow felons serving time behind bars the right to vote from their prison cells.

An “investigative report” indicates alleged Antioch, Tennessee, church gunman Emanuel Kidega Samson had a note in his car that referenced the July 17, 2015, attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Actress Lena Dunham blasted President Donald Trump on social media Monday, comparing the president to convicted mass murderer Dylann Roof in a Twitter exchange with a late-night writer.

A jury in a South Carolina federal court handed down the death penalty to mass-murderer Dylann Roof. The verdict by the 12 jurors came in after a three-hour deliberation.

The second day in the sentencing trial of convicted Charleston parishioner killer Dylann Roof was an emotional one for jurors who heard testimony from the families and friends that lost loved ones. Both jurors and court staff cried while hearing testimony from the victims of those murdered.

Acting as his own attorney, Dylann Roof, the killer of nine black parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina faced the jurors on Wednesday who will decide whether he is given the death penalty or life in prison.

The judge presiding over the case of the alleged shooter in the murder of nine worshipers at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church has ruled the defendant may represent himself in his criminal trial. Prosecutors are asking for the death penalty.

The alleged shooter in the murder of nine at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church has been found competent to stand trial.

Pollster and strategist Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam that he believes CNN has “certainly gotten their journalistic credentials terribly damaged.”

Pollster and strategist Pat Caddell told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam he found President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as his administration’s ambassador to the United Nations to be a “surprise,” adding that “she is a talented woman … and certainly one of the stars of the Republican Party.”

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs quietly moved to ban confederate flags from flying on free-standing flagpoles at its national cemeteries after a House vote earlier this year to restrict the confederate flag in national cemeteries.

Friday’s “First Take” on ESPN2 was a continuation of ESPN’s “An Undefeated Conversation: Athletes, Responsibility and Violence,” a town hall held in Chicago on Thursday. Co-host Stephen A. Smith opened the discussion up by citing the difference between the shooting deaths of African-Americans like

Eleven months after California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) pressured the San Diego Unified School District to change the name of San Diego’s Robert E. Lee Elementary, school officials are pushing forward with the change, and despite calls from the public to keep the name.

During the January 14 GOP Debate, presidential hopeful Jeb Bush addressed alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof’s acquisition of a firearm by pointing out that the FBI admitted it make a mistake on Roof’s background check, but a mistake is not a loophole.

We’re at the end of another year, and it’s time to look back on 2015. Here’s my recap.

The British band Coldplay will feature a sample of President Obama singing “Amazing Grace” in a song in its forthcoming album, the band’s frontman Chris Martin tells The Sun.

Tumblr, the digital hiding place for fifteen-year-old girls and their teenage angst, is commonly associated with social justice, third-wave feminism and fluorescent-dyed hair. It is a place regularly mocked by other online communities for its politically-correct stances and oversensitive reactions to anything

On October 28, Democrat Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced legislation to close a non-existent “background check loophole.”

Lt. Governor Tate Reeves (R) summed up the what seems to the predominant view among state officials when he expressed no interest in blaming Mississippi’s state flag for the actions of a gunman in South Carolina. Moreover, he said that if any serious action was considered it should come from the people, not lawmakers.

Earlier this year, after racist terrorist Dylann Storm Roof was charged with shooting nine black people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, the media and Democrats across the nation embarked on a crusade to wipe the Confederate flag from society.

How President Obama and countless other politicians and pundits can fail to grasp—or be unwilling to confront—the obvious connection between the breakdown of American family life and a rise in violent crime is a mystery deserving examination. The 26-year-old shooter Chris Harper Mercer was the umpteenth example of a fatherless boy who grows up to be a violent criminal.

As the widely-televised Baltimore riots gave way to a summer rife with more civil unrest, calls for widespread violence, and targeted attacks on police officers, Americans flooded into gun stores at such a high pace that they set records for the number of background checks conducted in May, June, July, and August.

On August 30 the University of Texas (UT) removed the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its pedestal in front of the school’s famous clock tower, banishing it to 18 months out of the public eye before it will be placed in a less-prominent history collection indoors.

In an August 26 column nearly as “rambling” and incoherent as the manifesto Vester Lee Flanagan left behind, The Washington Post editorial board pointed to the gun as the central problem and cited racial tensions, Flanagan’s admitted admiration for mass

During the reporting of the murders in a black church in Charleston, the assumed racist motive of the shooter, white man Dylann Roof, was immediately the talk of the media. But now, after an African American murdered two white former co-workers and then released a 23-page, race-tinged manifesto, some in the media are suddenly squeamish about reporting the race-based motives of the killer.

In a 23-page manifesto sent to ABC News, alleged Virginia gunman Vester Lee Flanagan said that the tipping point for the August 26 attack that took Allison Parker and Adam Ward’s lives was the Charleston church attack and that the initials of the the Charleston shooting victims were on the bullets he allegedly fired today.

On August 17, South Carolina state senator Marlon Kimpson (D-Charleston) introduced an “assault weapon” ban and numerous other gun controls to prevent another attack like that which occurred at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17.

Washington Missionary Baptist Church Pastor Melvin Clark says he is arming 10 parishioners to ensure his church is a place where worshippers feel safe.

Danville, Virginia, was the capital of the Confederacy for eight days in April 1865, a fact Danville residents may put behind them on August 6 when the City Council convenes to consider banning Confederate flags from all of its city-owned flagpoles.

On July 31, alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof pleaded “not guilty” to 33 federal charges, including hate crime and gun charges.

On July 27 The Seattle Times ran a column highlighting so-called flaws and loopholes in the National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) system for gun purchases and suggested the system will not work correctly as long gun sales by a “private party” are allowed.

On July 22, the LA Times suggested the heinous attacks in Charleston and Chattanooga prove the need for more gun control on law-abiding citizens and indicated they will “continue to push the boulder up the hill and urge Congress” to act.