There is a different standard of law when it comes to certain people in this country. That is the real message behind the inspector general's report just released on June 14. And although many on the left are doing a happy dance about it, they shouldn't be.First, as authors like Andrew McCarthy ...

President Donald Trump climbed down on separating families at the border, but the underlying argument is not going away.The central question isn't whether we should separate families -- even most immigration hawks would prefer to hold families together -- but whether migrants should stay in the ...

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"It is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," says former first lady Laura Bush of the Trump administration policy of "zero tolerance," under which the children of illegal migrants are being detained apart from their parents."Disgraceful," adds Dr. Franklin Graham."We need to be ... a ...

Federal bank regulators are proposing to allow Wall Street more freedom to make riskier bets with federally insured bank deposits -- such as the money in your checking and savings accounts.Watch your wallets.The new proposal waters down the so-called "Volcker Rule" (named after former Federal ...

New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his charitable foundation, accusing them of using money illegally to help his businesses and political campaign. Whether the action has any merit remains to be seen.But while we are thinking of abuses involving ...