Elderly citizens in the U.S. have been warned not to call the police for assistance unless they are prepared to risk a potentially violent or deadly assault by an officer.

According to new statistics, citizens most likely to be tasered, shot or killed by cops include those suffering from autism, people who’s hearing is impaired, the mentally ill, the elderly, and the disabled.

District officials in Washington, D.C. designated a legal defense fund aimed at benefiting illegal aliens and their families after being detained for deportation. The move comes after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stepped up operations in sanctuary cities.

The establishment of the fund was announced by D.C. Councilman David Grosso, who claimed to local news outlets that the District earmarked $500,000 for legal services to help those targeted during ICE raids.

Critics scoffed when President Trump unveiled his budget proposals last spring. They might not be scoffing much longer.

Trump’s budget proposal in May showed the government achieving a balanced budget in large part because it forecasted the economy to grow at 3 percent, a dramatic increase from the sluggish 1.6 percent growth in the final year of the Obama administration. Many economists, however, said the number was unrealistic.

Staff for Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) are not outright denying a new report from The Atlantic magazine that Hatch, another ally of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, plans to retire at the end of his current term—another death blow for the failing Senate Majority Leader.

The headline of the latest piece in The Atlantic from McKay Coppins is: “Orrin Hatch Tells Friends He Plans to Retire.”

The contract between Puerto Rico and Whitefish Energy prevents government agencies from auditing certain elements of a $300 million deal, according to a report Friday from CBS.

Puerto Rico’s deal rebuilding the island’s infrastructure with a small, inexperienced utility company does not allow the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or any other agency to peek into the specifics of the $300 million deal.

A federal jury awarded a Chicago man $44.7 million Thursday after a drunk, off-duty police officer with a history of violence and mental instability shot him in the head.

The jury found that Officer Patrick Kelly, 36, shot his friend Michael LaPorta, 37, in the head after a night of heavy drinking in January 2010 and then lied to police that LaPorta had tried to kill himself, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Houston Texans owner Bob McNair made it clear during a meeting with NFL owners that he is not a fan of players kneeling during the national anthem.

ESPN reported Friday morning that McNair had spoken out during a recent NFL owners meeting about the protests, and compared the players to inmates running a prison.

Representatives for Singer, a major GOP donor, denied in 2014 that the billionaire had hired Fusion GPS, the company that produced the dossier, to investigate the Argentine government. However, Singer’s team refused to confirm or deny this year whether the hedge fund tycoon had worked on the Trump dossier.

Stone’s latest report and the allegations of former ties to Fusion GPS call into question Singer’s involvement in research intended to bring down Trump.

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Once we wake up to how the game is being played, then we will have a real shot at changing things.

A former FBI informant who blew the whistle on a high-profile bribery case involving a Russian energy company was intimidated by Obama administration lawyers into dropping a civil suit against the government last year, his attorney says.

Victoria Toensing, the lawyer for the informant, told The Daily Caller’s Vince Coglianese that Obama Justice Department lawyers told her client that “his reputation and liberty [was] in jeopardy” if he did not drop a lawsuit against the government.

The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, while the Spanish parliament has approved direct rule over the region.

Catalan MPs easily approved the move amid an opposition boycott.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had told senators direct rule was needed to return "law, democracy and stability" to Catalonia.

Former Deputy Assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka says the deep state’s move to withhold many of the JFK files “stinks to high heaven,” and that Donald Trump had nothing to do with it.