Category: National News

President Donald Trump on Tuesday named U.S. appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, picking him from a list of candidates that had included Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett.

On Thursday, Mexico’s most notorious cartel kingpin who twice brazenly escaped from prison and spent years on the run as the country’s most wanted man, was extradited to the U.S. on Thursday to face drug trafficking and other charges.

Dylann Roof, the shooter who was found guilty in the murder of nine people praying at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015, was condemned to death after a jury of his peers deliberated on the sentence for just three hours.

Last week Reality Check told you that the national media is not giving you the full story about what is happening in Syria. Specifically that the Free Syrian Army and the so called Syrian Rebels, who have now lost control of Eastern Aleppo are not freedom fighters. They are, in fact, aligned with terror organizations. Some media are now asking where is the proof? Here is the evidence that it is true. This is a Reality Check you won’t want to miss.

Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017. While the passage of the NDAA – and the funding of the US military – was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep inside the provisions of the Defense Authorization Act.