President Barack Obama

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Native Americans who have long bemoaned their lack of participation in federal land decisions scored a victory when President Barack Obama designated a new national monument in southern Utah.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Republican attorney general of Utah says he's going to sue over President Barack Obama's designation of the Bears Ears National Monument that spans 1.35 million acres in the state.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A draft management plan for two recently created central Idaho wilderness areas prohibits campfires at high elevations to protect whitebark pine and eliminates horses and other recreational stock in some areas to protect alpine soils.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — President Barack Obama has granted a conditional commutation to an Idaho man serving time on a drug charge. Jose Flores Molina of Nampa was one of 98 people in the round of commutations announced by the White House last week.

Imagine prosecuting a crime when you can’t use fingerprints, confessions or eye witness testimony.  Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs joined us today on Top Story.  This is also the day where a Presidential panel is recommending that many current prosecutorial tools be scrapped...

I’m evidence life isn’t predictable.  In the summer of 2007, I was working as a casual employee of the United States Postal Service.  Every night when I walked into work at a postal sorting and distribution center just before 10:00 P.M, I thought it might be the night I would die on the job...

A guy I used to work with asked me a couple of weeks ago what I had against Donald Trump.  “C’mon, Bill, get with the program,” he urged.  My problem isn’t Trump.  It’s so many of his loyalists who can find no blemishes with their candidate...

I believe it’s accurate to say a great many Americans don’t trust Muslims.  Likely a large majority of Americans would agree with Ben Carson and Donald Trump.  In case you were distracted by a comet striking the Yucatan Peninsula the biggest news this weekend would be media having a meltdown because Carson and Trump aren’t politically correct and continue in their refusal to say “sorry” when it co

The fine line between genius and insanity.  Someone used that line with me the other day.  Every time I hear it repeated it makes me wonder what the source is.  I suspect the first time I ever heard it was 40 years ago when I was in school...

Where is John Kerry?  A friend is a retired Air Force Colonel and yesterday posed the question.  As we know the official story is the Secretary-of-State fell off a bicycle a couple of weeks ago and fractured a bone in one of his legs.  Some not-so-serious news agency in Iran claimed Kerry was actually the victim of an assassination attempt...

Remember the gravelly voiced woman in Cleveland who bragged about having an “Obama phone” during the 2012 Presidential Election Cycle?  “Everybody in Cleveland got an Obama phone!” is what she told a reporter.  She was a member of a labor union and at a campaign rally expressing her gratitude for the President playing Santa Claus...

This might be the best explanation I’ve seen for the last 6 years and two months in the United States.  The public demands to be abused!  You can watch the video from Truth Revolt here.      

On the Friday edition of Top Story Bill is quite the political animal, discussing domestic spying disguised as data collection.  He also talks about Idaho's growing wolf population and media bias:      

America’s leftist elites are now wholly out of the closet.  In less than one week the President and two of his potential successors have outlined their totalitarian plans for coercing the masses.  To protect what he views as a threatened socialist governing class Barack Obama is suggesting the people be herded to the polls on Election Day...

Here is the complete 2012 US presidential debate from Tuesday night provided by The New York Times. Enjoy

An Idaho Falls man accused of trying to kill President Barack Obama by firing up to a dozen shots at the White House in November is now facing additional charges. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who was arrested days after the Nov. 11 shooting, was formally charged Tuesday by a grand jury in Washington...