Brittany M. Hughes
Managing Editor
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Brittany is the managing editor of MRCTV and MRC Culture. She hosts the weekly podcast "The Brittany Hughes Show" and previously hosted "Reality Check" on MRCTV. She's a graduate of the College of William and Mary. Before coming to MRCTV, she worked as an investigative reporter for CNS News. Prior to that, she was an education and politics reporter in Danville, Virginia. 

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Brittany M. Hughes | July 28, 2017
The number of Americans who say they believe polygamy is "morally acceptable" has more than doubled over the last decade, with nearly one in five Americans now saying they see polygamy as a perfectly legit choice, a new study out from Gallup found. A record-high 17 percent of those polled said that having multiple spouses is a totally O.K. life choice, marking the highest approval rating since…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 27, 2017
Hillary Clinton is releasing a new book focusing on her loss to President Donald Trump during the 2016 election, simply entitled "What Happened."  After news of the failed presidential candidate's latest memoir and its...erm, aptly named title hit Twitter, it took about three seconds for social media to decide they could come up with a better title for Ms. Clinton's soul-baring literary…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 27, 2017
All hell broke loose Tuesday at a Baltimore City Council meeting as the legislative body discussed a hotly-contested mandatory minimum sentencing law for criminals who get caught with illegal guns. Police were called and two men were arrested as activists pushed back against the measure, which has been billed as a desperate attempt by city officials to curb Baltimore’s skyrocketing homicide rate…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 27, 2017
An IT tech for former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was arrested Monday night at Dulles International Airport trying to flee the country after being charged with bank fraud. It also turns out he and his company may have uploaded a bunch of government data to the cloud and exposed it for everybody to see -- oh, and they also owe a craptop of money to a fugitive who fled the U.S. in…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 24, 2017
In an open middle finger to federal immigration law, U.S. citizens and legal immigrants, the highest appellate court in Massachusetts ruled Monday that court officers can't temporarily detain criminal aliens for immigration violations once they’ve served their time in jail. According to the Boston Globe, court officers in the Bay State won’t be allowed to detain criminal aliens who’ve been…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 24, 2017
Even as illegal border crossings drop at the Southwest U.S. border, America’s immigration courts are still struggling under a backlog of more than half a million cases, according to a new report out from the Center for Immigration Studies. Base on a recent report from the Government Accountability Office, CIS estimates there are about 600,000 open cases sitting on the books across dozens of U.S…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 24, 2017
Multiple news outlets out of the U.K.reported Monday morning that Connie Yates and Chris Gard, the parents of 11-month-old Charlie Gard, are giving up their long, public legal battle to bring their terminally ill infant son to the United States for an experimental treatment to save his life. According to The Guardian: Charlie Gard’s parents have ended their legal fight over treatment for the…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 21, 2017
(Jamel Dunn; Source: GoFundMe) If you haven’t quite found yourself entirely fed up with humanity yet, here’s another reminder of just how awful people can be. A cell phone video posted to social media appears to show several teenagers laughing and jeering at a disabled man as he drowned in a pond. Yeah. You read that right. According to the report, on July 9, a 32-year-old disabled man and…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 21, 2017
As a journalist whose job partly is to stay abreast of rampant stupidity, I recently made the oft-regrettable mistake of signing up for ACLU emails. This morning, I received one that reminded me for the umpteenth time just how sad and defunct this organization has come. The email, whose subject line pointedly reads: “The Trump administration is spying on us,” suggests to readers that someone…
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Brittany M. Hughes | July 20, 2017
In the latest effort to dumb down society to the point where our brains can't function at all, one community college chancellor is now suggesting high schools and colleges nix algebra classes because they’re too hard. As a segue to their interview with California community college chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley, NPR claims that “passing college algebra is a major barrier to graduation" for many…