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Feb 09 2019
News
Lawmakers Close In on Deal in Talks on Border Funding
Negotiators signaled Friday they were zeroing in on a compromise spending package that boosts funding for border barriers and related security measures, with the goal of reaching a bipartisan deal early next week and avoiding a new partial government shutdown.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jul 01 2021
News
Pompeo Immediately Suspected Wuhan Lab, but Bureaucrats and Democrats 'Played Politics' with a Pandemic
When the coronavirus first took off, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo immediately suspected the virus might have come from a Wuhan lab instead of a wet market. The medical community, Democrats, and the media wrote him off as a kook.
"They didn't accept what we said, the data set that we laid out before them because they played politics," Pompeo tells CBN News. "They had a theory of
CBN
Apr 15 2021
News
Jobless Claims Fell to a New Pandemic Low Last Week
Unemployment claims declined to the lowest level since the pandemic struck last spring, adding to signs the U.S. economic revival is picking up speed.
Jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 576,000 last week from 769,000 a week earlier.
That is the lowest weekly figure since March 2020, but still way above the levels of around 220,000 that prevailed early last year, before
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jan 16 2019
Background
Can the House delay the State of the Union address?
On Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi urged President Donald Trump to delay his scheduled State of the Union speech to Congress on January 29 due to security concerns related to the partial government shutdown.
National Constitution Center
Nov 20 2020
News
Pfizer Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization Request: When Will It Be Available For Public?
First-round doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer could soon start rolling out to the public as Pfizer, the company that developed it, started the process to apply for emergency use authorization with the Food and Drug Administration on Friday.
The company, which announced earlier this month that their vaccine, developed with BioNTech, had an initial 90% efficacy in clinical trials, is
International Business Times
Jan 21 2015
News
Edward Snowden: Mass Surveillance Didn't Stop Paris Attacks
French intelligence did not prevent the Paris attacks despite benefitting from "most intrusive" surveillance laws because suspects are "buried under data", US whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Wednesday.
"France passed one of the most intrusive, expansive surveillance laws in all of Europe last year and it didn't stop the attack," the former US intelligence contractor told Dutch
Newsmax (News)
May 06 2021
News
DeSantis: Florida's New Voting Law Adds 'Strongest Election Integrity'
While signing the state's new voting law during a television appearance early Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hailed the legislation's focus on election security, saying the legislation adds the "strongest election integrity measures in the country."
"We're making sure we're enforcing voter ID," DeSantis commented during his Fox News appearance from West Palm Beach, where he signed
Newsmax (News)
May 06 2021
Opinion
How campaign finance corruption keeps the minimum wage low
Many of us have worked from home during the pandemic, but not everybody has that luxury. Have you been to your local grocery store? Minimum wage workers who have kept food on our tables have been called "frontline heroes" – and yet when the chance arose to increase their wage to $15 an hour, the proposal was voted down. And the vote was not just along party lines – eight Democrats joined
The Fulcrum
Jan 13 2019
News
White House Sought Options to Strike Iran
President Trump’s National Security Council asked the Pentagon to provide the White House with military options to strike Iran last year, generating concern at the Pentagon and State Department, current and former U.S. officials said.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Jun 11 2020
Opinion
A Big Step for Religious Freedom
For decades religious freedom has been treated as the unwanted stepcihld in the human-rights side of U.S. foreign policy. But in a rare ray of light this dark spring, America’s defining right has been recognized at the highest level as a “moral and national security imperative.” This is more than a symbolic gesture.
On June 2 President Trump signed an executive order that declares
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)