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Nov 18 2017
News
Trump adds five conservatives to list of possible Supreme Court picks
In a move certain to please conservatives, President Donald Trump on Friday added five names to his list of candidates for a prospective U.S. Supreme Court vacancy as he presses ahead with a campaign to move the federal judiciary to the right.
ReutersJun 01 2017
News
How Trump is smashing Obama’s legacy with decision to exit Paris climate deal
President Trump is laying the groundwork this week to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, seeking options for how to extricate the U.S. in a process that could take years to complete.
Washington TimesJun 24 2017
News
Supreme Court: Immigrants Who Lie to Feds to Become Citizens May Lose Citizenship
The Supreme Court on Thursday held that federal law authorizes courts to strip immigrant citizens of their U.S. citizenship if they obtained it as a result of making false statements to the federal government.
Breitbart NewsAug 21 2019
News
Trump administration moves to terminate court agreement, hold migrant children and parents longer
The Trump administration is moving to formally terminate a federal court settlement restricting how long U.S. officials can detain migrant children with their parents and replace it with a new rule that could expand family detention and dramatically increase the time children spend in custody.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services will issue
Washington PostApr 13 2019
Opinion
Respect, Rights, and Freedoms in an Era of Identity Activism
Ever since he was awarded a knighthood in the 2001 honours list, the British actor Ben Kingsley, probably most famous for his eponymous role in the film Gandhi, has apparently insisted on being referred to as “Sir Ben Kingsley.” This is his right and he is, by all accounts, quite offended if the honorific is overlooked. Not all recipients of such honours are quite as sensitive to the careful
QuilletteMar 13 2020
Analysis
Why It Only Took One Player With Coronavirus To Shutter Sports
After Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert became the first athlete in American professional sports to publicly disclose a positive test result for the coronavirus (COVID-19), it took less than 24 hours for the rest of the sports world to come to a screeching halt.
Gobert’s positive test was reported late Wednesday night, just about an hour after Utah’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder
538 (ABC News)Oct 19 2019
News
Growing number of Republicans struggle to defend Trump on G-7 choice, Ukraine and Syria
A growing number of congressional Republicans expressed exasperation Friday over what they view as President Trump’s indefensible behavior, a sign that the president’s stranglehold on his party is starting to weaken as Congress hurtles toward a historic impeachment vote.
In interviews with more than 20 GOP lawmakers and congressional aides in the past 48 hours, many said they were
Washington PostMay 06 2017
News
Rand Paul formally requests info on whether Obama admin. targeted him for surveillance
Sen. Rand Paul has issued formal requests with the White House and the U.S. intelligence community to see if he was ever targeted for surveillance by the Obama administration.
Washington TimesSep 22 2020
Opinion
When Conventional Wisdom Gets Downright Dangerous
The problem with conventional wisdom is not that it is always wrong. The rub is that the majority of “experts” unthinkingly and habitually mouth its validity until they ensure that it becomes static, unchanging, and immune from reexamination and dissent — an intolerant religious orthodoxy that finally become dangerous.
The recent Middle East breakthroughs are a perfect example. Both the
Victor HansonDec 12 2015
News
'Historic' climate deal in sight as nations parse final text
Negotiators on Saturday released the final draft of a proposed deal that would unite the U.S. and the rest of the world in taking on the threat of catastrophic climate change, amid optimism that the long-sought agreement may finally be reached by the end of the day. The deal still needs approval from representatives of the U.S. and 195 other governments, which could continue wrangling over the
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