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The Week: A Tragedy in Minnesota | National Review
Plus: Trump captures Maduro. Source link
Read MoreThe Supreme Court Is Getting Presidential Power All Wrong | National Review
The nation’s highest court is distorting the Framers’ intent on the power of the presidency. Source link
Read MoreNewsom Has His Own Massive State Fraud Problem | National Review
California’s scandal dwarfs Minnesota’s. Source link
Read MoreNevada Gov. Lombardo leads ballot initiative to keep biological males out of girls’ sports
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo is heading a petition drive to bar biological males from girls’ scholastic sports, seeking to put the issue directly before the voters after being thwarted by the Democrat-led state legislature. The Republican governor said that the proposed constitutional amendment, known as the Protect Girls’ Sports initiative, “gives Nevadans a voice this…
Read MoreVenezuela helps vault Rubio to quarterback of Trump’s foreign policy team
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a football fan – he played in college, supports the Miami Dolphins, and his son is a running back for the University of Florida Gators. Now, he is quarterbacking President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team as it navigates particularly turbulent times, notably in Venezuela and elsewhere in…
Read MoreFederal immigration officer shoots 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say
A federal immigration officer shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, a day after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis. Local police said they responded to the area where the shooting took place, then minutes later were summoned to a location a couple miles away where a man…
Read MoreTrump moves to address housing costs by ordering feds to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds
President Trump has directed the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he says will drive down monthly mortgage costs and put more cash in homeowners’ pockets. The president said Thursday that he was ordering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two government-sponsored mortgage-issuing entities, to purchase the mortgage bonds, adding that they…
Read MoreColorado AG accuses Trump of ‘revenge campaign’ for state refusal to free convicted elections clerk
Colorado’s attorney general accused the Trump administration on Thursday of waging a “revenge campaign” by choking off funds and ending federal programs over the state’s refusal to accede to the Republican president’s demands to free an imprisoned elections clerk. President Donald Trump has pushed unsuccessfully for Colorado to release former Mesa County elections clerk Tina…
Read MoreVance says ICE officer’s fatal shooting of victim in Minneapolis was ‘tragedy of her own making’
The White House rejected Democrats’ demands to pull immigration enforcement out of Minnesota in the wake of the ICE shooting this week, saying that would “give in to terrorism,” and blamed sanctuary city politicians for encouraging the victim to confront officers. Vice President J.D. Vance also blasted the media for inflaming things, saying some journalists…
Read MoreAfter delays, the missing Jan. 6 plaque will be displayed at the Capitol
WASHINGTON — The Senate has agreed to display a plaque honoring the police who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, rebuffing House Speaker Mike Johnson who has said the commemorative memorial does not comply with the law. The action happened swiftly, with brief debate, in floor action Thursday. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis…
Read MoreHouse rebukes GOP leaders with passage of Obamacare subsidies extension
House Democrats on Thursday secured an unlikely win with the passage of a bill to re-up their COVID-era expansion of Obamacare subsidies for three years. The 230-196 House vote is more of a symbolic and political victory than a substantive one, as the Senate has already rejected a nearly identical bill, nine votes short of…
Read MoreVice President Vance calls killing of Minneapolis woman by ICE officer ‘a tragedy of her own making’
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed as protests related to her death expanded to cities across the country. The vice president, who made his critiques in a rare…
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