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Lawmakers Seek Documents on Use of Taxpayer Funds for Abortion Services
Lawmakers are asking for the reports on AmeriCorps’ potential misuse of taxpayer money related to abortion services and referrals, as well as building renovations, a letter from ranking members on the House Oversight Committee reveals. Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Mark Meadows of North Carolina are requesting the release of documents from the Corporation for National… -
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FBI Fires 4 for Leaks, Investigates 10 Other Employees Since 2016
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has investigated at least 14 employees since 2016 for unauthorized disclosures of bureau information and fired at least four, documents show. Several of the FBI employees were recommended for termination, but received lighter punishments, such as suspension without pay. The documents, six pages of summaries of 14 internal investigations released… -
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5 Things to Know About the New UN Ambassador
Kelly Knight Craft was a business executive and philanthropist when President Donald Trump appointed her as ambassador to Canada in June 2017. Now Craft is the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, replacing the popular Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina. She has yet to be sworn in. Trump nominated Craft, 57, of Lexington,… -
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What It’s Like to Travel the World With the Secretary of State
Nolan Peterson, The Daily Signal’s foreign correspondent, is back in Washington after a week traveling abroad with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Today, he joins Daniel in the studio to share about the trip and the news he reported on, ranging from Russia to China to North Korea and Afghanistan. We also cover the following… -
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Problematic Women: Breaking Through the Noise After the Massacres
In this week’s edition of “Problematic Women,” Amy Swearer, senior legal policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation, joins us to discuss the tragic mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. First, we discuss politicians’ and the media’s eagerness to blame everything from video games to Fox News for the shootings. We then talk… -
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‘You Had God Watching’: Trump Seeks to Console Shooting Survivors
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump met Wednesday with some of the dozens wounded or injured in the weekend mass shootings in Ohio and Texas that left 31 dead. In between visits with survivors at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, the president and first lady thanked the medical staff, White House press… -
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Employee Accuses Google of Discriminating Against Pregnant Women
A former Google employee alleges that the tech giant discriminates against pregnant women. The woman made the accusation in a memo obtained by Motherboard. The unnamed Google employee's memo is titled “I’m Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here is Why.” It has been read by over 10,000 current Google employees after going… -
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Sarah Palin Can Sue New York Times for Defamation, Court Rules
A federal appeals court gave former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin a major victory in her defamation lawsuit over a New York Times editorial that tied her to the shooting of a Democratic congresswoman. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in New York ruled Tuesday that a lower court judge made a mistake by hearing testimony from… -
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MSNBC Analyst Uses Numerology to Link Trump’s Flag Decision to Neo-Nazism
A former FBI assistant director used numerology on MSNBC to link neo-Nazism to President Donald Trump’s decision to fly the federal government's flags at half-staff to honor victims of the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Frank Figliuzzi floated the unsubstantiated conspiracy theory Monday during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Figliuzzi, an MSNBC… -
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Warning: How the VA ‘Red Flags’ Patriots
Gun-grabbing crisis vultures just can’t let the latest mass shootings go to waste. “Red flag” laws are now all the rage in the Beltway as the magic pill to prevent homicidal maniacs from wreaking havoc on the nation. Even President Donald Trump has endorsed the idea of preemptively confiscating people’s firearms if they are deemed… -
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Why Can’t We Unify in the Face of Evil?
This should be easy. We’re all on the same side. When a white supremacist terrorist shoots up a Walmart filled with innocents in El Paso, Texas, we should all be on the same side. We should be mourning together; we should be fighting together. Instead, we’re fighting one another. We’re fighting one another for one… -
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Is Trump Right About Baltimore? Let’s Look at Some Facts.
Here’s what President Donald Trump tweeted about a Baltimore congressman and his city: “Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is far worse and more dangerous. His district is considered the… -
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The Senate Ups Judicial Confirmations Despite Democrats’ Obstruction
The Senate adjourned for the August recess last week, but not before confirming another 13 judges to the U.S. District Court. Now is a good time to evaluate what the Senate has accomplished with respect to President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees. The Heritage Foundation’s Judicial Appointment Tracker shows some of the good news, as well… -
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Disgraced Agent Sues DOJ, FBI Over Firing Based on Anti-Trump Texts
Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent fired over anti-Trump text messages, sued the Justice Department and the FBI Tuesday, claiming that he was fired due to political pressure from President Donald Trump. In the lawsuit, filed against Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Strzok also alleged that his First Amendment rights were… -
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House Democrats Seek Kavanaugh Documents From Bush Years
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee asked the National Archives Tuesday to release documents from Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s service in the George W. Bush White House. The request tracks Democratic promises to scrutinize Kavanaugh even after his confirmation to the Supreme Court. “The Senate Judiciary Committee received only a small fraction of Justice Kavanaugh’s White House… -
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Kenyan Nonprofit Discovers a Way to Curb Africa’s Orphan Crisis
The East African nation of Kenya is home to 3 million orphaned and street children. The majority of these kids have living relatives, which in the late 1990s came as a great surprise to one local nonprofit. Agape Children’s Ministry is based in Kisumu, the third-largest city in Kenya. The Christian nonprofit says it has… -
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How Red Tape and Bad Policy Make Way for Voter Fraud
Two years ago, I thought voter fraud was a rarity in the United States. I figured that such crimes took place only in nations with corrupt and broken governments—not in “the land of the free.” I was wrong. The first person to open my eyes to the amount of voter fraud in America was Hans… -
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Dayton Gunman Explored ‘Violent Ideologies,’ FBI Says
Investigators have evidence that the shooter in Dayton, Ohio, explored “violent ideologies” prior to his attack that left nine dead early Sunday, an FBI official said, but there was no indication the shooting was racially motivated. “We have uncovered evidence throughout the course of our investigation that the shooter was exploring violent ideologies,” Todd Wickerham,… -
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FBI Says Gilroy Shooter’s ‘Target List’ Included Religious Institutions
The shooter who killed three and injured 13 in Gilroy, California, was exploring “violent ideologies” and had a “target list,” the FBI says. The list included “religious institutions, federal buildings, courthouses, political organizations from both major political parties, and the Gilroy Garlic Festival,” FBI Agent John Bennett said during the press conference. Bennett added: “Even… -
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After the Shootings: Look to Culture, Not Politics
The nation must now endure another gut-wrenching tragedy, with 31 having been senselessly gunned downed in Texas and Ohio over a weekend. This following a week where three were gunned down in California. My appeal is to consider these tragedies a crisis of culture and not to turn them into politics, which is already happening….