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Struggling to Keep Job, FDIC Chair Known for Berating Staff Humbled at Capitol
The nation’s embattled chief regulator of federal banks, identified in an independent audit as easily angered and quick to berate employees, deliberately spoke softly and measuredly Wednesday on Capitol Hill as he fended off calls for his resignation. Martin Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., explained, apologized, and took responsibility after the audit… -
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Veteran Prosecutor Testifies Michael Cohen Admitted He Had ‘Nothing Truthful’ Implicating Trump
Former federal prosecutor Robert Costello testified Wednesday before Congress that disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen—the star witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump—told him he had “nothing truthful” implicating Trump in a crime. Costello, who advised Cohen when he became the subject of an investigation by federal prosecutors in the… -
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At WNBA Ceremony, Biden Urges America to Support the Women’s Sports He’s Destroying
In previous years, people might have missed the irony. But not now—not after the meteoric rise of women’s basketball. When the WNBA champs visited the White House last week, reporters didn’t cover it out of obligation. They covered it because it was a real story. And President Joe Biden’s betrayal of girls sports only made… -
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SOCIETAL ROT, Part 3: How Blue Cities’ Flouting of Federal Immigration Laws Has Proved Fatal
Third in a five-part series. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. Societal rot is a choice. Does it make sense for cities and states to decide which illegal aliens can stay in the country? No. Should cities and states be allowed to flout federal immigration law, or any other federal law they don’t agree with?… -
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Inflation Stays Uncomfortably High as Rising Prices Continue to Squeeze Americans
Inflation ticked down slightly year-over-year in April but still remained high as rising prices continue to take a toll on average Americans’ finances, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics release on Tuesday. The consumer price index, a broad measure of the prices of everyday goods, increased 3.4% on an annual basis in April… -
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Mike Lee: Biden DOJ ‘Unjustly’ Persecuting Pro-Lifers, ‘Turning a Blind Eye’ to Leftist Crime
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee accused President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice on Tuesday of “unjustly” persecuting pro-life activists exposing the “horrors of abortion.” “The Biden administration is using the FACE Act to give pro-life activists and senior citizens lengthy prison terms for non-violent offenses and protests—all while turning a… -
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More Public Charter Schools Are Needed Nationwide
Parents, children, and supporters of school choice have cause to celebrate this National Charter Schools Week. Charter schools earned the top two spots on a list of the best high schools in America, according to a recent report by U.S. News & World Report. And, of the top 100 public high schools, charter schools claimed… -
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Crime Is Rising. Expert John Lott Explains Why.
While many in the media have attempted to downplay rising crime in America, noted author and economist John Lott Jr. says a majority of the public is alarmed about it and rightly so. Lott wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal about America’s crime rate, contending that “[t]he decline in reported crimes is a function… -
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More Defensive Gun Uses Undermine Government Claims About Armed Civilians
It should be painfully obvious to anyone paying attention that the Biden administration distrusts an armed civilian population and is willing to fudge the truth time and again to defend its untenable positions. But for those living blissfully unaware of the Biden administration’s animosity toward gun owners, it once again demonstrated its animosity in clear… -
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‘SHAM’: House Speaker Johnson Condemns Trial of Trump as ‘Politically Motivated’
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in New York on Tuesday, condemned the so-called hush-money criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Johnson blasted the trial as a “sham” and said that it’s being used to manipulate the 2024 presidential election. “I’m an attorney. I’m a former litigator myself. I’m disgusted by what is happening here,”… -
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Pro-Life Activist Charged by Biden DOJ Gets Almost 5 Years in Prison for Trying to Stop Abortions
Pro-life activist Lauren Handy has been sentenced on Justice Department charges to almost five years in prison for attempting to stop abortions of unborn babies from taking place at a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic. Handy will spend 57 months in prison and is the first person sentenced for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic… -
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NPR Reporter Assigned to Cover Posters Urging Illegals to Vote for Biden Won’t Answer Whether Aliens Voting Bothers Her
Are your own tax dollars funding an effort to discredit news about flyers encouraging illegal aliens to vote for President Joe Biden in U.S. elections? National Public Radio’s recent efforts to “cover” the story suggest an attempt to delegitimize it. NPR assigned a reporter with ties to left-wing groups funded by billionaire financier George Soros… -
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DC Holds Training Sessions for Noncitizens to Vote
An agency of the District of Columbia held a training session last month to teach illegal immigrants and other noncitizens how to vote, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch. News of the training session held by the local government in the nation’s capital comes as House Republicans push a bill—with the… -
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18 States Fight Federal Trans Agenda on Pronouns, Bathrooms
In response to new federal rules on pronouns and bathrooms based on gender identity, 18 state attorneys general are suing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The lawsuit, led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, a Republican, was filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. “This end-run around our constitutional… -
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House Oversight Committee Probing Biden Voter Mobilization Order
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is probing a controversial Biden administration executive order tasking the federal government with mobilizing voting groups it says are underrepresented. In a letter obtained by RealClearPolitics, Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has requested that Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young produce a slew of documents and information concerning the development… -
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Charge of ‘Genocide’ Is Blood Libel of Our Time
In medieval Europe, Christians who hated Jews spread the lie that Jews kidnap Christian children, slaughter them, and use their blood to bake matzos for Passover. This lie became known as “the Blood Libel,” probably the greatest libel in history. Over the course of many centuries, Jews were tortured and killed, often by being burned… -
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Rural America Won’t Be Spared During Biden’s Immigration Crisis
While the border crisis rages on and frequent, preventable crimes as well as stories of illegal aliens displacing Americans in receiving services continue to come out of cities like New York, Chicago, and Denver, even rural America will not be spared. This is all thanks to the Biden administration and several allied nongovernmental organizations. NGOs… -
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5 Ways to Help Avoid Going Over the Looming 2025 Tax Cliff
A large tax increase is scheduled to hit almost all taxpayers at the end of next year—that is, unless Congress comes up with, and agrees to, another plan before then. Expect a lot of talk about taxes from politicians over the next year-and-a-half as Washington grapples with the looming tax cliff. Unfortunately, few lawmakers will… -
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Target Retreats From LGBTQ Merch After Yearlong Profit Bloodbath
This year’s Pride Month is shaping up to be a much more humble affair at Target. In an extremely gratifying twist, the company that bragged its transgender line is “great for our brand” has changed its mind after a yearlong stock market bruising. It’s the latest evidence that the wildfire of consumer activism is not only… -
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Supreme Court to Make Significant Rulings on Power of Administrative State, Presidential Immunity, More
Oral arguments are over at the Supreme Court for this term. Although the rallies and protesters have dispersed (for now, anyway), the justices remain frantically at work on the numerous opinions they have yet to hand down. With several closely watched cases still pending, it will likely be a historic finish to this Supreme Court…