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    ‘A Force for Good’: Pompeo Explains the Trump Administration’s Vision for America’s Role in the World

    KYIV, Ukraine—America’s post-9/11 global fight against terrorism is another year older. After 18 years, American troops are still deployed around the world combatting terrorism; a fight in which they will likely remain engaged for another generation, or more. Yet, even as America’s counterterrorism campaigns go on and on, and casualties continue to mount slowly, the…
    Nolan Peterson
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    Trump Praises Historically Black Colleges, Saying Nation Owes Them ‘Profound and Enduring Debt’

    The United States “owes a profound and enduring debt of gratitude” to its historically black colleges and universities, President Donald Trump said in an address Tuesday, at which he announced new support from his administration for the institutions. “Previously, federal law restricted more than 40 faith-based HBCUs and seminaries from fully accessing federal support for…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Minorities Make Historic Employment Gains in Trump Era, Analysis Shows

    American minorities have made historic employment gains since the end of 2016 that have continued with President Donald Trump in office, according to a Washington Post analysis of Department of Labor data. The analysis revealed that American minorities comprise more than 86% of jobs added since the end of 2016. 5.2 million more Americans have…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Why Trump Was Right to End Taliban Talks

    PARIS—President Donald Trump was right to cancel a “secret” meeting with leaders of the Taliban and the Afghan government following two bomb attacks by the terrorist group that killed 10 civilians, an American soldier, and a Romanian service member in heavily fortified Kabul. The president is eager to fulfill a desire to withdraw remaining American…
    Cal Thomas
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    Over 6 Million Americans Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump Presidency

    Roughly 6.3 million Americans have dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump’s first month in office. Data from the Agriculture Department shows 6,268,285 individuals have left the food stamp program since Trump took office. In February 2017, the first month after Trump took office, 42,297,791 persons were participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As of…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Trump Administration Eases Methane Rules on Oil Industry

    The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will undo some of the Obama administration’s regulations on methane, which it said could save oil and natural gas producers up to $123 million through 2025.  In 2016, the Obama administration imposed limits on methane emissions from oil and gas production after determining that methane emissions were…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s Fight Against Progressive Agenda at the G-7 Will Pay Off

    President Donald Trump successfully navigated the minefields laid for him at last weekend’s G-7 summit in France. It wasn’t easy, but in the process he pushed back against the progressive agenda in ways that will benefit him politically. Progressive European Union bureaucrats use various techniques trying to keep the EU together and keep taxpayer money flowing to Brussels….
    James M. Roberts
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    Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Enforcement of Stiffer Asylum Rules

    The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to allow enforcement of new immigration rules that would deny asylum to migrants who did not seek protected status in a country they passed through on their way to the southern border. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, a federal judge in San Francisco, entered a preliminary injunction…
    Kevin Daley
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    ‘Extremely Alarming’: Journalists Are Worried About Trump Allies Digging Up Their Old Tweets

    Some journalists are irate over a New York Times story about allies of President Donald Trump collecting damaging information on reporters from “news organizations deemed hostile” to the president. This is “the latest step in a long-running effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to undercut the influence of legitimate news reporting,” according to the article….
    Shelby Talcott
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    Trump’s Deregulation Promise

    President Donald Trump promised he’d get rid of bad rules. “Remove the anchor dragging us down!” he said when campaigning for president. “We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation!” Trump was a developer, so he knew that the thicket of rules government imposes often makes it impossible to get things done. But would he…
    John Stossel
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    Trump Weighs Designating Antifa as ‘Terrorist Organization’

    President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was considering designating masked Antifa militants as a terrorist organization because of the group’s violent actions across the country.  “We’re looking at a lot of different things relative to Antifa. Antifa, in my opinion, is a terrorist organization,” Trump said of the mask-wearing group in response to a question at…
    Fred Lucas
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    Greenland Deserves the Attention Trump Is Giving It

    The recent media reports that President Donald Trump is interested in purchasing Greenland for the United States has brought the unlikely country into the world’s headlines. Taking advantage of the limelight, Greenland’s government tweeted, “We're open for business, not for sale.” Buying options aside, this newfound attention—however short-lived—can only be positive for Greenland. Greenland is…
    Luke Coffey
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    Trump Calls on Israel to Ban Reps. Omar, Tlaib

    President Donald Trump weighed in Thursday after reports that Israel planned to ban Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan from entering the country for a trip scheduled to start Friday. “It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel [and] all…
    Evie Fordham
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    Trump Rule Aims to Streamline Protection of Endangered Species

    The Trump administration is applying new regulations to protect endangered species, rolling back some requirements to ground the policy in scientific and economic factors, the Interior Department announced Monday.  The regulations, based on the 1973 Endangered Species Act, will “increase transparency and effectiveness and bring the administration of the Act into the 21st century,” the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump on Deterring More Massacres: ‘I Don’t Want Crazy People Having Guns’

    President Donald Trump says he anticipates his strongest supporters will back stiffer background checks for buying a gun, and that the National Rifle Association either will come on board or stay neutral.  “I think my base relies very much on common sense, and they rely on me in terms of telling them what’s happening,” Trump…
    Fred Lucas
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    As With Trump, Ocasio-Cortez’s Bid to Block Twitter Users Likely to Lose in Court

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., laid out her defense Wednesday to a lawsuit aimed at stopping her from blocking unwanted followers from her personal Twitter account.  The lawsuit arises out of a similar one that President Donald Trump lost last month. In the case against the president, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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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…
    Fred Lucas
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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…
    Walter E. Williams
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    Trump, Baltimore, and the Diminishing Potency of the ‘Race Card’

    President Donald Trump’s harsh, angry tweets about the social conditions and hygienic disaster in Baltimore (directed at Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and others) were undoubtedly in bad taste. It is understandable, therefore, that The Baltimore Sun editorial board felt compelled to respond in kind, which it did in a scathing editorial that compared the president…
    Armstrong Williams
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    After Shootings, Trump Calls for Background Checks, Denounces White Supremacy

    In the wake of two weekend shootings that left 31 dead in Texas and Ohio, President Donald Trump called Monday for bipartisan action that includes increased background checks to catch “red flags” of potential shooters. Trump also denounced hatred and white supremacy.  “Open wounds cannot heal if we are divided. We must seek real bipartisan…
    Fred Lucas
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