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    The Daily Signal Podcast: Fox News’ Chris Stirewalt on Trump’s Populism
    On today’s show, we feature an interview with Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt on his new book, “Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists.” Stirewalt says Americans sometimes forget past flirtations with populist politicians and President Donald Trump is certainly not the first. Find out how he thinks Democrats will…
    Robert B. Bluey | Ginny Montalbano
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    Media Misses: No, President Trump Is Not to Blame for Hurricanes
    It didn’t take long for many in the media to politicize the natural disaster taking place on the coasts of North and South Carolina. Leftists and the media have a tendency to blame President Donald Trump for everything—and this time he’s to blame for the weather, too. An editorial in The Washington Post suggested that Trump…
    Ginny Montalbano | Jarrett Stepman
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    Reporting the News Undermined in Era of Trump, Black Journalists Argue
    Speakers on a panel of journalists at the annual meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in Washington said journalism is suffering in the era of President Donald Trump. “One of the things that has just been boiling my blood is the lack of respect for the press coming from the orange man,” Rep. Yvette…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Obama Reminds Us Why Trump Is President
    “How hard can that be? Saying that Nazis are bad,” former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois last week. Well, probably no harder than saying the words “radical Islam,” I imagine. Or maybe it’s slightly less difficult than not sending billions of dollars to Holocaust-denying terror regimes that have both the means and…
    David Harsanyi
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    This 1 Move by the Trump Administration Is Boosting My Small Business
    It’s been a banner year for small businesses, and this week was no exception. Small business confidence has now reached its highest level on record. Economic growth in the most recent quarter exceeded 4 percent. Wages are rising at their fastest pace in a decade, giving Americans more disposable income to spend on Main Street….
    Joseph Semprevivo
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    Maxine Waters Unloads on Trump: ‘The Most Deplorable, Despicable Human Being’
    Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., escalated her ongoing feud with President Donald Trump, calling him “the most deplorable, the most despicable human being” and advocating his impeachment. Waters received a hero’s welcome, including two standing ovations, at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference Thursday in Washington. Introduced as a leader of the “resistance,” Waters spoke…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Trump Aims to Clarify Rules for Protecting Endangered Species
    Lawmakers who passed the Endangered Species Act four decades ago inserted a “degree of ambiguity” in key terms that led to most legal controversies surrounding enforcement of the law, the Interior Department’s No. 2 official said in a presentation at The Heritage Foundation. To resolve such questions, Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said, the Interior Department…
    Kevin Mooney
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    New Statistics Show Decline in Poverty in Trump’s First Year
    The federal government’s official poverty figures for 2017, the first year of the Trump administration, were released Wednesday, showing an improvement over those of its predecessor. But other data, released the day before, were even more heartening. The Census Bureau’s official statistics indicate that 12.3 percent of the population and 17.5 percent of children live…
    Jamie Bryan Hall
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    Trump Fumes Over Senate Democrats’ Stalling Tactics on Nominees
    Senate Democrats have President Donald Trump’s attention with their historic level of procedural delays to stall the seating of judges and start dates for nominees to key executive branch posts. Trump fired off a tweet Monday aimed at Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., complaining about 193 nominees awaiting consideration by Senate committees, while 127…
    Fred Lucas
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    6 Denials of Claims in Woodward’s Trump Book Before Its Release
    Denials and denunciations stacked up days before the formal release Tuesday of legendary investigative reporter Bob Woodward’s book “Fear: Trump in the White House.” So have insults from President Donald Trump and administration officials. This doesn’t surprise Woodward, who gained fame for his reporting of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein at The Washington Post…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Received a Loss in Court Battle With Unions. He Should Keep Fighting.
    President Donald Trump issued three executive orders earlier this year aimed at reining in the federal bureaucracy. But late last month, in a textbook case of judicial overreach, D.C. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson sided with the unions and struck down every major provision of those executive orders. The administration must appeal that decision….
    John York
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    Trump to Shut Down Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Washington Office
    The Trump administration will order the Palestine Liberation Organization to shutter its Washington, D.C., office in a bid to increase pressure on Palestinian leadership amid stalled peace talks. “We have been notified by a U.S. official of their decision to close the Palestinian mission to the U.S.,” PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said in a statement…
    Will Racke
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    This Ohio County Swung From Obama to Trump. Here’s What 8 Fair Attendees Think, 2 Years Later.
    CANTON, Ohio—Attendees of the 169-year-old Stark County Fair in Ohio don’t come out to see politicians, and politics aren’t on the forefront of their minds, but a large portion of the folks here had strong opinions on both when asked. The political climate of Stark County, known for its rural, farming areas and also home…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Fact Check: Trump Administration Challenges Washington Post Hispanic Passport Story
    The Trump administration is pushing back against the accuracy of a Washington Post story that suggests Hispanics applying for passports are facing discrimination from the federal government. Writing that “a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States … are now being denied passports—their citizenship suddenly thrown…
    Fred Lucas
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    Left Ramps Up Calls for Impeaching Trump After Cohen, Manafort Convictions
    Liberal activists—some of whom have called for President Donald Trump’s impeachment for more than a year— have grown louder after the convictions of two Trump associates last week. Billionaire Tom Steyer, who already has spent millions on TV ads and runs the Need to Impeach petition campaign that has collected 5.6 million signatures, released a…
    Fred Lucas
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    In Ditching NAFTA, Trump Reaches Deal With Mexico, Invites Canada to Join
    President Donald Trump called a new, preliminary deal with Mexico “the U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement,” announcing Monday that he had kept a campaign promise to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement. “It’s a big day for trade, a big day for our country. A lot of people felt we’d never get here,” Trump said. “They…
    Fred Lucas
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    Bill Clinton Got His Supreme Court Pick While Under Investigation. Trump Should Get His.
    Back in July, some Senate Democrats started demanding that the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be delayed until after the Mueller investigation is finished. None of them, however, explained the connection between the two. Now, after Michael Cohen’s guilty plea and Paul Manafort’s conviction stemming from the Mueller investigation, they are at…
    Thomas Jipping
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    ‘I Took Control’: Sessions Punches Back After Latest Trump Criticism
    After months of taking sharp criticism, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back Thursday in a barely subtle way at President Donald Trump. Sessions issued a statement after the airing of an interview with Trump on Fox News Channel in which the president said the attorney general “never took control of the Justice Department.” Sessions seemed…
    Fred Lucas
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    Fallout for Trump: 4 Big Questions After Manafort, Cohen Convictions
    A guilty verdict in Northern Virginia didn’t implicate President Donald Trump, while a guilty plea in Manhattan did implicate the president, but it could be difficult to prove he did anything wrong, legal experts said. Still, they agree the two events in court this week could mean trouble for the president, although they differ on…
    Fred Lucas
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    Melania Trump Stands Up for Online Safety, Against Cyberbullying
    As students across the country return to school to begin a new academic year, first lady Melania Trump is promoting healthy online habits and cautioning against the dangers of cyberbullying.   The first lady made opening remarks Monday at the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention’s Cyberbullying Prevention Summit in Rockville, Maryland. “I am honored to…
    Ginny Montalbano
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