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    High School Removes Students’ Pro-Trump Slogans From Pictures

    A New Jersey high school scrubbed pro-Trump slogans displayed on clothing students wore for their yearbook photos. Multiple Wall Township High School students came forward to express outrage after they noticed their clothes had been altered in the photos, reported CNN Monday. “TRUMP: Make America Great Again” was removed from junior Grant Berardo’s shirt while student Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago…
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    Trump on Course to Achieve Conservative Policy Victories, His Legislative Point Man Says

    The Trump administration has made good progress on issues of importance to conservatives, despite pushback from the left, the president’s legislative point man told a gathering of Christian conservatives. “Do we have all the major things we wanted to get done, done? No. Are they all in process? Yes,” Paul Teller says. “It’s been like…
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    Trump, Keeping Campaign Promise, Picks More Conservative Judges

    President Donald Trump submitted a new slate of judicial nominees to the Senate Wednesday, naming nine appointees to federal courts across the country. The list is the second such slate that the president has submitted to the Senate. The White House also indicated that Trump will officially nominate three more judicial candidates in the coming…
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    Trump: ‘We Don’t Worship Government, We Worship God’

    “We will not back down from doing what is right.” Those were the words of President Donald Trump at the Road to Majority Conference Thursday. “A nation is more than just the geography,” Trump said in his speech. “A nation is the sum of its citizens, their hopes, their dreams, their values, their prayers ……
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    Trump Was Right to Leave the Paris Agreement. Why He Shouldn’t Have Had to Withdraw in the First Place.

    Supporters of the Paris Agreement have expressed considerable angst over President Donald Trump’s decision to leave the climate agreement last week. Regardless of the merits of that decision—although for the record, Heritage Foundation analysts recommended that the U.S. withdraw—Trump should not have had to make that call. The Paris Agreement had all the hallmarks of…
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    Trump Doesn’t Like So Many Anonymous Sources, and Neither Do These Journalism Experts

    Last week, when pressed to answer questions about reports that Jared Kushner set up back-channel communications with the Russian government, White House press secretary Sean Spicer frequently responded by considering the source—or lack thereof. “I’m not going to dignify partisan accusations of anonymous sources and alleged—unsubstantiated attacks,” Spicer told reporters Tuesday during exchanges that became…
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    Nationalism Puts Trump at Odds With EU Elites

    In his first four months at the White House, President Donald Trump has reiterated his commitment to pursuing “America first” policies on trade, economics, and foreign affairs. That agenda became all the more clear on his recent trip overseas, in which he pressed Middle Eastern leaders to expel Islamist terror from their lands and chastised…
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    Trump’s Paris Agreement Decision Shows He’s Not Afraid of Defying Global Elites

    All the heroes carrying the fate of the world on their shoulders phoned in to NPR Friday morning. Former Secretary of State John Kerry, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, and business magnate Richard Branson, all nearly snarling, attempted to cultivate hatred and mistrust toward President Donald Trump following his decision to…
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    The Facts About Trump’s ‘Heartless’ Education Plan

    A video of Rep. Rosa DeLauro slamming President Donald Trump’s budget on education, saying it is “heartless” and “cruel,” has gone viral. “Millions of kids around this country are going to suffer what has been done with a $9.2 billion cut to our education programs, which are supposed to serve our youngsters, make sure they…
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    This Poor County Switched From Backing Obama to Trump. Here’s What Happened.

    COLEBROOK, N.H.—His left foot in a walking boot after surgery, Rick Samson, an independent-minded county commissioner in the northernmost part of New Hampshire, is behind the wheel of his pickup truck, describing how this region—“North Country” to locals—is used to going it alone. “I run as a Republican, however I consider myself neither a Republican…
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    4 Reasons Trump Was Right to Pull Out of the Paris Agreement

    President Donald Trump has fulfilled a key campaign pledge, announcing that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The Paris Agreement, which committed the U.S. to drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, was a truly bad deal—bad for American taxpayers, American energy companies, and every single American who depends on affordable, reliable energy. It…
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    Trump Administration Considering Rule That Would Help Little Sisters of the Poor

    For employers that don’t want to provide birth control and abortifacient coverage in health insurance plans, relief may be on the way. President Donald Trump’s administration “is poised to make changes to Obamacare’s birth control coverage mandate by granting broad exemptions to employers that object on religious or moral grounds,” The Hill reported. The proposed…
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    This Is the Key to a Successful Trump Foreign Policy

    As President Donald Trump settles back in Washington after his trip to Europe and the Middle East, his administration will continue to roll out related defense and foreign policy initiatives through multiple departments and agencies. For the purposes of strategic planning, what organizing principle might be useful to inform such initiatives, consistent with existing statements…
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    Cut or ‘Clean’: Trump, Congress Negotiate on How to Raise the Debt Ceiling

    Since winning a House majority in 2010, congressional Republicans have asked for any increase in the nation’s borrowing limit to be offset, at least in part, by spending cuts. “Any debt limit increase should be paired with spending cuts to address our debt,” @Jim_Jordan says. President Barack Obama denied that ambition, but it’s different now…
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    Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump

    When people you know well, admire, and who share your values do something you strongly oppose, you have two options: 1) Cease admiring them, or 2) try to understand them and change their minds. In the case of my conservative friends who still snipe (or worse) at President Donald Trump, I have rejected option one….
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    The Possible Reasons Big Corporations Are So Eager for Trump to Break His Promise on Paris Climate Deal

    European countries and major corporations are pressuring President Donald Trump to remain in the Paris climate agreement despite his promises on the campaign trail to withdraw the United States from the Obama-era deal that never gained congressional approval. The Trump administration so far is sticking with being undecided—at least until Trump returns to the United…
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    Trump Budget Sets Slower Pace Than Needed for Military Buildup

    President Donald Trump delivered his 2018 budget request to Congress on Tuesday, and as expected, the defense portion is not enough to initiate the military buildup that the president had called for. Aligning closely with the president’s so-called “skinny budget” issued earlier this year, this proposal calls for $603 billion in base defense discretionary spending…
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    A First Look at Energy Issues in Trump’s Budget

    President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal calls for a number of energy policy reforms, some good and some bad. Some of the highlights include opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, selling off some government-controlled oil reserves, reinvigorating Yucca Mountain’s nuclear waste management activities, divesting power marketing administration assets, and diverting offshore…
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    Trump Must Resist Pressure From Foreign Leaders to Cave in on Global Warming

    President Donald Trump has arrived in Italy for the G-7 summit, where foreign leaders will press him to abandon core elements of his “America First” agenda in favor of a more globalist agenda. As National Public Radio reported last week, “President Trump is expected to face pressure from European Union leaders … to keep the U.S….
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    Trump Signals a Reset Between Israel and US

    It’s time to patch up America’s second “special relationship” after eight years of frayed feelings between the United States and Israel. That’s the message President Donald Trump is sending in his early-presidency trip to Israel and unprecedented visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Trump said of his Monday visit to the Western Wall, a…
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