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No, We’re Not Selling Out the Syrian Kurds. But We Should Mediate Their Conflict With Turkey.
Caught up in a conflict between long-standing NATO ally Turkey and a recently engaged Kurdish tactical partner in Syria, the Trump administration has accommodated the legitimate security interests of Turkey by staging a partial pullback of U.S. special operations forces in northeastern Syria. It did so to get out of the way of a Turkish… -
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Voters Will ‘Send Home’ Lawmakers Who Act to Impeach Trump, House Conservative Says
If Democrats are successful in impeachment efforts against President Donald Trump, voters will send them home, a leading House conservative said Friday at a gathering of “values voters” in Washington. “Even before this president was sworn in they were talking about impeachment, and they’re bound and determined to do it,” Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said… -
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NBA Deals With China Differently Than With Bathroom Bill, Ex-Governor Says
Pat McCrory, who faced an NBA boycott as North Carolina governor over his state’s “bathroom bill,” has accused the pro basketball league of hypocrisy after it apologized to China for a team manager’s since-deleted tweet supporting Hong Kong. The National Basketball Association’s apologies to China contrast with its 2016 boycott of North Carolina after McCrory… -
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Problematic Women: The Radical Feminists Who Are Fighting the Transgender Movement
As a leader of the radical feminist organization group Women’s Liberation Front, Natasha Chart doesn’t agree with conservatives on much. But when it comes to the transgender movement and protecting children from transgender ideology, she’s standing side by side with conservatives. Chart spoke Thursday at The Heritage Foundation’s Summit on Protecting Children From Sexualization. On… -
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After a Lull, Islamist Terrorism in Europe Returns With a Vengeance
There’s lots of talk in Washington about the Islamic State and the Trump administration’s Syria policy. That’s an important discussion to have, but it’s only one part of the counterterrorism discussion that America has to be engaged in. Consider events in Europe over the past week. On Oct. 3, an information technology specialist, Michael Harpon,… -
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Ukrainians Protest Leader’s Olive Branch to Russia
KYIV, Ukraine—Protesters flocked to Kyiv’s central square, the Maidan, by the thousands Sunday to oppose Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s gambit to make a major concession to Russia for the sake of restarting peace talks to end the war in the nation’s eastern Donbas region. Along an entrenched front line in the Donbas, after five and… -
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Invites Rudy Giuliani to Testify on Ukraine Concerns
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, has invited Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, to testify before his committee amid House Democrats’ move to launch an impeachment inquiry into the president. Giuliani has been vocal about stories of corruption in Ukraine, sounding off on allegations that former Vice President Joe Biden influenced Ukraine's… -
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US Blacklists Chinese Firms for Role in Abuse of Muslim Minorities
The U.S. Commerce Department added 28 Chinese firms to a trade blacklist Monday for being implicated in the abuse of Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. The decision to blacklist 20 Chinese public security businesses and eight other companies, including a video surveillance firm called Hikvision, will effectively prevent entities from purchasing U.S. products by imposing… -
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Elite American Institutions Keep Bowing to Communist China … Over and Over Again
America’s elite institutions are catering to communist China. The NBA provided the latest example Sunday night, when league commissioner Adam Silver apologized for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s tweet in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. Rockets star James Harden followed suit and apologized to China for Morey’s tweets. The New York Nets’ new billionaire owner, Joseph… -
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Why Europe Refuses to Take Back Captured ISIS Fighters
When the caliphate of the Islamic State collapsed, its fighters scattered. Many ISIS terrorists ended up in camps being run by Syrian Kurds in northern Syria. Among the number are about 2,000 Europeans, and what exactly to do about that is the biggest source of disagreement that exists between the U.S. and Europe on counterterrorism policy today…. -
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South Korean Youth Suffer Consequences of Progressive Economics
The progressive policies of South Korean President Moon Jae-in are a threat to his nation’s economy. Young people in South Korea are suffering most from those policies as youth unemployment continues to rise. With national debt growing at a rapid pace, and a rapidly aging population, there are large concerns over the future of the… -
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The NBA’s Shameful Hypocrisy Over China
Perhaps Americans will find a way to unite as the reality of living in a world with powerful, authoritarian regimes takes hold in the 21st century. Daryl Morey, general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, tweeted out Sunday: “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong.” This simple statement of support for, well, democracy, was deemed… -
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70th Anniversary of Communist China a Dark Day for Mankind
It’s one thing to engage in diplomacy. It’s another to praise evil. This past week, Donald Trump tweeted: “Congratulations to President Xi and the Chinese people on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China!” For diplomatic reasons, it’s become customary for American presidents to praise and commend this depraved totalitarian regime. In a… -
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‘Plausible’ Ukrainians Meddled in 2016, Former Envoy Testifies, but He Doubts Biden Allegations
Kurt Volker, the former envoy to Ukraine, told Congress that he believed it was “plausible” that individual Ukrainians had meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, bolstering one of the concerns that President Donald Trump and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have floated publicly about Ukraine. But Volker poured cold water on another theory promoted by Trump… -
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Here Are Texts Among US Diplomats on Trump, the Bidens, and Ukraine
U.S. ambassadors dangled a potential face-to-face meeting with President Donald Trump in an apparent effort to compel Ukraine’s president to investigate a Ukrainian gas company linked to Joe Biden’s son, according to text messages released Thursday night by House Democrats. Kurt Volker, the now-former special envoy to Ukraine, provided the messages to three House committees before a… -
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Ex-British Spy’s Obama State Department Contacts Avoid Scrutiny
Officials in the Obama State Department in 2016 actively worked with a British intelligence operative, Christopher Steele, to disseminate and investigate allegations against Donald Trump and his presidential campaign. That operation bears at least some similarity to a saga unfolding in the Trump State Department involving Rudy Giuliani, the Trump personal lawyer and former New… -
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How a Former Warsaw Pact Nation Became an Example for NATO Allies
WARSAW, Poland—Tomasz Szatkowski is an anomaly on two fronts. He’s the youngest ambassador to NATO and represents one of just seven members of the 28-nation alliance that pay their full share to support it. NATO policy requires member nations to spend at least 2% of their gross domestic product on defense. Poland does that now,… -
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North Korea’s Latest Missile Test Is Dangerous Escalation
North Korea ramped up its provocations by firing a medium-range submarine-launched ballistic missile 450 kilometers (280 miles) at a lofted trajectory of 910 kilometers (565 miles) on Tuesday night that landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. Had the missile flown on a normal, rather than lofted, trajectory, it would have flown 1,900 kilometers (1,180 miles)…. -
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Police Force Lifts Suspension for Officer Who Reported Illegal Alien to ICE
Police officials will allow an officer to return to duty after his suspension for turning an illegal alien over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Fairfax County, Virginia, police officer will return to work Friday following an update from the Fairfax County Police Department’s internal affairs division, according to a news release Wednesday from the department. The… -
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6 Reasons Why the US Should Not Rejoin the UN World Tourism Organization
Trump administration officials are traveling this week to Madrid to meet with leadership from the U.N. World Tourism Organization to continue to negotiate the terms of the U.S. rejoining it. The Trump administration’s seeming infatuation with the World Tourism Organization is baffling for a number of reasons. Here are six. 1. The organization offers very…