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The going rate for an American hostage these days is around $1.3 billion. That’s what the Biden administration paid out this week for five Americans in a prisoner swap with the Islamic Republic of Iran. And with little overhead, it’s mostly profit for the mullahs. But don’t let the term “prisoner swap” insinuate that there…
The Department of Homeland Security has sparked controversy by adding to its Intelligence Board multiple members who signed on to the since-debunked 2020 letter saying the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.” Now, House Republicans want answers, saying the new additions bring into question the federal group’s credibility and impartiality. “Your decision to appoint…
Arizona State University officials appear to have violated state law by requiring staff to complete “racial equity” training, according to a new report by the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute. Arizona has stringent laws against imposing training in diversity, equity, and inclusion—called DEI—in taxpayer-funded programs. These laws prohibit the use of taxpayer money for training sessions that…
A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine, Friday, charging him with bribery for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold bars. Menendez denied the charges, saying he had been "falsely accused." The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that the charges…
Not all illegal aliens are entering the U.S. along the southern or northern border, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. Over the past year, “more than 200,000 people from four countries” used a direct-flight parole program to enter the United States illegally, says Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Washington-based think…
The COVID-19 pandemic is over, but vaccine mandates imposed by colleges and universities are not. Now a Virginia congressman has introduced a bill to withhold federal funds from institutions of higher education that require vaccinations against the disease. President Joe Biden declared the pandemic over in ending the public health emergency May 11. Despite this,…
Only 11 of 49 Republican senators voted against President Joe Biden’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after many conservatives raised concerns about critical race theory and other woke ideas and policies invading the military. The Senate confirmed Air Force Gen. Charles “C.Q.” Brown Jr. to the nation’s top military position Wednesday…
Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced on Thursday he is stepping down as chair of Fox Corp. and executive chairman of News Corp., Fox News has reported. Murdoch’s son, Lachlan Murdoch, will become chairman of both companies as the elder Murdoch transitions out of the roles in November. “I am truly proud of what…
The top election official in New Hampshire, which traditionally holds the nation’s first presidential primary, announced that he would consider banning former President Donald Trump from the ballot one day after a George Washington University law professor suggested that he call a special panel to make the determination. The same official kept lawmakers in suspense…
Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to say Wednesday whether Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, should have pardoned a father who was arrested in 2021 when he tried to defend his daughter during a local school board meeting. Youngkin pardoned Scott Smith, who was arrested during a meeting of the Loudoun County School Board on June 22, 2021, where he…
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is housing a man who raped his own daughter in a women's prison because he said he identifies as a woman himself—and the DOC is refusing to offer any kind of insight or explanation on the matter. Mark Campbell is currently incarcerated in Taycheedah Correctional Institution, a women's prison in…
Sen. JD Vance, a Marine veteran, accused the Biden administration of politicizing the U.S. military, creating a recruiting crisis that is jeopardizing its readiness and warfighting capabilities. “There’s a reason why we have, frankly, a crisis in recruitment in the all-volunteer military—the first time we’ve had a recruitment crisis, really, since the end of the…
Twenty-five Republican governors, led by Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., condemned President Joe Biden Tuesday for his persistent inaction at the southern border and his incentivizing of illegal immigration. The governors are demanding transparency on the impacts of the border crisis, including where the government is relocating illegal aliens within the U.S. and how the federal government…
The American Right needs to revitalize itself after a generation of decay where the Left took control over most of the corporate sector, the military, and the press, according to a Claremont Institute expert on American political thought. That decay has resulted in corporations pushing racial division and leftist ideology after the Right gave corporate…
Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to answer questions on a wide range of matters Wednesday in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Garland testified that he couldn’t remember whether he talked to FBI personnel about the investigation of first son Hunter Biden and didn’t know how many confidential informants entered the Capitol during the riot…
Members of Congress sought Wednesday to calculate the immense financial cost of the border crisis at a hearing held by the House Homeland Security Committee. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has “implemented a radical agenda at the expense of the safety, security, and economic well-being of all Americans,” committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., said, adding…
After insisting for months that Republican Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville was solely responsible for the delay in approving senior military promotions, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer finally folded Wednesday and began to set up votes on three military officers. The news will likely be seen as a win for Tuberville since it demonstrates that the…
Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to blame the Trump administration Wednesday for allowing the statute of limitations to lapse on potential tax charges against first son Hunter Biden. But when Garland said so during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was having none of it. At several points during the hearing,…
High school students in the Keystone State are protesting transgender ideology in their bathrooms. Hundreds of students in the Perkiomen Valley School District north of Philadelphia staged a walkout on Friday, in response to the school board allowing students who identify as transgender to use whichever bathroom they like. A policy barring students who identify as transgender…
A diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at a leading university in southwestern Virginia may have violated her school's policy by using work email to forward a message slamming conservative school board candidates as "hateful" and urging readers to canvass for the candidates' opponents shortly before early voting begins. One school board member targeted in the…