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Among all the presidents he has dealt with, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Donald Trump is “the most unique” and is “changing history.” The former House speaker has worked with many presidents, and said that although President Ronald Reagan “was remarkable in his own right,” Trump “is, in some ways, the most unique person…
At least 19 House Republicans are sponsoring a resolution calling for a special counsel to investigate the conduct of the Justice Department and FBI during the 2016 election campaign. For a year now, special counsel Robert Mueller and his team have investigated Russia’s meddling in the presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign….
A New Jersey high school principal apologized Friday for a “Party Like It’s 1776” theme at prom. Dennis Perry, principal of Cherry Hill High School East, posted on his Twitter feed an apology for the theme printed on prom tickets, calling the decision “insensitive and irresponsible,” reported Fox News. “I especially apologize to our African-American students,…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave Iran’s government an ultimatum and its people an assurance Monday in laying out the Trump administration’s agenda after pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamist regime. “The Iranian wave of destruction in just the last few years is proof that Iran’s nuclear aspirations cannot be separated…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed that one-eighth of all circuit court judges have been appointed by President Donald Trump. Verdict: True Of the 165 active circuit court judges, 21—or 13 percent—have been appointed by Trump. Fact Check: Senate Republicans emerged from a weekly luncheon Tuesday to speak with reporters about their party’s recent accomplishments. “We were…
For the past decade, left-wing activists have targeted faith-based adoption agencies if they do not assist same-sex couples who wish to adopt. Through lawsuits and legislation, these activists gave faith-based agencies an ultimatum: Comply with politically correct views on sexuality and marriage and place children with same-sex couples, or shut down. Faced with this dilemma,…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will present a “diplomatic road map” on Monday for pursuing a “new security architecture” for dealing with Tehran after the U.S. pullout from the multilateral Iran nuclear deal. Pompeo will deliver remarks at The Heritage Foundation in Washington about the Trump administration’s strategy for countering not only Iran’s nuclear ambitions,…
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia’s ongoing conflict with Ukraine has flared up once again. This time, however, it wasn’t another Russian artillery or rocket barrage in eastern Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region. Rather, the latest escalation was evidenced by completion of a bridge across the Kerch Strait connecting the Crimean Peninsula with mainland Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin, true…
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee made strong comments about abortion and the value of life Thursday night, giving abortion advocates a run for their money. “These are human beings. They’re babies. They have a heartbeat. They have brain waves. They may be in the womb but they’re humans, and they need to be treated that…
Rep. Jim Jordan says President Donald Trump has accomplished a lot in his nearly 17 months in office but Congress has dropped the ball on making good on promises to the American people. “Taxes have been cut, the economy is growing, unemployment is at its lowest level, [Justice Neil] Gorsuch is on the court, ISIS…
President Donald Trump still has more than 275 executive and judicial branch nominees pending Senate confirmation because of Democratic obstruction, far more than his presidential predecessors at the comparable points in their presidencies. The Senate confirmed Trump’s pick to run the Central Intelligence Agency, Gina Haspel, on Thursday. That still leaves many administration positions open…
Sam Abed, the mayor of Escondido, California, took pride in deporting illegal immigrants from his city and said he wants a repeal of the state’s sanctuary laws Wednesday on Fox Business’ “The Evening Edit.” “I am very proud, you know, as an immigrant, as a leader of this city, to have deported 2,700 illegal criminals…
Andrew C. McCarthy, a former chief assistant U.S. attorney, is a contributing editor at National Review and a senior fellow at National Review Institute who has written extensively on the Russia probe. The Daily Signal’s Ginny Montalbano spoke exclusively with McCarthy about the year-old special counsel’s probe and the president’s vulnerability after McCarthy’s May 15…
Sixteen Republican senators are asking their colleagues to pass a budget and confirm President Donald Trump’s nominees before the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30. “It is time to drain the swamp, and we can help do that by keeping the pumps running in August,” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said at a press conference…
California law enforcement and local officials gathered at the White House on Wednesday to make it clear that Sacramento doesn’t speak for them on illegal immigration. The Democrat-controlled state Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed a “sanctuary state” law that prohibits state and local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities…
In a defining stretch of his presidency, Donald Trump will spend the next two days meeting with leaders of two international bodies he has criticized—the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will meet with Trump on Thursday and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres will visit the White House on Friday….
The United States is more than politically polarized amid a “cold civil war” over the meaning of the Constitution, constitutional scholar Charles Kesler said Tuesday. Kesler, editor of the Claremont Review of Books, spoke as part of a panel discussion on “The State of the Constitution” during the 2018 Bradley Symposium at The Heritage Foundation….
The Heritage Foundation’s new building to house dozens of public policy interns on Capitol Hill is named after a World War II hero, businessman, and philanthropist whose family became a major donor to the leading conservative think tank. The E.W. Richardson Building, to be dedicated Wednesday by Heritage officials, also will provide quarters for the think…
Devin Nunes of California, chairman of the House intelligence committee, said the Trump campaign might have been set up by the federal government back in 2016. “Let’s talk about how did this get started? You had Fusion GPS that was hired by the Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign to draw up a dossier on the…
Americans who live in or near a community built around a lake should be careful about stepping outside to mow the lawn if the temperature isn’t just right and the grass isn’t a certain height. They should keep pets indoors. They should forget about using weed killer. And they should be prepared to pony up…