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Great Stakes: Michigan union and blue-collar workers in the driver’s...

Michigan voters have an outsize impact on who will win the White House and which party will carry the House and Senate in 2024. In this series, Great Stakes: The fight to be hailed as victors in...

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Biden greenlights $1 billion weapon shipment to Israel week after withholding...

The Biden administration announced its approval of a $1 billion weapon shipment to Israel just one week after President Joe Biden announced he would withhold a weapons shipment if Israel launched an...

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Torres mocks Bowman’s fire alarm stunt in hint he’s abandoning fellow Democrat

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) is in the middle of a brutal primary fight, and a fellow New York Democrat looks like he is on the cusp of endorsing the “Squad” member’s opponent. Rep. Ritchie Torres...

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Rubio’s rapport with Latino voters could drive Trump to victory

Former President Donald Trump's interest in selecting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as his vice president is setting off alarm bells for Democrats. The Florida senator and one-time rival of Trump has turned...

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Biden’s Gaza pier is an abject failure

Choose your label to describe what’s become of President Joe Biden’s Gaza pier: Dumpster fire. Boondoggle. White elephant. Whatever you call it, the project is a bona fide failure. It seems destined...

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How Ben Sasse could transform education

In late 2022, former Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse was appointed president of the University of Florida. The media mostly ran with artificially inflated stories of student protests. But Sasse’s...

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Fairfax County Public Schools leadership displays disdain for parents — again

Last Thursday, as the first presidential debate was making national headlines, Fairfax County School Board members held a meeting during which they voted on controversial changes to family life...

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Three times Biden disregarded the ‘limits of presidential power’

Fresh off his humiliating performance at the presidential debate, President Joe Biden found the energy to deliver brief remarks to a nationally televised audience over the Supreme Court's presidential...

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Is the American dream dead? My family’s story proves otherwise

The American dream has been woven into countless narratives throughout my life, shaped by the inspiring stories shared by my family members and friends who came to the United States in search of a...

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Increasing economic growth should be top priority

For the past three and a half years, the U.S. economy has struggled under the economic policies of the Biden administration and congressional Democrats.  Increased taxes, spending, deficits, and debt...

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Sorry, progressives, but facts can’t be racist

Facts cannot be racist. But that hasn’t stopped many liberal media figures and Democratic politicians from trying to insist otherwise after one conservative writer dared to point out what we all know...

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State program spends $1 million to get 37 ‘disadvantaged’ people drivers...

(The Center Square) – A program set up in King County through the state Department of Licensing and funded by the state Legislature has spent nearly $1 million teaching “disadvantaged” women to drive,...

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Johnson quiets initial concerns about fundraising prowess by raising $23.5...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raised $23.5 million in the second quarter of 2024, outperforming expectations and continuing to quiet initial concerns about his fundraising prowess when he took the...

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DHS pressed for clarity on Secret Service protocols to ‘assess...

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) is pressing the Department of Homeland Security to provide clarity on how Secret Service members are trained to respond to threats after a...

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Sen. Whitehouse’s attacks on fossil energy producers are incoherent

It might seem difficult to take positions on a prominent issue diametrically opposed and equally preposterous. But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a man whose Pavlovian opposition to the U.S. fossil...

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Delegates express disappointment at Beyonce no-show but say Harris ‘made up...

CHICAGO — Hopes that Beyonce would make a surprise appearance on the closing night of the Democratic National Convention were dashed after the night ended with no sign of the “Freedom” singer. The...

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Washington’s highest-in-nation minimum wage to go up to $16.66 an hour...

(The Center Square) – Washington’s minimum wage – already the highest state-level minimum wage in the nation – will be going up 38 cents next year. That means minimum wage workers will get a raise,...

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State Election Board remains at odds with Fulton County over monitors

(The Center Square) – The Georgia State Election Board voted Monday to subpoena Fulton County records of the 2020 elections from Fulton County election officials. The Fulton County Board of...

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Children with disabilities could teach us a lot if we’d let them

When my son Easton and daughter London look at their sister Josie, they don’t see her diagnosis. They don’t see a disability. They see their little sister. Frankly, they often seem to like her better...

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Journalist baffled JD Vance is friends with other Catholics in DC

Journalist Gareth Gore is flummoxed: Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) is not only friends with other Catholics in Washington, D.C., but his friends receive spiritual direction from priests. Gore is trying to...

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WATCH LIVE: DeSantis holds briefing on Hurricane Milton

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is holding a press briefing about Hurricane Milton, as the storm is expected to make landfall on Florida's west coast on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. DeSantis is set...

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Harris has a ‘working-class voter problem’: Sarah Bedford

Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris is focused on the wrong voter base as her election approaches. Election Day is less than a month...

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Voters put debt and economy at record level of concern

Two new surveys out early Wednesday are putting candidates on notice that the biggest concerns of voters as Election Day nears are the sky-high debt from government spending and the economy. In a...

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Oklahoma backtracks on request to stock classrooms with Bible endorsed by Trump

Oklahoma has retracted its request to stock classrooms with a version of the Bible that appeared designed to benefit former President Donald Trump. Last week, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public...

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Mitt Romney declines to endorse Harris while reiterating he won’t vote...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is not endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. On Tuesday, Romney reaffirmed his longtime distaste for former President Donald Trump without saying he would support the...

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Renewable energy growth is falling short of UN targets

Renewable energy is on track to generate half of all electricity supply around the globe by 2030 but is expected to fall short of U.N. targets to triple capacity the same year, the International...

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Negotiations stall between Boeing and union workers after four weeks on strike

Boeing employees remain on strike for the fourth consecutive week after declining the company's second offer for a raise. These 33,000 employees, represented by the International Association of...

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WATCH LIVE: White House holds press briefing ahead of Hurricane Milton landfall

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is giving a press briefing Wednesday afternoon. The briefing is scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. It comes at a time of unprecedented tension in the Middle...

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Lawsuit filed against Jack Phillips dismissed by Colorado Supreme Court

The Colorado Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit filed against Jack Phillips after he refused to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition. In a 6-3 opinion, the court threw out the lawsuit on...

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WATCH LIVE: Biden receives briefing on Hurricane Milton prior to landfall

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are being briefed on Hurricane Milton, a Category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall Wednesday evening on Florida's Gulf Coast. CLICK HERE TO...

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Government considers Google breakup in court filing

The United States government is considering a breakup of Google, viewing it as a monopoly, according to a recent court filing. The Justice Department filed an opinion in court Tuesday night after...

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RNC suggests exceptions for North Carolina voters affected by Hurricane...

Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman Lara Trump suggested that exceptions should be made to Hurricane Helene victims ahead of November's election. The storm hit about a month before Election...

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Spending in 2024 federal elections to hit record $16 billion, analysis finds

The price tag to elect a president and members of Congress in 2024 is projected to reach a record $15.9 billion, according to a new analysis by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog....

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Illinois revokes variations of Oct. 7 license plates due to ‘hate...

The Illinois secretary of state revoked five residents’ license plates that reference the Oct. 7 attacks. The office of Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, a Democrat, said the plates were...

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Biden and Netanyahu speak for first time since Hezbollah escalation

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday for the first time in several weeks as the Middle East teeters on the brink of an all-out conflict. The two leaders...

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DNC targets MLB playoff game with banner calling Trump an ‘anti-union...

Fans at Wednesday's American League playoff game in Detroit will be buzzed by a Democratic National Committee banner declaring former President Donald Trump a labor “scab.” In the hours leading up to...

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