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Trump Says Fox Defends Democrats More Than "at Any Time in the History of FoxNews." Nielsen Has Fox Down 17% in Prime Time
At 7:08 a.m. on Monday, President Trump posted that Fox News "spends more time defending Dumocrats, and putting on their views versus their Republican opponent, than at...
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September Retail Sales Rose $5.7 Billion. Gas Stations Took $4.1 Billion of It, and Everything Else Barely Moved
September retail sales rose 0.8 percent to $745.0 billion, beating the 0.3 percent economists expected, and the headline is being read as proof that shoppers are fine....
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Collins Says GAO Should Sue Over Trump's $810 Million Pocket Rescission. The Law Names a Comptroller General, and There Isn't a Confirmed One.
Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican who chairs Senate Appropriations, says the Government Accountability Office should sue over the White House's $810 million pocket rescission. The 1974 budget...
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DOJ Charges 28 Green Card Holders With California Election Crimes. The Release Describes a Ballot for 23 of Them.
The Justice Department announced criminal charges Monday against 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of falsely claiming citizenship to register to vote and, in most...
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Vance Says Microsoft Replaced 6,000 Laid-Off Americans With Visa Workers. Microsoft's Own Numbers Say Otherwise, and the Rule Behind the Freeze Has a 180-Day Clock
Vice President JD Vance says Microsoft "laid off last year 6,000 American workers" while benefiting from 6,300 H-1B visas, and the Labor Department has frozen the company's...
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Headlines Say California's New Hate-Speech Law Targets Churches. The Bill Never Mentions Them, and a State Exemption May Cover Them.
Conservative outlets say California now forces churches to run "anti-hate speech" training. The bill's own summary says something narrower: AB 1803 adds the training to the harassment...
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Trump Waives the Graham Russia Sanctions Act's Tariffs With No End Date, and Tillis Asks What Part of 86-11 He Missed
President Trump has waived the tariffs and most of the sanctions in the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, a law he signed himself on...
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Mortgage Rates Sit at 7.40%, and Fannie Mae Now Forecasts 7.5% Through All of 2027. In July, It Said 6.3%.
The average 30-year mortgage rate is 7.40 percent, up from 6.27 percent a year ago, Freddie Mac reported Thursday. Fannie Mae's economists now forecast...
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Trump's Solicitor General Told the Supreme Court AR-15 Bans Fail. Cook County and Connecticut Must Answer by Wednesday.
President Trump's Solicitor General has told the Supreme Court that Connecticut's and Cook County's bans on AR-15 rifles violate the Second Amendment, and both governments have until...
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CBS Poll Has Texas Senate at 51-49, and Only 23% of Paxton's Voters Say They Like Him. Early Voting Starts Today.
Texas Republicans start early voting today in a Senate race that CBS News calls "essentially tied." The CBS News/YouGov poll, taken October 8 to...
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Border Patrol Hit 98,708 Apprehensions in Fiscal 2026. DHS Calls It "Agency History," but CBP's Own Table Says Lowest Since 1967.
DHS says the Border Patrol made 98,708 southwest border apprehensions in fiscal 2026, a 95 percent drop from the more than 1.8 million a year it attributes...
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Fox Says the Liberal Media Ignored El-Sayed's Family Question. NBC Asked It Twice in Three Days.
Fox News ran a headline Friday saying the liberal media ignored questions about Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's family and the Muslim Brotherhood. The record is more...