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A New Orleans Teacher Says He Will Lose His Job Before He Hangs the Ten Commandments. The Supreme Court Now Has Three Petitions on Its Desk.
A New Orleans history teacher asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop Louisiana from making him hang the Ten Commandments on his classroom wall. The justices...
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PCE Inflation Came In at 3.7 Percent for a Second Straight Month. The Last Three Months Alone Annualize to 2.4.
The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge came in at 3.7 percent for the twelve months through July, the same figure it printed for June. Take only the...
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Laura Ingraham and Brit Hume Told Trump to End the Iran War. Congress Already Voted to Make Him.
Fox News primetime is telling President Trump to get out of the Iran war before November 3, and Fox's own polling is the reason. The network's July...
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Thune Can't Count to 50. The $10 Billion SAVE Act Fund Is Stuck in a Budget Resolution the Senate Won't Vote On.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he cannot find 50 Republican votes for the budget resolution that would unlock a third reconciliation bill. "I can't count to...
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Almost Every Outlet Called Heidi Beirich the SPLC's Former CFO. The Indictment Says She Ran the Hate Map.
A federal grand jury in Montgomery has charged Heidi Beirich, the woman who ran the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate-group operation for most of two decades, in...
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State Department Cancels Immigrant Visa Interviews Worldwide While It Retrains Every Consular Officer on Public Charge
The State Department has told U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide to cancel and reschedule immigrant visa interviews while every consular officer is retrained on public charge. Applicants...
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Judge Talwani Just Erased the Last Block on Trump's Mail Voting Order. She Said the Supreme Court Left Her No Choice.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani vacated the last injunction against President Trump's mail voting executive order on Wednesday, and nothing now blocks any part of it. The...
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Al Green Files Trump Impeachment Articles Over Four ICE Killings, With Zero Cosponsors and 130 Days Left in Office
Rep. Al Green filed articles of impeachment against President Trump at 8:57 in the morning on Monday, August 24. The ground is immigration enforcement, and the resolution...
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Iran and Oman Draw a Hormuz Corridor Without Washington. The Inbound Lane Runs Through Iranian Water.
Iran and Oman announced a framework Tuesday for a temporary shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, six months into a war that has kept most of...
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The Pentagon Fired Stars and Stripes' Editor, Publisher and a Reporter. The Rule Protecting the Paper Came Out of the Federal Code in January.
The Pentagon handed separation notices to three people at Stars and Stripes on Friday, and the stated cause was insubordination. Editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max D. Lederer...
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New Home Sales Fell 10.5% in July and Consumer Confidence Hit a Seven-Month Low. Only Three Numbers in the Census Report Are Statistically Real.
The Census Bureau and HUD put new single-family home sales at a 607,000 annual rate in July, down 10.5 percent from June and the weakest reading since...
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ICE Hit 49,571 Arrests in July, Its Biggest Month on Record. DHS's Own Numbers Tell Two Stories.
ICE arrested 49,571 people in July, the biggest single month of Trump's second term and almost certainly the biggest in the agency's history. The number came out...