[ad_1] Mexico’s defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos attends an event at a military zone in Mexico City, Mexico September 2, 2016. (Henry Romero/Reuters) The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it would drop drug trafficking charges against former Mexico defense minister General Salvador Cienfuegos, allowing Mexico to prosecute the case instead. Cienfuegos was arrested in

[ad_1] Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock speaks during an Election Night event in Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Pool via Reuters) Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock is trying to run away from his radical left-wing record in his campaign to persuade Georgia voters to elect him and hand Democrats unified control of

[ad_1] Judy Shelton testifies before a House committee on her nomination to the Federal Reserve Board, February 13, 2020. (via C-SPAN) Senate Republicans could not marshal enough votes on Tuesday to advance the nomination of Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve board, throwing Shelton’s candidacy into further doubt. Senators Rick Scott (R., Fla.) and Chuck

[ad_1] Joe Biden’s transition team announced today that Dana Remus will be Biden’s White House counsel. Remus was general counsel to Biden’s campaign, served in the White House counsel in President Obama’s administration, and was general counsel for the Obama Foundation. Interestingly, Remus was also a law clerk to Justice Alito during the Court’s 2008-2009

[ad_1] Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) departs from a briefing on the coronavirus outbreak in China in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) expressed support for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan in a letter on Tuesday to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. President Trump will reduce

[ad_1] Madison Cawthorn, then-Republican nominee for North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, speaks during the 2020 Republican National Convention broadcast from Washington, D.C., August 26, 2020. (2020 Republican National Convention/Reuters) An incoming member of the House of Representatives “admits” that he has tried to convert Jews and Muslims to Christianity. So what? The investigative journalists over

[ad_1] Students and pedestrians walk through the Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., March 10, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Harvard University students are calling on the university to ban Trump officials from giving talks or holding positions on campus over concern “about the impact of the actions of this administration on fundamental democratic institutions.” In

[ad_1] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, as he departs the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey November 17, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters) Secretary of State visits houses of worship in Turkey at a contentious time. ISTANBUL — It’s not every day that the secretary of state

[ad_1] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely via videoconference in this screengrab made from a video during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, November 17, 2020. (Senate Judiciary Committee via Reuters) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday acknowledged that the platform was “wrong” to block a New York Post report about Hunter Biden last

[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at a carpenters union in Phoenix, Ariz., October 8, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) NBC News reports, “President-elect Joe Biden has privately told advisers that he doesn’t want his presidency to be consumed by investigations of his predecessor” and that Biden “has raised concerns that investigations

[ad_1] Solzhenitsyn in Vermont, 1994 (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Editor’s Note: The following letter by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was written on May 3, 1982, from Solzhenitsyn’s home in Cavendish, Vt., and addressed to President Ronald Reagan. Solzhenitsyn explains his reasons for declining an invitation to meet with the president at the White House, an episode recounted in Chapter

[ad_1] Former U.S. president Ronald Reagan is seen with his wife, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, as they returned to the White House in February 15, 1982. (Mal Langsdon/Reuters) The inside story of President Reagan’s invitation for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn to visit the White House in May 1982, and the circumstances surrounding the scuttling of that

[ad_1] A paramilitary policeman stands guard at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 2013. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) Whether due to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in Wuhan, China, or thanks to Beijing’s increasingly intimidating, if not aggressive, behavior in recent years, one of the more dramatic shifts in global opinion has started a long-overdue reconsideration of

[ad_1] Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) attends a hearing with the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, on Capitol Hill, September 16, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via Reuters) Senator James Lankford (R., Okla.) said he was “in no hurry” to give Joe Biden intelligence briefings, in a Saturday interview on

[ad_1] Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer speaks at a campaign event for Joe Biden in Detroit, Mich., October 31, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) With a surging coronavirus outbreak across the U.S., state officials have instituted various restrictions and have warned that full lockdowns may be necessary if the outbreak does not ebb. The possibility of stay-at-home orders

[ad_1] President Trump speaks to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine in Columbus, Ohio, October 24, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) President Trump took aim at Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on Monday, a day after the Republican governor called Joe Biden the president-elect and said it is time for the White House to begin the transition to a Biden

[ad_1] President Trump eats dinner with troops at a Thanksgiving dinner event during a surprise visit at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, November 28, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) U.S. military commanders expect President Trump to issue a formal order to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Iraq before he leaves office on January 20, according to

[ad_1] Stacey Abrams speaks to the crowd of supporters announcing they will wait till the morning for results of the mid-terms election at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 7, 2018. (REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant) Stacey Abrams reportedly plans to run for governor of Georgia in 2022. Because she never conceded the race, some may

[ad_1] Last week, President Trump sparred with Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that reported positive results for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. After reporting early results from its vaccine trial, Pfizer’s communications team was quick to point out that it did not receive funding from the White House’s Operation Warp Speed vaccine-development program. “Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine development

[ad_1] People wear face masks at Piccadilly Circus in London, England, October 15, 2020. (John Sibley/Reuters) COVID-19 can be a serious disease and it needs to be taken seriously. Recognizing that obvious fact is not the same as supporting the often heavy-handed and not infrequently self-defeating policies that many governments have adopted in response to

[ad_1] A health worker works with blood samples during a coronavirus vaccination study at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla., September 24, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) Moderna has announced a vaccine for COVID that is 94.5 percent effective, developed in association with the NIH. This is a triumph for Operation Warp Speed and will

[ad_1] Vaccine trial participant David Rach is prepared to test coronavirus vaccine candidate BNT162b2, developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md., May 24, 2020. (Pfizer/Handout via Reuters) On the menu today: Moderna announces their coronavirus vaccine works and will be easier to store and transport than

[ad_1] (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Moderna announced Monday that its coronavirus vaccine is 94.5 percent effective against the illness, according to early phase three trial data, making it the second drug maker to announce an extremely high success rate for its experimental vaccine. “This is a pivotal moment in the development of our COVID-19 vaccine candidate,” CEO

[ad_1] A student uses Zoom during the coronavirus outbreak in El Masnou, north of Barcelona, Spain, April 2, 2020. (Albert Gea/Reuters) Online learning will only accelerate the decay of America’s education standards and student outcomes. Across the country, school districts have closed classrooms once again, due to another uptick in COVID-19 cases. Online learning has

[ad_1] President-elect Joe Biden speaks about health care during a news conference at the theater serving as his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., November 10, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst

/Reuters) Joe Biden shouldn’t want to begin his administration with a renewed migrant crisis at the border, but that’s what his priorities risk creating. After many false starts

[ad_1] President Donald Trump during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., November 13, 2020 (Carlos Barria/Retuers) President Trump appeared to admit on Sunday that Joe Biden won the general election, but then claimed the race was “rigged” and refused to concede defeat. Major networks including the Associated Press,

[ad_1] (Michał Chodyra/Getty Images) 2012—By Any Means Necessary, indeed. That phrase—a shorthand for the very long name of the group challenging Michigan’s Proposal 2—aptly describes the modus operandi of the en banc Sixth Circuit majority in Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary v. Regents

[ad_1] (MarianVejcik/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Conservatives need to rethink economic policy if they want to build a viable political coalition. The Donald Trump who ran for president in 2016 was a populist. And, as president, Donald Trump used tariffs and slowed immigration, just as you’d expect a populist would. But when it came to tax policy,

[ad_1] U.S. soldiers with Alpha Troop, First Battalion, Sixth Infantry Regiment, Second Armored Brigade Combat Team, First Armored Division, dismount from a M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle in the Central Command area of responsibility, November 2, 2020. (Specialist Jensen Guillory/US Army) The U.S. should stop the Syria flip-flop and stand with allies, building on successes

[ad_1] Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves after a cabinet meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, England, November 10, 2020. (Toby Melville/Reuters) Where the “special relationship” stands. Boris Johnson stood to please no one by extending his hearty congratulations to Joe Biden for his election victory, later referring to Donald Trump as