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[ad_1] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley speaks in Washington, D.C., October 4, 2018. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said Thursday that he would block the confirmation of two Trump appointees over unanswered questions about the administration’s firing of two inspectors general, on the grounds that the White House has failed its
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[ad_1] Police officers stand guard during a protest against the death of George Floyd, New York City, June 3, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) To secure convictions, prosecutors must prove that officer Derek Chauvin was the proximate cause of Floyd’s death and that the others assisted him in the act. It was nearly 20 years ago that
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[ad_1] Tennis player Dominic Thiem during the Austrian Pro Series 2020 in Maria Enzersdorf, Mödling, Austria, May 27, 2020 (Alexander Schwarz/Red Bull/Reuters) The backlash to Dominic Thiem’s recent comments highlights the need to balance compassion and liberty when arguing against entitlement programs. The ATP and WTA — the men’s and women’s professional-tennis tours, respectively —
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[ad_1] (Jason Lee/Reuters) The U.S. will designate four Chinese state media outlets as foreign embassies in addition to five such outlets that have already been placed under restrictions, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The State Department could announce the designation as early as Thursday. China Central Television (CCTV) and China News Service are expected to be
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[ad_1] The Golden Gate Bridge and the skyline of San Francisco, Calif. (hanusst/Getty Images) The case against culture wars, the imperial presidency, and Leviathan NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n 1821, the 19th-century French intellectual Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante, wrote On the Communes and the Aristocracy. It does not recommend itself to an
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[ad_1] Then-Defense Secretary James Mattis and President Donald Trump before a briefing from senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House, October 23, 2018. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Retired Marine general James Mattis, who resigned as President Trump’s Secretary of Defense in 2018, broke his silence on the administration in a statement Wednesday, saying
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[ad_1] People take part in a protest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Boston, Mass., June 3, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) It’s still mandatory — unless you’re looting, rioting, and starting fires. Cardenas Ortiz-Sandoval’s mother, Guadalupe, died last month. Cardenas, 22, helped to plan her funeral. She was told by mortuary
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[ad_1] Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, January 14, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Secretary of Defense Mark Esper drew the ire of the White House Wednesday for publicly stating that he opposed invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty military to states beset by unrest, after President Trump said
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[ad_1] Former President Barack Obama speaks during an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 13, 2019. (Lim Huey Teng/Reuters) The former president ignores one of the fundamental sources of officer misconduct. Seeing President Trump’s ham-fisted response to protests and riots this week, some Americans might reasonably feel nostalgia for Barack Obama’s oratorical skill
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[ad_1] United Auto Workers President Gary Jones delivers remarks in Detroit, Mich., July 22, 2019. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) The United Auto Workers faces the threat of a government takeover after former president Gary Jones pleaded guilty on Wednesday to racketeering charges. Jones admitted that he helped steal over $1 million from rank-and-file union members, in a
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[ad_1] The U.S Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Does the Constitution safeguard religious organizations with a traditional view of marriage that participate in our nation’s social safety-net programs? Can state, local, and federal officials weaponize seemingly neutral anti-discrimination laws and policies to banish faith-based social-service programs that don’t toe
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[ad_1] Pro-choice supporters hold up signs outside of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a major abortion case in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) In a live online event this evening, Pro-Life San Francisco will debut a new video exposing entanglements between the publicly funded University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and
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[ad_1] People raise their arms during a protests against the death of George Floyd near the White House in Washington, D.C., June 1, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The risks will be great if the present unrest drags on in the weeks and months ahead. In his speech in the Rose Garden on Monday, Donald Trump dared
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[ad_1] Former deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, June 3, 2020. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via Reuters) Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified to Congress on Wednesday that he would not have signed off on a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant renewal to spy on former Trump
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[ad_1] David Dorn, a 77-year-old former St. Louis police captain, was shot and killed by looters breaking into Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry, a pawn shop on Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. in St. Louis around 2:30 Tuesday morning. Gruesome images of the shooting were sent out via Facebook Live as it was happening. Some 55
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[ad_1] Butler Library on the campus of Columbia University in New York City (Mike Segar/Reuters) Is a self-consciously conservative approach to the humanities and social sciences desirable? Prominent right-leaning scholars are skeptical. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E arlier this year, author Avi Woolf argued that right-leaning academics ought to start crafting a conservative vision for research
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[ad_1] A woman holds up a sign in support of the 2nd Amendment around the Virginia State Capitol grounds in Richmond, Va., January 20, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) Even a cursory examination of American history shows that gun rights are not racist. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones had some thoughts on the Second Amendment yesterday: This
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[ad_1] Joe Biden speaks about President Donald Trump’s response to protests and rioting during an event in Philadelphia, Penn., June 2, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) “Justice excuses violence” is a self-destructive maxim that risks producing new atrocities. Last week, the nation was stunned by the senseless murder of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police
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[ad_1] Detroit police line up next to an armored vehicle in preparation to enforce a curfew in Detroit, Mich., June 1, 2020. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) Right now providing security must be a higher priority than law enforcement. Since the revolution in policing that began in the early 1990s, we have had a generation of peace and
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