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Lutnick donated $5M to House GOP super PAC ahead of Epstein deposition

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick donated $5 million to a committee backing House Republicans ahead of his testimony to Congress about his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show. The Trump administration official made the donation to the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) on April 1, and he testified before the...

Graham signals Cuban liberation ‘close at hand’ as tensions simmer 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday doubled down on his claims that Cuban liberation is forthcoming, amid threats from the White House to take military action against the island. “I believe the liberation of the wonderful people of Cuba from the clutches of communism is close at hand,” Graham wrote in a post on social...

Military families want DOJ to distribute nearly $800M from French cement company found guilty of bribing ISIS

Military families sue Lafarge after French court convicted the cement company of funding ISIS, as DOJ holds $777 million in unreleased victim funds.

DOJ, Treasury investigate nonprofits and leaders allegedly coordinating with Cuba in influence campaign

Murder charges against Raúl Castro trigger a rapid activist response that federal officials investigate for ties to an alleged Cuban influence operation.

‘Moderate’ Dem’s unearthed ‘deconstruct’ law enforcement comments draw fire from GOP critics

New Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez is accused of hypocrisy after 2020 defund the police posts resurface amid his new pro-law enforcement messaging.

Inside the rise of hardship politics as wealthy Democrats eye 2028

Governors Newsom and Pritzker lean into family trauma narratives to connect with voters as they build national profiles ahead of a possible 2028 run.

Albany saved some of its ugliest budget poison for last

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature's leaders saved the worst for last: The final bits of their budget deals include some truly ugly idiocy.

AG Letitia James has some explaining to do on Medicaid

Attorney General Letitia James runs the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which is charged with prosecuting those who rip off the taxpayer-funded program.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 23

1957—Three Cleveland police officers arrive at Dolly Mapp’s home seeking a suspect wanted in connection with a recent bombing. After Mapp refuses to admit...

Taiwan: The Small Superpower

If the island nation’s chip production were to be interrupted, the global economy would stop in its tracks. That’s real leverage.

Lionel Jospin and the Dismantling of French Education

How the French left destroyed a public good.

The Trump Slush Fund Is an Abuse of Political Power, Not a Legal Wrong

Once again, Trump is doing what Democrats did, just far more ostentatiously.

Rated W for woke: The FCC should upgrade the TV ratings system

Thirty years ago, Congress decided that parents deserved a way to monitor what the entertainment industry was beaming into their homes. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 recognized that children are influenced by what they see on television and that the entertainment industry has a role to play in helping parents navigate their children’s media consumption. […]

Andy Serkis turns Animal Farm into anti-capitalist slop

When George Orwell published Animal Farm, his biting critique of the Russian Revolution and the totalitarian communist regime that followed, in 1945, the novel was denounced as anti-communist propaganda and immediately banned in the Soviet Union. Director Andy Serkis, who appears to share at least some of the Soviets’ aversion to political mockery and rebuke […]

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