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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Sunday that “there’s no doubt” his fellow South Carolina Republican Darline Graham is qualified to be a senator after her recent debate slip-up on an answer about national security. “Senator Scott, is Darline Graham qualified to be a U.S. senator?” NBC News’s Kristen Welker asked Scott on “Meet the Press.”...

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday the trade war between the U.S. and Canada could damage the American economy. “American businesses and American consumers pay American tariffs, and I think the last thing we need right now, as our economy is getting back on its feet, is a trade war with Canada,” Pence told...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Sunday her department is “cracking down” on K-12 teachers sexually harassing students. During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” McMahon criticized the practice of a school district reassigning a teacher accused of sexually harassing a student to another school. “And it's not part of their record or anything,...

An excellent model already exists for governing in space. It's called the Artemis Accords.

Logging, hunting and mining are all dangerous jobs (at least relatively speaking), and the reasons may seem obvious. But what about landscaping?

Iran has advised its neighbors in the Middle East against entering an "economic war" alongside the U.S., as the conflict between Washington and Tehran nears the six month-mark. According to The Associated Press, Mohsen Rezaei, the Iranian Supreme National Security Council leader, gave a heads-up to surrounding countries to not participate in an American effort...

It would reduce unnecessary regulatory burden, reaffirm equal opportunity for all, and let business get back to work creating value.  

The details of the failed trade negotiations between the U.S. and Canada, which sparked tit-for-tat 50 percent tariffs on certain goods between the two countries, are now coming to light. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a Saturday evening interview with The New York Times that, before this weekend, officials had offered to reduce...

President Trump on Sunday claimed that Canada desires the “benefits of being a state, without being one” amid trade tensions between the U.S. and its northern neighbor. “Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!!” the...

reforms limiting the court’s ability to decide constitutional questions might empower the president far more than Congress, particularly if the president insists his ability to interpret the Constitution is just as authoritative as that of Congress or the court. 

The Trump administration temporarily stopped construction on a controversial border security infrastructure project in Big Bend National Park. The move comes after bipartisan pushback to the plan.

How much oil is actually getting through the Strait of Hormuz? And is the reward for the Pentagon worth the resources it is expending? Those are some of the key outstanding questions as the Trump administration touts some success in steering tankers through a southern channel of the strait along the coast of Oman. The...

A legal maneuver repeatedly used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to install acting U.S. attorneys without Senate approval may be inching closer to the Supreme Court. Two appeals court panels ruled last week the DOJ cannot sidestep the confirmation process by changing someone’s title or handing them the duties of the top prosecutor. It marks...

NAACP President Derrick Johnson bashed the Navy Friday following reports that it planned to rename an aircraft carrier, named after a Black WWII war hero, and had considered President Trump's name as a replacement. Johnson wrote in a social media post that the alleged talks surrounding the USS Doris Miller's name are “a slap in...