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Socialists shamelessly celebrate Cuba’s oppressors on a luxury tour

Some of the worst people in the world just swanned about Cuba on a first-class poverty tour, offering the repressive dictatorship PR cred while ordinary Cubans starve in the...

Lefty hypocrites’ revolting Cuba vacation is par for the communist course

Eating lobster while celebrating the People’s Revolution, even as the people themselves starve —...

Why rescuing Christopher Columbus redeems America, too

Happy ending: An act of destruction seeking to change our public landscape and the...

San Francisco’s reparations fund has a serious constitutional problem

San Francisco's "Reparations Plan," signed by Mayor Daniel Lurie late last year, intends to correct historic...

How Trump’s ingenious TSA fix calls the Democrats’ bluff

Democrats didn’t foresee that Trump would repair their sabotage of America’s transportation security by...

NTSB: LaGuardia airport runway will be closed for days following deadly collision

One of LaGuardia Airport's two runways will remain closed for several days while National Transportation Safety Board investigators probe the deadly collision between an Air Canada Express jet and a fire truck, NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy said.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, convicted of killing babies at Philadelphia abortion clinic, dies at 85

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion clinic doctor sentenced to life for killing three babies who had been delivered alive, died earlier this month at a Pennsylvania hospital, prison officials said Monday.

California Democrats condemn immigration arrest at San Francisco airport

Video footage of federal officers detaining a crying woman at San Francisco International Airport drew outrage Monday from local officials, although it was unrelated to President Donald Trump's deployment of immigration officers to short-staffed airports during a partial government shutdown.

Pentagon spokesman says it will issue new press credentials but remove media offices

The U.S. Defense Department will issue new press credentials but remove media offices from the Pentagon after a judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit regarding limits on reporters' access to the building, a department official announced Monday.

Momentum builds behind Sammy’s Law to protect kids online

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to make it harder for drug dealers and predators to reach kids on social media -- and they're making the case with the story of a 16-year-old boy who died after a dealer slid into his Snapchat messages.

Trump’s demand to tie voting to DHS funding complicates slow going shutdown talks

President Trump is rebuffing suggestions from Republican lawmakers and his own aides about how to end the Homeland Security Department shutdown and instead adding a demand that likely will extend the six-week-long stalemate.

CPAC’s break with Washington tracks shifts in the conservative movement

CPAC's annual gathering this week has been moving geographically farther away from its original home in the nation's capital as the movement has moved farther away from the Washington political establishment.

Off ramp? Despite Iranian denials, U.S. and Israel say negotiations are under way to end war

The U.S. and Israel opened the door Monday to a peace deal with Iran and the potential end to a bloody conflict that has upended Middle East politics, wreaked havoc on the global economy and fueled fears about whether America is being sucked into a new forever war.

LaGuardia collision follows near miss at Newark and efforts to overhaul air traffic control system

A deadly ground collision at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday sparked new questions about air traffic controller staffing at the nation's busiest airports, where hundreds of runway incursions and many "near misses" are recorded every year.

Trump administration to pay French company $1B to walk away from U.S. offshore wind leases

The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy.

Mullin confirmed as DHS chief as lawmakers near solution on shutdown standoff

Even with a new DHS chief, Senate Democrats aren't backing down from their demands for stringent reforms to ICE. And now President Donald Trump wants to pair funding with voter ID legislation.

Top House Dem dismisses probe into Jasmine Crockett’s security guard killed in SWAT standoff

Rep. Pete Aguilar questioned whether Congress should probe Rep. Jasmine Crockett hiring a convicted criminal for her taxpayer-funded security detail.

Political traffic signals: waiting for the light to change on the Hill

Congress faces a steep political battle over a $200 billion Iran war spending request, with Trump sending mixed signals on whether the funds are needed.

Johnson turns up heat on Schumer as DHS shutdown drags on, airport delays mount

As the DHS shutdown enters its sixth week, House Republicans are forcing votes to pressure Senate Democrats. Meanwhile, unpaid TSA agents call out, leaving travelers facing chaos.

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