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Trump: Pulte’s Tenure as Acting National Intelligence Director Will Be Brief

In an effort to prevent statutory surveillance authority from expiring, the president signals that he will nominate a DNI with intelligence experience.

The Big Cases Remaining on the Supreme Court’s Docket

Executive power, transgender sports, and birthright citizenship lead a docket crowded with immigration, gun rights, and election law cases — and much more.

Goodbye, Nancy Mace

The winds of change have now swept her away from elected office entirely — and hopefully politics as well.

A Pentagon list overhaul puts Mormon church’s Christian identity back in the spotlight

The Pentagon's revision to its list of Christian religions this week has reignited a nearly 200-year-old debate: Is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a Christian denomination?

Trump resists Democrats’ ‘extortion’ effort to yank Pulte as acting DNI in battle over spy law

President Trump vowed Wednesday that he will not allow Democrats to "extort" him into removing acting Director of National Intelligence William J. Pulte in exchange for their support for reauthorizing a key federal surveillance law.

Gordon Wood and the historians who told the real story of the founders

The sudden death of the historian Gordon Wood, just weeks before the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, is one more mark of the closure of a golden age of the historiography of the revolutionary era. It’s an occasion to reflect on the uniqueness, indeed the idiosyncrasy, of the emergence of […]

College Faculty are ‘only slightly less left-leaning’ than Bernie Sanders

College faculty members are only slightly less radical than Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a new study commissioned by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has found.  The May 28 study cross-references over 100,000 faculty members with over 850 million state and federal campaign contributions. David M. Primo, the author of […]

Johnson defends Trump inflation comment: ‘Totally out of context’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday defended President Trump’s “I love the inflation” comment amid concerns about skyrocketing energy costs resulting from the Iran war. “It was totally out of context. You know what he was talking about,” the GOP leader told CNN’s Manu Raju at the Capitol. Trump was asked by reporters during...

Dairy farmers sue Trump administration over checkoff program

Three Wisconsin farmers filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Wednesday for requiring dairy producers to provide operational data and pay mandatory fees to the Dairy Checkoff Program. For every 100 pounds of milk sold, dairy farmers pay 15 cents toward the checkoff to fund promotion and research efforts. Dairy importers also pay 7.5...

The Memo: Trump faces slippage back toward war in Iran

President Trump is grappling with new volatility over Iran which threatens to complicate the political landscape at home as the midterm elections loom less than five months away. The U.S. and the Islamic Republic have got into a fresh spate of attacks and counterattacks which could collapse a fragile ceasefire. Trump cannot afford to back...

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