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AMERICA’S HYPERPOLITICIZED TEACHERS UNIONS. About 70% of the nation’s public school teachers belong to a union or employees’ association. The two largest teachers unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, together represent about 4.7 million members. Politically, according to a study by Pew Research, about 58% of public school K-12 teachers identify […]
President Trump announced that Space Command will move to Alabama, after former President Biden halted efforts to move it from Colorado. Tuesday's Oval Office remarks marked Trump's first public appearance in a week. Meanwhile, the House and Senate are back in Washington after a monthlong August recess and are racing against the clock as the...
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton accused President Trump of trying to "manufacture a crisis" to justify an anti-crime takeover and immigration crackdown in Chicago, while the White House called the comments "despicable" and accused state and local leaders of letting crime continue to plague their cities.
Members of the House Republican Study Committee, fresh off August recess, will give remarks Tuesday afternoon on President Trump's police takeover of the nation's capital. Trump last month deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials to the district to patrol the streets and aid in his crackdown on crime. The president has floated...
Michael Froman, former U.S. trade representative and current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, has called for the abandonment of the rule-based international trading system overseen by the WTO. However, James Bacchus, a former member of Congress, argues that the multilateral trading system has been beneficial for the U.S. and other countries.
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell issued an apology for alleging the Minneapolis school shooter was a “MAGA person.” “I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect,” O’Donnell said in a video posted on Sunday. “I assumed, like most shooters, they followed a...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak to the press Tuesday as lawmakers have just 14 days left until government funding lapses. Democrats face a critical choice of how much they want to work with their GOP colleagues to agree on a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open past the Sept. 30...
President Trump is set to make an announcement from the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. “The President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new location for Space Command, moving the agency's headquarters...