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US wins its GMO corn case against Mexico, but in front of the wrong court

Last Friday, a dispute settlement panel convened under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement ruled in favor of the U.S. on two Mexican measures blocking imports of genetically modified corn. The U.S. won all its legal claims. Mexico sought to get the panel to forgive any transgressions by invoking three exceptions, but none of them worked. As U.S....

What happens in a second Trump term? Look to Richard Nixon.

President-elect Donald Trump is enjoying a honeymoon period with high approval ratings, but his second term may be short-lived due to his Nixon-like character and his tendency to seek revenge against his perceived enemies.

Morning Report — Trump seizes stage from Biden 

IN TODAY'S ISSUE Trump seizes stage from Biden President-elect Trump’s inauguration isn’t for another four weeks, but he is already seizing the reins of power as President Biden keeps a low profile during the final days of his presidency. Lawmakers told The Hill’s Alexander Bolton that while Trump dictated last week’s negotiations on Capitol Hill...

House conservatives raised concerns about Johnson to Trump before spending fiasco

A handful of conservative House Republicans were voicing concerns about Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to President-elect Trump even before last week’s government funding fiasco, multiple sources on Capitol Hill and in Trump's orbit told The Hill, prompting even more uncertainty about the Louisiana Republican’s grasp on the gavel less than two weeks before the Speakership...

5 things to know about Trump’s threats to retake the Panama Canal

President Trump is sparking a new feud with Panama over an old topic: the vital maritime canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. What Trump is proposing would be a massive shift in the operation of the canal, which has been under Panamanian control since the turn of the millennium after a deal struck decades...

Biden vetoes bill that would have given Trump more judicial seats to fill

President Biden on Monday vetoed a bill that would have added 66 federal district judgeships over a span of more than a decade.

How Big Labor and Bernie Sanders tried to steal Christmas

In the timeless children’s book, the Grinch develops and executes a nefarious scheme to steal all of the Christmas gifts and decorations in the neighboring town of Whoville. Much like the Grinch, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has teamed up with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to steal Christmas right before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the […]

A nation of childless scrooges

We live in a generation filled with Ebenezer Scrooges, the leading character of Charles Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol. People usually hurl comparisons to Scrooge against those holding a disposition toward greed and stinginess. Ebenezer, before his reformation, thought only of money, whether that be how to earn it more or to save it better.  […]

Biden’s sickly distorted lens on crime and non-punishment

What facts are important to report in a news story about President Joe Biden commuting death sentences for 37 murderers to life imprisonment? The Associated Press’s answer is that the story must point out that during President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, executions “may have happened fast enough to have contributed to the spread of coronavirus […]

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen recovering from multiple injuries after being bucked from horse: ‘Good prognosis’

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen was in intensive care on Monday to treat multiple injuries suffered after he was thrown off a horse the day before. Doctors said he has a "very good prognosis."

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