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Harris, on Asia trip, promotes a political priority–women’s rights
SEOUL — Vice President Harris and her team laid out the goals of her four-day trip to Asia before she left the United States: honor Japan’s assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe, bolster America’s partnerships with Japan and South Korea, and promote America’s economy and security. But a more sensitive and politically charged goal was...
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Arizona judge denies Planned Parenthood plea to suspend ruling that halts all abortions
An Arizona judge rejected a plea from Planned Parenthood on Friday to suspend a previous rule that halts all abortions in the state. Last Friday, Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson announced a decision to allow enforcement of a pre-statehood law that makes it a crime to perform an abortion. This Friday, she rejected...
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Under Oath, Ginni Thomas Stuck To Big Lie Script
She’ll never let go, Jack! MAGA activist Ginni Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, stuck to the Bie Lie even while testifying under oath in front of the House Jan. 6 Committee on Thursday, according to committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS). While speaking to reporters after Thomas’ four-hour voluntary interview with the panel, Thompson...
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CNN’s KFILE smear merchants attempt to tie Joe Kent to a white nationalist and it backfires badly – twitchy.com
CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski (a.k.a., KFILE) and Em Steck authored a piece with the tagline ‘GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent’s ties to white nationalists include interview with Nazi sympathizer’. Sounds pretty shocking, eh? Kent agreed to an interview with a Nazi sympathizer? That’s bad. Not quite. GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent’s ties to white nationalists include...
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WATCH: Matt Gaetz Tells Charlie Kirk How He Beat the DOJ’s ‘Smear Campaign’ Sex Trafficking Probe | Human Events
On Friday’s episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” host and Human Events Senior Contributor Charlie Kirk brought on Florida Representative Matt Gaetz to speak about the calculus he made amidst a recent “smear campaign” from Democrats and establishment media that saw him not retreat from the public eye but “almost lean in.” “I learned it...
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Jill Biden Shoves Joe off the Stage as Reporters Shout Questions – RedState
We’ve reported about how Joe Biden seems to be frequently lost, to not know where he’s going after he makes remarks; that frequently his wife has had to lead him off the stage. On Thursday, we saw him delivering remarks about Hurricane Ian from the FEMA headquarters. But at the end of the remarks (his...
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How Natural Disasters Can Change A Politician
PAUL HENNESSY / ANADOLU AGENCY / GETTY IMAGES In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state’s 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district’s Republican representative, Carlos Curbelo, introduced a bill that would tax greenhouse-gas emissions to help reduce the impact of climate change on...
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January 6 Was a Dark Day for America. But Can Democrats Win by Running on It?
Belcher pointed to Mastriano as an example of the crazy and offered issues from abortion to “the Senate Republican tax plan, which Mitch McConnell keeps running from, to threats to democracy” as areas where Democrats are scoring points. “It’s a target-rich environment,” Belcher said. I recently interviewed Congressman Ron Kind on how his district has...
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Senior IRGC commander killed during clashes in southeastern Iran: State media
A senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander died on Friday after he was injured during clashes with “anti-regime” gunmen in southeastern Iran, state media reported. Ali Mousavi, chief commander of the IRGC’s intelligence unit in the province of Sistan-Baluchestan, died after being shot in the chest by a group of “anti-regime” gunmen in the...