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If you want to be informed, read his book.

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“To wrap up “Pride Month,” let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…”

“Democrats haven’t been this mad about a Supreme Court ruling since Brown v. Board of Education.”

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303 Creative Is a Big Win for Religious Liberty at the Supreme Court - CBMW

Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a free speech case with implications for religious liberty. In a 6-3 landmark decision, the Court held that the government may not compel Americans to express messages they do not believe.

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A “standing order” that former President Donald Trump has claimed authorized him to instantly declassify documents removed from the Oval Office could not be found by either the Justice Department or Office of Director of National Intelligence. “The plausibility of such a standing order was dismissed as **nonsensical **last year by more than a dozen former White House officials. ”

Moms for Liberty didn’t exist 3 years ago. Now it’s a GOP kingmaker.

Five GOP presidential candidates, including front-runner Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, plan to attend the group’s Philadelphia convention this weekend.

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Supreme Court Affirms the Truth; Affirmative Action Creates Racial Disharmony

We at Project 21, a Black leadership organization, wholeheartedly agree. We penned an amicus brief advocating for the demise of affirmative action in university admissions. Despite its noble intentions, this policy fails amid a barrage of inconvenient truths and operational problems.** It nurtures the repugnant notion of underestimating minorities, insinuating they can’t excel without condescending favors**. It sows the seed of a regrettable stereotype: minorities are mere decorative figures, seen but not heard at the table. Affirmative action turns minorities into mascots.

Here is the Supreme Court opinion striking down Biden's student loan forgiveness:

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Military Academies Can Still Consider Race in Admissions: Supreme Court

Dependency theory is the idea that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. A central contention of dependency theory is that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system". This theory was officially developed in the late 1960s following World War II, as scholars searched for the root issue in the lack of development in Latin America.[1]

The theory arose as a reaction to modernization theory, an earlier theory of development which held that all societies progress through similar stages of development, that today's underdeveloped areas are thus in a similar situation to that of today's developed areas at some time in the past, and that, therefore, the task of helping the underdeveloped areas out of poverty is to accelerate them along this supposed common path of development, by various means such as investment, technology transfers, and closer integration into the world market. Dependency theory rejected this view, arguing that underdeveloped countries are not merely primitive versions of developed countries, but have unique features and structures of their own; and, importantly, are in the situation of being the weaker members in a world market economy.[2]

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Amazing. Trump quoting @mehdirhasan from MSNBC. Trump is essentially saying: DeSantis should have locked down harder each summer. Is there any other way to see it?

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Trump 2024 aide who allegedly saw classified map works for China lobbying firm

A top Trump campaign adviser — who apparently was shown classified documents by the former president — has a top post at a lobbying firm serving Chinese entities…

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Hunter Biden's former business partner was willing to go before a grand jury. He never got the chance.

Tony Bobulinski was open to testifying, and his attorney reached out to the office of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss. Weiss did not return their calls, the sources said. Weiss' decision not to bring Bobulinski is the latest indication that prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden may have avoided investigating allegations about his father, President Joe Biden.

Former President Trump reacts to a leaked recording of him discussing alleged secret documents and insists in a Fox News Digital interview that he did "nothing wrong."

The 2024 presidential election reveals new campaign themes and electoral vulnerabilities. Here are Fox News' new projections for the critical battleground states.

Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami and a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, appeared to admit during a Tuesday radio interview about national security that he does not know what a Uyghur is.

Attorney Stacey Richman noted that despite the plea deal agreement, the judge overseeing Hunter Biden will ultimately decide his legal fate.

Ohio moms discuss an alleged retaliation campaign from Columbus Academy after they raised questions about 'indoctrination' and 'critical race theory."

Two presidential candidates are bringing the rise of autism into the national conversation.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is facing an ethics complaint over allegations from a right-leaning watchdog that the congressman may have unlawfully "abused official resources for political purposes."