Month: May 2020

President Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Trump administration is planning to expel several thousand Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to Chinese universities affiliated with that country’s military, the New York
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The Supreme Court blocks bid to see Mueller probe testimony; reaction and analysis from Georgia Congressman Doug Collins on ‘The Daily Briefing.’ Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking news as well as
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While Twitter targeted President Trump with fact-checks, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News scoffed at his understandably angry reaction on Wednesday. While they were amused by him fuming at his favorite social media platform, neither of them cared to report how Twitter’s in-house fact-checker was an anti-Trump activist who had leveled many false accusations
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President Donald Trump attends a rally in Manchester, N.H., August 15, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Democracies have a way of bringing problems back to the political process until a suitable settlement is found. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE J onah Goldberg writes with some astonishment — and maybe a wry grin — about how nationalists and their sympathizers
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Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Molly Riley/Reuters) They seek to support a radical, anti-American view of history. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I ’ve previously covered the factual problems with the New York Times’ 1619 Project’s Pulitzer Prize–winning lead essay. The factual inaccuracies are important, but so is the narrative project that required them. Let’s answer two
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Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Andrew Ross Sorkin in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2018 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Andrew Ross Sorkin’s frustration over having missed so much of the post-COVID realities in markets and economic life boiled over this morning in one of the more outrageous outbursts I have ever witnessed on financial media. Perhaps this
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A demonstration in Los Angeles against the death of a black man in police custody has turned violent after protesters stopped the flow of traffic on a major highway. Video from a local news station showed protesters attacking California Highway Patrol cruisers, forcing them to flee the scene. FOX 11 Los Angeles reported that one
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On Wednesday night, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters that President Donald Trump will sign an executive order regarding social media and Big Tech companies, following his public battle with Twitter after the social media platform added a “fact-check” to his tweets. “[Trump] will sign an executive order shortly about social media and internet
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing formidable fellow Democrat Michelle Caruso-Cabrera in a primary challenge that could keep her from winning a second term; Jacqui Heinrich reports. #FoxNews Subscribe to Fox News! https://bit.ly/2vBUvAS Watch more Fox News Video: http://video.foxnews.com Watch Fox News Channel Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service delivering breaking
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Tom Bevan, the head of RealClearPolitics, caught me off-guard when he tweeted this earlier. The spread on Trump’s job approval (-11.0) is the largest it’s been since November 6 of last year. pic.twitter.com/nqwhifvKtl — Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) May 27, 2020 That seemed … not right. Why would Trump’s job approval be crumbling now that daily
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Election volunteer Nancy Gavney verifies voter and witness signatures on absentee ballots at City Hall during the presidential primary election in Beloit, Wisc., April 7, 2020. (Daniel Acker/Reuters) Welcome to week eleven of life with the coronavirus pandemic. If someone is asking “Why aren’t people staying inside like they did before?” it means they are
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A new Pew Research Center report shows the death toll in the United States from COVID-19 is “heavily concentrated” in Democratic congressional districts. According to the analysis, more than half of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. occurred in just 44 (approximately 10 percent of) congressional districts, and 41 of those 44 hardest-hit districts are
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Is it important to have racial or sexual diversity in our fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? Heather Mac Donald suggests that some think it might be in her City Journal article “Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research?” The funding priorities of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control suggests that they
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a COVID-19 briefing following his meeting with President Trump in Washington D.C., May 27, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said that nursing homes are obligated to transfer coronavirus patients if they cannot provide “adequate care.” “The obligation is on the nursing home to say,
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President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on the coronavirus outbreak at the White House, February 29, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Whether social media have been good or bad for society is an open question. Whether social media have been good or bad for President Trump isn’t as difficult to discern. For even the most
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