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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Merrick Garland as Joe Biden’s Attorney General in a 70-30 vote. Among some of the Republicans who voted to confirm Garland include Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn and Lindsey Graham. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are two noted Republican Senators who voted against Garland’s confirmation. Garland’s rise to the country’s top
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P resident Biden has pledged to pursue “extreme competition” with the Chinese Communist Party, but his administration’s diplomatic outreach to the regime suggests otherwise. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national-security adviser Jake Sullivan will meet their Chinese counterparts, Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi, for high-level talks in Alaska later this month,
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Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. June 16, 2020. (Tom Williams/Reuters Pool) Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a nomination hearing for two top Justice Department nominees, Lisa Monaco to be deputy attorney general and Vanita Gupta
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C an somebody tell President Biden that the election is over? Since he was sworn in six weeks ago, he hasn’t stopped denigrating the Trump administration’s COVID-19-vaccination program. His statements are unbecoming, counterproductive, and, worst of all, mostly false. Immediately after January’s inauguration, Biden’s team claimed that Trump had left it no
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Today on The Editors, Rich, Jim, Michael, and Maddy discuss Meghan and Harry’s recent Oprah  appearance, the mounting border crisis, and much more. Listen below, or follow the show on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or Spotify. Your browser does not support the HTML5 Audio element. Members of the National Review editorial and operational teams are
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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) The Biden administration is offering temporary relief and work permits to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants living in the U.S., multiple outlets reported on Monday. An order signed by Homeland Security secretary Alejandro
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Sen. Roy Blunt listens during a confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/Reuters) Senator Roy Blunt (R., Mo.) announced Monday he will not seek reelection in 2022. “After 14 general election victories — three to county office, seven to the United States House of Representatives, and four statewide elections — I won’t
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Switzerland narrowly voted to ban face coverings in public, including burkas and niqabs worn by Muslim women. Several groups including the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) brought up the measure and it passed 51.2% to 48.8% on Sunday. A leading Islamic group condemned the vote to ban burkas and said it’s “a dark day” for
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An armed guard patrols on the East Block for condemned prisoners during a media tour of California’s Death Row at San Quentin State Prison in 2015. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Each person facing execution, no matter how heinous his crime, is entitled to and afforded the protections of the Constitution. One need not have sympathy for those
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he revolution came. The revolution went. The QAnon nut-cutlets whom good Republican loyalists expect the rest of us to pretend don’t exist were anticipating a very big day on March 4, when, according to their dotty prophecy, Donald Trump was supposed to sweep back into power, revealing that he had secretly
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With apologies to John Kander and Fred Erb, the composer and lyricist respectively of Sinatra’s classic, New York, New York. It is time to update that tune: Start spreading the news, they’re leaving en masseDon’t want to live in it: New York, New YorkThis U Haul Truck rental, is pricey as hellBut it will get
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NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE M aybe a boom is not what we need. The economic forecasters are expecting a big 2021, and have been revising their growth forecasts upward in anticipation of another $1.9 trillion in stimulus spending. How big a boom? Goldman Sachs estimated 6.6 percent GDP growth back in January, and more recent estimates
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