President Donald Trump is completing a strong week, and is set to kick off a strong next week, in his push to reshape the federal courts, with Senate Republicans forcing votes on six more of his judicial nominees. Despite the Democratic minority in the Senate using procedures to delay many confirmation votes, Senate Majority Leader […]
Three Americans returned to the United States early Thursday morning after at least a year in captivity in North Korea, and when they arrived, the president, accompanied by the first lady and the vice president, was there to welcome the tired men home. North Korea released Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Kim Sang Duk (Tony […]
President Donald Trump will continue to target duplicative and ineffective regulations as part of his administration’s “spring agenda,” the White House announced Wednesday. Trump’s reform agenda will cut across many areas and top priorities for deregulation include infrastructure development, emerging technologies, and “relief for small business,” a senior White House official said during a conference […]
While President Donald Trump said the United States would give Iran a shot at making a more effective nuclear deal, experts—even those who backed the president’s decision to withdraw from the 2015 agreement—contend that will be a tall order. “We will be putting on among the strongest sanctions that we’ve ever put on a country, […]
The family of Tony Kim, one of the prisoners released from North Korea Wednesday, is thanking God and President Donald Trump for his release from captivity. Kim, previously a professor at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, was detained by North Korean authorities in 2017 for allegedly “committing criminal acts of hostility aimed at overturning […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday submitted a special message to Congress requesting that $15 billion in unspent funding be rescinded. That’s a good first step toward re-establishing fiscal responsibility. Congress should embrace it and quickly adopt the president’s rescission package. Still, the package does nothing to claw back the tens of billions of additional dollars […]
There is more knowledge available today than ever before in history. But few would argue people are wiser than ever before. On the contrary, many of us would argue that we are living in a particularly foolish time—a period that is largely wisdom-free, especially among those with the most knowledge: the best educated. The fact […]
By Terence P. Jeffrey Sixty-five percent of the eighth graders in American public schools in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67 percent were not proficient in mathematics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress test results released by the U.S. Department of Education. The results are far worse for students enrolled in some urban […]
Still struggling to come to terms with the results of the 2016 election, former first lady Michelle Obama said she’s concerned for women and “how we think.” “In light of this last election, I’m concerned about us as women and how we think,” she said at the United State of Women Summit in Los Angeles […]
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