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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media while visiting the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which will be partially converted into a hospital for patients affected by coronavirus, March 23, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) During his press conference today, Andrew Cuomo said that, in America, “we have sexism that is culturalized and
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a Republican news conference about potential Democratic tax hikes and the national debt at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., August 4, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) Speaking before the chamber Monday, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell urged Democrats to take ownership over their exorbitant “socialist shopping list” and
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Then–President Donald Trump departs the White House, January 12, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) After four years spent painting Trump as a unique threat to the nation, progressive pundits have begun moving on to new villains. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE D elivering into the political ether a line that had hitherto been reserved to satirists, MSNBC’s Dean Obeidallah
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An ATF officer fires a firearm used in crimes to collect casings for the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network at a shooting range in Glendale, Calif., in 2017. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) It needs an administrator more interested in enforcing the law than in rewriting it. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Senate should reject Joe Biden’s nomination
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Chief Justice John Roberts (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) 2005—NARAL unleashes a mendacious television ad against confirmation of John Roberts’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The ad features a woman injured in the 1998 bombing of an abortion clinic, attempts to link her injury to an amicus brief that Roberts filed on behalf of the
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks outside the U.S. Capitol with Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as they celebrate news of an eviction moratorium extension from the White House in Washington, D.C., August 3, 2021. (Gabrielle Crockett/Reuters) The Week of August 2, 2021: The CDC’s eviction moratorium, big tech, tax,
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(Kuzma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) An Arkansas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a ban on school mask mandates. Judge Tim Fox issued a preliminary injunction against the law after finding that, among other things, it discriminated between public and private schools. In April, Governor Asa Hutchinson signed the rule into law, prohibiting schools
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent processes asylum-seeking unaccompanied minors as families sit nearby after about 70 migrants crossed the Rio Grande River from Mexico in Penitas, Texas, March 17, 2021. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) Border Patrol agents detained 834 unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.–Mexico border on Wednesday, according to data released by the Department of Health
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(jaflippo/Getty Images) Mayer misrepresents the longstanding judicial doctrine about the Electors Clause. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he latest Jane Mayer column in the New Yorker is out, and even by Mayer’s standards, it is a scattershot stew of every last thing she could think of to say about any Republican or conservative dating back to
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, May 11, 2021. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) New York State assemblyman Kevin A. Cahill issued a scathing rebuke of Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday, calling on the governor to “resign immediately” or face an impeachment trial. The Democratic assemblyman’s comments come
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Trevor Milton (right), founder and former-CEO of Nikola Corp., exits the Manhattan Federal Courthouse following an appearance in New York City, July 29, 2021. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Banding together to buy faddish stocks can be risky business. Trevor Milton, the founder of electric-truck manufacturer Nikola, has been charged by the SEC with securities fraud after he
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A pharmacy technician administers the coronavirus vaccine to a man at his home in St. Petersburg, Fla., July 30, 2021. (Octavio Jones/Reuters) On the menu today: Whether our goal is persuading the unvaccinated to get their shots, or protecting kids as school begins, or ensuring that the elderly do not have declining immunity against COVID-19,
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Peter Daszak, a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19 walks at a lakeside in Wuhan, China, February 3, 2021. (Aly Song/Reuters) A new congressional report will tie Peter Daszak, the controversial director of the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance nonprofit, to the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda campaign
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Pretenders concert at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. (Photo: Nooshig Varjabedian) I just listened to a segment on Bloomberg Radio, and the announcer ominously warned that the Lollapalooza concert series in Chicago could turn into “Covid-palooza.” You don’t have to look far to find similar sentiments, as the Independent reports, “photos of huge, unmasked
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President Bill Clinton speaks in the briefing room of the White House, June 16, 1998. (Gary Cameron/Reuters) 1996—One generation of liberal judicial activists is more than enough. But President Clinton obviously doesn’t agree, as he appoints Dean D. Pregerson, son of arch-activist Ninth Circuit judge Harry Pregerson, to a federal district judgeship in California. A
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(Tommy Flynn/Getty Images) It is astonishing how the transgender moral panic has swept actual science aside. The American Medical Association Board of Trustees (BOT) just passed a resolution that will have the AMA lobbying to end the designation of sex in all future birth certificates. The resolution distinguishes between the “Certificate of Live Birth” —
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