[ad_1] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference for the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at City Hall in New York City, March 17, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters) New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he will furlough himself and his City Hall staff for one week as the
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump holds up the executive order on the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy at the White House, January 23, 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) A new rule would apply the existing pro-life policy to contracts and subcontracts awarded by several important executive agencies. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE S hortly after Donald Trump took office,
[ad_1] Boeing 737 Max aircraft are parked in a parking lot at Boeing Field in Seattle, Wash., June 11, 2020. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters) House Democrats released a report Wednesday detailing how design and regulatory failures by Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration led to two fatal crashes of 737 MAX planes. The 238-page investigative report from staff
[ad_1] Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is interviewed by Reuters in Los Angeles, Calif., June 24, 2020. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that protesters calling for the death of two deputies who are being treated after being ambushed by a gunman represent a “new low” for the nation and
[ad_1] Power lines in Hinsdale, N.H., lead away from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, Vt., in 2013. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) We should remain optimistic about the future of nuclear energy in America. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE L ast week, the future of nuclear energy got an immense boost. U.S. officials greenlit America’s first-ever commercial
[ad_1] Detainees at the Otay Mesa immigration detention center in San Diego, Calif., in 2018. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) It’s the hot, election-season, too-good-to-check claim of the day: that ICE is sending women detained for immigration violations for “mass hysterectomies.” The Intercept, a left-wing gadfly publication, has pushed the story into the media. Gizmodo Australia, not going
[ad_1] People protest in support of “Black Lives Matter” in New York, N.Y., June 30, 2020. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) Three individuals have been charged in connection with their participation in confrontations at Pittsburgh restaurants during a protest over Labor Day weekend. In one of the two incidents, which were caught on video and posted on social media,
[ad_1] (Carlos Jasso/Reuters) Rioting in Lancaster, Pa. in the wake of the police shooting of a knife-wielding man has led to the arrest of 12 adults and one minor, nine of whom are being held at Lancaster County Jail on $1 million bail each. The arrests happened during a riot around 3 a.m. Monday that
[ad_1] Today is the publication date of The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law, co-edited by Sixth Circuit judge Jeffrey S. Sutton and me. I’m pleased to see that the volume has already been hailed by an early reviewer, Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith, as “an extraordinary collection of
[ad_1] Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf testifies during a hearing before Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., August 6, 2020. (Alex Wong/Reuters) On the menu today: A federal judge argues that acting secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf is not legally
[ad_1] Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of Homeland Security, appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington D.C., August 6, 2020. (Toni Sandys/Reuters) A federal judge in Maryland on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing two new asylum restrictions and ruled that Chad Wolf’s role as acting secretary of the Department
[ad_1] (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Welcome to “The Tuesday,” a newsletter about culture, language, and the necessary evil of politics. If you would like to subscribe to “The Tuesday” — and I would appreciate it if you would — follow this link. Legitimacy Roulette Legitimacy is a thorny problem in politics, because the notion itself is subtle
[ad_1] Republican incumbent Thom Tillis (L) and Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham (R) debate from North Carolina (WCNC Charlotte/via YouTube) Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham said Monday night that he would be “hesitant” to receive a coronavirus vaccine if one were available by year’s end, expressing concern that “political and financial corruption” in Washington could
[ad_1] Rochester Police Chief La’Ron Singletary speaks during a news conference with Mayor Lovely Warren regarding the protests over the death of Daniel Prude on March 23 in Rochester, N.Y., September 6, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Rochester, N.Y. mayor Lovely Warren fired the city’s police chief Monday and called for a federal civil rights investigation into
[ad_1] Firefighters watch the Bobcat Fire after an evacuation was ordered for the residents of Arcadia, Calif., September 13, 2020. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) At some point in the next 30 years, global temperatures are expected to rise 1.5°C above their pre-industrial levels, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. If we doubled the average fuel
[ad_1] Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department deputies stand outside St. Francis Medical Center hospital following the ambush shooting of two deputies in Compton, Calif., September 13, 2020. (Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters) What followed the attack was also shameful: Onlookers rejoicing and refusing to help the bleeding officers. The attempted assassination of two Los Angeles County deputies,
[ad_1] (wildpixel/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Cutting burdensome regulations is an obvious way to stimulate the economy without blowing a hole in the federal budget. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I t may seem like a distant memory, but just a few months ago, the unemployment rate was historically low. An economic recovery is now in progress, and unemployment
[ad_1] Senator Dianne Feinstein on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., May 8, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters ) The Los Angeles Times reports that left-wing activists are badgering Senator Dianne Feinstein to abandon blue slips if Joe Biden wins the White House and the Democrats capture the Senate. In that scenario, Feinstein, currently the Senate Judiciary Committee’s
[ad_1] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. (Tami Chappell/Reuters) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appears to be moving forward with critical race theory trainings for employees despite an executive order from President Trump ordering federal agencies to end such taxpayer-funded training programs. Trump issued an executive order earlier this month
[ad_1] Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl speak during a news conference in Arlington, Va., November 1, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) A Washington Post reporter could not resist the latest offering from infamous hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, credulously reporting that the FBI had raided Burkman’s home early Monday — only to learn hours later that the
[ad_1] A photojournalist reacts as riot police fire tear gas in Portland, Ore., September 5, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) Republicans in the Oregon legislature are accusing Democrats of sanctioning “lawlessness” after the arrest of a top aide to the Democratic Oregon House speaker this month during protests that devolved into riots in downtown Portland. Kristina Narayan, who serves
[ad_1] In a divided panel ruling today in Ramos v. Wolf, the Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of the Department of Homeland Security’s termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation of four countries: Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador. Specifically, the panel majority (Judge Consuelo Callahan, joined by Judge Ryan Nelson) vacated a preliminary
[ad_1] A member of a search and rescue team look for victims through gutted homes in the aftermath of fires in Talent, Ore., September 13, 2020. (Adrees Latif/Reuters) An Oregon man was arrested early Monday morning for the second time in 12 hours after he set “multiple” fires along a Portland freeway. Shortly after 4p.m.
[ad_1] A woman wearing a mask with a Uyghur flag takes part in a rally during China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit in Berlin, Germany September 1, 2020. (Michele Tantussi/Reuters) The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents would begin turning away products sourced from forced labor in the
[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., July 14, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) In a new poll of registered voters in Arizona, both President Donald Trump and Republican senator Martha McSally trail their Democratic challengers by several points. The survey, conducted by CBS News/YouGov over several days last week, found
[ad_1] (mj0007/Getty Images) Daniel Collins and Patrick Bumatay have a lot in common. Both went to exceptional schools, clerked for multiple federal judges, and have dedicated themselves to serving the public. And of course, both were nominated by President Trump to fill vacancies on the Ninth Circuit and are playing a role in remaking that court.
[ad_1] Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing in Washington, D.C., May 5, 2020. (Andrew Harnik/Reuters) Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) announced Monday that he is introducing legislation to repeal permanent most favored nation trade status, a designation that guarantees equal trading opportunity among a nation’s trade partners. In
[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign stop in Warren, Mich., September 9, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines on Sunday, one day after a gunman ambushed and critically wounded two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies
[ad_1] A bison stands in front of Mount Moran, north of Jackson Hole, Wyo. (Brian Evans/iStock/Getty Images Plus) A partnership of government, a nongovernmental organization, and Indian reservations could make it happen. On October 11 last year, the World Wildlife Foundation tweeted a video of four bison being released into Badlands National Park. They spill
[ad_1] President Donald Trump stands at the podium listening to his supporters cheer at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., June 20, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) What Neil Postman got right — and what he failed to predict. I can see vast changes coming over a now peaceful world; great upheavals, terrible struggles; wars such as
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