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[ad_1] Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland in 2018. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters) The conditions that allow the Chinese delegation to run the table are structural. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Chinese party-state is engaged in a years-long campaign to wipe out ethnic minority identities within its borders, to do away with
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[ad_1] Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden waves goodbye as he concludes his remarks during a campaign event in Warren, Mich., September 9, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) With help from the media, they are shamelessly obscuring their own disastrously misguided instincts. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C riticism of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus for the most part
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[ad_1] New York Police officers in Times Square in 2013. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Partisan tribal allegiance is a huge obstacle to badly needed law-enforcement reforms. Dallas — Here in the nation’s fourth-largest metropolitan area, the three largest constituent municipalities — Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington, total population about 3 million — have something in common: All
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[ad_1] John Roberts testifies at his confirmation hearing to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, September 14, 2005. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) 2005—Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. stoically endures the endless opening statements of Senate Judiciary Committee members as his confirmation hearing begins. Roberts manages to keep a straight face throughout, including when hard-left
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers remarks on judicial appointments in the Diplomatic Room at the White House, September 9, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The DOJ one-ups E. Jean Carroll in gamesmanship over ‘defamation’ lawsuit against the president Welcome back to “Politics, Not Law,” where legal process is once again asked to do the heavy lifting for
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[ad_1] Federal Prosecutor Nora Dannehy walks to a taxi after interviewing former Bush White House official Karl Rove in Washington, D.C., May 15, 2009. (Robert Giroux/Reuters) Nora Dannehy, a top federal prosecutor working with U.S. Attorney John Durham on his investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Russia probe, resigned from the Justice Department on Thursday,
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[ad_1] CDC director Robert Redfield greets Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., MD) after a hearing in Washington, D.C., July 31, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) If the executive branch can unilaterally suspend residential evictions to limit the spread of coronavirus, is there anything it can’t do? In response to a once-in-a-century pandemic, the federal government has taken unprecedented
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[ad_1] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff addresses a news conference on Capitol Hill, December 3, 2019. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Schiff had accused that same whistleblower of “deeply troubling” professional misconduct and lying to Congress in an attempt to cover it up. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ouse Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) set off
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[ad_1] Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks in Washington, D.C., September 4, 2018. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Chuck Grassley on Friday demanded more details from the Justice Department on the cell phones used by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team that were wiped before the DOJ inspector general could review them for records. “It appears that Special Counsel Mueller’s
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[ad_1] Last night, in the National Football League season opener, the Houston Texans chose to remain in the locker room for the National Anthem, as well as a performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is sometimes referred to as the Black National Anthem. NBC sideline reporter Michelle Tafoya said Texans executive Jack Easterby
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[ad_1] President Trump speaks during an executive order signing event in Washington, D.C., August 3, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) The Woodward book will underline Trump’s vulnerability, but it is one entirely of the president’s own making. The latest hammer of a book to fall on President Donald Trump is Bob Woodward’s soon-to-be-released Rage, and it’s his
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[ad_1] A worker takes a break while cleaning up a basketball court at Glasgow Middle School, a Fairfax County Public School, during deadline day for families and teachers countywide to decide between teaching/learning from home or in the classroom due to the coronavirus, in Falls Church, Va., July 15, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) This is like
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[ad_1] A person holds census information at a Census Town Hall event at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, N.Y., February 22, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) A federal court in New York on Thursday blocked President Trump’s order to exclude illegal immigrants from being counted in the census for the purpose of redrawing congressional districts.
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[ad_1] Visitors at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., September 11, 2015. (Mark Makela/Reuters) On the 19th anniversary of 9/11, NR honors Tom Burnett, who died attempting to retake control of United Airlines Flight 93 from its al-Qaeda Hijackers. Editor’s Note: The following was sent to William F. Buckley Jr. by Thomas Burnett
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Londonderry, N.H., August 28, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters ) The Department of Education issued a proposed rule yesterday to enact a policy that President Trump outlined in an executive order in the spring of 2019, which aimed to incentivize robust free-speech practices on college campuses across the
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[ad_1] A sign telling students to wear masks on the USC campus in Los Angeles, Calif., August 17, 2020 (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business’ dean is on the defensive after receiving widespread backlash for his handling of an incident in which a communications professor at the school used a
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[ad_1] Flames engulf an American flag, Kenosha, Wis., August 24, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Reuters) Editor’s note: This is an open letter organized by Real Clear Foundation. Several signatories have National Review affiliation. We repost it here.  We stand at the crossroads. Over the next several years, the noble sentiments and ideas that gave birth to the United
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump takes questions during a coronavirus news briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 23, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) There’s no evidence that those who want to attain power would have been — or would be — any better prepared. Donald Trump will have to live with the political fallout from
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[ad_1] Federal law prohibits an individual who has been “committed to a mental institution” from possessing a firearm. In rejecting Duy Mai’s claim that the Second Amendment forbids enforcing this provision against him, a Ninth Circuit panel asserted, “We emphatically do not subscribe to the notion that ‘once mentally ill, always so.’” But in their
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[ad_1] The U.S. Capitol, after Congress agreed to an economic stimulus package created in response to the economic fallout from the coronavirus in Washington, D.C., March 25, 2020 (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Senate Republicans on Thursday failed to advance their $500 billion coronavirus relief bill as the legislation failed to clear a procedural hurdle, leaving negotiations on a fifth coronavirus
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[ad_1] (Kuzma/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Eric Murphy’s distinguished record of serving the people of Ohio made President Trump’s decision to nominate him for the Sixth Circuit a no-brainer. From 2013 until 2019, Murphy served as Ohio’s Solicitor General, representing the state before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Sixth Circuit, and the Ohio Supreme Court. During his
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