Mary Margaret Olohan Over 170 Republican members of Congress called on President Joe Biden Thursday to include pro-life protections in his budget request, warning that the current budget is “an affront to the majority of Americans who do not want their tax dollars funding abortion on…
Sebastian Hughes The House Appropriations Committee voted to include an amendment to prohibit funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for the upcoming fiscal year on Thursday. The amendment was introduced by Republican Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania for the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations…
The nation’s largest teachers’ union is circling the wagons around racism. The Washington Free Beacon reported Thursday that the National Education Association was set to spend nearly $57,000 of its members’ dues, which are paid by taxpayers, to “research” groups that are “attacking” the work…
Rep. Matt Gaetz has picked up some powerful allies in a demand for an inspector general’s probe of allegations that the intelligence community is spying on Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Gaetz, a Florida Republican who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, challenged the panel’s…
Andrew Kerr Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams purchased two homes worth a combined $1.4 million following her failed 2018 bid to lead the state, public records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. Abrams purchased the homes despite reporting in a financial disclosure in…
Sebastian Hughes A majority of Republican college students believe state legislatures should not limit how public schools and universities teach history, according to a Generation Lab/Axios poll released Thursday. The poll showed 60% of Republican students did not think it was a state legislature’s job to limit…
Andrew Trunsky Married men and veteran households voted Democratic in 2020 at a far higher rate than in 2016, helping propel President Joe Biden to victory in November’s presidential election. Biden’s inroads among those constituencies, which have historically held moderate to conservative views, were astounding,…
Cole Crystal Federal law enforcement agencies covertly request thousands of Microsoft users’ information every year, a company executive told a congressional committee Wednesday. Vice President for Customer Security and Trust Tom Burt told the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on “Secrecy Orders and Prosecuting Leaks: Potential Legislative…
Andrew Trunsky PolitiFact Virginia has yet to provide an explanation for why it retracted a fact check against a misleading campaign advertisement from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe over 24 hours ago. VPM, a local Virginia news outlet with a partnership with PolitiFact, originally published…
Steven Hall The Manhattan district attorney’s office will charge the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer with tax evasion crimes on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Prosecutors claim Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, and other employees allegedly evaded…