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Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail: Judge determines Epstein cohort is ‘substantial flight risk’ because of wealth, ‘foreign connections’

By Barnini Chakraborty, Marta Dhanis | Fox News Maxwell is charged with conspiracy and perjury in a multi-state sex trafficking ring involving three unnamed minors between 1994 and 1997. A New York judge on Tuesday denied Ghislaine Maxwell’s bail request and push for home confinement as she awaits trial on sex trafficking charges. Judge Alison Nathan said the British socialite, […]

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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: Reopening schools — harm of lost instruction outweighs COVID-19 risks

By Wall Street Journal Editorial Board | The Wall Street Journal The losers, as ever, would be the children. Everything else about the coronavirus has become politicized in America, so why not a return to school as well? That’s the depressing state of play as President Trump pushes schools to reopen while Democrats heed teachers unions that demand more federal money […]

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Lawrence Jones on 1-year-old’s death in NYC: Shouldn’t be this hard for GOP to defeat ‘incompetent’ Dems in cities

By Julia Musto | Fox News Jones says history will remember who takes action to combat gun violence in large cities It should not be hard for the Republican Party to defeat “incompetent” Democratic politicians in cities like New York where crime is up 130 percent, Fox Nation host Lawrence Jones stated Tuesday. In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Jones called on elected leaders to “start talking” after a fatal shooting took the life of […]

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Cuomo takes heat over internal nursing home report

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing backlash from the scientific community and others for using a state report that backed up his theory that nursing home coronavirus deaths were not caused by his policies, even though the report may not have thoroughly explored the issue. Cuomo has been insisting that the thousands of nursing […]

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Local governments weigh major tax hikes to plug coronavirus-induced shortfalls

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Homeowners, beware. State and local governments scrambling to raise money during the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic are looking to increased property taxes — as well as wealth taxes and more — to fill budget holes. The proposals come as officials are trying to strike a balance. Historic job losses caused by lockdowns […]

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Harmeet Dhillon: Where was the outrage when Obama commuted sentence of convicted terrorist?

By Joshua Nelson | Fox News Trump commuted Roger Stone’s sentence days before he was to begin serving a 40-month prison term. Attorney Harmeet Dhillon said on Monday that President Trump did not pardon Roger Stone, there was a commutation of the sentence, and similar moves by former President Barack Obama were not met with the same reaction. “The same […]

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China announces sanctions against Rubio, Cruz over Uighur Muslims

By David Aaro | Fox News China on Monday announced sanctions against a number of U.S. officials, including Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in retaliation for legislation intended to punish senior Chinese officials over Beijing’s alleged treatment of minority Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, according to multiple reports. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the sanctions against the U.S. officials, would begin on […]

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Democrats beware – Backlash against leftist mob rule growing. Here’s what polls show

By Liz Peek | Fox News Americans are fed up and they are angry – increasingly, they will push back. The backlash has begun. Repudiation of the cancel culture, the looting of neighborhoods, the defaming of our nation’s history, the destruction of public monuments, attacks on the police, and – yes – the non-stop dishonesty of the liberal media and vilification of President Trump, is cropping up […]

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Ex-prosecutors Tolman & Rizer: Romney wrong to attack Trump commutation of Roger Stone prison sentence

By Brett L. Tolman, Arthur Rizer | Fox News Special prosecutors end up charging marginal players with tangential crimes — often related obstruction of the investigation itself. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, on Saturday denounced President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s prison sentence as “unprecedented, historic corruption.” But as former prosecutors, we believe the Stone prosecution was always a […]

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Kayleigh McEnany matches bombastic reporters’ theater with her own mic-drop moments

By Tim Graham | Creators Syndicate The Washington Post is pretending that political bombast is a one-way street. The July 6 Washington Post carried a typically colorful headline on top of the Style section. “A binder full of bombast: Kayleigh McEnany plays her boss and his base with derisive news briefing walk-offs.” Media reporter Paul Farhi wrote McEnany’s “would-be smackdowns […]

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Dozens of academics, journalists blast ‘cancel culture’ critics who signed Harper’s open letter

By Sam Dorman | Fox News Many of Harper’s signatories are “white, wealthy, and endowed with massive platforms,” Friday’s letter said. A long list of journalism professionals and academics issued a lengthy statement denouncing an open letter that Harper’s Magazine published in opposition to what its signatories have described as a stifling environment for free speech. Harper’s initial letter from Tuesday […]