By Andrew Thornebrooke News Analysis Social media giant TikTok is aggressively lobbying in Washington ahead of congressional hearings on the company’s ties to China’s communist regime. TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, spent more than $5 million on lobbying efforts in the United States last year and might spend even more in 2023 if recent events […]
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Trump Says a ‘Most Important Witness’ to Testify Before NYC Grand Jury
By Lorenz Duchamps and Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump praised recent reports that a lawyer who briefly acted as a legal adviser to Michael Cohen is expected to testify on Monday before a New York grand jury investigating whether to charge the former president over claims he paid hush money to an adult actress […]
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Trump Accuses Manhattan DA of ‘Prosecutorial Misconduct,’ Calls for Investigation
By Jack Phillips Former President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of misconduct over his office’s investigation into an alleged hush money payment and called for an investigation into whether Bragg is interfering in the 2024 election. On Saturday, Trump said he would be arrested Tuesday on charges connected to the investigation […]
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Top Republican Orders Probe Into Whether Federal Funds Were Used in Potential Trump Indictment
By Zachary Stieber U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on March 18 ordered Republicans to investigate whether federal funds were used in the reported looming indictment against former President Donald Trump. “Here we go again—an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance […]
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Trump Conviction Would Probably Be Overturned on Appeal: Dershowitz
By Zachary Stieber If former President Donald Trump is indicted, he’ll probably be convicted but an appeal would likely lead to the conviction being thrown out, legal expert Alan Dershowitz said on March 18. “I don’t think there will be a motion to dismiss that succeeds. This is New York justice. In New York, of […]
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ATF Gains Financial Information on Potential Gun Buyers for Warrantless Tracking, Documents Show
By Emily Miller The federal government has been using Americans’ income and gun purchases to conduct warrantless tracking and deny Second Amendment rights. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gave salary estimates to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the reason to have people’s firearms purchases monitored. Erich Pratt, […]
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Trump’s Competitors Seek to Set Themselves Apart Without Scorning MAGA
By Nathan Worcester News Analysis As more Republicans challenge Donald Trump in the race for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination, the former president’s dramatic impact on the GOP is becoming clearer. Everyone from Nikki Haley to Vivek Ramaswamy has sought to link themselves to “America First,” as they court Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. […]
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Biden, Democrats Wrong Blaming Trump for SVB Failure, Economists Say
By Andrew Moran In the immediate fallout of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, President Joe Biden and several Democrats blamed former president Donald Trump’s deregulatory efforts in 2018. During Biden’s prepared address from the White House on Monday, he asserted that the previous administration rolled back several banking requirements aimed […]
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Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants Attempt to Storm Border at Texan Port of Entry
By Katabella Roberts Border patrol agents were forced to erect temporary barricades at a port of entry along the southern U.S. border on March 12, as thousands of illegal immigrants tried to enter the country, with hundreds stampeding border officials by force. The stampede incident started at the Paso Del Norte International bridge entry point in El Paso, Texas, […]
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Walmart’s Exodus From Portland Draws Attention to Retail Crime and a Troubled City
By Scottie Barnes Walmart announced in February that it will close its last two stores in the city of Portland, Oregon, by March 24. Though the retailer did not say whether relentless shoplifting was a factor in shuttering the locations, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon warned last year that an uptick in retail theft could lead […]
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5 Arrested After Deadly Kidnapping of Americans in Mexico
By Jack Phillips Mexican officials arrested five people in connection to the recent kidnappings and murders of Americans near the U.S.-Mexico border, said the attorney general for the Mexican state of Tamaulipas on Friday. In a statement on Twitter, Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica confirmed the arrests of five suspects “linked” to the March 3 incident in Matamoros […]
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3 Years Ago This Week, the World Ended
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Commentary For two months before lockdowns came to the United States, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was broadcasting the lie that its Wuhan lockdowns killed the virus. Control the people, they said, lock them up, prohibit all human movement, and do it brutally for as long as it takes, and the […]
