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If you thought CNN and MSNBC were done with climate change arguments after Hurricane Harvey, gear up for round two with Hurricane Irma. Amateur climatologists-otherwise known as news anchors-on the two cable networks are predicting that storms will grow in size and intensity because of the warming of oceans over time.
President Donald Trump will host Speaker Paul Ryan at the White House residence Thursday evening, according to the president's daily schedule, the day after Trump took a deal that may favor the Democrats on debt ceiling negotiations. Trump met with congressional leaders of both parties Wednesday, and decided to back a three-month lift of the debt ceiling, combined with funding for Hurricane Harvey relief and a continuing resolution to fund the government.
Anti-Trump conspiracy theorist Louise Mensch fired an attorney representing her pro-bono in a Russia-related lawsuit on Wednesday, and she did it all in public view on Twitter. Mensch, a former member of the British parliament, fired Mark Zaid after he got into a disagreement with former Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin.
On the first day of class this semester, an anthropology professor at a taxpayer-funded community college gave students a "white privilege" checklist attributing grossly stereotypical generalizations to white people. She also warned her students that she will severely punish them if they engage in "identity-based stereotypes."
Fox News legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano called the lawsuit against the Trump administration over ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals nothing more than a "political stunt." "I think it's a political stunt ," he told "Fox and Friends" Thursday.
Ironically, Pakistan's opposition to U.S. and NATO efforts to stabilize Afghanistan through its support of the Taliban and Haqqani insurgents would lead to greater regional instability and, perhaps, create an existential threat to Pakistan itself should Western forces withdraw. In the absence of U.S. and NATO assistance, the Afghan government would fall within twelve months and Afghanistan would revert to conditions similar to those of the 1990s civil war when the country was divided along ethnic and, to some extent, religious lines.
Congress has tried to sneak through amnesties three times in a little more than a decade. Every time, the American people somehow found out - despite the best efforts of the press - rose up in a rage and killed the proposed bills.
Excerpts of Hillary Clinton's memoir surfacing online reveal her most personal thoughts on her marriage with former President Bill Clinton. In Clinton's upcoming book, titled, "What Happened," she opens up about her marriage with Bill and admits she openly contemplated divorce.
Half of the Environmental Protection Agency's entire workforce can retire with full benefits within the next five years, according to a review of documents The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained Wednesday. Nearly 25 percent of the agency's current workforce can retire today with full benefits, while another 25 percent can retire in the next five years with full benefits, according to the documents, which were part of a wider trove of material released to Reuters and TheDCNF.
Yale's department of art is surprisingly silent this week. All 15 of the department's professors are staying silent as the storied university prepares to remove a statue that has found a home on the historic campus for the last 88 years.
President Donald Trump agreed Wednesday afternoon to raise the debt limit and fund the federal government through mid-December, allowing members of Congress to deal with the federal budget in the coming months. "In the meeting, the President and Congressional leadership agreed to pass aid for Harvey , an extension of the debt limit, and a continuing resolution both to December 15, all together," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement Wednesday.
A Second Look at the Steele Dossier - Knowing What We Know Now - [Editor's Note: In this special Just Security article, highly respected former member of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service, John Sipher examines the Steele dossier using methods that an intelligence officer would to try to validate such information. The day's must-read political news and opinion pieces are scattered across hundreds of news outlets and blogs, too many for any one person to read.
Poll: Majority opposes deporting Dreamers - Voters overwhelmingly support allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay in the country, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, placing President Donald Trump's decision to wind down the controversial Deferred Action
House committee subpoenas FBI, Justice over Trump dossier - In the most significant escalation yet in the wrangling between Congress and the FBI over the Trump dossier, the House Intelligence Committee has subpoenaed the bureau and the Justice Department for documents relating to the dossier
Admin memo: DACA recipients should prepare for 'departure from the United States' - STORY HIGHLIGHTS - Washington White House talking points on Tuesday urged DACA recipients to prepare for a "departure from the United States," a much starker possible future than Trump administration officials used
University students are not "innocent until proven guilty" at approximately 75 percent of America's top schools, announced a civil liberties non-profit organization Tuesday. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education released this figure and others in its Spotlight on Due Process 2017, a study scoring U.S. News & World Report's 53 top universities on 10 criteria of due process.
Lots of people have strong feelings about the Trump administration reversing Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. What do you think about the president unilaterally reversing a previous president's unilateral decision?
The 2017 U.S. Open is currently heading into the second week, and we can think of no better way to prepare for the action to heat up than by taking a look at the hottest women in the game. The first week of the tournament is always worth watching, but the second week is when the stakes are high and the tennis is more entertaining.
North Korea tested a powerful nuclear device over the weekend, and it intends to mount this weapon on an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the U.S. U.S. intelligence suggests that North Korea tested either a staged thermonuclear bomb or a boosted-fission device with an explosive yield around 150 kilotons, U.S. government sources told The Diplomat. Prior to the test, North Korea revealed images of a new thermonuclear warhead for its Hwasong-14 ICBM, which can strike targets across part, if not most, of the continental U.S. North Korea called its nuclear test a "gift package" for the U.S., using wording it previously used to describe its ICBM.
Officials at a small, very expensive liberal arts college in Wisconsin are ringing in the new academic year with a "#GetWoke lecture series" and a "#GetWoke" syllabus which frame the election of Donald Trump as an exercise in "racism," "fascism" and "white supremacy." The "#GetWoke lecture series" will occur at Beloit College, a 1,400-student bastion bursting with idiosyncratic individualists who enjoy leftist politics.