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WASHINGTON -- Alex Acosta resigned as labor secretary Friday morning. It was inevitable once he became the target of all virtuous people in Washington for ... read more

A Manhattan power outage that temporarily turned off the bright lights of the big city only lasted for a few hours, but left plenty of ... read more

“What we live through, in any age, is the effect on us of mass emotions and of social conditions from which it is almost impossible ... read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is up to her antics again on Capitol Hill, allegedly staging another publicity stunt for prime social media material, complete with ... read more

President Trump has made curbing illegal immigration one of his signature policy initiatives, but how is the border "crisis" playing out on television news? The ... read more

The legal drama surrounding two Kansas pro-life laws handed the pro-life movement a huge win this week. Laws surrounding telemedicine and whether a doctor ... read more

Turns out the winner of the Democrats' first series of debates was President Trump. According to the Washington Post/ABC News poll, after the Democrats debated, ... read more

The most popular video game streamer has shared publicly that he was almost aborted. ... read more

A California-based conservative activist says his state has become a "third world state." ... read more

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has joined Democratic leaders in coaching illegal aliens how to avoid being caught in Sunday’s slated Immigration and Customs ... read more

Not only has Cardinal Reinhard Marx gotten his will accomplished over Vatican objections, but he’s boasted about it publicly. ... read more

Bishop Joseph Strickland defends Church teaching on sexual morality and the Jesuit priest uses words like 'hate' and homophobia.' ... read more

The prosecutor is investigating the 'cause of death,' but not as 'murder.' ... read more

“Abortion is not a fringe issue. Abortion is liberty.” That statement is from a 2017 column extolling the virtues of a political litmus test ... read more

We are all, to some extent, prisoners of the past. Things that have already happened -- or that we remember as having happened -- constitute ... read more

Drag Queen Story Hour events have been spreading to libraries and other public places across the country as part of a nationwide LGBTQ agenda to ... read more

This is an updated version of On Point Issue 26 and On Point Issue 29. To view this report as a PDF, see: Abortion Cases in the Higher ... read more

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Attorney General William Barr reiterated his intention to find out why the Obama administration launched an ... read more

Conservative women on college campuses say they're victims of liberal bias. ... read more

Andrea Williams explains how Church of England teaching was used as evidence against a Christian in court. ... read more

National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd blasted Hillary Clinton for publicly coaching illegal immigrants on how to avoid apprehension from Immigration and Customs Enforcement ... read more

Carys Moseley comments on the importance of David Mackereth’s case. Carys Moseley comments ... read more

The government cannot continue its legal fight to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form because of time constraints, Attorney General William Barr ... read more

Speaking from the Rose Garden on Thursday, President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr accepted that they couldn’t put the citizenship question on the ... read more

The new British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey suggests that acceptance of same-sex sexual relations is beginning to decline in the UK. ... read more

Canada's abortion activists and Liberal politicians are reacting to a film that presents an alternative point of view much the way a vampire reacts to ... read more

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Democratic presidential candidates promised major changes to U.S. immigration law, contrasting their ideas to the hardline policies of President Donald Trump during ... read more

Hello, it's Friday, July 12, 2019, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation intended to be uplifting or thought-provoking. Today's comes from ... read more

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just a week after insisting that he was "absolutely moving forward," President Donald Trump abandoned his effort to insert a citizenship question ... read more

In an unashamed attempt to force a feminist LGBT agenda onto Northern Ireland, the government has confirmed that it will push ahead ... read more

Top Democrats have moved way beyond Obamacare and are now pushing Medicare for All—a single-payer, government-run program. Surveys show that Americans like the sound of ... read more

As a young girl, from 1975 to 1982 I attended a school founded by the Quaker community. There, the inviolability of individual conscience was prized ... read more

As a lawsuit in the national spotlight moves forward, the City of San Antonio, Texas, is being ordered to give up records regarding its discriminatory ... read more

A Republican candidate for Mississippi governor is fending off accusations of sexism from the media and the Twitter mob for standing by a vow he ... read more

The Wolverine State could be the one to successfully send a dismemberment bill to the nation's high court. ... read more

At least one observer says Joe Biden's foreign policy agenda seems to merely be the opposite-of-Trump plan. ... read more

President Donald Trump, during a free-wheeling speech Thursday, said he would be bringing top social media executives to the White House to push them to ... read more

President Donald Trump is signing an executive order directing every agency to assist in getting a reliable count of citizens and noncitizens in the United ... read more

Peter Joseph Phipps, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, vice Thomas I. Vanaskie, retired. (07/11/2019 legislative day) ... read more

Clifton L. Corker, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, vice J. Ronnie Greer, retired. (07/11/2019 legislative day) ... read more

Donald R. Tapia, of Arizona, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Jamaica. (07/11/2019 legislative day) ... read more

Lynda Blanchard, of Alabama, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Slovenia. (07/11/2019 legislative day) ... read more

Peter C. Wright, of Michigan, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency, vice Mathy Stanislaus. (07/11/2019 legislative day) ... read more

Carys Moseley comments on the bias of the Government Equalities Office and calls for its abolition. ... read more

On July 8, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a Commission on Unalienable Rights, charging it with the task of rethinking the foundations of human ... read more

A bill to make technical corrections to the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, and for other purposes. (07/10/2019 legislative day) ... read more

John P. Pallasch, of Kentucky, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, vice Portia Y. Wu. (07/10/2019 legislative day) ... read more

Robert L. King, of Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, vice Eduardo M. Ochoa. (07/10/2019 legislative day) ... read more

A new Pew Research Center survey of veterans finds that a majority (57%) approve of the way Trump is handling his duties as commander in ... read more

Ed Henry, chief national correspondent for Fox News, revealed over the weekend he is donating about 30 percent of his liver to his ailing younger ... read more