New York is about to find out what it feels like to shop with a permission slip. As Mayor Zohran Mamdani rolls out his city-run grocery stores, his team has quietly added a wrinkle: you’ll need ID to buy anything. Not to walk in and browse — just to actually check out. Officials say it’s about keeping the program honest,
There are political declarations that require translation, and others whose authors have kindly spared us the trouble. A group of activists affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America has signed a pledge to “support” and “defend” Chinese socialism. They put it in writing. Always helpful. The pledge comes from Friends of Socialist China, a London-based organization that says its mission
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“I have nothing to hide.” Anthony Fauci said it to CNN in 2022, when Republicans were promising investigations into the government’s handling of COVID-19. He seemed almost eager for the encounter. “I am very happy to testify before any congressional oversight committee,” he said. “I can explain and validate everything that I’ve done.” Four years later, the committee arrived. Fauci
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Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights more than 110 times during Wednesday’s Senate hearing, refusing to answer Republican lawmakers on the origins of COVID-19, funding for research in Wuhan, his communications with former NIAID adviser David Morens, EcoHealth Alliance, federal recordkeeping, and his handling of the pandemic. To every question, the answer was the same: “On the advice
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Newly released recordings from Joe Biden’s conversations with Mark Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad,” have been released by the Oversight Project after a long public-records battle. They contain the sort of pauses and lapses that Washington spent years teaching Americans not to notice. “I’ll think of his name,” Biden said during an April 2017 conversation
In a pair of Sunday posts, President Trump told Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep the Senate in Washington until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act. Better yet, he said, they should end the filibuster and use their majority while they still have one. “John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes
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Something strange happened in Juneau this summer. More than 3,000 Alaskans got a letter from the state asking a simple, almost old-fashioned question: are you a citizen? Normally that letter goes out to about 200 people a year — a quiet bit of housekeeping as Alaska checks its voter rolls against DMV records. This year the number jumped fifteen-fold. Carol
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President Trump threw a wrench into his own nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia this week — and he did it on purpose. On Wednesday, the Energy Department announced with some fanfare that Washington and Riyadh had finalized an agreement to share American nuclear know-how with the Saudis for civilian use. Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed it alongside his Saudi counterpart,
Continue ReadingIn time of ancient gods, warlords and kings, a land in turmoil cried out for a hero. She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle. The power. The passion. The danger. Her courage will change the world.
Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman (CA) accused the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) of politically weaponizing religion by “rebuking” Democrats who support abortion, and the congressman suggested that these Catholic churches should
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