President Donald Trump's restoration of the Great Reflecting Pool on the Washington Mall and the many fountains throughout the District of Columbia is really a metaphor for what is happening all over the country. Trump is succeeding at Making America Great Again. The president posted via Truth Social on Friday,...

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For two decades, the Federal Reserve has behaved less like a central bank and more like the nation’s emergency room physician, trauma counselor and part-time life coach. Markets sneeze, the Fed reaches for liquidity. Congress overspends, the Fed absorbs the debt. Asset bubbles inflate, then burst, and somehow the cure...

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Roughly 80 percent of India's 1.4 billion citizens are Hindus -- but just over 2 percent are Christians. Many Indians believe that Hinduism -- and not Christianity or other minority religions like Islam -- define what it means to be Indian. That has resulted in rising levels of persecution aimed...

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There is nothing covert about what is happening to Christians in Nigeria. The men carrying out these attacks are not hiding their intentions. They are broadcasting them. Survivors report that Islamist Fulani militants tell them directly, as they burn their homes and cut down their neighbors: “We will destroy all...

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America's public education system is in crisis -- and not the crisis the education establishment wants you to see. Nationwide, K-12 schools spent nearly $1 trillion in 2024, with average per-pupil spending approaching $18,000. Inflation-adjusted education spending has risen dramatically over the past decade -- in Kansas and across the...

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Vice President J.D. Vance ruffled British feathers with a social media post interpreting the death of Henry Nowak while in the hands of British police through the lens of the decline of Western civilization. Nowak, 18, was stabbed in December and arrested by English police as he lay dying after...

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There's never a bad time for a reminder that the radical Islamist vision is wholly incompatible with Western values, especially in 2026. In fact, this might be the best time for a little refresher. The West has gotten soft, in many ways, forgetting just what the project of so many...

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Rep. John Larson, a Democrat from Connecticut, has been serving his state's 1st Congressional District since 1999. When he first took office, you were using dial-up internet if you were using it at all. Bill Clinton was president, somehow, after committing perjury and obstruction of justice, but somehow getting away...

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When former President Joe Biden's administration was in office, few people within that orbit were as hounded as former first son Hunter Biden. Between accusations of engaging in "access politics," to whatever was going on in Ukraine, to the infamous laptop, to rampant drug use, there was almost nothing that...

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Here's a sentence most of us wish didn't have to be written to reflect reality: A mentally ill man who thinks he's a woman demands the ability to practice the occult naked in prison, where he was sent after sexually abusing his own child. Reduxx reported May 9 that Matthew...

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to discuss Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s controversies during a Tuesday press gaggle. Platner has been embroiled in controversies, including his Nazi-themed tattoo and his alleged sexually explicit text message with several women. During a press gaggle attended by the Daily Caller News...

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In earlier essays, I argued that America’s political division has grown so deep that a peaceful “American Union” of two sovereign nations -- one broadly red, one broadly blue -- is worth considering. I also argued that relocation fears are overstated, that cooperation could increase economic prosperity, and that separation...

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MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities have seized more than 200 million euros ($232 million) in assets linked to the late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s drug trafficking network, in what anti-mafia prosecutors described Thursday as a blow to the Sicilian Mafia’s attempts to rebuild its financial power. The seizures included...

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The Environmental Protection Agency is on a fast track toward eliminating animal testing, according to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. “The Trump EPA is eliminating animal testing by accelerating the shift to modern, gold standard science,” Zeldin posted on X. “Today, we are announcing 13 new high-quality alternatives to animal testing that...

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In political debates about government assistance, fraud is too often treated as an abstraction -- a budget line item, a policy problem, an election-year talking point. It is much more than that. It is a moral failure with real victims. Kansans deserve an honest conversation about who those victims are....

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B is letting some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver virus, what’s called a “functional cure,” researchers reported Thursday.In two international studies, about 1 in 5 patients given the experimental drug saw their virus reduced to levels low...

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Artificial intelligence can now write essays, diagnose diseases, generate software code, and produce realistic videos in seconds. A smartphone gives the average person access to more information than presidents, scientists, and world leaders possessed just a few generations ago. Every day, humanity creates and consumes staggering amounts of new information....

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia is suing U.S. conglomerate 3M for more than 2 billion Australian dollars ($1.4 billion) over so-called “forever chemical” contamination from firefighting foam at defense bases, the government said on Thursday.The government’s largest-ever claim for compensation relates to contamination with per- and polyfluoroaklyl substances, known as...

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The now-former manager of a McDonald's restaurant in Southbridge, Massachusetts, was dismissed after allegedly putting a customer's French fries in her mouth. Kaylie Santos, 22, now faces charges for "containing a foreign substance, which was intended or might reasonably be expected, to cause injury," per a criminal complaint. CBS News...

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President Donald Trump made a multimillion-dollar investment in a Japan-based restaurant chain specializing in sushi delivered on a conveyor belt. Kura Sushi, which operates in 22 states and the District of Columbia, received an investment between $2 million and $5 million from Trump on Feb. 2, per a financial disclosure...

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Just as her late husband could rise above heckling as he spread the message of Turning Point USA across America’s college campuses, Erika Kirk refused to allow a heckler to stop her delivering her own message on Friday. Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, spoke at...

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