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The mainstream press has so far ignored House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to label Congressional Republicans and members of the Trump Administration “enemies of the state,” despite providing wall-to-wall coverage of President Trump’s use of the term “the enemy of the American People” to describe the press in 2017. Pelosi, appearing Monday with Ayman Mohyeldin …

Senator Tim Scott on Monday rebuked Democrats for what he described as their bleak outlook on race relations in the U.S. and shared his family’s story as a testimony to the progress the country has made. “We don’t give in to cancel culture or the radical, factually baseless belief that things are worse today than …

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, residents of St. Louis, Mo., who brandished firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters who had trespassed in their gated community, warned that Democrats want to abolish suburbs in their speech to the Republican National Convention. Democrats “want to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning” Patricia McCloskey said. “This …

Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) criticized Democrats’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread national protests and rioting over police brutality in his speech at the virtual Republican National Convention on Monday night. Jordan said the election “is about who can preserve the values, principles and institutions that make America great” and pointed to “crime, …

President Donald Trump congratulated Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has expressed support for the conspiracy theory QAnon, for her Congressional primary win in Georgia in a tweet Wednesday, calling her a “future Republican Star.” “Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough …

With more than 30 million Americans on some form of unemployment benefits, the additional $600 per-week unemployment insurance boost expired Friday as partisan fighting has marred the path forward on a new coronavirus relief deal. While Democrats have proposed extending the $600 benefit, which began in March, until January, most Republicans have called the benefits …

Herman Cain, a former 2012 Republican presidential candidate, has died at 74 after contracting the coronavirus and battling the infection for nearly a month, his staff announced Thursday. “Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away,” wrote Dan Calabrese, who edits Cain’s website. “We …

Senate Republicans criticized their party’s own coronavirus relief bill in public comments and during a private lunch with Senate GOP leadership on Tuesday. The disagreements could make negotiations with House Democrats over the legislation even more tricky, with enhanced federal unemployment benefits set to end on July 31 and a moratorium on evictions for renters …

White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Sunday that the coronavirus relief package being rafted by Senate Republicans will include a second round of direct payments to Americans as well as an extension of the moratorium on evictions for renters. “There’s a $1,200 check coming, that’s going to be part of the new package,” Kudlow …

President Trump joined in criticism of House GOP Conference chairwoman Liz Cheney (R., Wy.) on Thursday after several House Republicans aired various grievances against the congresswoman, including over her support for the war in Afghanistan. “Liz Cheney is only upset because I have been actively getting our great and beautiful Country out of the ridiculous …