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Franz: California’s fires show environmentalist policies can have deadly results
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Franz: California’s fires show environmentalist policies can have deadly results

By  Danielle B. Franz | Commentary, National Review Ignoring basic forest stewardship while crying ‘climate change’ is nothing more than a convenient excuse to justify inaction. Tens of thousands of acres have gone up in flames in Los Angeles County, a tragedy made all the more infuriating by the fact that it was entirely preventable. California’s leaders knew this could happen — yet they chose inaction, distractions, and virtue-signaling over protecting their citizens. Governor Gavin Newsom’s priorities have been astonishingly misplaced. To appease radical environmentalists, he pushed forward initiatives to remove dams, under the guise of protecting marine species, and thereby handicapped water supplies for crucial uses such as preventing and fighting wildfires. Not unrelate...
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces resignation ahead of general election
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces resignation ahead of general election

By David Zimmermann | National Review Embattled Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday morning he will resign as leader of the nation’s ruling Liberal Party, stepping aside ahead of a general election in which his prospects looked grim due to growing voter dissatisfaction with his nine-year tenure and a high-profile feud with President-elect Donald Trump over trade policy. Trudeau, 53, said he will remain in his post as prime minister until his successor is chosen but will suspend the country’s parliament until March 24. The move leaves the Liberal Party without a permanent leader before Canada’s general election, set to be held on or before October 20. READ THE FULL STORY AT NATIONAL REVIEW
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Biden bans new oil and gas drilling in 625 million acres of federal waters
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Biden bans new oil and gas drilling in 625 million acres of federal waters

By David Zimmermann | National Review President Joe Biden will ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in more than 625 million acres of federal waters, the White House announced Monday, striking a final blow against domestic energy production just two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The outgoing president is set to use his authority under the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect offshore areas along the East Coast, West Coast, eastern Gulf of Mexico, and additional portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska from future oil and gas leasing. Cast as a way to preserve the fishing and tourism industries in the affected states, these steps do not expire. “My decision reflects what coastal communities, businesses, and beachgoers have known for a lo...
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Commentary: The H-1B program is badly in need of reform
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Commentary: The H-1B program is badly in need of reform

By National Review It’s in our national interest to skim exceptionally gifted people from other countries, but the current system has been exploited. Well, that, as they say, escalated quickly. Over Christmas, posts on X by Elon Musk and his allies in the tech sector in support of the H-1B visa program drew a backlash from MAGA accounts and created a roiling intra-right debate on immigration. If you ignore a few bigots who richly deserve it, the debate was a nice stocking stuffer for anyone who enjoys factional fights and heated discussion of the finer points of U.S. visa programs Count us in, but the two sides were largely talking past each other, or, at least, there’s an easy way to reconcile the best points of each side. Seeking to clarify himself under fire, Musk said he on...
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Geraghty: Trump prioritizes purchases of mineral-rich Greenland from Denmark
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Geraghty: Trump prioritizes purchases of mineral-rich Greenland from Denmark

By Jim Geraghty | National Review On the menu today: I doubt it will ever come to pass, but sometimes President-elect Donald Trump is like a dog with a bone — he just keeps going at it. With just 25 days until Inauguration Day, Trump is bringing up his dream of purchasing the giant, sparsely populated, mineral-rich, and darn cold island of Greenland from Denmark. There’s simultaneously a genuine U.S. geopolitical advantage at stake — but also a sparsely populated, vast frozen island whose economy is currently dependent on subsidies from Denmark. Here We Know That Christmas Will Be Greenland and Bright . . . On Christmas Day, President-elect Trump shared on Truth Social his wishes for a merry Christmas “to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States...
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Grand jury indicts Luigi Mangione, 26, the suspected assassin of CEO Brian Thompson, on ‘act of terrorism’
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Grand jury indicts Luigi Mangione, 26, the suspected assassin of CEO Brian Thompson, on ‘act of terrorism’

By James Lynch | National Review A New York grand jury has indicted the suspected assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on charges of murder as an “act of terrorism” for the cold-blooded killing, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D) announced Tuesday. The grand jury charged 26-year-old Luigi Mangione with first-degree murder in furtherance of terrorism and two counts of second-degree murder, including one count for killing in the act of terrorism. Mangione is also facing an assortment of weapon possession charges and one count of carrying a forged document for the point-blank assassination of Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel earlier this month. “We allege that Luigi Mangione carried out the brazen, targeted and fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Bria...
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ABC news to apologize, pay $16 million in defamation suit settlement with Donald Trump
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ABC news to apologize, pay $16 million in defamation suit settlement with Donald Trump

By Haley Strack | National Review ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement in a defamation suit brought by President-elect Donald Trump, which requires the network to apologize, contribute $15 million to a “Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff,” and pay Trump’s legal team $1 million. Defendants also must say they “regret” the defamatory comments, which Stephanopoulos made on-air in March during a broadcast with South Carolina representative Nancy Mace, that spurred Trump’s lawsuit. During the broadcast, the news anchor asked Mace why she supported Trump, who he said was found liable in Manhattan for raping E. Jean Carroll. “You’ve endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable...
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Man arrested for allegedly assaulting U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace over transgender stance
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Man arrested for allegedly assaulting U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace over transgender stance

By James Lynch | National Review Capitol Police arrested a man Tuesday night for allegedly assaulting Representative Nancy Mace (R., S.C.) over her steadfast opposition to men using women’s bathrooms on Capitol Hill. James McIntyre, 33, of Illinois was arrested for the alleged incident and is now facing a charge of assaulting a government official. McIntyre’s alleged assault took place at the Rayburn House office building around 6:oo p.m. “I was physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women. Capitol police have arrested him,” Mace said on X. READ THE FULL STORY AT NATIONAL REVIEW
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Government employees are working from home. GOP lawmakers and Elon Musk’s DOGE plan to change that
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Government employees are working from home. GOP lawmakers and Elon Musk’s DOGE plan to change that

By James Lynch | National Review A bombshell report from Senator Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) found that the amount of federal employees working fully in-person is near-zero despite the government spending billions annually to ensure buildings remain suitable for occupancy. Thursday morning, the Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) caucus held a meeting where Ernst presented a report on widespread remote work among federal employees, according to a source familiar. Multiple Republican senators and Ramaswamy were seen at the Senate DOGE meeting. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NATIONAL REVIEW
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Diddy denied bail for 3rd time in sex trafficking case
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Diddy denied bail for 3rd time in sex trafficking case

By Katie Daviscourt | The Post Millennial Grammy award-winning artist Sean John Combs, 54, also known by his stage name Diddy, has been denied bail by a New York judge for the third time in his sex trafficking case. Combs has been locked up inside Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center since his September arrest. He is being held without bail. Combs asked Manhattan Court federal Judge Arun Subramanian to set his bail at $50 million on Wednesday, but the disgraced music mogul's request was rejected. "The Court finds that the government has shown by clear and convincing evidence that no condition or combination of conditions will reasonably assure the safety of the community," the judge ruled, according to court filings. Prosecutors said before the court that Combs, who...
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