May 2, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where Republican lawmakers appear more worried about appeasing Democrats on spending than honoring conservative principles. Justin Bogie and Rachel Greszler break it down. You'll be glad you watched Kelsey Harkness' video from the border. Michelle Obama's school lunch dictates won't survive, Rachel del Guidice reports. Plus: Kevin Mooney on a Reagan biographer's bombshell on Soviet involvement in the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, Nolan Peterson on that wild French election, and Lee Edwards on fairly measuring Trump's first 100 days. It's Israel's Independence Day.
In 1986, the San Diego Border Patrol sector accounted for approximately one-third of all apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's what happened after the wall was built.
This spending package fails to advance almost any key conservative policies and makes numerous concessions to the left.
Paul Kengor, a Grove City College political science professor and author, has acquired what he calls never-before-seen information about the Reagan administration's "supersecret investigation" into the shooting and wounding of the pope.
When French voters go to the polls for the second, decisive round in their country's presidential election Sunday, they will choose between two candidates who hold diametrically opposing national security platforms.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Wednesday at the White House with a U.S. president who seems decidedly pro-Israel while also genuinely interested in a Middle East peace deal.
If we apply "the first 100 days" as a criterion, President Ronald Reagan was a failure.
"If kids aren't eating the food, and it's ending up in the trash, they aren't getting any nutrition," says Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
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