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House Democrats have released their draft plan to make free community college a reality across much of the country, at a price tag of over $100 billion. The obsession with a zero sticker price for community college is odd, given that community colleges are already one of the most affordable sectors of America’s higher-education system. Average tuition is less than $4,000 per year, and after existing financial aid is applied, the typical student pays no tuition at all. The more pressing concern at community colleges is not the price of admission, but what that tuition payment is buying students. Most...

Drones that captured images and videos of thousands of illegal immigrants under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, were grounded late Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin told Tucker Carlson on Thursday night that he found the timing and location of the FAA’s two-week flight restriction in the area “a little bit curious.” “I just want to point out, Fox News has been at the border for the better part of seven months now,” Melugin said. “We’ve been using the drone the entire time. It’s never been an issue. All of a sudden,...

In the year 1181 AD, a new bright point of light as luminous as the planet Saturn appeared to Chinese and Japanese skygazers for a little more than six months before disappearing. Hundreds of years later, researchers believe they have finally found the source of this mysterious appearance. The event, like the famous Crab Nebula-forming stellar explosion of 1054, is one of just a handful of bright nearby flashes noted in historical records, but unlike the Crab Nebula, the 1181 spectacle was tricky to pin down. The historical record leaves a few clues that have been useful to modern astronomers....

Capitalism has not served the U.S. economy as well as it could have, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday, saying the system needed to be improved. "In America, capitalism is our system, it is our economic system, but it has not served our economy as well as it should," she told a Chatham House event. "So what we want to do is not depart from that, but to improve it." "You cannot have a system where the success of some springs from the exploitation of the workers and springs from the exploitation of the environment and the rest, and...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley dismissed the George Floyd riots as “penny packet protests” — insisting they weren’t an insurrection because the mobs only “used spray paint,” according to a new book. The under-fire general — accused of going behind President Donald Trump’s back to contact his Chinese counterpart — wildly downplayed the riots when Trump raised fears they were “burning America down,” according to Fox News excerpts from the new book, “Peril.” “Mr. President, they are not burning it down,” he told the alarmed commander-in-chief, according to authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. “They used...

ake Sullivan, already in the hot seat as President Joe Biden’s national security adviser amid the Afghanistan fallout, could find himself under further scrutiny for his 2016 role in promoting a Trump-Russia collusion claim at the heart of a possible indictment by special counsel John Durham. Durham is reportedly seeking a grand jury indictment against Michael Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer at Perkins Coie, a Democratic-allied law firm linked to British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited dossier. According to the New York Times, the charge is said to be related to an alleged false statement to the FBI about a client's identity...

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On September 17, 1787 — 234 years ago today — the delegates to the constitutional convention who had approved the final document signed it and sent it on its way toward ratification. We now celebrate that date as Constitution Day, to acknowledge our debt to them and remind ourselves (as it’s plain we could use the reminding) of the extraordinary governing framework they created. If you’re free and online at 11 a.m. Eastern today (or if you want to look in on the video later), you should check out the American Enterprise Institute’s annual Constitution Day lecture, which will be...

The roughly 900 U.S. troops who are currently deployed to Syria are mostly invisible to Congress, the media, and the American public. Syria is just the latest forgotten battlefield in the Global War on Terrorism. The troops who went there have succeeded in destroying the Islamic State group’s former caliphate, but ISIS fighters are waging the type of insurgency that the American military has a bad track record of defeating. For the time being, American forces are keeping a lid on the situation and protecting their Kurdish allies from Turkey, who considers them terrorists. But the mission is stuck in...

A new book claims the US’s top military officer secretly told the Chinese military he would warn if Trump ordered an attack. His reasons don’t matter – he must be relieved of command ...if he did indeed negotiate with a foreign military rival without authorization, he violated the longstanding American political tradition that the military is subordinate to elected civilian leaders.

Dozens of students at the University of Florida said the U.S. Constitution should be abolished and even signed a petition to do away with it. "It should be abolished," one student told Campus Reform in a man on the street-style interview published Thursday. "It’s time for a new Constitution." "The time period was rich old white men and that's exactly what that document says, and stands for and vouches for," another student added when asked if the Constitution is a symbol of the patriarchy.

The world will never again be what it was. Those of us who love and cherish our heritage of freedom and liberty will be better prepared to deal with the new world order that demands and struggles to enforce conformity. Authoritarianism is on the ascendancy. Freedom of thought and acts of conscience will be thoroughly suppressed. This is an age in which anyone who differs will be declared the enemy and pursued relentlessly. Free elections will no longer be held between political parties with differing versions of how to seek the betterment of America. We will no longer have a...

A 26-year-old refugee from Somalia is facing murder charges after fatally shooting a young mother in Grand Forks, North Dakota over the weekend. Ahmed Mohamed Abdullahi, a convicted felon, shot and killed 28-year-old Megan Lea Gustafson of Grand Forks at around 1:30 am Sunday at an apartment complex.

Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Americans needed to “unelect these bastards” while discussing Republicans standing by former President Donald Trump. Steele said, “We just need to stop talking about these people as if this is somehow commonplace, normal, to even have that debate. No, we’re not going to debate do we overthrow the government today, or do we go get coffee? No, we’re not having that debate. So let’s call out what Trump and his ilk are doing and continuing to stoke.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci — director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases — has been named ” The Sexiest Man Alive ” by the British-based publication the Guardian. But some are wondering if the title bestowed upon the 80-year-old in charge of America’s response to the coronavirus during the last 18 months is a joke of some kind. What are the details? The Guardian’s Instagram post about Fauci’s latest accolade said the “scientist, doctor and public servant … has become an unlikely cult hero for millions of people during the COVID pandemic.” The post added that Fauci —...

If you contract the Covid-19 virus does your natural immunity serve as a replacement for the vaccine? The answer is no and health officials say relying on natural infection is like playing a game of Russian roulette. Health care experts explain that immunity from natural infection is lasting longer than they first estimated, but the amount of actual protection can vary, leaving some people vulnerable to reinfection. “ We do know that if you have had a natural infection and you do not get vaccinated then you are about 2 ½ times more likely to be reinfected with Covid than...

Appellate justices in Albany on Thursday unanimously reversed a lower court ruling that annulled a marriage based on a man’s claim that his wife married him just to become a U.S. citizen. The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court’s Third Department determined that the husband, a Cortland County man identified as Travis A., lacked evidence to show that his Filipino wife, identified as Vilma B., fraudulently used him to become a citizen. The couple met online in February 2018 and became engaged four months later on the first of the man’s two visits to the Philippines, the decision explained. In...

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BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A former Baltimore City Schools principal says she believes there’s an organized effort in City Schools to push kids through the system at any cost, even if it means enrolling them in classes that don’t exist. The allegations come as the school district is under fire over so-called ghost students, and now, ghost classes. Angel Lewis tells Fox45 News she was recruited by Baltimore City Schools in 2016 and brought in to help a troubled school east Baltimore. She says North Avenue knew about ghost student and ghost classes, years ago, because she told them. Lewis has...