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EXCLUSIVE: Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said President Donald Trump has accomplished more in the first 100 days of his tenure than "most politicians or presidents accomplish in their entire lifetimes." The top House Republican said this first period of a new GOP trifecta in government has been a "flurry of activity" used to set the stage for the party's plans to pass a massive piece of legislation setting up Trump's priorities on defense, taxes, energy and the border. "So much of what we've done is leading up to the big reconciliation bill, and that is the legislative vehicle, as I've...

Israel’s retaliatory attack on Iran’s missile facilities and air defenses on Saturday is a major win for the West — and a major setback for the Iranian regime, as well as for Russia and China, which back it. Though Iran officially minimized the impact of the attack, it severely damaged Iran’s ability to threaten its neighbors, and left it virtually defenseless in future. It also boosted a pro-Western alliance against the “Axis of Resistance” propped up by Moscow and Beijing.

The debt-ceiling brouhaha diverts attention from the most fundamental economic issue we face: Do we want a European-style welfare state? If we do, how in the world are we going to pay for it? Presidential candidate Barack Obama called for "hope and change," but he was deliberately vague on the "fundamental change" part. In speeches as president both at home and abroad, he appeared to reject American exceptionalism and intimated we have much to learn from Europe, especially its cradle-to-grave welfare state. Obama's juggernaut passage of universal health care, despite severe budget and employment problems and the loss of his...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government achieved its objective in the politically unpopular rescue of General Motors Co (GM.UL) and is prepared to relinquish majority ownership in the resurgent carmaker, Obama administration officials said. The government's sale figures as part of GM's public offering released late on Wednesday show a better-than-expected initial return but taxpayers are still less than halfway from breaking even on their $50 billion investment in the company. Treasury and White House officials said the federal stake in GM would drop from 61 percent to at minimum 37 percent through the sale of at least 358 million...

Source: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Date: August 30, 2007 Cocaine Use Related To Level Of Education Achieved Science Daily — The decreased use of cocaine in the United States over the last 20 years mostly occurred among the highly educated, while cocaine use among non-high school graduates remained constant, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study authors suspect that the inverse relationship between cocaine use and education is related to access to health warnings and resources. They also concluded that the emerging disparity highlights the need...