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The high court will also hear arguments about overturning a 90-year-old precedent that allowed Congress to create independent agencies.The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to fire the sole remaining Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, the latest victory in his aggressive push to exert greater control over the federal bureaucracy. The justices overturned a lower-court injunction that reinstated Rebecca Slaughter to her position with the agency that oversees antitrust and consumer protection issues while litigation over her removal works its way through the courts. The ruling — while provisional — is significant because the...

Last week, the House of Representatives voted on a resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over her disgusting comments about Charlie Kirk. The effort failed, in the words of my colleague Rusty Weiss, because four feckless Republicans went along with a Democratic effort to table the resolution. Omar called Kirk "hateful" and said that the Americans who called him "civil" were "full of sh**." She also reposted a disparaging video about him. After she got a pass, she went on CNN and was asked about the controversy by Kaitlan Collins. Collins brought up the video that called Kirk "Dr....