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CNN appeared eager to console viewers on Tuesday after Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to botch what would be her first governing decision by selecting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as her running mate, surprising observers. The frontrunner had been Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), a moderate governor from a swing state. Expectations had been set when the Harris campaign set the rollout of her running mate for Tuesday evening in Philadelphia. But the party’s anti-Israel, left-wing base had made it clear that it rejected Shapiro, not only because of his pro-Israel views, but also because he is Jewish —...

Pro-life activists are reporting that a medical emergency took place on June 6, 2015, at the Orlando Women’s Center, a high-volume abortion facility owned by the notorious abortionist James Pendergraft. Michele Herzog of the Pro-life Action Ministries Central Florida posted heartbreaking photos on Facebook showing a young, African-American woman as she was wheeled out the back door of the abortion facility and loaded into an awaiting ambulance. She was transported to a Winnie Palmer Hospital. Also responding to the incident were six other police and fire vehicles, including a Fire Department ladder truck, a Fire Department supervisor’s vehicle, and four...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, who incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped to head the Intelligence Committee when the Democrats take over in January, failed a quiz of basic questions about al Qaeda and Hezbollah, two of the key terrorist organizations the intelligence community has focused on since the September 11, 2001 attacks. When asked by CQ National Security Editor Jeff Stein whether al Qaeda is one or the other of the two major branches of Islam -- Sunni or Shiite -- Reyes answered "they are probably both," then ventured "Predominantly -- probably Shiite." That is...

was absolutely astounded yesterday when Florida Governor Jeb Bush held that press conference and talked about the State of Florida taking custody of Terri Schiavo. He presented to the media the opinion of a doctor that Terri Schiavo was not in a persistent vegetative state .. but rather just in some sort of a period of reduced consciousness. This doctor has never seen Terri Schiavo, except on videotape, and he's issuing findings that are completely at odds with doctors who have been personally examining Terri for many months. Think about this for a moment. Attending physicians conduct their examinations and...

<p>By vowing to veto the Legislature's midcourse budget correction bill, Gov. Gray Davis has sent the state back to "square one," as state Treasurer Phil Angelides put it. Actually, it's more like square minus 26 billion, but who's counting? Apparently, nobody in the Capitol.</p>