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The promise of allowing China to enter “most favored nation status” in 1980 and entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 was predicated on the notion that insurgent free markets would revolutionize and liberate the largest communist nation in the world. The economic reality of 2025 is that this project has largely failed. Dictator Xi of China embodies one of the most hardline manifestations of Communist Party power in a generation. Previous reforms are now repealed and a pattern of internal and global human rights abuses are better funded than ever and rationalized in a growing technological network of...

Still, I am particularly troubled by the absurd claims that continue to pervade social media this week, fact checks be damned. Facts: I’m proud of the Clinton Foundation work that has helped tens of millions of people worldwide. Our impact speaks for itself. I don’t take a cent from the Foundation. Never have. In fact, my family personally contributes meaningfully to our work each year. Misinformation isn't just noise—it's a weapon. Efforts to undermine good work won't stop us, and we stand in solidarity with those who are committed to truth, public health, progress, and the endless potential of our...

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons. I want to explain why I have decided,...

LONDON -- North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday claimed a successful test of a new type of intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile, with leader Kim Jong Un touting the weapon as a major military achievement.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that Republicans were “taking orders from the world’s richest man,” Elon Musk, regarding a failed continuing resolution (CR). In a post on X, Clinton accused Republicans of being “on course to shut down the government over the holidays.” “If you’re just catching up: the Republican Party, taking orders from the world’s richest man, is on course to shut down the government over the holidays, stopping paychecks for our troops and nutrition benefits for low-income families just in time for Christmas,” Clinton wrote in her post.

Former President Bill Clinton revealed he “couldn’t sleep for two years” and was prone to “outbursts of rage” after his wife Hillary Clinton lost to GOP rival Donald Trump in 2016, acknowledging in a memoir released earlier this month that he “wasn’t fit to be around.” “The whole thing is hard for me to write,” Clinton, wrote in “Citizen: My Life After The White House,” according to the Daily Mail. “I couldn’t sleep for two years after the election. I was so angry, I wasn’t fit to be around.”

Former President Clinton said in an interview that aired Sunday that he believes the U.S. is set to have a woman-led executive branch “pretty soon.” “I still think we’ll have a … female president pretty soon,” Clinton said in an interview on “CBS News Sunday Morning” with the outlet’s Tracy Smith. Vice President Harris, who recently lost her bid for the White House to President-elect Trump, would have been the first woman, Black woman and person of South Asian descent to secure the presidency if she had won. Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, also would have been...

Bill Clinton gave Donald Trump a free ad the other day when he hit the campaign trail in Georgia and declared that Laken Riley would still be alive if the illegal migrant who allegedly killed her had been “properly vetted.” The 78-year-old former president was trying to defend Kamala Harris’ record as the border czar, who presided over the invasion of more than 10 million illegal migrants. “You had a case in Georgia not very long ago . . . a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant,” Clinton said Sunday. “Well, if they’d all been properly vetted...

Former president Bill Clinton asserted that mass migration was crucial in tackling America’s declining birth rate. So they are now acknowledging the "great replacement" despite gas lighting us by calling it a "conspiracy theory" for years?

Former President Bill Clinton blamed the Harris-Biden administration for letting the migrant accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley into the US– after being tapped to shore up Democratic votes for the vice president in the swing state. “You got a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you — they made an ad about it — a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant,” Clinton said Sunday during a fish fry in Fort Valley, referring to the February murder of Riley, 22. “Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted that probably wouldn’t have happened,”...

The United States needs more migrants to replace the children that Americans are not producing, former President Bill Clinton said at a press event on Sunday. “America is not having enough babies to keep our populations up, so we need immigrants that have been vetted to do work,” Clinton said at a fish fry in Fort Valley, Georgia. He repeated the claim at another campaign stop on October 14, saying, “We got the lowest birth rate we’ve had in well over 100 years. We’re not at replacement level, which means we got to have somebody come here if we want...

Suffs, the feminist Broadway musical that counts Hillary Clinton as one of its main producers, is officially a box-office bomb, with the show announcing a closing date after reportedly failing to turn a profit after nearly six months. The musical — a nearly three-hour celebration of the suffragette movement, featuring a cast comprised entirely of women and gender “non-binary” performers — cost $19 million to produce, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing reviewed by the New York Times. That money has not been recouped, with ticket revenue failing to cover the weekly cost of operations.

Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, encouraged lawmakers to focus on making the internet a safer place for users during a Saturday appearance on CNN. “There are people who are championing it, but it’s been a long and difficult road to getting anything done,” Clinton said, crediting California and New York for enacting social media regulations but emphasized the need for action at a national level. “We need national action and sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children,” the diplomat stated. Clinton argued that social media safety regulations should be “at...

Jim Sasser has died. The former U.S. senator, lawyer and military man who served as U.S. ambassador to China during the Bill Clinton administration was respected for his pleasant demeanor and quick intellect. He was 87. A former Tennessee Democratic Party chairman, Sasser served Tennessee in the U.S. Senate from 1977 to 1995, partly with Republican Howard Baker and partly with fellow Democrats Al Gore and Harlan Mathews. The state has seen no Democrat hold the position since Sasser left. Clinton appointed Sasser in 1996 to serve as the sixth U.S. ambassador to China.

Former President Bill Clinton spoke with a raspy voice and said he may be unable to attend future Democratic conventions in a Wednesday night speech to delegates — as stunned viewers noted his hands trembling during his remarks.

The Democrat party is in disarray as they try to push Joe Biden out of the way. Obama and Pelosi are orchestrating damaging leaks to the media in an effort to drive Biden out of the 2024 race. Joe Biden is currently fuming at his Rehoboth Beach house as Democrats plan a coup against him with rumors of an open convention. Kamala Harris is jumping on donor calls and rallying supporters in North Carolina as Biden hides at his beach compound. The media is pushing Kamala Harris as the perfect alternative to Joe Biden. However, an author floated twice-failed presidential...

Democratic strategist James Carville said former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama should direct discussions on who should replace President Biden on the ticket. “Mark my words: Joe Biden is going to be out of the 2024 presidential race. Whether he is ready to admit it or not. His pleas on Monday to congressional Democrats for support will not unite the party behind him,” Mr. Carville wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times Monday. He added that the party shouldn’t just shift gears to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris or another Democrat; the process should be “out in...

The neon lights could soon be bright for Joe Biden on Broadway as Hillary Clinton teams up with actor and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda to raise money for the president in the city that never sleeps. Clinton and the Hamilton musical creator will present a 'special Broadway performance' of 'Suffs: the musical' on April 3 to raise money for the Biden Victory Fund, the president's joint fundraising committee, and the Women's Leadership Forum. Tickets to the Times Square performance cost between $500 and $5,000 a person, according to the event invite. This is just the latest fundraising effort by the failed...

The indictment of former President Donald Trump on Thursday by a grand jury in Manhattan is an assault on democracy. There is no evidence of a crime being committed in the Stormy Daniels affair; even if there were, the statute of limitations on the supposed charge has expired, and the state cannot evade it by inventing a federal crime. The indictment is simply an attempt to prevent the leading opposition candidate from contesting the 2024 election. Worse, the indictment was purchased by notorious left-wing billionaire George Soros, who hates Trump and spent $1 million to elect Manhattan District Attorney Alvin...

Only two in ten Democrats support President Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 primary matchup, a March survey from McLaughlin & Associates found. While former President Donald Trump dominates in the hypothetical 2024 Republican presidential field, leading his closest potential challenger, Gov. Ron DeSantis, by 23 percent, Biden does not have as clear a lead in the hypothetical 2024 Democrat primary race. Just 23 percent of Democrats said they would support Biden in the Democrat primary race, compared to 46 percent of Republicans who support Trump. Former first lady Michelle Obama comes in seven points behind Biden with 16 percent...