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Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have moved to rural England, put their Montecito estate on the market and plan to never return to the United States, telling friends the election of Donald Trump was their primary motivation, a person close to the former TV host told TheWrap. Though the incoming Republican administration was the cited catalyst, a fresh start couldn’t hurt: DeGeneres has been open about being “kicked out of show business” after reports of toxic workplace behavior at the syndicated “Ellen” show in 2002. DeGeneres has already moved to the Cotswolds, a rural area in south-central England,...

On Monday, President Trump took the step he promised in 2017 to officially withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement on climate change, which every other country on Earth has signed. This is not America first; once again, it’s America isolated.

In a time of increasingly bleak reports out of Iraq, the news that terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has finally been killed, along with several close aides, comes as welcome news to all Americans. More importantly, it should provide a much-needed boost of morale in Iraq as well, among our own troops and among the Iraqi people who have been al-Zarqawi's main victims. "Arguably over the last several years, no single person on this planet has had the blood of more innocent men, women and children on his hands than Zarqawi," is how Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it. "He...