Hot Air,
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John Sexton
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In case you missed it yesterday, a white male employee of the NY Times filed an EEOC complaint claiming he was passed over for a promotion because of his race. The EEOC then filed a lawsuit against the NY Times accursing the paper of racial discriminatin.
When I wrote about all of this it yesterday, I had to rely on the accounts published by various newspapers describing the lawsuit. Not surprisingly, the NY Times' own story about it left out a lot of detail. For instance, here's what the Times published dismissing the main claim in the lawsuit.
Daily Signal,
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Al Perrotta
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“Mass deportations are coming,” border czar Tom Homan declared Tuesday during his keynote speech at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona.
“If you think last year’s historic number was good, wait until next year, when we have 10,000 agents,” he told the more than 2,200 attendees. “You ain’t seen (expletive) yet.”
Homan specifically put New York on notice after the state refused to enter a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a formal partnership that delegates to state or local law enforcement certain immigration authority functions.
“We’re going to flood the zone.
Daily Signal,
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Fred Lucas
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The FBI raided the office of the Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat, as part of a corruption investigation, Fox 5 D.C. reportedopens in a new tab.
She is the top official in the state Senate. Lucas is a leader in the state Democrats’ redistricting push. FBI agents are searching a nearby cannabis dispensary as part of the probe. Fox 5 says law enforcement hasn’t disclosed the reason for the investigation.
A federal judge approved multiple search warrants for the FBI raid, Fox 5 reported.
Lucas, 82, first assumed office in the stateopens in a new tab Senate in 1992, and became the Senate president pro tempore in 2020.
Associated Press,
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Joshua Boak *
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WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran appeared to be moving closer Wednesday to an initial agreement to end the war, as U.S. President Trump sought to pressure Tehran with threats of a new wave of bombing if a deal is not reached.
Trump posted on social media that the two-month war could soon end and that oil and natural gas shipments disrupted by the conflict could restart. But he said that depends on Iran accepting a reported agreement that the president did not detail.
United Press International,
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Paul Godfrey
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Global oil prices fell sharply and financial markets rallied Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump paused a military operation to reopen the Hormuz Strait to commercial shipping to give advanced peace talks with Iran a chance to deliver "a complete and final deal."
Falls in Brent crude of more than $10 a barrel to $99, American crude by $13 to $92 a barrel and rallies in Asian stock markets overnight that fed into Europe when bourses opened there failed to feed through to U.S. gas prices, which jumped 5 cents a gallon to their highest level of the war.
Hollywood Reporter,
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Paul Bond
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Ted Turner, the media visionary who forever altered the news business by founding CNN and helped introduce Americans to pay TV by creating cable channels like TNT, Turner Classic Movies and Cartoon Network, has died. He was 87.
Turner, who later turned his attention to saving the planet and pushing progressive political causes, died Wednesday, according to a statement from the family released by Turner Enterprises. Turner died peacefully surrounded by his family. He battled Lewy body dementia in recent years.
National Review,
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Brittany Bernstein
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President Trump and his allies vowed to oust the Indiana Republicans who opposed the president’s proposed redistricting efforts last year — and on Tuesday evening, they largely made good on that promise.
Indiana voters headed to the polls on Tuesday for the state’s primary elections, with Trump-backed challengers handily defeating at least five of the seven state senators who opposed the president’s effort to eliminate Democratic congressional representation in the Hoosier State late last year as part of a mid-decade redistricting tit-for-tat between the parties.
PJ Media,
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Sarah Anderson
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Over the weekend, we saw Secretary of State Marco Rubio getting down in the DJ booth at a family wedding in Florida. At some point in the next 24 hours, he's going to hop on a plane to go have a nice little diplomatic chat with the pope and top Italian government officials. On Tuesday afternoon, he took a few moments out of his busy schedule to stop by the White House to fill in for Karolina Leavitt, who is currently on maternity leave.
The result? A masterclass in foreign policy.
As I write this, "Rubio 2028" is trending on X.
Red State,
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Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
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Decision Desk HQ has called the Ohio Governor's Race. With 87 percent of precincts reporting, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has defeated his Republican challenger, YouTuber and car designer Casey Putsch, to move to the November 2026 general election. Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has won Ohio’s Republican primary for governor, NBC News projects, advancing to what could be an expensive and competitive general election in a state that has been brutal for Democrats in recent elections.
Amy Acton, a former state health director, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday without opposition.
Ramaswamy, 40, defeated Casey Putsch, a political novice known for his “car guy” videos on YouTube.
New York Post,
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Rich Lowry
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It’s not 1973 anymore, and that’s a very good thing for the United States.
Back then, the United States imported more than a third of its oil, much of it from the Middle East — and it paid the price.
Now it’s in a transformed position. “Drill, baby, drill” is arguably the most successful public policy of the last 20 years.
It started life in 2008 as a catchphrase coined by Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland, and has now been effected, with enormous economic and strategic benefits to the United States. On top of sweeping innovations forged by private industry, President Trump has driven a stake
Baha Breaking News (Vienna, Austria),
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Christian Baha
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United States President Donald Trump announced that Washington's effort to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the so-called "Project Freedom," will be "paused for a short period of time."
Citing a request made by Pakistan and "other countries," as well as "Great Progress" with Iranian representatives, Trump said the halt will serve "to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed."
Washington's blockade of Iranian ports, however, "will remain in full force and effect," the US president noted in his post on Truth Social.
Power Line,
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John Hinderaker
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Justice Sam Alito has emerged as a spokesman for the conservative (or, at least, moderate) majority on the Supreme Court, while Justice Ketanji Jackson seems to be auditioning for a role on MSNBC as a left-wing pundit. We wrote here about the Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, where the Court held, correctly, that the Voting Rights Act cannot be interpreted to require racial gerrymandering. That decision was handed down last Wednesday.
Yesterday, the Court issued a follow-up order directing a prompt entry of judgment. The Court’s per curiam said, in full: