How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots on the Ground This Election

Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 4.0 By Ben Weingarten for RealClearInvestigations Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found. The methods include voter registration and mobilization campaigns by ostensibly nonpartisan charities that target Democrats using demographic data as […]

U.S. meets Venezuelan officials to express concerns over electoral process

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials met representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Mexico this week to express concerns about Venezuela’s electoral process, a White House official said on Friday. The secret meeting was held as an April 18 deadline approached for the United States to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry in […]

Surrogate parenthood is ‘inhuman,’ Italy’s Giorgia Meloni says

ROME — Surrogate parenthood is an “inhuman” practice that treats children as “supermarket products,” Italy’s prime minister said on Friday, urging parliament to pass a bill to prosecute those who go abroad for it. Parenting via surrogacy is already illegal in Italy, punishable with jail and fines, but the right-wing coalition of Giorgia Meloni has […]

Ghana ruling party presidential candidate says he opposes same-sex relations

ACCRA — The presidential candidate of Ghana’s ruling party, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, said on Thursday he was opposed to “the practice of homosexuality,” a stance he promised to maintain if elected in December. President Nana Akufo-Addo faces pressure to sign into law one of Africa’s most severe anti-LGBTQ bills, which has been criticized by rights […]

Unpacking the Legacy of OJ Simpson: Was His Acquittal Justified?

Screenshot: Inside Edition Marc Lamont Hill, a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, responded to the death of OJ Simpson by saying his acquittal in the double murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman was a “necessary” outcome. Simpson, 76, died at his home in […]

Colorado groups say they’ve collected enough signatures to place an abortion rights measure on the ballot

A proposed amendment that would formally enshrine access to abortion in Colorado’s constitution is all but certain to appear on the November ballot after a coalition of reproductive rights advocates said Friday they have collected the required number of signatures. Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom, the group leading the effort, announced it had collected the […]

Speaker Mike Johnson to meet with Donald Trump amid threats to his job

WASHINGTON — With his job in jeopardy, House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to head to Florida on Friday to meet with the one man who could save his precarious speakership: the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump. Trump and Johnson, R-La., plan to deliver remarks about “election integrity,” said several sources, one of whom […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel Talks FISA Reform: Suggests Program Still Being Used To Spy On Trump, Other Candidates

Screenshot: Fox Business House Speaker Mike Johnson, a one-time hardline critic of a controversial surveillance law meant to target terrorists but which often surveils Americans’ communications without a warrant is evolving on the matter. Johnson (R-LA) is actively opposing a new warrant requirement for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). As reported […]