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Panel Passes Resolution to Hold Merrick Garland in Contempt of Congress

The resolution, largely symbolic, must be approved by the full House to officially hold Garland in contempt. Republicans maintain a narrow majority in the House to pass the resolution.

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18 States Sue Biden Administration over Transgender Workplace Mandates

Eighteen states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Monday, saying it is illegally enforcing pro-transgender rules on companies and their employees.

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Poll: Taxpayers Turning on Funding NPR

Taxpayers are turning on the public funding of National Public Radio (NPR), according to the latest DailyMail.com/TIPP survey.

The post Poll: Taxpayers Turning on Funding NPR appeared first on Breitbart.

Watch Live: Congressional Hearing on Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

The House Homeland Security subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability will hold a hearing on the surge in illegal immigrants from China on Thursday, May 16.

The post Watch Live: Congressional Hearing on Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration appeared first on Breitbart.

Chris Wallace: 'Would Be Suicidal' for Trump to Be Too Aggressive in Debate

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

CNN host Chris Wallace said Wednesday "Newsnight" that it would be "suicidal" if former President Donald Trump doesn't change his aggressive "way too hot" behavior from the last time he debated President Joe Biden.

The post Chris Wallace: ‘Would Be Suicidal’ for Trump to Be Too Aggressive in Debate appeared first on Breitbart.

In Their Domes: Chamber of Commerce Rattled by Breitbart News's Reporting on Congressional Investigation into Foundation Financing

Top officials at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce indicated on Thursday that the organization is rattled by a series of exclusive Breitbart News stories on a blooming congressional investigation into the purportedly pro-business group’s financing of its related foundation, the Hill reported.

The post In Their Domes: Chamber of Commerce Rattled by Breitbart News’s Reporting on Congressional Investigation into Foundation Financing appeared first on Breitbart.

Kevin Morris Allegedly Retires as Hunter Biden's Sugar Brother

Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden's sugar brother and Hollywood lawyer, will allegedly quit financing Hunter's legal defense, Morris confirmed.

The post Kevin Morris Allegedly Retires as Hunter Biden’s Sugar Brother appeared first on Breitbart.

Nolte: Descent Into Evil Cost Disney+ $4 Billion as Stock Continues to Sink

My hope is that Bob Iger sincerely believes Disney’s descent into pure evil has nothing to do with this $4 billion loss. I don’t want Disney to right its ship. I want Disney to die.

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Israel on Gallant Going Public with Criticism of Postwar Gaza Policy: We Are a Vibrant Democracy

Israeli government spokesperson Tal Heinrich said Thursday that defense minister Yoav Gallant's public criticism of his own government's policy on postwar Gaza was simply part of Israel's commitment to democracy and free speech.

The post Israel on Gallant Going Public with Criticism of Postwar Gaza Policy: We Are a Vibrant Democracy appeared first on Breitbart.

Niger Coup Official Calls Biden Diplomacy ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘Condescending’

Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine said in an interview on Tuesday that his government’s relations with the United States broke down because the Biden administration adopted a “condescending tone and lack of respect.”

The post Niger Coup Official Calls Biden Diplomacy ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘Condescending’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Russian metals tycoon says US Treasury sanctions against him are 'balderdash'

The U.S. Treasury levied sanctions on Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska for an alleged sanctions evasion scheme aimed at unlocking frozen shares. Deripaska dismissed the sanctions.

L.A. Supervisors Vote to Have Taxpayers Fund Legal Bills for Pro-Hamas Activists Arrested at UCLA

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has passed a motion to ensure that the public defender's office provides defense attorneys and legal resources for the pro-Palestinian activists arrested at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) earlier this month.

The post L.A. Supervisors Vote to Have Taxpayers Fund Legal Bills for Pro-Hamas Activists Arrested at UCLA appeared first on Breitbart.

Anti-Biden Uncommitted Vote on Pace to Eclipse 70k in Maryland Democrat Primary

The uncommitted vote to protest President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Maryland’s Democrat primary on Tuesday is on pace to eclipse the 70,000 threshold, showing the pro-Palestinian anti-Biden movement continues to grow three months out from the Democrat National Convention.

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Rosie O’Donnell Sent Messages to Michael Cohen During Trump Trial Testimony: ‘Breathe, U Got This, I Love U’

Michael Cohen and Rosie O'Donnell have reportedly struck an unlikely friendship, with the comedian texting Cohen "I love you" as he appeared as a witness in the criminal case against his ex-boss, former President Donald Trump.

The post Rosie O’Donnell Sent Messages to Michael Cohen During Trump Trial Testimony: ‘Breathe, U Got This, I Love U’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Democrat Judge Dismissed Charges Against Arizona State Pro-Hamas Protesters

In a packed courtroom on Tuesday, a judge dismissed charges filed against 71 protesters arrested in late April at the Arizona State University Campus. The judge dismissed the cases without prejudice at the University Lakes Justice Court in Chandler, Arizona.

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Former Chief of Staff Ron Klain to Help Joe Biden with Debate Prep

Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain will take a hiatus from his position at Airbnb and help President Joe Biden prepare his upcoming debates with former President Donald Trump.

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Ukraine Claims it Has Halted Russian Advance Into Vovchansk, For Now

Attempts to gain foothold "have been foiled," the general staff said. It was not possible to verify the claim, the Associated Press noted.

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Here’s How the Woke Left Captures Corporate America

How does offering sex change surgery for employees’ children boost a company’s profits or shareholder return?

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Jon Stewart Mocks Nancy Pelosi's Stock Market Acumen: ‘Legal Corruption' Is 'So F**king Lucrative'

Comedian Jon Stewart targeted Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for mockery on a recent episode of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," saying Pelosi and other members of Congress "have inside information" that they blatantly use for personal financial gain.

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'It's Their Super Bowl': Tuberville Calls NY Trial 'Witch Hunt,' 'Planned Since He Decided to Run for President'

Fresh off of his appearance in New York City alongside former President Donald Trump on Monday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) criticized New York prosecutors for what he deemed a "witch hunt" against the former president.

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Biden Surrogate: Biden Debating Shows He's Not Running 'Morning in America Campaign'

During an interview with CBS on Wednesday, Biden campaign surrogate Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that President Joe Biden agreeing to debate 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is a good thing for the country and Biden “needs

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Dem Rep. Phillips: Biden Needs 'Major Course Correction,' 'Real Attention' on Fixing Inflation, Border or Face '24 'Wipeout'

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) stated that President Joe Biden needs “a major course correction, acknowledgment of inflation, the immigration crisis, and real attention to addressing both of those issues,” and

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Morning Glory: Trump sees Biden debate bid and raises it

It's presidential debate time in a big way. Both Trump and Biden are preparing for the continuation of their rivalry and another chance to duke it out in front of the American people.

Faith and Politics: An Insider’s View From Former Trump Aide Cliff Sims

Cliff Sims had a front-row seat in the White House to some of President Donald Trump’s biggest decisions and helped craft the administration’s message to the American people.

As a special assistant to the president, Sims served as a key staffer in the White House communications office before later moving to a different role as deputy director of national intelligence for strategy and communications.

Along the way, Sims wrote a bestselling book, “Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House.” And this month, he is now out with a new book, “The Darkness Has Not Overcome: Lessons on Faith and Politics from Inside the Halls of Power.”

Sims writes from the perspective of a Baptist minister’s son whose own Christian faith guided him during his time in the Trump administration. He spoke to The Daily Signal about the lessons he learned and his advice for Americans as they prepare to make a choice for our country’s future.

Listen to the full interview on “The Daily Signal Podcast” or read the transcript—edited for length and clarity—below.

Rob Bluey: What inspired you to write “The Darkness Has Not Overcome”?

Cliff Sims: When I left the government, a lot of it was me wrestling with what that time period of my life meant for me, like, what were some of the things I could have learned from that experience, and I journaled a lot about it and was thinking a lot about it.

I realized through that process that a lot of the things that I could have learned I was learning, the takeaways that I had could apply to anybody’s life. No matter what they’re doing, they had to serve in government to have some takeaways from it.

I realized that there was an opportunity to write a book that told a bunch of cool stories from behind the scenes in the White House and CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Air Force One and all these different things, but use those to jump into biblical takeaways, faith takeaways that could apply to anybody’s life. So that was really what inspired me to write the book.

Bluey: Can you speak to your upbringing as the son of a Baptist minister and how that shaped your approach to faith and particularly politics during your time serving a government?

Sims: The subtitle for the book is “Lessons on Faith and Politics From Inside the Halls of Power.” But the first thing that people would need to know about me is that I come from about as far away from those halls of powers you could possibly imagine—lived in, grew up in a working-class family, working-class neighborhood. My dad was a Baptist minister and faith was an integral part of our lives. We’re in the church every time the doors were open.

But really my personal faith journey, I had a knowledge of the Bible that was more than a lot of my friends growing up. There’s no doubt about that, but it really had not had a heart change in me until later in life.

A lot of that kind of grit and determination from growing up in a working-class family I think I’ve applied to a lot of things I’ve done professionally. And really the moment in my life when—well, I guess there wasn’t a moment in my life that I could point to that’s like that’s when God changed my heart. Even though I certainly remember the moment that I accepted Christ, my savior, and things like that.

I learned a lot about the way that God changes people and it’s not the way that we think about it. We focus a lot on our actions. Any self-help podcast that you listen to, it focuses on actions. If you could just work out a little bit more. If you could just get up a little bit earlier. If you could just spend more time with your family. If you were a better networker, all these things and actions.

The real "threat to democracy."

The Darkness Has Not Overcome: Lessons on Faith and Politics from Inside the Halls of Power is out NOW https://t.co/B7qlVi6H9L @MarkLevinShow pic.twitter.com/YXSocrBHJK

— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) May 8, 2024

What I’ve learned in my own life is the way that God changes people is, like, I would call it like concentric circles. And at the center of that concentric circle is worship. I found in my life, I’ve worshiped my career, I’ve worshiped power, I’ve worshiped fame, I’ve worshiped money. I mean, go down the list of these things.

What you worship becomes what you think about. What you think about becomes your desires, and your desires become your actions. And what God did was he changed what I worshiped or who I worshiped. Once he was at the center of that Venn diagram, it changed the things that I think about and changed my desires and, ultimately, that changed my actions.

And the way that that manifested itself in serving in government is, I think, in retrospect, I struggled with a lot of things that I didn’t know that I would, such as like the attraction of power.

When you don’t have power, how do you know that you’re going to be susceptible to the attraction of power? But being able to lean back on my faith and look to Scripture for new challenges, things that I was struggling with that I never had to think about before, that biblical foundation helped me not lose myself in the process.

Bluey: I wanted to go back to something you said earlier, and that was that you found yourself growing up far from the halls of power. So did you ever imagine as a younger man that you would be serving the most powerful man in the world?

Sims: No, definitely not. I mean, that’s the thing about life in general is, like, all of us only know the universe that we’ve been exposed to. I mean, I had never met anybody who had money. How could I know what someone with money would do with money? I’d never met someone who’d served in the government. How would I know what people who walk the halls of power, so to speak, what they do, how they lived their lives?

I’d never in a million years would have imagined that. But I do remember the moment when I realized, in retrospect, that God was ordering my steps, that kind of the way that the trajectory of my life has gone on, that he was organizing all of that.

SCOOP: A former top White House and intelligence official will release a book targeting an overlapping audience of political conservatives, particularly those in Trump's base, and evangelical Christians, who play a big role in election outcomes. https://t.co/LA8NVbUFR6

— Axios (@axios) February 15, 2024

I was playing college basketball at a university in Mississippi, a buddy of mine was playing at a junior college in South Alabama, and I was thinking about wanting to transfer. My family was living in Florida at the time. I go and visit this tiny town called Enterprise, Alabama, which is most famous for having a monument to a bug in its downtown, to a boll weevil. It’s the only city in the country with a monument to a bug. It’s all I knew about it.

So, I go and visit and I really liked it. The team was good. I thought, “You know what,? I’m going to transfer here.” And the last thing I needed to do was call my dad and say, “Hey, I’m going to transfer.” And again, they were living in Florida at the time and I called my dad and said, “I’m going to transfer to this tiny school in Enterprise, Alabama.” And it was an awkward silence on the phone, and I said, “Well, is that OK?” And my dad said, “I was going to call you today and tell you that our family is moving to Enterprise, Alabama.”

My dad was a Baptist minister. His friend had become a pastor of a church in Enterprise and called him to be the executive pastor there. And so, my friend was a pastor of a church in Enterprise and called him to be the executive, was kind of reunited on coming from two separate tracks, and it’s like a moment in time where even the most fervent atheist would have a difficult time chalking that up to mere coincidence.

I remember it because at a time in my life where I didn’t care what God’s plan was for my life, he was already ordering his steps. And my Sunday school teacher, the day that I walked into Sunday school, the first day at our new town, was a guy named Barry Moore. Moore, who was a small business owner, but now he’s Congressman Barry Moore.

So, the first thing I did in politics in the 2010 election cycle was help to run Barry’s campaign. And six years later, I had an office in the West Wing. A lot of stuff happened in between there, but that’s kind of my journey in politics. Well, God’s plan for each of us is truly amazing.

Bluey: Thank you so much for sharing that, that story. Wow. Speaking of the West Wing, can you share a specific example from your time working there where you felt challenged in maintaining your Christian principles in this political environment in which we live?

Sims: There aren’t a lot of examples from the West Wing where there’s like a dramatic moment where it’s like, oh my gosh, I’m being asked to do something that is against my sincerely held beliefs.

I worked in the Trump White House and, fortunately, from a policy perspective, I was a fervent believer in a lot of things that we’re doing, what President Trump did from a policy perspective for the faith community—things like ending the “Mexico City policy,” funding with taxpayer resources abortions in foreign countries, or putting pro-life justices on the Supreme Court, or instructing the Department of Justice to no longer … go after the nonprofit status of faith-based nonprofits that speak into divisive political issues. I think you can go down the list of these things.

. @Tgowdysc is joined by @Cliff_Sims as he dissects the clash between one’s political identity vs. spiritual identity when holding a position of power. https://t.co/6ov8gO1GMX pic.twitter.com/6EkRK0c4Mh

— FOX News Radio (@foxnewsradio) May 7, 2024

I think the wrestling with what serving in government meant for my faith or how my faith applied to that experience or where it was tested really has come more in retrospect. And I think the most direct example that I could give is the day that Joe Biden was inaugurated president, Jan. 20, 2021.

I was deputy director of national intelligence at the time, and I was standing alone in the nearly empty hallways of the CIA. And I was wandering those empty halls by myself because it was not just a transition moment for the country. I knew it was a transition moment for me, that this was going to be the last opportunity that I had to walk those halls, at least in the short term.

And I was wrestling with this nagging feeling that nothing that I will ever do in life will be this important. It’ll never be this big of a deal again. How could I ever find value in the work that I’m doing when it’s never going to be like this again? And, of course, that’s ego talking, but it’s also just wrong because what I learned through that process about work is that who we are working for is more important than what we are doing.

The Bible says whatever you do, do it as unto the Lord. And when you put work in its proper context—that whether I’m in the White House or in a coffee house I’m performing with excellence and there is meaning to it because I’m serving God in my work—your work becomes an overflow of worship. And that’s a totally different way of looking at work.

So, I think the way to answer your question that my faith was tested was, I was in what C.S. Lewis would call the inner ring. I had access to power and influence and things that test your character. Only in retrospect was I able to come to terms with that is not what defines me. I’m not defined by the title that I have. The fact that my phone quit ringing when I left because people didn’t like me, they were calling me because of the title that I had. I had to come to terms with that.

Going through that and wrestling with that, I’ve been able to put my work, my career, in a much better, more biblical context.

Bluey: There’s so much in our culture that happens outside of government and politics, but obviously, 2024 is a big year. There’s a lot of focus on elections, not only at the national level, but local level. How much is at stake when it comes to the future of our country and the direction we go when it comes to electing leaders?

Sims: Every single election cycle, it feels like we say, “Well, this is the most important election of our lifetimes.” And it’s like, well, in retrospect, some of these elections were not as important as others. Let’s just be honest about them.

But this is another moment where I think we are at a real crossroads as a country and deciding kind of what to do, what direction we’re going to go. Are we going to go the path of limited government, more human freedom and flourishing? Are we going to go the path of bigger government, more intervention in our daily lives where the government does play a meaningful role in our daily lives here? Which I don’t want to happen.

Millions of college students may be protesting Israel, but if Trump wins 2024, Israel WILL have a loyal friend in the WH again. Former Deputy DNI @Cliff_Sims tells me how determined Trump was to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem: "[He said] I said I would do it. We're doing it." pic.twitter.com/jRxw7b9zNo

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) May 3, 2024

On every single issue from foreign affairs—right now you’re seeing just mayhem in every corner of the world. From the Middle East to Eastern Europe to China’s breathing down Taiwan’s neck in Southeast Asia, foreign affairs to economics, where you’re going to have a decision and people aren’t thinking about early next year. We’re going to have to re-up the tax cuts that came for from the Trump presidency. Are we going to do that or we’re going to have to be more taxed and more regulated? All these different issues.

So, I do believe this is one of those elections that we’ll look back on and say that that was a really, really important election.

Bluey: What is one of the things that you hope readers take away from the book, especially those who may be feeling discouraged or disillusioned by the current state of politics and society today?

Sims: Thank you for asking that. I mean, I’ll go back to the title of the book, “The Darkness Has Not Overcome.”

It comes from the Gospel of John 1:5, “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” This is a promise from Scripture that we can lean on, even in the darkest of times, that Scripture makes it clear the good guys win. Again, we can skip to the end. End of the book: The good guys win.

It’s hard not to be discouraged at the moment. We have work to do, and we need to do everything that we can to spread the Gospel and fight for policies that we believe in government.

All these different things are very important. But even in the darkest times, we can lean on that promise that the darkness will not overcome this, that we have a hope that is bigger than our politics and it’s found in our relationship with God.

Bluey: I’m so glad the book is doing well. I encourage our Daily Signal listeners to pick up a copy wherever books are sold or online. Thank you so much for writing it and sharing your experiences and advice with us today.

Sims: Rob, thanks for having me. I love The Heritage Foundation, love The Daily Signal. Love everything that you guys do. It’s an honor to be on with you.

Photo courtesy of Cliff Sims.

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California University President Suspended After Agreeing to Boycott Israel

A university president in California was placed on leave Wednesday after sending a controversial email to the campus community on Tuesday announcing an agreement to boycott Israeli institutions -- apparently without authority.

The post California University President Suspended After Agreeing to Boycott Israel appeared first on Breitbart.

Anti-Israel Protesters End Encampment at Princeton

Anti-Israel protesters taking part in an encampment at Princeton University revealed that the encampment would be open for its last day on Wednesday.

The post Anti-Israel Protesters End Encampment at Princeton appeared first on Breitbart.

Pro-Hamas Activists Take Over UC Berkeley Building -- After Deal to End 'Encampment'

A group of radical pro-Palestinian activists took over a building at the University of California Berkeley on Wednesday, just hours after administrators and protesters struck a deal to end a weeks-long "encampment."

The post Pro-Hamas Activists Take Over UC Berkeley Building — After Deal to End ‘Encampment’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Capitol Police Investigating 'Zip Lock Bag' of Cocaine in Headquarters Building

The United States Capitol Police (USCP) announced on Wednesday that they are investigating a "zip lock bag" left inside the agency's headquarters building that contained a "small amount" of cocaine.

The post Capitol Police Investigating ‘Zip Lock Bag’ of Cocaine in Headquarters Building appeared first on Breitbart.

Poll: More Say Economy Will 'Get Better' if Trump Elected, 'Worse' if Biden Reelected

More believe the economy will "get better" if former President Donald Trump is elected in November, and more believe it will get "worse" if President Joe Biden wins a second term, a recent survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

The post Poll: More Say Economy Will ‘Get Better’ if Trump Elected, ‘Worse’ if Biden Reelected appeared first on Breitbart.

Dem Sen. Warner: Biden and I Did Bash Trump's Tariffs, But China Doesn't Play Fair

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) responded to President Joe Biden’s prior criticism of the Trump China tariffs by stating that China doesn’t follow market rules and saying that “I’m sure I probably took a

The post Dem Sen. Warner: Biden and I Did Bash Trump’s Tariffs, But China Doesn’t Play Fair appeared first on Breitbart.

White House Can't Explain Why Egypt Is Blocking Aid to Gaza

The White House has criticized Israel in the past for the slow pace of humanitarian aid delivery, as well as for recent attacks by right-wing activists on aid trucks, but struggled Wednesday to criticize Egypt for blocking aid to Gaza.

The post White House Can’t Explain Why Egypt Is Blocking Aid to Gaza appeared first on Breitbart.

Trump Trial Becomes Prime Venue for Veep Contenders, Supporters

A dozen of former President Donald Trump's top supporters so far have shown up to Manhattan to support him, which not only likely engenders his gratitude, but also has become a high-profile speaking slot, with a crowd of reporters assigned to detail the trial's every development.

The post Trump Trial Becomes Prime Venue for Veep Contenders, Supporters appeared first on Breitbart.

Dem Rep. Moskowitz: 'Biden Has Been an Absolute Champion of Jewish People'

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "American Reports" that President Joe Biden has been "has been an absolute champion of Jewish people."

The post Dem Rep. Moskowitz: ‘Biden Has Been an Absolute Champion of Jewish People’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Karl Rove: Biden's Numbers Are So 'Bad,' He Had to Debate

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "America Reports" that President Joe Biden had to agree to debate former President Donald Trump because his numbers were "bad."

The post Karl Rove: Biden’s Numbers Are So ‘Bad,’ He Had to Debate appeared first on Breitbart.

Romney on Trump: He Won't Have a 'Cheering Crowd' at the Debate

By: Pam Key · Pam Key

Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Chris Jansing Reports" that former President Donald Trump can't rely on cheering crowds at the upcoming presidential debate with President Joe Biden.

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Biden Backs Internal Revolt in Netanyahu Government over Postwar Gaza

President Joe Biden is backing an internal revolt within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the fate of postwar Gaza, after defense minister Yoav Gallant publicly declared his opposition to long-term Israeli rule there.

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Mass Migration Milestone: Joe Biden's Parole Pipeline Brings Over a Million Foreign Nationals to U.S.

President Joe Biden’s parole pipeline has brought more than a million foreign nationals to the United States since its inception in January 2023 -- exceeding the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

The post Mass Migration Milestone: Joe Biden’s Parole Pipeline Brings Over a Million Foreign Nationals to U.S. appeared first on Breitbart.

GOP Congresswoman Rips Democrat Dan Goldman over Merchan, Cohen Controversy

The controversy could to raise a conflict of interest for Goldman, who seemed to say on MSNBC that he prepared Cohen for his testimony in the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. 

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Leah Sharibu, Christian Schoolgirl Abducted by Boko Haram 6 Years Ago, Turns 21 in Captivity

Nigerian Christians took the streets on Tuesday to protest their government's incompetence in containing the threat of radical Islamist terrorism, marking the 21st birthday of Christian longtime Boko Haram captive Leah Sharibu.

The post Leah Sharibu, Christian Schoolgirl Abducted by Boko Haram 6 Years Ago, Turns 21 in Captivity appeared first on Breitbart.

Trump Campaign Challenges Biden to 'One Debate Per Month'

The Trump campaign challenged President Joe Biden to "one debate per month" for June-September, which it says will allow voters to "have maximum exposure to the records and future visions of each candidate."

The post Trump Campaign Challenges Biden to ‘One Debate Per Month’ appeared first on Breitbart.

Fox News Politics: Hot Debate Summer

The latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content

Former LA Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Claims He Wants to Buy TikTok

Billionaire businessman and real estate mogul Frank McCourt announced Tuesday that his Project Liberty organization is building a consortium to buy TikTok's U.S. business.

The post Former LA Dodgers Owner Frank McCourt Claims He Wants to Buy TikTok appeared first on Breitbart.

Hogan, Alsobrooks Maryland Senate Matchup Poised to Hurt Vulnerable Dems Elsewhere

Angela Alsobrooks’s upset of Rep. David Trone (D-MD) in Maryland’s U.S. Senate primary marks the beginning of a contentious general election race in a deep blue state that will have far-reaching consequences on the broader national Senate map and which party controls the next Senate.

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NHTSA Launches Investigation of Google's Waymo over Self-Driving Cars Causing Accidents

Google's Waymo self-driving vehicles may be causing big problems on the roads including accidents into stationary objects and ignoring traffic signals, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

The post NHTSA Launches Investigation of Google’s Waymo over Self-Driving Cars Causing Accidents appeared first on Breitbart.

FNC's Turley: 'It Does Appear that Cohen May Have Committed Perjury Again'

During an appearance on FNC's "Hannity" on Tuesday, Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley reacted to testimony from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, the star witness in a New York bookkeeping case brought against Donald Trump.

The post FNC’s Turley: ‘It Does Appear that Cohen May Have Committed Perjury Again’ appeared first on Breitbart.

What is the celebrity 'blockout' over the war in Gaza?

Some social media users are putting a block on seeing content from certain celebrities, claiming the celebrities 'haven't spoken up' against Israel's actions in Gaza.

Inspector General: Biden DOJ Broke Law on FBI Whistleblower Protection

The Department of Justice under President Joe Biden failed to comply with federal protections when suspending whistleblowers’ security clearances, according to a memo released Tuesday by the Office of the Inspector General.

The inspector general found that the Justice Department doesn’t give employees a way to appeal suspended security clearances, which does not align with a federal regulation updated in 2022, according to its memo. Additionally, the inspector general found that the DOJ under Biden failed to provide employees a reasonable opportunity to stay on the federal payroll if they think the department suspended their clearance to retaliate against them for protected whistleblower activity.

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“Existing DOJ practice is inconsistent with the intent of the federal statute,” the inspector general’s office announced in a news release.

House Republicans accused the FBI in a May 18, 2023, report of retaliating against FBI special agent Stephen Friend, FBI special agent Garret O’Boyle, and FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen for speaking out against the agency. O’Boyle said being placed on unpaid suspension by the FBI left his family effectively homeless.

The Office of Inspector General said it unearthed these concerns after receiving complaints from “employees alleging that their security clearances were suspended in retaliation for protected whistleblowing activity.”

Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt, who represents Allen through his organization, stated on social media that the memo was prompted in part by Allen’s complaint.

? This morning @JusticeOIG released a memo citing concerns about DOJ's compliance with whistleblower protections for employees with a security clearance. The review was in part prompted by the whistleblower complaint of @EMPOWR_us's client, Marcus Allen. https://t.co/Xg0u8bSCGM

— Tristan Leavitt (@tristanleavitt) May 14, 2024

Though the DOJ provides employees with an appeals channel if their security clearance is revoked, no such path exists for employees whose clearance is suspended pending a final decision on whether or not to revoke it, according to the Office of Inspector General. The inspector general identifies this as a problem because the law requires the DOJ to provide a path for whistleblowers to challenge suspensions lasting longer than a year as retaliatory.

Since the DOJ lacks a way for employees who suspect retaliation to contest suspensions if they go on for longer than a year, the agency “does not meet the requirements” required by law, according to the inspector general’s memo.

Losing security clearance often means DOJ employees can no longer do their jobs, seeing as jobs in the department can require that employees have clearance in order to perform their duties, according to the memo. This means, in addition to having their clearance suspended, these employees are often suspended from their jobs without pay.

Federal law mandates that individuals who believe the DOJ suspended their security clearance in retaliation for whistleblowing must be permitted, as far as it is practical, “to retain their government employment status” during the course of the suspension, according to the inspector general.

The Office of Inspector General also found that the DOJ’s existing policies create “the risk that the security process could be misused, as part of an inappropriate effort to encourage an employee to resign.”

The DOJ did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation

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Watch Live: House Hearing on Antisemitism on College Campuses

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Alvin Bragg Offers Plea Deals to Migrants Accused of Attacking NYC Cops as He Prosecutes Trump

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At WNBA Ceremony, Biden Urges America to Support the Women’s Sports He’s Destroying

In previous years, people might have missed the irony. But not now—not after the meteoric rise of women’s basketball.

When the WNBA champs visited the White House last week, reporters didn’t cover it out of obligation. They covered it because it was a real story. And President Joe Biden’s betrayal of girls sports only made it more of one.

The timing of the photo op couldn’t have been more politically inconvenient for the president, whose administration has been lit up by lawsuits over the dismantling of the very thing the team was there to celebrate—women.

While Biden was applauding the champs for “showing that the future of women’s sports is brighter than the Vegas lights,” most people couldn’t help but notice how utterly disingenuous he was being. After all, Biden is the one trying to eradicate 52 years of women’s progress. He’s the one insisting biological men make better girls than our daughters. And it was his idea—not Congress’—to turn Title IX into a manifesto of transgender rights.

Yet, he stood at the podium and with a straight face declared, “It matters to girls and women, finally seeing themselves represented—and it matters to all of America.”

“That’s why,” Biden insisted, “as a nation, we need to support women’s sports … .” Not just during the championships, he tweeted later. “But all year-round. Let’s grow women’s sports and continue inspiring the nation.”

As a nation, we need to support women’s sports by showing up in person and watching on TV – with more sponsorships and programming.

Not just during championships. But all year round.

Let's grow women’s sports and continue inspiring the nation.

— President Biden (@POTUS) May 10, 2024

The reaction was instantaneous. After three years of this administration, most parents, coaches, and teachers understand exactly what this president wants to do to women’s sports—and it isn’t growing them. It’s erasing them.

“Here’s something @POTUS could do to support women,” Alliance Defending Freedom’s Kristen Waggoner fired back: “ … Keep men out of women’s sports.”

Here’s something @POTUS could do to support women instead of watching TV:

Keep men out of women’s sports. pic.twitter.com/FZ7FP4bELn

— Kristen Waggoner (@KWaggonerADF) May 10, 2024

The Family Research Council’s Meg Kilgannon was equally incensed by the president’s hypocrisy. “President Biden wants to ‘grow’ women’s sports by allowing men who ‘identify’ as women to play. Forcing women to accept men in our locker rooms, sports teams, and even prisons IS NOT supporting women,” she argued. “Protecting women’s sports and female athletes would be truly inspirational for the nation’s women and girls, and the men who love us.”

Former NCAA All-American Riley Gaines was just as appalled, saying on her “Gaines on Girls” podcast that the “easiest way to support women’s sports is to keep men out of them.” And frankly, the Independent Women’s Forum pointed out, it’s difficult to believe the “audacity” of Biden’s comments considering that he “just mandated that girls surrender their sports opportunities to boys.”

Members of Congress, who just took turns grilling Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on this absurd rewrite of Title IX, were appalled that Biden would try to play both sides of this debate based on the harm he’s already done. The rule Biden’s team released has already triggered a number of lawsuits from more than 20 states—a fact not lost on the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

After the president’s phony hype for girls sports, Republicans tweeted, “Three weeks ago, the Biden admin finalized a radical rewrite of #TitleIX that would ERASE women’s sports by allowing biological males to compete in female sports. The guy doing the most to harm women’s sports should sit this one out.”

In one of those hearings, Cardona’s refusal to even protect his own daughter prompted a passionate response from Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah. When Biden’s top education official couldn’t answer whether he’d step in if his daughter was uncomfortable dressing in front a biological boy, the dad of girls couldn’t believe his ears.

“I’ll say this, Mr. Secretary, before I go on to the next topic,” Owens paused. “With all due respect, I pray that our country will never, ever have the vision that your policies are driving us toward in terms of manhood. It’s a vision that teaches our boys that harming girls is no big deal. I pray that we remain a country that produces overwhelmingly massive majorities of men who feel the way I do about my girls.

I will give my life in a heartbeat for my girls. And the blessing I have is that they have no doubts about that. There are millions of men and women across this country that do not have faith, do not have trust in you protecting our girls because of policies you can’t say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to.

By the way, those are not very hard questions as a father.

He repeated that sentiment with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Saturday’s edition of “This Week on the Hill.” Asked why he took Cardona to task, Owens replied simply, “I have five girls—and I grew up in an age where we were taught, very simply, [to be] a very proud young man, have a good legacy, a good name, be happy when it’s all said and done. Learn to love God, country, family. Respect women … particularly motherhood and womanhood. We all know that’s what makes our country what it is—how we think of our ladies and what they bring to our culture.”

But right now, Owens pointed out, “We have an administration that could care less about our ladies.” Equally as frustrating, he said, they don’t care what their transgender agenda is doing to our sons. “Young men have no idea what it is to respect ladies. They have no idea what it is to not be bullies. And they don’t mind harming ladies in any way they can.”

The reason he put Cardona on the spot, he explained, is that leftists may have a way of dealing with the fallout of this rule in theory, “but when it comes down to their kids, they think quite differently. They use their common sense. Well, not [being] able to answer commonsense questions about putting his daughter in harm’s way shows the American people cannot trust him. He needs to leave,” Owens insisted, adding:

He needs to do something else. We cannot trust this guy to take care of protecting our kids or educating our kids standing up for our culture.

It’s all backward, Owens argued. “The upside is that we now know what they’re all about. And [the] American people will not stand for it.”

This past Friday, former President Donald Trump illustrated the stark difference between the two men’s policies when he vowed to roll back Biden’s extreme new Title IX immediately.

“We’re going to end it on Day One,” he promised.

“Don’t forget, that came down as an executive order. And we’re going to change it. … Tell your people not to worry about it,” he said, calling Biden’s idea of letting boys in the girls’ locker rooms “crazy.”

“It’ll be signed on Day One,” Trump repeated. “It’ll be terminated.”

A slightly modified version of this article was originally published at WashingtonStand.com

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Pelosi: I Would Never Recommend Biden Go on Stage with Trump

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Carney on Kudlow: Biden Is Doing Tariffs Wrong

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Lizzo Posts Video Thanking Pro-Hamas Activists for Curing Her Depression

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U.S. Trade Rep.: Green Energy Can't Rely on Market, It Won't 'Provide the Boost' We Need

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Mississippi Governor Signs Transgender Restroom Ban in Public Schools

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Alfredo Ortiz: Biden’s Inflation Is ‘Pushing Small Businesses to the Brink’

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