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Poland’s Solidarity labor union has joined forces with climate skeptics from America to call for “a restoration of the Scientific Method and the dismissal of ideological dogma” in the study of climate change as part of a joint declaration the union has submitted to the United Nations in partnership with a U.S.-based free-market think tank. This is the same labor union founded under the leadership of Lech Walesa, the Nobel…

Aaron Trejo, seen here, was charged in the killing of Breana Rouhselang. (St. Joseph County Police Department) A 16-year-old Indiana high school football player was charged with murder and feticide Monday after he admitted he brutally killed a 17-year-old pregnant cheerleader because she hid her pregnancy from him too long to get an abortion. Aaron Trejo said he stabbed Breana Rouhselang in her heart with a knife, Detective Gery Mullins said in charging…

Reading this “from across the pond” message, be grateful that you do not have to suffer the bitter Brexit debate underway in Britain. Having lived and breathed Brexit for several years now as a political consultant, it is hard to remember life before. To summarize, Britain currently faces three basic options. First, to remain in the European Union after a second referendum to that effect. Second, to leave under the…

Reading this “from across the pond” message, be grateful that you do not have to suffer the bitter Brexit debate underway in Britain. Having lived and breathed Brexit for several years now as a political consultant, it is hard to remember life before. To summarize, Britain currently faces three basic options. First, to remain in the European Union after a second referendum to that effect. Second, to leave under the…

Reading this “from across the pond” message, be grateful that you do not have to suffer the bitter Brexit debate underway in Britain. Having lived and breathed Brexit for several years now as a political consultant, it is hard to remember life before. To summarize, Britain currently faces three basic options. First, to remain in the European Union after a second referendum to that effect. Second, to leave under the…

In an early decision involving abortion, newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with liberals in declining to hear a case that could have allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood in state Medicaid programs. My colleague Kimberly Leonard has more background and details of the cases, but the basic gist is that lower court rulings prevented Louisiana and Kansas from blocking abortion provider Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid….

There is a very real threat to liberal democracy in Trump’s America, but it has nothing to do with populism. In fact, populism — an insistence that government authority reflect the will of the people — could be a big part of the solution to the current crisis. Trump looks and sounds like a populist, a leader who whips up his supporters into chanting anti-democratic slogans like, “Lock her up!”…

Lawmakers are due to vote Tuesday on the Brexit deal, and all signs have pointed to a big defeat for the prime minister — a result that could sink May’s deal, her leadership, or both.

It looks like President Donald Trump is going to have a harder time than expected replacing John Kelly as chief of staff. Nick Ayers, who is currently Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, was reportedly whom Trump had in mind for the job, but the 36-year-old operative is apparently out of the running. He tweeted on Sunday that he would be leaving the White House at the end of…

Video Ayers implies he will not be Trump’s chief of staff In a tweet, Ayers announces that he will be leaving at the end of the year. Vice President Pence’s chief of staff, Nick Ayers, who was considered a front-runner to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff, announced Sunday: “I will be departing at the end of the year.” Ayers revealed the news in a tweet. Its…

Video Ayers implies he will not be Trump’s chief of staff In a tweet, Ayers announces that he will be leaving at the end of the year. Vice President Pence’s chief of staff, Nick Ayers, who was considered a front-runner to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff, announced Sunday: “I will be departing at the end of the year.” Ayers revealed the news in a tweet. Its…

Video Ayers implies he will not be Trump’s chief of staff In a tweet, Ayers announces that he will be leaving at the end of the year. Vice President Pence’s chief of staff, Nick Ayers, who was considered a front-runner to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff, announced Sunday: “I will be departing at the end of the year.” Ayers revealed the news in a tweet. Its…

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Mr. Cohen also told the prosecutors through his lawyers that he was considering whether to fully cooperate with their investigation, the Southern District said in the document. Later, Mr. Cohen decided against making such a deal. The prosecutors said that during their meetings with Mr. Cohen, he was “forthright and credible,” and that he had potentially “useful information about matters relating to ongoing investigations being carried out by this office.”…