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(FOX NEWS) -- President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding from Michigan over its decision to issue applications for mail-in absentee ballots to all voters ahead of November's presidential election, claiming the move was "done illegally" and will lead to voter fraud. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Tuesday that all registered voters…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- A county in Michigan has been placed under emergency order by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after two dams were breached, which could lead to unprecedented flooding. During a late-night press conference on Tuesday, Whitmer said that both the Sanford and Edenville dams broke in Midland County and urged families to seek shelter…

Joe Biden already is on video boasting of a quid pro quo with Ukraine, which happened to be the charge Democrats used to impeach President Trump. The Senate acquitted Trump, but on Tuesday, Ukrainian parliamentarian Andrii Derkach released audio recordings alleged to be conversations between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Biden. Among them are purported…

(VARIETY) -- “The CBS Evening News With Norah O’Donnell” did not air in East Coast time zones on Tuesday because of a technical glitch in the Washington, D.C. bureau where the newscast originates. CBS News described the problem as a technical issue. The regular 6:30 p.m. ET “Evening News” broadcast was replaced by the feed…

  [Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Investigations.] By Steve Miller Real Clear Investigations Gulf Island Shipyards announced a $130 million deal in March to build two Navy rescue vessels, one more in a long line of contracts the Houston-based company has received from the U.S. Department of Defense in the…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Myra Adams Real Clear Politics While recently unloading the dishwasher, an old faded coffee mug caught my eye. The mug emblazoned with “Bush Country 2004” and “My America!” also displays a predominately red map of the USA. The image, originally bright red (but…

Dr. Richard Land once called our country, "the divided states of America." How apt – especially when we survey the various responses to the coronavirus. They are lessons in liberty and lessons in tyranny. To paraphrase what a friend of mine wrote me recently, "We have 50 real-world government examples of liberty or tyranny –…

Responding to what he called inaccurate media reporting, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie criticized a widely cited study of veterans that concluded treating COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine was unsafe. The Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration have been using hydroxychloroquine for 65 years for diseases such as malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, Wilkie…

First a Dallas hair salon owner was imprisoned for opening her store to earn a living. Next Texas has signed a $295 million contract for "contact tracing," by which law-abiding citizens will have to submit to monitoring about when, where and with whom they have been. While this sounds like a dark episode in the…