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(JUST THE NEWS) -- As the 2020 Republican National Convention heads toward its conclusion Thursday night, media coverage of the event — and in particular of the president headlining it — has in many notable cases eschewed neutral, fact-based reporting in favor of something more akin to sly editorializing. A barrage of biased news reports…

(FOX NEWS) -- The Weather Channel’s Stephanie Abrams had a scary moment caught on live TV Thursday morning when she was nearly struck in the head by flying debris while covering Hurricane Laura on the ground in Louisianna. “We want to make good TV for you guys but we also want to be safe... we…

(FOX NEWS) -- Heavy rains and winds battered Louisiana Thursday morning as a weakening Hurricane Laura roared northward, threatening to spread further damage well inland after slamming the Lake Charles area. The historic Hurricane Laura made landfall early Thursday in Cameron, about 45 miles south of Lake Charles, as a dangerous Category 4 hurricane with…

Speaking on Night Three of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, former NFL player Jack Brewer blasted the media narrative that Donald Trump once called white supremacists "very fine people." The narrative Brewer addressed involves Trump's response to the infamous Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally in 2017. Some protesters at the rally were protesting the…

(AP) -- DELCAMBRE, La. -- Laura roared toward landfall in southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border as a menacing Category 4 hurricane late Wednesday, raising fears of a 20-foot storm surge that forecasters said would be “unsurvivable” and capable of engulfing entire communities. Ocean water topped by white-capped waves rose ominously as the monster neared.…

(FOX NEWS) -- On a rare evening when he took top billing over his boss, Vice President Pence spotlighted President Trump’s accomplishments over the past four years and made the case for another term in the White House as he delivered his nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. But the vice president also…

By Mary Margaret Olohan Daily Caller News Foundation GOP congressional candidate Madison Cawthorn urged his fellow Americans to “be a radical for liberty” as he rose to his feet at the Republican National Convention. The 25-year-old North Carolina candidate was left paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident when he was 18 and…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Investigations.] By Eric Felten Real Clear Investigations Jonathan Winer, a former top aide to Secretary of State John Kerry who was a key conduit for disseminating the discredited Steele dossier in the U.S. government, worked as a lobbyist for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in years…

  At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, officials for the British government's National Health Service ordered care homes for the elderly to implement blanket "Do Not Resuscitate" orders, a report has found. Ten percent of home-care staff complied with the DNR order without consultation with family members, nursing staff or the residents themselves, according…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Susan Crabtree Real Clear Politics Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s GOP convention speech Tuesday night was short and steeped more in symbolism than soaring rhetoric. The fact that the nation’s top diplomat was giving the speech at all was a norm-defying statement in…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Philip Wegmann & Susan Crabtree Real Clear Politics ABOARD AIR FORCE TWO — The facial lines are obvious up close, shallow creases and deeper ridges visible through thick television makeup — wrinkles cut into the visage of a vice president who finds himself…

As I do media to promote my new book, "Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency," I am inevitably asked the most basic of questions: Just where was Barack Obama born? I have been asked that question before. In fact, in the spring of 2011, Donald Trump's attorney Michael…

For those who saw the advances in national policy, prevailing attitudes and the level of hope among Americans that came out of the Civil Rights Movement despite the collective pain it took to arrive there, it is profoundly sad to witness the ginned-up civil unrest we are currently experiencing, as well as the number of…

As drug abuse, social upheaval and lack of national unity engulf the United States, many ask where things went wrong. Some argue that this is the end result of the 1960s neo-Marxist social revolution that completely redefined Western values and thereby caused fundamental division and cultural decline. The radical drug-loving hippies that started off protesting…

Two words fittingly describe the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) to nominate presidential candidate Joe Biden. It was an attempted exercise in "redemption" and "stealth" that ignored teachings by Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Redemption was attempted not in the sense of a party divided over how far left it should…

Knowing the fragility of a republican form of government, our Founders placed their hopes on an educated and informed citizenry to preserve our institutions. How has that worked through two centuries of journalistic development? Obviously, circulated pamphlets promoting the separation from England and support for a constitution played a vital role. Can you say "Common…

After the second night of the Republican National Convention, 16 of 18 callers after C-SPAN's coverage of the event enthusiastically expressed support for President Trump, including lifelong Democrats. C-SPAN typically divides its calls between lines set aside for Republicans, Democrats and independents. Barb, a Democrat from Forest Lake, Minnesota, said "our convention last week is…