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Tue, 03/21/2023 - 10:29
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Virtually every privately funded and publicly funded report on Christian persecution finds that communist and Muslim-run nations are the worst offenders. Conditions in the Middle East remain dire, and communist nations such as North Korea are just as vicious, but what is currently happening in China and Nicaragua commands out immediate attention.
North Korea makes plain that…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 10:12
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A zinging quote from a legendary actor has made its way across the pond, garnering attention to yet another tiresome example of political correctness gone wild. But Americans would be well advised to dig deeper, for the British government program that sparked the verbal riposte bears all the hallmarks of an Orwellian nightmare that can most surely happen here…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 10:00Washington
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) holds a news conference at a Republican retreat in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Photo: Screen capture)
(CNSNews.com) - Republicans at their ongoing retreat in Orlando, Florida are not focused on Donald Trump's legal perils, even though that's what reporters keep asking about, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told a news conference Tuesday…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 09:46
Eric Arthur Blair called George Orwell (1903-1950), English writer. Ca. 1945. Coloured photograph. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)
G.K. Chesterton reliably informs us that “Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.” And while this statement is partly a consideration of filling reams of empty pages – more so when…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 07:35National
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to China's President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on September 16, 2022. (Photo by SERGEI BOBYLYOV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are putting their show of mutual support on full display in Moscow this week,…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 06:02Washington
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with China's President Xi Jinping at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 20, 2023. (Photo by SERGEI KARPUKHIN/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - It seems like China and Russia are "teaming up" against the United States, Fox News's Peter Doocy observed at Monday's White House press briefing:
"Why did President Biden let this happen?" Doocy asked John…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 05:39Washington
President Joe Biden speaks on the phone in the Oval Office. (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - The Biden White House has said this several times in recent weeks, most recently on Monday:
President Joe Biden "wants to have another conversation with President Xi, and he’ll do that. And we’ll do that at the most appropriate time," spokesman John Kirby told reporters at…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 04:32International
National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications John Kirby briefs reporters at the White House. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – The Biden administration is doubling down on warnings that any China-instigated push for a ceasefire in Ukraine that freezes in place the Russian occupation of its territory would be unacceptable.
Using…
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 04:19International
The United Nations Security Council meets in New York. (Photo by Timothy A.Clary / AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – While Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were meeting in Moscow on Monday, their representatives at the U.N. were working together to stymie a U.S.-led effort to have the Security Council condemn yet another North Korean missile test – a…
Mon, 03/20/2023 - 22:52Washington
Today News Africa reporter Simon Ateba (C) interrupts as White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (not pictured), begins the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 20, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - The cast of “Ted Lasso” visited the White House on Monday to talk about mental health, but their…
Mon, 03/20/2023 - 20:00International
A Finnish soldier takes part in joint military exercises with troops from Britain, Latvia, Estonia and the U.S. in southwestern Finland in May last year. That same month, Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO. (Photo by Alessandro Rampazzo /AFP via Getty Images)
Berlin (CNSNews.com) – Finland has welcomed decisions by Turkey and Hungary – the last holdouts – to move forward on ratifying the…
Mon, 03/20/2023 - 17:10
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On Monday, President Joe Biden issued his first presidential veto, in objection to a bipartisan Congressional joint resolution nullifying his administration’s rule freeing asset managers to invest their clients’ retirement savings in political causes, rather than in the most profitable investments.
“[T]his resolution [joint resolution H.J. Res. 30] would prevent…
Mon, 03/20/2023 - 15:59
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While the United Nations is in the midst of its annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women, as usual, abortion and gender ideology are corrupting what should be a conversation about women’s rights. Many of the activists at this feminist fest seem confused about who women are and what they need.
Two dangerous ideas are at play at CSW. First, ideologues seek to…
Mon, 03/20/2023 - 15:02
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Bad healthcare policy raises costs and lowers quality for individuals and families. Yet too often, federal and state officials, driven by special interests, impose meticulously detailed laws, rules, and regulations that restrict competition in healthcare markets.
The situation varies from state to state. But generally speaking, highly concentrated healthcare markets, regions…