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Religion News reports the leader of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission said out loud that church and state separation is a falsehood at the group’s final meeting — which immediately drew fire from a pro-Constitution advocacy group.At a Monday hearing at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican and the chair of the commission, broached his claim, saying: “Would it not be a good recommendation that every school, every university, every business, has to have that one sheet on the bulletin board about protecting people’s religious liberty, and that the separation of church and st

President Donald Trump may act like he is answerable to no one, but an ex-Republican consultant warns that he and the rest of the “Epstein class” are nearing the end of their heyday.“Everyone knows how much the Trump family cares about the little people,” wrote Steve Schmidt, who previously advised President George W. Bush, in a Substack post on Tuesday. He then showed a picture of First Lady Melania Trump going to an immigrant detention facility wearing a jacket saying, “I don’t really care. Do u?”“She’s a beautiful soul," Schmidt wrote sarcastically, and then proceeded to

A “substantial anti-Trump youth movement” is missing, argues New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall.“We have a president who has directly attacked the finances and the intellectual freedom of colleges and universities, is building the technology for a surveillance state, undermines free and fair elections and took the nation into an unjustified war with no explanation while causing domestic economic havoc,” Edsall writes. “But one ingredient is missing: a substantial anti-Trump youth movement.”Edsall suggests that the “No Kings” movement is increasingly comprised of a demogr

On Tuesday —161 years after the conclusion of the American Civil War — the state of Virginia ended long-standing tax exemptions for a range of organizations linked to the Confederacy. Signed by Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger and passed by the Democrat-controlled state legislature, the bill ending financial benefits represented a victory in the hard-fought effort for the state to rid itself of its legacy as the Confederate capital. While the action will stop tax exemptions for a number of groups, the largest is the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which was created in 1894 with the stated intention of honoring its members’ ancestors. Over the course of its existence, the organiz

President Donald Trump is pursuing an antitrust case against the National Football League (NFL) — but an editor from a magazine one might expect to support him instead implied this is about a vendetta.The Justice Department is investigation whether the NFL uses anti-competitive tactics to keep watching football too expensive, and Reason Magazine managing editor Jason Russell suspects this has little to do with consumer protection“Could it be because President Donald Trump tried to get into NFL ownership several different times and came up short?”

President Donald Trump is doing a “very poor job” of handling the Iran war he started, one of the world’s most influential hedge fund managers claimed in a Tuesday interview — and it will quite likely cause a global recession.Trump is not going to be able to reopen the Strait of Hormuz without a drastic escalation, multinational hedge fund Citadel LLC CEO Kenneth C. Griffin told Semafor in a Tuesday interview. “Let’s assume it’s shut down for the next six to 12 months,” Griffin explained at Semafor Wo

While it is well known that Fox News hosts typically avoid saying anything that could reflect poorly on President Donald Trump or the Republican Party, sometimes they just can’t help themselves. Appearing on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, host Ainsley Earhardt let loose an unguarded reaction to news that the costs of child-rearing have skyrocketed, saying, “Gosh, everything is so expensive.”She was facing the news that since 2023, the cost of raising a child has shot up to an average of over $300,000. Hawaii is the most expensive state, costing $412,661, while New Hampshire

President Donald Trump's Justice Department produced a report Tuesday in which it claimed that President Joe Biden's DOJ disproportionately targeted anti-choice activists. At least two legal analysts noticed a pretty significant problem with the report, however: Trump was president for some of the cases they used to justify their thesis. The Atlantic's Quinta Jurecic, who writes about the law, has been sifting through the specifics of the 800-page exhibits in the report and noticed that on page 11, the Justice Department cites t

U.S. President Donald Trump is having a major feud with Robert Francis Prevost, AKA Pope Leo XIV, over the war in Iran — which the Pope opposes. Trump has been hurling insults at Leo, and Elbridge Colby (a Defense Department official in the Trump Administration) reportedly threatened Leo's ally, Cardinal Christophe Pierre — saying, "America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side."During a Tuesday afternoon, April 14 appearance on MS NOW, Leon Panetta — former defen

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, 76, has given no public indication he plans to retire — but if he does, Senate Republicans stand ready to fast-track President Donald Trump’s nominee through committee and lock in a confirmation before the November midterm elections.“Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday that Republicans are ‘prepared’ for the possibility of a retirement as speculation swirls that Alito, a conservative vote on the Supreme Court, is weighing stepping down at the end of the current term, slated for the end of June or early J