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Two Republican senators had vastly different reactions to Bob Woodward and Robert Acosta’s claim that Army General Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, impeded then-President Donald Trump in his administration’s last days. Soon after Woodward and Acosta released a preview of their upcoming book about the Trump administration’s tumultuous end, the allegation against Milley became public. According to the excerpt, Milley became increasingly concerned by Trump’s refusal to let go of baseless accusations that Democrats stole the presidential election. Worried by Trump’s mental state, their book states that the general quietly sought to ensure the president didn’t use nuclear…

President Joe Biden has invited some of America’s most influential CEOs to the White House to discuss COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The meeting comes following the news that the Department of Labor intends to require all businesses with more than 100 employees to have their workers vaccinated or submitting negative coronavirus tests weekly. (The Hill) Wednesday’s meeting will include an array of executives, including Microsoft President Brad Smith, Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer, Kaiser Permanente Chair and CEO Greg Adams, Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek, Columbia Sportswear President and CEO Tim Boyle and Louisiana State University President William Tate, according to a…

Tensions continue to deteriorate in the seven-decade standoff between North and South Korea. Hours after Kim Jong-un’s regime fired another ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, the democratic South showcased its military might with a prescheduled demonstration of its first submarine-launched ballistic missile. Capable of hitting any part of North Korea, the landmark development makes South Korea only the seventh country globally to have this technology. According to the BBC, South Korean President Moon Jae-in attended the weapons test and said afterward that his government now processed “sufficient deterrence to respond to North Korea’s provocations at any time.” It added:…

Kasie Hunt, CNN’s chief national affairs analyst, has some explaining to do. According to aggrieved liberals on Twitter, at least. Hunt’s offense? Challenging the prevailing narrative that Republicans face a national reckoning following the disastrous California recall election. Instead of concurring with her peers, CNN’s newest hire argued in a Twitter thread that Democrats face challenges of their own, including the difficulties Democrats had motivating liberals and moderates to vote until Republican Larry Elder became tied to Donald Trump. https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1437976644615090177 https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1437977319776342020 https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1437977642733645824 https://twitter.com/kasie/status/1437977830663524353 Fox News’ Brian Flood adds: Hunt’s comments were quickly ratioed as prominent lefties appeared irked that CNN’s chief…

California’s historic recall election ended with a whimper. With 68% of ballots counted, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) leads the Republican-led campaign to remove him by 28 points. Even Orange and Riverside counties have elected to keep Newsom in the governor’s mansion by a five-point margin, although state officials expect those numbers to tighten. After conservative talk radio host Larry Elder emerged as the favored candidate to replace Newsom, a majority of voters appeared open to the idea of removing him from office. Unfortunately for Elder, his numbers peaked in August, giving Democrats the time to reframe the race from Newsom’s…

Rules for thee, but not for me appears to be the mantra of the day for Terry McAuliffe, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor. Fox News obtained photographs earlier today of McAuliffe riding on an Amtrak train maskless on July 29, in defiance of the rail service’s face mask requirement. The rider who shared the photographs with Fox called McAuliffe’s behavior an “absolute double standard.” In one picture, the gubernatorial candidate chats nonchalantly on his cell phone, seemingly oblivious or indifferent to a nearby placard telling all passengers to wear masks. (Fox News) “Amtrak requires everyone to wear a face mask,”…

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) dismissed a complaint by the Republican National Committee (RNC) regarding Twitter’s decision to block links to a New York Post story about Hunter Biden and incriminating files on his laptop before the 2020 presidential election. The microblogging leader temporarily blocked member accounts from sharing the Post’s story based on the incorrect assumption it was unsubstantiated. Twitter’s initial decision, combined with Monday’s ruling from the FEC, has reignited the backlash against Big Tech and the mainstream media for censoring reports on Joe Biden’s ne’er-do-well son, as the Washington Examiner reports. “It wasn’t ‘unsubstantiated,'” conservative radio host…

No one person or political party is solely to blame for the fallout from America’s longest war, but responsibility for the fatally flawed withdraw rests predominately with the Biden administration. In an attempt to divert blame before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried shifting scrutiny to the Trump administration’s U.S.-Taliban peace agreement. Blinken told members of the committee that the Trump deal kept the Taliban from attacking U.S. forces, their allies, and urban centers. However, he added that it did nothing to diminish the Taliban’s ability to grow its support in Afghanistan’s rural areas, which…

Parents in a rural Colorado school district have set aside their differences in the hopes of improving their children’s education and silencing proselytizing teachers. For conservative activists concerned by reports of leftist academic disciplines infiltrating the education system, Merit Academy offers a pathway to stomp out the presence of partisan politics in schools. Per The Federalist: The new public school went from idea to reality in just one year, opening K-8 with plans to grow into high school. As a classical school, it offers a low-screen, high-relationship environment and a focus on creative and critical thinking through careful attention to classic…

The United States Army has removed its most advanced missile defense system and multiple Patriot missile batteries from Saudi Arabia amid missile and drone attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an Iranian proxy group. After satellite footage confirmed a U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense unit had left Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh, along with other surface-to-air missile systems, the Pentagon conceded that the military had redeployed those assets. The Hill reports how Pentagon press secretary John Kirby subsequently released a statement, seemingly attempting to reassure our allies in the Persian Gulf after the chaotic end to the War in…