Author: Molly Parks, Washington Examiner
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New Jersey signs legislation banning cellphones in schools
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K-12 students in New Jersey will no longer be allowed to use their cellphones in school starting in the fall of 2026. Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) signed a bill into law on Thursday establishing “phone-free” schools in the Garden State. The bill, also supported by Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), bars the “nonacademic use” of smartphones…
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Federal judge rules Trump administration can share illegal immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE
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The Trump administration can continue its practice of sharing the biographical, location, and contact information of illegal immigrants between federal agencies early in the new year, a federal judge ruled on Monday. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, of the Northern District of California, issued the preliminary injunction order…
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Paul’s annual Festivus report calls out $1.6 trillion in government waste
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released his annual “Festivus Report” on Tuesday, spotlighting over $1.6 trillion in wasteful government spending. Between discovering Veterans Affairs cash spent on teaching teenage ferrets how to binge drink to discovering $14.6 million spent on having monkeys play a Price Is Right-like video game, the Kentucky fiscal hawk bared all the…
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Erika Kirk vows to get Vance ‘elected for 48’ at AmericaFest
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Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk promised to put the organization’s weight behind getting Vice President JD Vance elected as the next president of the United States. With the spotlight on her as the opening speaker of TPUSA’s AmericaFest on Thursday, Kirk used her speech to highlight the large student attendance in the audience, commit…
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Barbara Rose Johns statue to go up on Capitol Hill in place of former Robert E. Lee statue
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A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood. The statue will represent Virginia in the Capitol building, honoring Johns for famously taking a stand against racial segregation in education by organizing a…
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NATO chief says Europe is ‘Russia’s next target’ and continent must be prepared for world war
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte issued a stern warning to the organization’s allied nations on Thursday, suggesting they stand as “Russia’s next target” after Ukraine. Rutte delivered the sobering message that NATO countries are “already in harm’s way” during a keynote address at a Berlin event hosted by the Munich Security Conference. He equated Ukraine’s…
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Klobuchar vows Senate vote on Obamacare subsidy extensions before year’s end
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) promised a vote would happen in 2025 to renew expiring Obamacare subsidies set to lapse at the end of the year. As part of the deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Senate Republicans promised Democrats a vote on the extension of premium Affordable Care Act subsidies that…
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Mark Kelly says reported second strike on suspected drug boat survivors ‘clearly not lawful’
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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) sharply criticized War Secretary Pete Hegseth following reports of an alleged verbal follow-up strike order he gave in September to “kill everybody” after the first strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat left survivors in the water. Kelly, a Navy veteran and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on…
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Nancy Mace files legislation to strike hemp ban tucked into funding bill
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) filed a bill on Thursday to repeal hemp-banning language that was passed as part of the deal to end the government shutdown, the congresswoman’s office told the Washington Examiner. Mace’s bill, titled the American Hemp Protection Act of 2025, would strike a provision that is set to drastically cut down the…
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ICE officers planning to increase presence in New York City, Homan says
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White House border czar Tom Homan said Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to increase its immigration operations in New York City. Homan railed against sanctuary city policies in an interview with Fox News’s Bill Hemmer on Tuesday, saying if sanctuary city leaders don’t assist federal immigration officers, they’re “going to flood the zone.” “So we’re…
