A Democratic tactic to force a vote repealing an 1864 abortion ban in Arizona went down to defeat Wednesday. The law -- dating back to the days Arizona was a territory -- became more than a historical curiosity recently when the Arizona supreme court ruled that it was now valid,...

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Christian parental rights organizations are hosting prayer rallies across the nation, in Washington, D.C. and each of the 50 state capitols. On Saturday, the Don’t Mess with Our Kids campaign organized a nationwide spate of prayer rallies to “turn America back to God,” with a particular emphasis on protecting children from gender...

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Look around at the world right now. There’s a war between Russia and Ukraine, and Israel and Iran stand at the edge of one. Currently, the U.S. is facing severe national security threats with the wide-open southern border. Millions of illegal immigrants are flooding in, and a surprising amount are...

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President Joe Biden's least-popular Cabinet secretary will skate free from a formal Senate impeachment trial. The Senate dismissed two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday. The move guarantees that Mayorkas won't stand trial in the upper chamber. The secretary faced charges of willful and systemic...

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Just over a week ago, the Department of Homeland Security warned of possible cyber attacks against the Emergency Service Sector (think "911 call operations"). The April 10 DHS memo said that previous ransomware attacks had "disrupted the networks of police department and 911 call center operations" because of their dependence...

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Many American citizens have run out of patience with an establishment-dominated U.S. government that enriches itself through endless foreign wars. But those same American citizens have also reached the limits of indulgence when it comes to tribalistic protesters who direct hatred and threats of violence toward America and then, when...

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A House Oversight Committee hearing on China erupted into chaos on Wednesday as Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, chairman of the panel, and Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland traded insults and accused each other of needing "therapy." Tensions boiled over when Raskin attempted to undermine Republicans' investigation into...

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For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.

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With so much attention on the prosecution of former President Donald Trump by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, it may be difficult to remember that the same office is responsible for prosecuting countless other cases at the same time. One of those other cases that has gotten at...

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Last week, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hosted House Speaker Mike Johnson at his Mar-a-Lago property in Florida amid tensions in the House Republican caucus and gave the speaker his seal of approval. "I stand with the speaker," Trump said Friday, while calling efforts by Johnson critics such as...

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It didn't take long. In fact, it was just hours after former football great and double-murder suspect Orenthal James Simpson died before the photoshopped image showed up in a group chat. The image showed the late comedian and "Saturday Night Live" Weekend Update host Norm Macdonald standing at the pearly...

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You can say this much about Google: At least it'll boot out radical anti-Semites. You know, after they're allowed to make their point by occupying the company's buildings and everything. According to the New York Post, 28 Google employees are now ex-Google employees after they engaged in a coordinated sit-in...

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That didn't take long, now did it? Louisiana Republican Speaker Mike Johnson was supposed to protect American's money and national interests, not join President Joe Biden and Democrats in their charge to give more of it away. Yet on Wednesday, Johnson decided to add to the $34 trillion in national...

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Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, declared the United States as his country of residency in a new business document, sparking speculation the 39-year-old might be close to severing all ties with his royal past. The declaration was backdated to June but was only made public this week when Harry...

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How many people, when stabbed by a knife-wielding lunatic, would go out of their way to forgive their attacker? Though Christ preached forgiveness, Christians have often struggled to forgive when faced with a burning, and at times, justifiable desire for revenge. But, occasionally, a prominent Christian who was the victim...

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Seven steps forward, one step back. Or maybe one-and-a-half. That's what the jury selection process has looked like so far in the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan in which he faces 34 felony charges that he falsified business records. The charges stem from hush money payments...

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A reporter with an Indianapolis newspaper is being called a “pervert” and a “creep” -- among other unsavory adjectives -- after his first interaction with Caitlin Clark Wednesday. The former Iowa Hawkeyes basketball sensation was drafted on Monday by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, bringing record ratings to the league’s annual...

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The Jewish holiday of Passover will be celebrated beginning next week against a background of rising threats that has drawn the attention of the FBI. Passover, which celebrates the Old Testament deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt under the leadership of Moses, begins on Monday evening and ends on...

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An Indianapolis mother who allegedly told police she had smothered her 2-month-old daughter to death has been set free after her trial. Marion County Superior Court Judge Mark Stoner released Dacia Lacey after ruling that charges of neglect resulting in the death of her baby were not proved. If convicted, she...

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If you want to feel old, consider this: "Shrek 2" came out in theaters 20 years ago. However, one of the film's gag scenes became pretty relevant last week -- if just because the Shrek series was one of the first animated films to include jokes for adults that went...

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