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China’s defense ministry agreed to meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for the first time since China held unprecedented military drills surrounding Taiwan last month. China had halted all regular military dialogue with the U.S. following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan in August. Chinese Defense Minister Wei …

Rev. Al Sharpton saw a financial windfall over the last year, according to tax filings from the National Action Network.  Sharpton, president and CEO of the organization, received $348,174 in pay through 2021, according to tax filings obtained by the New York Post. REV. AL SHARPTON SUGGESTS NETS’ PUNISHMENT OF …

Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has taken the lead over Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka in the ranked-choice Senate contest that won’t be resolved until at least next week.  As of Saturday morning, Murkowski leads Tshibaka by fewer than 2,000 first-choice votes, with no candidate in the race claiming an outright …

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Former Vice President Mike Pence says that former President Donald Trump’s repeated re-litigating of his 2020 election loss may have contributed to the Republican Party’s lackluster performance in last week’s midterm elections. And Pence, who’s seriously considering a presidential run, said that Trump’s 2024 campaign launch …

Donald Trump has been officially reinstated to Twitter but on Saturday afternoon the former president cast doubt that he would return to the platform. Trump posted on Truth Social, a social media service he has used since receiving a lifetime ban on Twitter in January 2021, that he would not …

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on Saturday that when he is speaker of the House next year he plans to remove Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her “antisemitic” comments.  “We watch antisemitism grow, not just on our campuses, but we watched …

Democrats and immigration activists are looking to get some form of amnesty for illegal immigrants through Congress in the lame duck session before they lose the House of Representatives to Republicans at the beginning of 2023. Senators and activists held a press conference Wednesday calling for Republicans in the chamber …

EXCLUSIVE: Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ team has a clarification about a super PAC boosting him as a candidate in the 2024 presidential race and the future of the Republican Party. In a letter sent Friday to DeSantis’ donors, Benjamin Gibson, legal counsel for DeSantis, said he had “recently learned …

Liberal pundits, celebrities, and other verified Twitter users erupted with frustration after Twitter CEO Elon Musk reinstated the account of former President Donald Trump on Saturday night. “I hate this man so much,” Democratic communications specialist Keith Edwards tweeted shortly after Musk announced that Trump would be allowed back on …

Former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee took a moment, while stumping for U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Georgia this week, to address how Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential announcement might affect the race leading up to the Dec. 6 runoff against incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. Speaking with reporters following …