Author: Tori Richards
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VA earmarks just 1% of $300 billion budget ask for hospital repair
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WASHINGTON • Renovating aging Veterans Affairs hospitals is taking a backseat to pet projects by the Biden administration, with the federal agency asking for $140 billion in discretionary funds for next year’s budget while seeking $3 billion for major construction. The proposed budget has ballooned to over $300 billion for the first time in history,…
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‘We did not want him anywhere near us’: Gold Star families vent fury with Biden
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WASHINGTON (WE) Meeting the president of the United States has been both an honor and a sense of comfort throughout history for military families grappling with losing loved ones to the horrors of war. That tradition seemingly came screeching to a halt in the past week as nearly half of the Gold Star parents who…
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US woman left behind in Kabul with 130 rescue dogs thanks to DOD no-fly animal policy
A Tennessee woman who owns an animal rescue center in Kabul was not allowed passage home by the Department of Defense because she carried a disabled puppy in her arms — one of 130 animals she was ordered to leave behind in the final days of airlifts. Charlotte Maxwell-Jones refused to board the plane without…
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California and New York are hubs for Afghan resettlements
If history is a guide, the main resettlement areas in the United States for future Afghan refugees will be California, Virginia, and New York. These three states have a respective 45%, 14%, and 9% of the nation’s Afghan population, according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. A few governors have stepped up to…
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Hunter Biden proposed unionizing prostitutes, according to laptop texts
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hunter Biden came up with a plan to unionize prostitutes for their protection after “telling strippers for 25 years that they should unionize,” according to texts found on his alleged laptop. Texts from 2018 and 2019 show that he spent thousands of dollars per session…
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Most liberal college students are not proud Americans and support socialism, survey says
While conservatives are pushing patriotism and a “take back America” platform, those on the Left have been moving in the opposite direction, with the inclusion of critical race theory training in schools and government. A national survey of 1,000 colleges released on June 17 has now measured the results of this. More than 400,000 students…
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California’s migrant mess
SAN DIEGO • Courtney Porter, 23, sat on a wall in front of the San Diego Convention Center last week with a backpack and carry-on suitcase. He looked dejected while flipping through a sheaf of papers that listed several local homeless shelters. A call to each one resulted in the same answer: “I’m sorry, we’re…