POLITICS

Has the FCC Found NPR’s Achilles’ Heel? Plus, Trump Vows To Make Gaza Great (for the First Time)

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Republicans have for decades floated legislation to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the congressionally created entity that bankrolls NPR. Donald Trump also pledged to defund NPR on the campaign trail, calling it a “LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE.” His new FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, may have found a way to kneecap it. Carr, the Free Beacon‘s

Judge Blocks Trump’s Order to Transfer Men Who Identify as Women to Male Prisons

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The order states that it is the policy of the United States to recognize that there are two sexes only: male and female. A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order, which mandated that transgender inmates who identify as women be housed in male prisons and that the government cease funding their access

Has Brendan Carr Finally Figured Out How To Stop NPR?

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National Public Radio on Monday ran a so-called “sponsor message” promoting pharma giant Procter & Gamble’s nerve-relief drug Nervive, “designed to reduce occasional nerve aches, weakness and discomfort.” The message, effectively a commercial, is tied to one of hundreds of advertiser deals that are far more important to NPR than government funding. NPR brought in