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A Convicted Terrorist Oversees Abbas’s ‘Reformed’ Pay for Slay System. Plus, How a Biden ‘Environmental Justice’ Adviser Raked in Taxpayer Dollars.

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When Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas issued a vaguely worded decree purportedly revoking the PA’s infamous “pay for slay” system, the European Commission called it a “significant political development” that “signals the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to implement far-reaching reforms.” Since then, Palestinian officials have assured the Arab world that the terror payments aren’t going anywhere.

Biden Environmental Justice Adviser Received Millions in Taxpayer Funds After Personally Applying For EPA Grant

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LaTricea Adams’s group received $20 million ‘environmental justice’ grant while she served on Biden’s Environmental Justice Advisory Council (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency awarded a lucrative environmental justice grant to a left-wing nonprofit whose CEO—LaTricea Adams—personally applied for the taxpayer funding while simultaneously serving as

Northwestern University Mandatory Anti-Discrimination Training Pushes Unverified CAIR Data

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Northwestern University’s mandatory anti-discrimination training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes. The training also questions anti-Zionism’s ties to Jew-hatred and explicitly addresses “anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian biases,” but it doesn’t do the same for

Joy Reid, a Rare Voice of Moderation on MSNBC, Gets the Axe

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Canceled show means Reid will have more time to hunt down notorious ‘hackers’ who ‘fabricated’ bigoted screeds on her old blog Grok MSNBC is canceling Joy Reid’s 7 p.m. show on the network in an apparent effort to eliminate low-rated programs and replace them with shows people might actually watch. The final episode of The

Meet the Terrorist Overseeing Abbas’s ‘Reformed’ Payment System for Terrorists

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JERUSALEM—Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas fired his prisoners’ affairs commissioner this week, seemingly demonstrating new seriousness about reforming the system of payments for terrorists that the commissioner oversaw and vocally defended. But Abbas simultaneously replaced the former commissioner, Qadura Fares, with another convicted terrorist and leading proponent of the payments, Raed Abu al-Humus. The incoming

The Mob Wanted Kennedy Dead. But Did They Do the Unthinkable?

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Tell me what you think about Lee Harvey Oswald, and I’ll tell you how you vote. Every year since 1963, Gallup has polled Americans on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the weeks after Kennedy’s killing, less than 30 percent of Americans believed that Oswald acted alone and 52 percent believed that “others