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Posted at 11:59 pm on July 25, 2017 by Caleb Howe We have a new RedState feature launching, I call it the Overnight Mail … for obvious reasons (look at the time!), and it will either be a newsletter, a periodic featured article, or both. This is this week’s.

Posted at 10:09 pm on July 25, 2017 by TomMcCabe Starbucks, rainy weather, Nirvana, Boeing, and the Seahawks are just a few of the notable things that come to mind when Americans think of Seattle, Washington.

The Republican-dominated Texas Senate on Tuesday gave its initial go-ahead on a "bathroom" bill that would limit bathroom access for transgender people, according to reports. Senate Bill 3, which could be fully adopted Wednesday, is a controversial measure that would make it so "only by persons of the same sex as stated on a person's birth certificate" can use restrooms, changing rooms, and shower at schools as well as other public places. The measure, if adopted, would then fall into the han

The House is slated to vote this week on two GOP proposals to cut the Congressional Budget Office’s funding and eliminate its budget analysis division. The two measures will likely be considered on Wednesday as amendments to a government spending package on the House floor this week. Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration have been critical of the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper amid its repeated estimates that their efforts to repeal and replace the healthcare law would result in tens of millions more people without insurance. The House Rules Committee, which is controlled by th

He called the current proposal a "shell of a bill" and said the Senate Health Committee should hold hearings on healthcare legislation. “Let’s trust each other. Let’s return to regular order.

Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump's incoming White House communications director, scaled back his earlier pledge of purging his press shop in order to weed out possible leakers, saying late Tuesday that he does not plan to aggressively fire people — for now. "There are rumors that I'm firing more people," Scaramucci said on Air Force One Tuesday night, according to a pool reporter.

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LE BUGUE, France — As the police chief of the sleepy fictional town of St.-Denis in the Périgord region of southwestern France, Bruno Courrèges has battled murderers and arsonists, truffle fraud and archaeological vandalism, drug pushers and terrorists. Yet, in 10 novels written by the British journalist Martin Walker, Bruno’s real enemies have not been the conventional wrongdoers so much as the high-minded bureaucrats who threaten a way of life that

LE BUGUE, France — As the police chief of the sleepy fictional town of St.-Denis in the Périgord region of southwestern France, Bruno Courrèges has battled murderers and arsonists, truffle fraud and archaeological vandalism, drug pushers and terrorists. Yet, in 10 novels written by the British journalist Martin Walker, Bruno’s real enemies have not been the conventional wrongdoers so much as the high-minded bureaucrats who threaten a way of life that

WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have shortened their estimate — to one year — of how long it is likely to take North Korea to put the finishing touches on a missile that can reach the continental United States, according to several administration officials briefed on the new assessment. Until a few weeks ago, the official estimate was that it would take roughly four years, give or take 12 months, for North Korea to develop a missile that could carry a nuclear weapon small enough to fit into the missile’s warhead and capable of surviving the stresses of re-entry and deliver it to th