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Kamala Harris loses effort to gain access to free-market group’s donors

A federal judge ruled Thursday against California Attorney General Kamala Harris's attempts to gain access to the names and addresses of donors to a prominent free-market nonprofit, calling her demand unconstitutional.

April 21, 2016

Think tank calls on Virgin Islands prosecutor to pull ‘unlawful’ climate-change subpoena

The Competitive Enterprise Institute on Wednesday called on the Virgin Islands attorney general to withdraw his subpoena into its climate-change work, calling the probe a "political ploy" designed to "punish" the free-market group for its climate-change dissent.

April 20, 2016

Three former U.S. prosecutors say fetal-tissue profiteering probe is warranted

Cecile Richards' longstanding insistence that Planned Parenthood has never profited from fetal-tissue sales drew scrutiny Wednesday as House Republicans noted that abortion clinics essentially get paid for doing nothing.

April 20, 2016

Utah declares pornography a ‘public health hazard’

Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert signed a first-in-the-nation resolution Tuesday that officially declares pornography to be "a public health hazard" and takes aim at the "sexually toxic environment" caused by X-rated entertainment.

April 19, 2016

Michael Bennet, Clinton superdelegate, booed by Sanders crowd at Colorado convention

Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet was drowned out last weekend by irate Colorado Democrats, who booed and chanted "change your vote" in reference to his position as a superdelegate for Hillary Clinton.

April 18, 2016

Democratic AGs, climate change groups colluded on prosecuting dissenters, emails show

In the hours before they took the stage for their March 29 press conference, Democratic attorneys general received a secret briefing from two top environmentalists on pursuing climate change dissenters.

April 17, 2016

Colorado Trump protest over Cruz delegate sweep draws fewer than 200

The Colorado protest organized by frustrated supporters of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump didn't quite live up to the hype.

April 16, 2016

Ted Cruz jokes he meant he ‘values New York’ in ‘Tonight Show’ skit

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said in a Thursday night skit that he meant to say he "values New York" when he took a jab earlier this year at "New York values."

April 15, 2016

David Daleiden charges Planned Parenthood collusion, asks court to toss charges

Pro-life activist David Daleiden asked a Houston court Thursday to dismiss charges stemming from his undercover probe, arguing that prosecutors violated his rights by colluding with pro-choice advocates and leaking information to Planned Parenthood.

April 14, 2016

Tim Tebow for Congress? Former QB urged to run for open Florida seat

The sudden retirement announcement of veteran Rep. Ander Crenshaw has ignited speculation about a high-profile successor: former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow.

April 14, 2016

Bill Nye open to criminal charges, jail time for climate-change dissenters

Bill Nye "the science guy" says in a video interview released Thursday that he is open to the idea of jailing those who deviate from the climate change consensus.

April 14, 2016

Kamala Harris shakes off political bias charges amid Senate campaign in California

California Attorney General Kamala Harris' record on using her office to punish ideological foes is coming under fire after her investigations on abortion and climate change, but it's unlikely that either probe will come back to haunt her at the ballot box.

April 13, 2016

Gina McCarthy, EPA head, subpoenaed by Senate to testify at Gold King Mine hearing

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee acted Wednesday to subpoena EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy after the agency refused to provide witnesses to a field hearing on the EPA-caused Gold King Mine spill.

April 13, 2016

Michael Moore’s North Carolina boycott spurs calls against other states

Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore drew cheers on social media after announcing Tuesday that he has pulled his documentaries from North Carolina theaters, but not for the reasons he may have anticipated.

April 12, 2016

Donald Trump laments ‘rigged,’ ‘crooked’ system after Ted Cruz sweeps Colo. delegates

Billionaire Donald Trump unloaded Monday on the Colorado GOP for what he called a "rigged" system after being swept at last weekend's convention, but the attack also drew attention to his biggest weakness: his sloppy ground game.

April 11, 2016

Climate change consensus increasingly questioned amid government crackdown on dissent

The latest government crackdown on climate dissent, exemplified by last week's subpoena of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, comes amid a surge of scientific research that pokes holes in the catastrophic climate change consensus.

April 10, 2016

Virgin Islands AG raises free-speech fears with subpoena for climate dissenters

One of the 17 attorneys general who vowed last week to target climate change fraud issued a subpoena Thursday to the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute in what its counsel described as an attack on free speech.

April 7, 2016

Christian cross ordered off Los Angeles County seal

Restoring a tiny Christian cross to the Los Angeles County seal is unconstitutional because it places the county's "power, prestige and purse" behind one religion, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

April 7, 2016

Climate-change models wrong on predicting rain, drought extremes: study

A newly released international study debunks climate models on global warming that forecast extreme rainfall and drought tied to temperature swings, casting doubt on disaster scenarios promoted by the climate-change movement.

April 7, 2016

Climate change fears put wolverine on endangered species watch

The solitary, aggressive wolverine faces few threats in the wild — even humans tend to give the remote creatures a wide berth -- but it does need snow to create dens.

April 6, 2016