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GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming singled out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Twitter, suggesting that the phone call between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart "is starting to seem like a political set up ." In her tweet, Cheney asked “what did you know and when did you know it?” of Pelosi while referencing the Democratic Speaker's "60 Minutes" interview in which she described talking to Trump about the call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky before it was released to the public. Cheney continued, "This is starting to seem like a political set up.” In a separate tweet, Cheney accused Democrats of “careening from one impeachment to another," adding that they “can’t even wait 24 hours to see the transcript. Lesson: Evidence doesn’t matter to them.” Pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry against Trump after Democrats expressed alarm over an August complaint accusing Trump of having "used th...

U.S. Department of Education has ordered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University to remodel their joint Middle East studies program. The two universities inappropriately uses federal grants to advance "ideological priorities" promoting Islam and not highlighting "positive" imagery of Christianity and Judaism, according to the Trump administration, that is threatening to cut funding if they do not revise their joint Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies. The consortium received $235,000 from the grant last year, according to Education Department data. Assistant Secretary Robert King says the program lacks balance. It offers "few, if any, programs focused on the historic discrimination faced by, and current circumstances of, religious minorities in the Middle East, including Christians , Jews, Baha'is, Yadizis, Kurds, Druze, and others," King writes. The letter, published in the Federal Register, ...