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National intelligence veterans are pushing back against ridicule that prominent Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, have cast over the CIAs latest advertisement featuring a young Latina officer as part of the agencys effort to recruit a more diverse workforce. Mark Polymeropoulos, a 26-year CIA veteran, said diversity in the agencys ranks is an "operational advantage." "I want case officers who look like the UN, so I can choose the best athlete for each particular op," he...

CIA veterans push back at ridicule from Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Jr. over diversity pitch Brandon Mulder, Austin American-Statesman © J. Scott Applewhite, AP Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and other members of the Republican Conference leave a luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) National intelligence veterans are pushing back against ridicule that prominent Republicans, including U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, have cast ove...

Former HUD secretary says its offensive to claim Black people cant find ID on Hannity To see what racism and race-baiting look like, look no further than today’s Democrat-Left. From relentless obsession with critical race theory, baseless claims of "systemic racism," critical race theory brainwashing sessions, to delivery of health care based on skin color, Democrats and their ideological brethren see everything through black-and-white glasses.  A perfect case in point is the Democrat-Left r...

Joe Biden has received much praise from the US's allies. At home, he has an approval rating of 54% after his first 100 days in office. This is the moment for him to consolidate his political power, DW's Ines Pohl writes.

PolitiFacts ruling: Pants on Fire Heres why: One day after President Joe Biden pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half, Fox News and Fox Business Network personalities repeatedly and baselessly claimed that the move would also force Americans to say goodbye to hamburgers and steaks. "To meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has to, get this, America has to stop eating meat," said Fox Business Network host Larry Kudlow, a former economic adviser to President Donald Trum...

0 shares In this handout provided by the EU Delegation in Vienna, representatives of the European Union, Iran and others attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel in the Austrian capital, April 15, 2021. (EU Delegation in Vienna via Getty Images, JTA) WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden’s Iran deal inbox has been quite full lately. On March 10, 70 Democrats and 70 Republicans in the House sent the president a letter in the hopes that “any agreement or set of agreements with Iran m...

Fair or cruel? Texans offer two views of legislation that would target transgender girls Aria Jones and Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman Trans athletes are speaking out against bills that would ban trans kids from competing Replay Video UP NEXT Opponents said House Bill 4042 would target vulnerable schoolchildren to solve a nonexistent problem, codify cruelty into law, deprive transgender children of the benefits of athletics and further stigmatize students who alread...

Rep. Cole Hefner, R-Mount Pleasant, told the committee that his bill also is a safety measure, designed to protect girls from "biological males" who can have larger bodies, denser bones and stronger muscles, particularly in contact sports.  "The safety aspect is common sense," Hefner said. "I mean, we can look around the room and thats common sense. And its science, and there are experts here that can speak to that. But how many girls, biological girls, that have worked their whole life to ...

Fact-check: Does the Chicago area have a quarter of the nations lead pipes? By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller, PolitiFact.com © JUSTIN L. FOWLER/THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., discusses his support of the United States Mexico Canada Agreement along with Richard Guebert Jr., right, the president of the Illinois Farm Bureau, during a press conference at the world headquarters of Brandt Consolidated, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Springfield, Ill. Richard Durbin...

PolitiFacts ruling: False Heres why: DMX, the raspy-voiced rapper behind several hip-hop anthems such as "X Gon Give It to Ya" and "Party Up (Up In Here)," died April 9 at a hospital in New York, where he had been on life support after suffering a heart attack days earlier. The rapper, born Earl Simmons, was 50. The hospital where DMX died said in a statement that he died "peacefully with family present after suffering a catastrophic cardiac arrest." It is not clear what preceded the rapper�...