Days of relentless rain have left parts of Indiana dealing with severe flooding, with rising rivers continuing to threaten communities even as rainfall begins to move out of the region. Anna Dungan joins "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" to describe the fear, evacuations and damage residents face as floodwater engulfs homes, businesses and roads. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas delivers the biggest stories, without bias or opinion. Watch "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" every weeknight at 7p/6C on NewsNation. #VargasReports NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
Actor, writer and producer Richard Gadd joins Morning Joe to discuss “Half Man,” an HBO Max series following the relationship between so-called “brothers” Niall and Ruben. Gadd, who plays Ruben, opens up on Morning Joe about how he came up with the show, which explores themes of masculinity and repression.
As sailors aboard the USS Lincoln endure shortages and a mental health crisis, Trump responds to concerns about their extended deployment: “Not nearly long enough.” David Shulkin, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs in Trump’s first term, weighs in.
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The NPVIC would be the type of interstate compact requiring congressional consent, and Congress can act now by expressly denying consent to the compact through ordinary legislation. The post The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact: A Backdoor Attempt to Rewrite the Constitution Without Amending It appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
Why Congress Should Act Before It Is Too Late For decades, efforts to abolish the Electoral College have failed because the Constitution requires a constitutional amendment to fundamentally change the method of electing the president. Rather than pursue Article V, supporters have adopted a different strategy: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). The compact requires participating states to award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of how their own citizens voted. Once states totaling 270 electoral votes join, the compact takes effect automatically, effectively replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote without changing a single word of the Constitution.…Open
The left has normalized large-scale unlawful migration; now the Court has detached citizenship from the concept of political allegiance. Without the Citizenship Act of 2026, membership in our constitutional community may remain a function of geography rather than law, consent, and reciprocal obligation. The post Primer: The Citizenship Act of 2026 and Ending Birthright Citizenship appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
Background The Supreme Court had an opportunity to restore the Constitution’s original meaning on birthright citizenship and chose not to. The Constitution does not confer citizenship by birth on U.S. soil alone.1 The Center for Renewing America (CRA)’s core position on citizenship is correct: It requires lawful allegiance and membership in the national political community, not mere physical presence inside American territory.2 The court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara will go down as one of the most historically harmful decisions made by the Supreme Court of the United States. However, as CRA has articulated, the ruling has not exhausted the Constitution’s remedies.3 It merely shifts the fight to the branch that wrote the…Open
America is bigger than a single unelected staffer. It’s time for the Senate majority to recognize that truth, stop putting itself first, and finally prioritize the people from whom it derives its own legitimacy. The post Primer: How the Senate Can Secure a SAVE Act Win appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
Synopsis On July 20, 2026, the House of Representatives passed a clean continuing resolution (CR) extending government funding through December 4, 2026.1 Notably, House leadership did not include the SAVE America Act in that measure. As a result, that CR is not currently an option for a House-originated vehicle for attaching SAVE America legislation. That opportunity would arise again only if the Senate amended the CR and returned it to the House, absent any other measures. Accordingly, the principal legislative pathway examined in this primer is the separate reconciliation process, while the CR remains a potential secondary vehicle only if it returns from the Senate. Separately, the House has advanced its latest budget framework,…Open
The accelerating fusion of neo-Marxist progressives and radical Islamists within American politics poses an existential threat to the republic. The post Policy Brief: Assessing the Marxist-Islamist Alliance Aimed at America’s Heart appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
Synopsis The accelerating fusion of neo-Marxist progressives and radical Islamists within American politics poses an existential threat to the republic. This fusion, colloquially referred to as the Red-Green Alliance, draws on two seemingly conflicting ideologies—Marxism and Islamism—bound together by a common mission to destroy the American constitutional system, capitalism, and the Western Christian tradition. A closer evaluation of the Red-Green Alliance reveals that while it remains one of political convenience, the ideological foundations draw on overlapping master frames that tie shared Marxist and Islamist conceptions of anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, resistance, and Islamophobia together into a single shared narrative.1 As…Open
To protect American children, the federal government should adopt an age-verification scheme for adult websites, and states should enact age-verification requirements for social media. The post Primer: Age-Verification for Children’s Online Safety appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
Introduction In the digital age, vice is more accessible than ever. Smartphones have made pornography free, portable, and instantly available. Unsupervised internet use is widespread, and this development is particularly dangerous for America’s youth. The failure to restrict access to obscene adult content has left minors unprotected, opening the door to addiction and sexual depravity. Recognizing this crisis, many states have instituted age-verification requirements for adult websites and social media platforms. Although the Supreme Court upheld Texas’s age-verification system in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, state legislation continues to face legal challenges. Even so, the long-term effects of these measures are promising.…Open
The Chagos deal between the United Kingdom and Mauritius raises wider questions about sovereignty, international law, great-power competition, and the ability of democratic states to maintain strategic assets in an increasingly contested world. The post Primer: The Chagos Archipelago Is Key to Resisting China’s Encroachments in the Indian Ocean appeared first on The Center for Renewing America .
The status of the Chagos Archipelago, a small group of islands in the Indian Ocean, has recently become a newly relevant question of national security and defense strategy for both the United States and the United Kingdom. After Keir Starmer’s resignation as prime minister,1 his successor Andy Burnham has signaled a willingness to proceed with the plan of ceding the Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory to the Republic of Mauritius.2 This would severely damage American power and influence in the Indian Ocean. The Chagos Islands were a part of the British Mauritius Crown Colony until a few years before Mauritius gained independence in 1968. Britain separated Chagos from Mauritius to maintain a strategically…Open
