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Wisconsin — House Speaker Paul Ryan’s policy record is collapsing among voters here under scrutiny from Republican challenger Paul Nehlen, so badly that Ryan is refusing to appear even on the Fox News Channel. “We know Speaker Ryan, he’s been on this program many, many times,” Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy opened an interview with Nehlen on Thursday morning by saying. “We invited him to be on today.” Later in the interview with Nehlen, Doocy divulged even more: “We did invite Speaker Ryan to appear today, and he declined.” The fact that Ryan is shunning former media allies and...

Paul Ryan supports Donald Trump for president — but does Trump support the Republican House Speaker against his primary challenger? It was assumed by many politicos that Trump was supporting Ryan in his primary fight against Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen, but the Republican presidential nominee put that assumption into question with a Monday tweet.

A close associate of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday claimed the father of a slain Muslim American soldier was a “Muslim Brotherhood agent” after Khizr Khan entered into an impassioned exchange with Trump over the qualities required in an American leader. Roger Stone, a former adviser to Trump’s campaign, tweeted that Khizr Khan was an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egypt-based Islamist organization, and provided a link to a website that claimed Khan promoted Islamic sharia law and was “probably” acting on behalf of “Muslim oil companies.” *snip* Shoebat listed incidents in which US Muslim servicemen have...