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    Angry Federal Judge Orders Biden’s DHS: End Mass Parole of Illegal Aliens
    In a scathing opinion on Wednesday that questions the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II for the Northern District of Florida has ordered a stop to the Biden administration’s “Parole Plus Alternatives to Detention” (“Parole+ATD”) policy that has been illegally releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens…
    Hans von Spakovsky | Lora Ries | Steve Bradbury
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    The Left Is Downplaying Reality of Fentanyl Crisis
    The Left refuses to connect the dots between the fentanyl and border crises because it would require acknowledging that we have an open border. The truth of the matter is that the border crisis and fentanyl problem in America are directly related. Drug overdose or poisoning is the leading cause of death for Americans aged…
    Erin Dwinell
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    Arkansas’ Sanders Signs Ambitious Education Reform Agenda of School Choice, Anti-Indoctrination
    Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday signed into law what she called “the largest overhaul of the state’s education system in Arkansas history.” The “Arkansas LEARNS” initiative is an ambitious reform agenda that expands school choice, modernizes school transportation, restructures teacher compensation to pay more for performance, provides supplemental education for struggling students, and…
    Jason Bedrick
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    6 Charts Show Crucial Facts About Spending, Taxes, Deficits Missing From Biden’s Budget
    The Biden administration on Thursday released an outline for its fiscal year 2024 budget. As expected, it promotes the same swampy, big-government agenda as last year, which the country desperately needs to avoid. Beneath the administration’s spin, the ultimate message is that it thinks the federal government doesn’t have enough power and control over our…
    David Ditch
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    Districts in California, Kansas, DC Area Push Black Lives Matter at School’s Left-Wing Agenda
    Observances of Black Lives Matter at School Week across the country included lessons on unconscious racial bias, globalism, and so-called microaggressions developed by far-left groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Howard Zinn Education Project.   D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice this week approvingly cited numerous examples in Hayward, California; Lawrence, Kansas; and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Hawley Proposes Stock Trading Ban for Senior Government Officials 
    The president, vice president, and other senior officials in the executive branch of the U.S. government would be barred from holding and trading stocks under a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.  Hawley’s proposed ban also would apply to the spouses of such senior officials.  “Senior members of the executive branch—who have access to privileged information—shouldn’t…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘American Studios Shouldn’t Be Creating CCP Propaganda’: House Homeland Security Panel Chairman
    A Republican congressman is once again working to counter how the Chinese Communist Party attempts to influence Hollywood and its filmmaking decisions.  Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., reintroduced the Stopping Communist Regimes from Engaging in Edits Now Act, or SCREEN Act, on Wednesday. “Since I introduced the SCREEN Act in [February 2022], the Communist Chinese Party escalated…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    National Effort Thwarted, DHS Funds ‘Mary Poppins’-Style ‘Ministry of Truth’ in Rhode Island
    Not to be deterred by its embarrassing failure to carry out its 2022 national “Disinformation Governance Board” plan, the federal Department of Homeland Security has now resorted to funding a grassroots surrogate operation in Rhode Island. A grant of more than $700,000 was provided by the DHS to the University of Rhode Island, which in…
    Mike Stenhouse
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    The Biden Administration Has Been ‘Making the Fentanyl Crisis Worse,’ Republican Warns
    OXON HILL, Md.—The crisis at the southern border is both unending and unrelenting. As The Daily Signal previously reported, more than 1 million migrants have been encountered at the southern border since the start of fiscal year 2023 on Oct. 1. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, recently traveled with…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Merrick Garland’s Unsatisfactory Answers to Senate Judiciary Committee’s Legitimate Questions
    After what seemed like an eternity getting him there, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally went face-to-face on Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican members of which were looking to get answers on a number of contentious issues. Those included an unfortunate FBI memo that has since been withdrawn, as well as complaints surrounding the Department of…
    Michael Letts
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    Singapore, With the World’s Freest Economy, Stands as America’s Indispensable Foreign Policy Partner
    Singapore shines again. The small but vibrant entrepreneurial nation leads global economic freedom rankings for a fourth consecutive year, as reported by The Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, just out. Since the 2020 edition of the index, when Singapore outperformed Hong Kong, this highly capable Asian country has continued to demonstrate its sound…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    10 New Cases of Vote Fraud Again Demonstrate Imperative of Election Security
    Editor’s note: This article has been corrected to reflect that Kathy Funk was charged with, not convicted of, felony ballot tampering charge. This article has also been corrected to remove references to Funk filing a false police report and breaking into Township Hall, and to reflect that Funk previously worked for Genesee County. In the latest…
    Hans von Spakovsky | Katie Samalis-Aldrich
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    ‘This Is War,’ Mother of 2 Sons Killed by Fentanyl Testifies, Telling Congress to ‘Do Something’
    Rebecca Kiessling struggled to speak as she told members of Congress about the deaths of her two adult sons, who were both killed by fentanyl in 2020.   “You talk about welcoming those crossing our border seeking protection—[but] you’re welcoming drug dealers across our border, you’re giving them protection. You’re not protecting our children,” Kiessling…
    Virginia Allen
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    Discredited Research Cited in Legal Briefs for Supreme Court’s 2 Racial Admissions Cases
    Sometimes a narrative is just too good to give up, even when the facts don’t support it. This seems to be the reason why some supporters of racial preferences in college admissions keep citing bad research in legal briefs before the Supreme Court.   In the two cases challenging the race-based admissions practices of Harvard…
    GianCarlo Canaparo | Duggan Foley
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    DHS Flouts Law on Student Visas, and DC Circuit Judges Yawn
    For yet another example of how out-of-control federal bureaucrats think they can stretch the law beyond recognition to meet their policy preferences, look no further than a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The F-1 student visa program that allows foreigners to enter the country and study…
    Hans von Spakovsky | Cully Stimson
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    Let’s Swap Racial Preferences for Ability, Skill in College Admissions
    College admissions officers who use racial preferences when approving applications are “minimizing the very nature of what we send our children to postsecondary education for,” says Stephen Gilchrist, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “I’m concerned that we have a lot of academically gifted students in this country who need to be…
    Jonathan Butcher
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  • news

    Pfizer Quietly Alters Racially Discriminatory Scholarship Eligibility After Lawsuit 
    Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has changed the application requirements for one of its fellowships after a nonprofit group’s lawsuit, which faulted the program’s “blatant racial discrimination” against white and Asian American applicants.   “Do No Harm is pleased that Pfizer recognizes its blatant racial discrimination is unlawful and immoral,” Do No Harm board Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb said in…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pennsylvania Children’s Hospital Hires Gender Clinic Social Worker for ‘Revenue’ 
    A Philadelphia children’s hospital cited “potential revenue” as a reason for hiring a gender clinic social worker in 2018, Pennsylvania mother and activist Megan Brock told The Daily Signal.    Emails, which Brock obtained, show correspondence between former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine and Dr. Rollyn M. Ornstein, an adolescent medicine specialist at Penn State…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’: Cybersecurity Expert Raises the Alarm About China’s Cyber Actors
    FBI Director Christopher Wray is re-upping concerns over how “non-Chinese companies operating in China” are treated, specifically noting that “the Chinese government takes advantage of its laws and regulations to enable its stealing.” A Heritage Foundation expert highlighted these concerns, warning of China’s cyber actors as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Wray zeroed in on…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Young Americans Are Losing Their Minds. The Social Left Is to Blame.
    This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new data showing that our nation’s young girls are in a state of absolute emotional and mental crisis. According to the CDC, 57% of high school girls said they were depressed in 2021, compared with 36% in 2011; 30% said they had considered suicide, compared…
    Ben Shapiro
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