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A professor at the University of Georgia created a “Stress Reduction Policy” that allows students who feel “unduly stressed” to choose their own grades, according to a Monday report. Richard Watson incorporated the policy into two business courses, Campus Reform reported. The syllabi have since been updated to remove the policy, but an archived version of one is available. “If…
President Donald Trump issued his strongest warning yet to North Korea after published reports that the communist dictatorship has developed a nuclear warhead. “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” @POTUS says. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States,” Trump said Tuesday from…
Women in leadership roles are among those expressing disappointment that tech giant Google fired a senior software engineer for writing and distributing a memo ruminating on evidence that men and women are different. Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor to City Journal, told The Daily Signal in an email…
Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has requested copies of immigration files for the six Pakistani suspects in the House IT scandal, who allegedly stole equipment from Congress and accessed computers without permission. Grassley, R-Iowa, is seeking more information on Imran Awan, his wife, his two brothers, and two of his close friends…
A draft government climate assessment The New York Times “obtained” and claims is not yet public has actually been available online since January, according to scientists who worked on the report. The Times reportedly obtained a draft copy of the upcoming National Climate Assessment, quoting unnamed scientists who feared “the Trump administration could change or suppress the…
After facing a lawsuit over its treatment of a kindergartener who identifies as transgender, a nationally recognized public charter school in Minnesota has agreed to adopt a far-reaching inclusionary policy. The school also agreed to pay the child’s parents $120,000. In the settlement, Nova Classical Academy promised to establish a gender inclusion policy that doesn’t…
An 8-year-old student identified as transgender is suing a private school in Orange Country, California, for failing to let the child express a preferred gender identity. The lawsuit, filed Aug. 2, alleges that Heritage Oak Private School violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which outlaws discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation, because it wouldn’t allow Nikki Brar to wear…
A professor who tweeted that President Donald Trump "must hang” and “justice = the execution of two Republicans for each deported immigrant” will not return to teach in the fall. California State University, Fresno history professor Lars Maischak won't teach during the fall semester, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday, citing an announcement by university President…
Vermont is refusing to comply with a court order forcing officials to release communications about the state’s supposed involvement in a climate inquisition against fossil fuel groups, a conservative legal group said Monday. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan denied conservative group E&E Legal’s request for communication between former Attorney General William Sorrell and New York…
Laura McLinn’s son Jordan was diagnosed at age 4 with muscular dystrophy, a terminal illness with no cure. But, McLinn says, matters could be much worse. “Both the president and vice president have expressed their support for ‘right to try,’” @VPPressSec says. That’s because after the family tried for years, Jordan, now 8, qualifies for…
The city of Chicago filed a lawsuit Monday against the Department of Justice, claiming its policy of withholding federal funding to sanctuary cities is unconstitutional and constitutes blackmail. The suit names Attorney General Jeff Sessions as the defendant. It contests Sessions’ July announcement that the Justice Department will not provide Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program…
The Trump administration’s stance on United Nations social policy so far is strikingly similar to the Obama administration’s, a leading conservative group that defends religious freedom says. Alliance Defending Freedom International, the global wing of the U.S.-based Christian legal aid group, faults the administration specifically for voting against a “Protection of the Family” resolution during…
UCLA professors are protesting a symphony conducted by a conservative commentator whom they call “horribly bigoted." History professor Andrew Apter and political science professor Michael Chwe released a letter in which they advise readers to boycott a concert where conservative commentator Dennis Prager will be the guest conductor, according to a report Wednesday in Campus Reform. “Please urge your friends to not…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., cast the only vote against a Food and Drug Administration user fee reauthorization bill that passed the Senate Thursday in an overwhelming majority of 94 to 1. Sanders voted against the bill, which facilitates the collection of fees from drug and medical device companies, because it “does nothing to lower drug…
The police chief of the Evergreen State College resigned after the campus administration would not let her or her officers have access to rifles, according to a Wednesday report. Stacy Brown resigned as chief of Evergreen’s police services, according to The Olympian. Campus protesters demanded Brown’s firing in May. The students leveled allegations of racism against…
An Arizona congressman is working to remove energy subsidies that are part of the 2014 farm bill. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., recently released legislation that he says could save the American taxpayer more than a billion dollars over five years. Biggs told The Daily Signal in an interview that he wants his bill “to actually…
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., said in a newspaper interview that she never actually saw a laptop that she fought to block U.S. Capitol Police from examining as evidence in a criminal case against her IT aide by saying it was hers. Wasserman Schultz, who resigned under a cloud last year as head of the…
Just ahead of President Donald Trump’s 200th day in office, the Senate confirmed dozens of his nominees in a significant sign of a stepped-up pace to fill jobs, including judgeships. “When political leaders are in place, the president can run the government more effectively, achieve his priorities,” @RPublicService says. In all, the Senate on Thursday…
KYIV, Ukraine—On the front lines against Russia and its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers have, throughout the past three years of relentless combat, frequently turned to symbols of America to both intimidate and annoy their enemies—sometimes, in eclectic and creative ways. Ukrainian soldiers have raised U.S. flags over their front-line trenches and forts—typically…
A House Republican from Florida this week urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to determine whether any U.S. financial institutions have reported suspicious banking activity by a former information technology aide to a Florida Democrat who until last year headed the national party. Imran Awan; his wife, Hina Alvi; his brothers; and his best friend are…