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A Republican congressman is speaking out about how the Chinese Communist Party is influencing U.S. classrooms.

"Well, they come in, and they sort of soft-pedal their propaganda, but yet, they also whitewash history by eliminating Taiwan," says Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee's early childhood, elementary, and secondary education subcommittee.

“You can’t talk about Ta...

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• Encounters of illegal aliens on America’s southern border reach near record highs.
• Virginia’ public universities have more DEI bureaucracies than any other state in America. 
• Rupert Murdoch announces he is stepping down from his role as Chair of Fox Corporation and Executive Chairman of News Corp. 
• Canada experiences fierce protests in recent days over gende...

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Who is responsible for the illegal immigration crisis at America’s southern border?

That’s a question currently being investigated by the House Homeland Security Committee, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is atop the list.

“I think very clearly, Secretary Mayorkas has chosen to totally disregard the laws passed by Congress,” says Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., and chairman of the committee...

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• President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations general assembly and he called on world leaders to stand in support of Ukraine and against Russia’s naked aggression. 
• Next Thursday, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee will hold a hearing on the possible impeachment of President Biden. 
• The influence of the Chinese Communist Party “is rampant i...

Special counsel David Weiss’ indictment of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is “a smokescreen,” according to Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project, the watchdog arm of The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of Heritage.) 

Howell says the three drug-related gun charges against the younger Biden “are the smallest things that Hunter Biden should be facing in any fair and ...

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• The president’s son Hunter Biden sues the IRS. 
• The U.S. Senate will no longer have a dress code. 
• Five Americans and five Iranians have been freed following a deal negotiated by the Biden administration and Tehran. 
• The Defense Department recently clarified its “gender-neutral” language policy. 
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to visi...

The Biden administration and regulators in California are “trying to force the auto industry to convert its production of vehicles from gas-powered vehicles to electric vehicles,” warns Steve Bradbury, a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) 

“And they really have in mind a ramp rate to do that that gets to 100% electric, all-electric cars and tru...

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• The United Auto Workers union is officially on strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. 
• The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is taking a closer look into FEMA’s response to the catastrophic wildfires in Hawaii last month. 
• House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did not hold back on Thursday when an Associated Press reporter implied the Califo...

If Congressmen are serious about border security, they will use the power of the purse to secure America's borders, according to Lora Ries.

Congress is gearing up for debates over the federal budget and some Republicans say they won't support any spending bill that gives money to the Department of Homeland Security without action being taken to secure the border, a hard line Ries, director of the Center for Border Security and I...

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• The president’s son Hunter Biden has been indicted on federal gun charges. 
• The 19 people indicted in Georgia on claims of interfering with the 2020 presidential election will not be going to trial together. 
• Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responds to Speaker Kevin McCarhty’s comments on impeachment. 
• The president of the American Federation of Teach...

Many parents, regardless of their religion, quote this biblical truth found in Proverbs: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” 

But in today’s culture, parents aren't the only ones seeking to “train up” a child in the way he or she should go. Now, perhaps more than ever, we live in a society that wants to tell your child which way to go. 

Even in the most...

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• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, ticked up 0.6% in August.
• The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas is reporting that members of the House Freedom Caucus on Tuesday vowed to oppose another budget continuing resolution without changes, which they said would only promote more irresponsible spending....

Two world leaders, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, did not attend the Group of 20 summit held in New Delhi, which concluded on Sunday. 

Erin Walsh, senior research fellow for international affairs in The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, says that "clearly, the two of them made a decision that they weren't going to show up."

"[A]nd they want to create their own new rules, and new ec...

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• Our colleague Fred Lucas is reporting that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy authorized the House of Representatives to move forward on an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden based on what Republicans have characterized as “Biden family influence peddling.” https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/12/mccarthy-endorsed-biden-impeachment-inquiry/ 
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The battleground that the radical Left has not conquered is “our children,” commentator and podcast host Liz Wheeler says, but make no mistake—the battle is raging. 

“The Left has actually been trying to reengineer our society for nearly a century, and unfortunately, they have been very successful at it,” says Wheeler, host of “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

The far Left has captured all but one of America’s central cultural institu...

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• President Joe Biden is absent from New York City on the 22nd anniversary of 9/11.
• Congress prepares for a spending fight as the end of fiscal year approaches. 
• California’s Legislature passes multiple bills aimed at undermining the rights of parents who disagree with the transgender worldview.
• North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un plans to visit Russia in the coming d...

With the Supreme Court‘s 2023-2024 term just three weeks away, there are three cases before the nation’s highest court that two legal fellows write “could shake up the administrative state.”

The three cases are Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo; Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy; and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America. 

GianCarlo Canaparo ...