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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, agenda, has become a means to power at Boeing, according to one Boeing insider who spoke with Christopher Rufo.  An effort backed by former President Donald Trump to rework Nebraska’s electoral votes fails. A prisoner in Utah who is male but identified as female has castrated himself, and now the Department of Justice is suing the Utah Department of Corrections.  A new Dutch study finds that the majority of minors struggling with gender dysphoria grow out of it as they reach adulthood.  A judge in Georgia has denied Trump’s request to dismiss the charges against him.  President Joe Biden speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calls on Netanyahu to institute "an immediate ceasefire."  https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/03/biden-doj-accuses-utah-prisons-of-discrimination-after-trans-prisoner-removes-his-testicles/  Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dail

There is a rare bipartisan agreement in Washington D.C. around the social media app TikTok. The app’s parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing and is subject to Chinese law that requires companies to make their users’ data available to the Chinese Communist Party.  In March, the House passed a bill in a 352-65 vote, with the help of 197 Republicans and 155 Democrats, that gives TikTok a choice: either break from ByteDance or cease to operate in the U.S. Biden says he will sign the bill if it land on his desk, so that just leaves the Senate.  “I'm hopeful that the Senate will act swiftly,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., says. “I believe that it is important that they do to address this immediate threat and get this on the president's desk. This legislation is our best chance to end the Chinese Communist Party's abuse of these apps that are targeting, surveilling, and manipulating Americans.”  McMorris Rodgers, who also serves as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joins “The

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: A professional development conference heavily used the book, “Gender Queer’ to instruct teachers. China deployed planes and warships around Taiwan after Chinese leader Xi Jinping speaks to Biden. The Biden administration canceled plans to restock strategic petroleum reserve. UT Austin fired dozens of DEI employees to comply with a new state law. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/02/national-council-of-teachers-of-english-hosts-seminar-on-how-to-teach-gender-queer/  Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more

Wind, solar, and electric vehicles aren't the clean energy accomplishments that many claim, climatologist David Legates says. “The lithium, the atrium, all of the rare earth minerals that are necessary for the batteries, that are necessary for the solar panels, that are necessary for the wind turbines … are called rare earths,” Legates explains on “The Daily Signal Podcast.”  These rare earth minerals are acquired through strip mining, he says, a process that involves putting large chunks of earth into a solution. Once the minerals are extracted, what is left is a “toxic sludge lake." The process of strip mining changes the environment, adds Legates, a visiting fellow who serves on the Science Advisory Committee for the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation. Legates, also a professor emeritus at the University of Delaware, is the author of a Heritage paper on rising sea levels. Legates, who joins this episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast," explains how wind turbines and solar

Our colleague Fred Lucas reports that newly released records offer a glimpse of how federal public health officials reacted when questioned by Congress about an illegal, China-tied biolab in California. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/04/01/how-cdc-handled-congress-probe-of-china-tied-lab-in-california/  Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed legislation on Monday that reverses a law known as Measure 110.  In world news, seven aid workers have been killed by an Israeli airstrike.  The Florida Supreme Court handed down a decision on Monday to uphold the state’s 15-week abortion ban. The ruling also allows for the state’s 6 week abortion ban to also take effect.  Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservative

Tim Murtaugh became a familiar face to many Americans as President Donald Trump’s communications director for his 2020 reelection campaign. As one of Trump’s most visible spokesmen, Murtaugh had a front-row seat to the most-watched campaign in history. But just a mere four years earlier, Murtaugh found himself in a much different spot. After struggling with alcoholism for years, he was jailed in 2015 for public drunkenness and unsure of his fate. That’s when he decided to give up alcohol and focus on turning his life around. Murtaugh would go on to work for Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue before joining Trump’s reelection campaign. Today, he’s running his own communications firm. He joined "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about his new book—out today—called “Swing Hard in Case You Hit It: My Escape from Addiction and Shot at Redemption on the Trump Campaign.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After spending years serving the needs of the poor and homeless through nonprofit ministry, James Whitford says he learned that “it's good for nonprofits … to stay away from government funding.”  Whitford, the co-founder and CEO of True Charity, a national initiative to reform charity work, started serving the poor through a ministry called Watered Gardens Ministries in Joplin, Missouri, over two decades ago. Over time, he has crafted a model for how nonprofits can best serve the needs of the poor and actually be a part of solving the homeless crisis.  Step one, according to Whitford, is declining government funding because it reduces fundraising efforts, which disengages local donations, and “those local donors are often volunteers as well,” he tells “The Daily Signal Podcast.”  “So there's a kind of a symbiosis between the local donor and being a volunteer,” according to Whitford. “Sometimes it's a volunteer first that becomes a donor. Sometimes it's a donor that becomes a volunteer. But the last thing we w

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Description:  The House of Representatives is moving ahead with the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.  Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.  A judge in Fulton County Georgia heard arguments today for the case involving former President Donald Trump’s alleged election interference in the 2020 election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought this case against Trump.  With the 2024 presidential election underway, voters in Pennsylvania should listen up.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform

On today’s edition of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Virginia Allen and Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, discuss their recent trip to the southern border in San Diego County and what they learned from their ride-along with retired Border Patrol agent Mike Syzdek. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Description:  As recovery efforts continue and questions remain following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, a truck has been recovered from the Patapsco River.  A special report released by The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday lays out how U.S. national security could be impacted should China take over the self-governing democratic island of Taiwan. https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/27/likelihood-of-hot-war-between-u-s-china-could-increase-if-taiwan-isnt-secure-report-says/ The Central Florida Tourism board and Disney have settled their lawsuit.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.or

How could America shift so babies were more welcomed, less dreaded? Tim Carney, author of the new book “Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be,” has a few ideas. He’d like to see corporations offer parents their child’s birthday off every year. He wants parents to not work so hard at parenting—and to never, ever, sign up their kids for a travel sports team. He’d like to see local governments prioritize sidewalks and denser housing, which would make neighborhoods safer for kids. But he also wants us to think about why we have a falling birth rate—and what it says about us. After World War II, America had a baby boom, while Germany experienced a baby bust. Now, we’re struggling with our own baby bust, even as we are hammered by relentless discussions of America’s failures, the threat of climate change, and more. “The spirit of the age now is what I call civilizational sadness,” says Carney. “And the sadness is a belief that we’re just not good or that humans were a

The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan reports the United States Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments today in a case dealing with the Food and Drug Administration’s removal of safeguards on chemical abortion drugs.  Recovery efforts are underway after the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed early Tuesday morning.  Our colleague Fred Lucas reports that an Interior Department mining agency sought to purge its website and field offices of traditional language that could offend LGBTQ individuals, to comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/26/mining-agency-purges-language-on-marriage-gender-to-comply-with-biden-lgbtq-order/ RFK Jr., announces his running mate  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Islamic extremist group ISIS took responsibility for a terrorist attack in Russia on Friday that left nearly 140 people dead. The deadly incident is one the United States should take “extremely seriously,” according to national security expert Robert Greenway. The deadly attack confirms that “the level of threat to the United States from terrorist attack has not been at this level for decades,” Greenway, a former member of the National Security Council and director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal Podcast.  Greenway joins the podcast to not only explain how ISIS regained the strength to carry out an attack in Russia, but also why the terrorist group targeted the authoritarian nation. Greenway also discusses why Russian President Vladimir Putin is placing blame for the attack at the feet of Ukraine, and how Russia’s state media are reporting the attack.  Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad

Appeals court reduces former President Donald Trump’s bond to $175 million Earlier today, the United Nations Security Council voted and adopted “a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the immediate, unconditional release of all hostages,” according to the UN’s X page. The US abstained from the vote Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is not happy with Democratic strategist James Carville. On Friday, gunmen opened fire at a concert hall in Moscow, killing upward of 130 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin placed blame on Ukraine Crime victims don’t have rights under the Constitution, former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was recalled by voters in 2022 amid an escalation of crime, said during a conference here at UC Berkeley School of Law. Jarrett’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/24/recalled-san-francisco-da-says-victims-dont-have-rights-under-the-constitution/ Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www

Why do some women choose to have large families? As the American birth rate declines, academic Catherine Ruth Pakaluk decided to look at the 5% of American women who are outliers, and who have five or more children. With a colleague, she interviewed 55 of those women, and shares their reasons and experiences in her new book, "Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth." These women share openly about how having a large family has affected their careers, their identities, and their marriages. Listen to the full interview on "The Daily Signal Podcast." Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning avoiding a partial government shutdown.  Will House Speaker Mike Johnson be ousted from his position? Former President Donald Trump may soon be a whole lot richer – roughly $3 billion richer.  Axios reports that Russia and China “vetoed a U.S. draft UN Security Council resolution that called for an ‘immediate and sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza along with ‘the release of all remaining hostages’ held by Hamas.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/   https://thehill.com/media/4349581-jd-vance-washington-post-op-ed-rebellion/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The threat of terrorism first touched Arlene Foster’s life when she was just a child. Her father was serving as a police officer in the United Kingdom when he was shot in his own home by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1979. The Provisional Irish Republican Army group was seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland. The U.K. designated it a terrorist organization. Law enforcement, according to Foster, was seen as opposition to the efforts of the paramilitary group.  Foster’s father survived, but less than a decade later, when Foster was 17, the Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a school bus she was on. Thankfully, Foster and everyone else on the bus survived the attack. Today, bearing the title of baroness and serving in the House of Lords, Foster says she chose to get involved in politics “to be a democratic voice for the union, for the United Kingdom.”  “There’s always an alternative to terrorism,” she says. “There’s always an alternative to violence.”  Fosters joins “The Daily Signal Po

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: As the clock ticks closer to a potential government shutdown, lawmakers in Washington, DC have released a spending package valued at $1.2 trillion.  Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says he isn’t going to support President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees if they don’t receive support from at least one Republican senator.  Washington, D.C. has seen a drastic uptick in violent and other crimes in recent years, putting residents, visitors, and lawmakers at elevated risk of victimization, according to our colleague Jarrett Stepman. https://vpn.heritage.org/https/www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/21/heres-how-dc-created-crime-and-disorder-crisis-witness-testifies-at-house-hearing/  The Republican National Committee and the Nevada Republican Party have sued Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar as well as five local election officials, according to reporting from the Washington Examiner.  Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Dail

When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it's OK to win an election by cheating.  The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating, compared to his 40% average from the rest of Americans. Rasmussen asked these liberal voters: "Suppose that your favorite candidate loses a close election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being caught. Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?" Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. But that number rose to 35% among the elite 1% and skyrocketed to 69% among those who are part of the politically obsessed 1%, meaning they talk about politics every day. "I've been polling for a very long time and the las