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Across America States Pass New Election-Integrity Laws to Safeguard Ballot Measures
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Across America States Pass New Election-Integrity Laws to Safeguard Ballot Measures

By Tom Joyce | The Daily Signal THE CENTER SQUARE—The Honest Elections Project says states made significant gains on election integrity laws in 2025. A new report from the group says eight states banned foreign funding of ballot issue campaigns this year, bringing the national total to nine. Six states also banned ranked choice voting in 2025, bringing the total to 17. Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead said states are responding to threats that undermine voter confidence. “In 2025, states across the country took extraordinary steps to ban the foreign funding of ballot issue campaigns and ranked choice voting, two of the biggest threats to election integrity and voter confidence facing the nation, and they did so in record numbers,” Snead said in a stateme...
Air Force admits decorated pilot suffered religious discrimination over COVID vaccine mandate
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Air Force admits decorated pilot suffered religious discrimination over COVID vaccine mandate

By Natalia Mittelstadt | Just the News The Air Force Review Board found that pilot “was discriminated against on the basis of religion" for objection to orders to take the COVID vaccination. On “all fronts, this is a huge win,” pilot's attorney R. Davis Younts said. The Air Force found that a pilot who faced separation from the military for requesting a religious exemption to the flu vaccine was discriminated against for his religion and should not have been reprimanded. Major Brennan Schilperoort, who has served in the Air Force for 17 years and was a whistleblower over the COVID-19 vaccine, can now request the military branch give him backpay and restore his flight status after he was reprimanded when his Religious Accommodation Request (RAR) wasn’t processed. Schilperoo...
Prayer works: Science confirms what believers have always known
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Prayer works: Science confirms what believers have always known

By Andrew Fowler | Commentary, The Daily Signal The role of prayer in civil society has emerged in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting, and this may be a blessing of sorts amidst the tragedy. This is because scientific research has shown time and again that religious faith and the practice of prayer check pathologies and improve quality of life on almost every level.  However, politicians and commentators belittled “thoughts and prayers” as ineffective in preventing other mass killings. Others, from Vice President JD Vance to Bishop Robert Barron to Franciscan University, were quick to emphasize prayer’s importance in moments of anguish and darkness. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security even&nbs...
FDA Launches Review Into Reported Child Deaths After COVID Shots
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FDA Launches Review Into Reported Child Deaths After COVID Shots

By Natalia Mittelstadt | Just the News The Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports of child deaths after COVID-19 vaccination, agency Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said. "We do know at the FDA, because we've been looking into the [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] database self-reports, that there had been children who have died from the COVID vaccine," Makary said Thursday, MedPage Today reported. Makary said the agency would release a report in the coming weeks on how many deaths were caused by the vaccine. He also said the FDA is talking with family members of the deceased children, reviewing autopsy reports and having physicians do the review. "We think the public deserves to have that information," Makary said. He also said children, particularly boy...
Tragedy at Catholic school linked to shooter’s personal torments
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Tragedy at Catholic school linked to shooter’s personal torments

By: Emily Crane | New York Post Deranged transgender Minnesota shooter Robin Westman had recently dumped his longtime girlfriend, raging about her “blue hair and pronouns” — and complaining about not being able to murder her because it “would really f–k up” his plans to massacre kids. The 23-year-old maniac, who slaughtered two children and injured 18 other people at a Minneapolis Catholic school, had only recently called it quits with his partner of several years before last week’s bloodshed, his dad previously revealed. The ex has been identified by the Daily Mail as 22-year-old Abigail Bodick, who the outlet called a “furry.” Bodick was previously pictured on social media wearing cat ears and whiskers at an anime convention earlier this year. In the serie...
Government Isn’t God: Why Broken People Need More Faith, Not Bigger Bureaucracy
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Government Isn’t God: Why Broken People Need More Faith, Not Bigger Bureaucracy

By Scott K. James | Commentary, ScottKJames.com America doesn’t need bigger government. It needs bigger faith. Romans 13 shows government is a servant – not the savior. Since the tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church, I’ve watched the same battle lines get drawn. The script writes itself: “Take the guns. Prayer doesn’t work. Faith isn’t enough.” It breaks my heart – not only because of the lives shattered, but because half of America’s first instinct is to strip away our God-given rights. But the answer isn’t taking things away. The answer is realizing that people are broken, and only God – not government – can heal broken people. And if the church shooting wasn’t proof enough of how far we’ve drifted, the recent Colorado General Assembly Special Session sealed it. It...
Trump Admin Supports Nationwide Bill to Shield Children From Transgender Procedures
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Trump Admin Supports Nationwide Bill to Shield Children From Transgender Procedures

By Leif Le Mahieu | Daily Wire The legislation would allow kids to sue their doctors within 25 years of their 18th birthday.  The Trump administration is backing legislation that would ban doctors from performing transgender procedures on children and allow lawsuits against doctors or hospitals who greenlit such procedures.   The Justice Department said Wednesday that it had “transmitted a legislative proposal to Congress that protects and defends children from chemical and surgical mutilation under the guise of ‘gender-affirming care.’” In the press release, the DOJ said it was backing a proposal from Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Bob Onder (R-MO) that would protect children nationwide from transgender procedures. “The Department of Justice has h...
Parents push back: A town unites to give kids a phone-free childhood
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Parents push back: A town unites to give kids a phone-free childhood

By Charlotte Alter | TIME Molly Moscatiello, age 7, started riding her bike to first grade last year. There’s a crosswalk with no crossing guard, “and I had to look both ways like five times,” she says, two grown-up teeth peeking through the gap in the front of her smile. Sometimes her parents’ friends would drive past and ask if Molly needed a ride, but she’d always wave them off. “I felt a little nervous at first,” she says. “But then after a while I felt comfortable by myself.” Soon, other kids began asking to ride their bikes to school. By the end of first grade, Molly was leading a small cohort of five or six, riding to school together in Little Silver, N.J. Twenty years ago, this would be as unremarkable as kids eating ice cream or playing soccer. But these days, when only...
Mortgage fraud case reignites debate over Lisa Cook’s Federal Reserve role
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Mortgage fraud case reignites debate over Lisa Cook’s Federal Reserve role

By Randy DeSoto | The Western Journal Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte shared a journalist’s video on Tuesday that he said offers proof that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook engaged in mortgage fraud. President Donald Trump fired Cook, a Biden appointee, last month over allegations of wrongdoing in relation to two mortgages she took out in 2021. In loan applications filled out within weeks of each other, she allegedly listed both a home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a condo in Atlanta, Georgia, as her primary residence. Loans for “primary residences,” as the Reuters news agency noted, “can carry easier terms than those for second homes or investment properties.” Cook has refused to leave her job as governor, and the Federal Res...
Republican doctors challenge RFK Jr in heated vaccine debate
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Republican doctors challenge RFK Jr in heated vaccine debate

By Alex Miller | Fox News Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso says Americans 'don't know who to rely on' after recent CDC changes Senate Democrats found unlikely allies in Senate Republicans during a fiery hearing, where Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled for his stance on vaccines. Kennedy’s testimony before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday was billed as a discussion on President Donald Trump’s healthcare agenda, but it quickly turned into a tongue-lashing from lawmakers, who accused the secretary of lying to the panel about how he would operate the HHS and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While a barrage of heated exchanges between Kennedy and Democrats were expected, it was heat from Senate ...