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U.S. Tightens Student Visa Vetting: Public Profiles Now Mandatory
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U.S. Tightens Student Visa Vetting: Public Profiles Now Mandatory

By Robert Barba | The Wall Street Journal The State Department will review the social-media accounts of foreign student visa applicants, and applicants will be expected to have all social media profiles set to “public.” “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country,” a senior State Department official said.  Consular officers will be on the lookout for indications of hostility toward the United States. Failure by applicants to leave their social-media accounts open for public view will be seen by the State Department as an effort to evade or hide certain activity.  With the guidance now released, the department said the scheduling of visa applications could resume. Last month, the administr...
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RFK Jr.: It’s time for real vaccine accountability—and HHS just took the first step
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RFK Jr.: It’s time for real vaccine accountability—and HHS just took the first step

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Commentary, Wall Street Journal We’re reconstituting an advisory committee to avoid conflicts of interest. Vaccines have become a divisive issue in American politics, but there is one thing all parties can agree on: The U.S. faces a crisis of public trust. Whether toward health agencies, pharmaceutical companies or vaccines themselves, public confidence is waning. Some would try to explain this away by blaming misinformation or antiscience attitudes. To do so, however, ignores a history of conflicts of interest, persecution of dissidents, a lack of curiosity, and skewed science that has plagued the vaccine regulatory apparatus for decades.That is why, under my direction, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is putting the restoration of publi...
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Buck: Woke school policies now sweeping Middle America
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Buck: Woke school policies now sweeping Middle America

By Daniel Buck | Commentary, Wall Street Journal Schools in Wauwatosa, Wis., embrace far-left fads from ‘gender identity’ to ‘restorative justice.’ One question persists in American education: How pervasive are the stories of kindergartners learning about transgenderism or high-schoolers waving Hamas flags in hallways? Among the four million teachers in the U.S. there will inevitably be cranks and ideologues who mistake their lectern for a pulpit. Examination of a typical American school district in a typical American town reveals that the progressive mismanagement of school districts extends beyond the dark-blue borders of San Francisco and Portland, Ore. Recent Census data demonstrate that Wauwatosa, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee, is about as average as it gets. It’s politically s...
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Lee and Friday: We saved our daughters—HB25-1312 would’ve punished us as child abusers
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Lee and Friday: We saved our daughters—HB25-1312 would’ve punished us as child abusers

By Erin Friday and Erin Lee | Wall Street Journal We are both mothers whose daughters went through a phase in which they believed they were boys. We never affirmed that belief, although their schools and much of the broader culture did. Eventually, our daughters recognized their true identities and ceased identifying themselves as “transgender.” A bill under consideration in Colorado (where Ms. Lee lives) would define parents like us as child abusers. The measure would harm vulnerable children and violate the U.S. Constitution in multiple ways. Lawmakers including state Reps. Yara Zokaie and Javier Mabrey have likened parents like us to Klansmen, and their legislation is expected to pass the state Senate and proceed to Gov. Jared Polis’s desk. A similar bill in California...
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Trump’s energy secretary pick preaches the benefits of climate change
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Trump’s energy secretary pick preaches the benefits of climate change

By Benoît Morenne | The Wall Street Journal Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for energy secretary, says that climate change poses only a modest threat to humanity. The biggest U.S. oil companies disagree.  A fracking executive, Wright acknowledges that burning fossil fuels is contributing to rising temperatures. But he also says climate change makes the planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually.  “It’s probably almost as many positive changes as there are negative changes,” he told conservative media nonprofit PragerU last year, referring to climate change. “Is it a crisis, is it the world’s greatest challenge, or a big threat to the next ...
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Hegseth: I’ve faced fire before. I won’t back down
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Hegseth: I’ve faced fire before. I won’t back down

By Pete Hegseth | Commentary, The Wall Street Journal On these pages 18 years ago I penned an article titled “More Troops, Please.” I was a young U.S. Army lieutenant who had just completed a combat tour in Iraq, and believed we needed more troops and a new strategy to turn the war around. I had seen a lot, been through a lot, and believed in my troops and the mission. Ever since then, I have been fighting for our troops. I didn’t know it at the time, but that op-ed launched my next mission—fighting for the warriors on the home front. Like many veterans of my generation, when I came home I jumped into a new mission—always looking for a way to channel the sense of purpose that had been unleashed in combat. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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Mamet: Decline and fall of America? Not yet. Trump may have averted a destructive revolution
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Mamet: Decline and fall of America? Not yet. Trump may have averted a destructive revolution

By David Mamet | Commentary, Wall Street Journal For the past four years Israel has been the leader of the free world. The Jewish state has been the West’s sole protection against Islamist terror, fighting while reviled by the people and countries it was protecting. Its position was similar to that of Donald Trump — demonized, persecuted, targeted for violence. Now that Israel and the U.S. will again be allies, we can hope Iran will be returned to the Iranian people, Gaza will become a wealthy city-state, and there will be that biblical peace in which each may sit under his fig tree and be unafraid. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of...
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Musk and Ramaswamy: The DOGE plan to reform government
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Musk and Ramaswamy: The DOGE plan to reform government

By Elon Musk and  Vivek Ramaswamy | Commentary, The Wall Street Journal Our nation was founded on the basic idea that the people we elect run the government. That isn’t how America functions today. Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but “rules and regulations” promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement decisions and discretionary expenditures aren’t made by the democratically elected president or even his political appointees but by millions of unelected, unappointed civil servants within government agencies who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections. This is antidemocratic and antithetical to the Founders’ vision. It imposes massive direct and indirect costs on taxpayers. Th...
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Videos show police at Trump rally airing frustration with Secret Service
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Videos show police at Trump rally airing frustration with Secret Service

By Jack Gillum, James V. Grimaldi, James Fanelli and C. Ryan Barber | The Wall Street Journal, via MSN.com Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection, according to new videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal. “I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured on his body-worn camera. “I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’” The footage paints a more complete picture of the anger and frustration on July 13 moments after Thomas...
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