Monday on ABC's "The View," co-host Whoopi Goldberg said President Donald Trump was preparing to implement a draft for his military operation in Iran.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Singer D4vd has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was last known to be alive nearly a year ago and whose dismembered and decomposed body was found in September in his apparently abandoned Tesla, prosecutors said Monday.

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President Donald Trump's United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is actively re-vetting migrants awarded green cards, asylum, and other benefits under former President Joe Biden, the agency's director confirmed.

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Top Republican political consultants are flying into Washington to meet with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and President Donald Trump’s political operative James Blair as the White House gears up for the midterms.

As first reported by Politico, the group will meet Monday at the Waldorf Astoria hotel—formerly the Trump International Hotel—in Washington, D.C.

The players will prepare for a challenging midterm cycle as the administration faces continued heat for its military operation in Iran and the impact it has had on the economy. The national average for gas prices is $4.042, according to AAA, nearly a $1 increase year-over-year.

Wiles and Blair are bringing the political consultants from across the country to share data and strategy and plan how to best support congressional candidates, a person familiar with the meeting told Politico.

As a prerequisite to Monday’s meeting, Wiles and Blair met with Trump Cabinet officials in February to strategize how to sell the White House’s agenda. Recent polling from The New York Times shows the president’s approval rating sitting at 40% while his disapproval rating is at 56%.

They are also seeking to hold on to a slim majority in the House of just 218-213.

Wiles previously served as Trump’s co-campaign manager in 2024 and, upon his election to the presidency, was appointed to serve as the first female White House chief of staff.

Blair, who played a key role in Trump’s 2024 win, recently—and temporarily—moved from his position as White House deputy chief of staff to lead the president’s outside political operation. The super PAC MAGA Inc. reportedly has a war chest of more than $300 million that could be used in the midterms. Blair and MAGA Inc. have not yet announced the group’s spending plan.

Trump announced Blair’s “short leave of absence” on Truth Social, saying he will “lead the charge from the outside against the Radical Left, Country Destroying Democrats.”

In a similar meeting last week, Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, at the White House. The trio discussed Republicans’ midterm strategy and candidate recruitment, someone familiar with the meeting told The Daily Signal.

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April is National Financial Literacy Month, when the federal government and many states encourage citizens to become more financially literate. Unfortunately, many today lack a basic knowledge of economics, to our nation’s detriment. 

Across the country, states are starting to mandate that students take a personal finance course to graduate high school, often in place of economics courses. In 2022, only 23 states required students to take a financial literacy class in order to graduate; by 2026, that number had rocketed to 39 states.

Meanwhile, only 22 states now mandate the same for economics classes, a number that seems to decline each year.  

Some argue that financial literacy is a more practical subject than economics. With limited classroom time available, who doesn’t support teaching the life skills of budgeting, borrowing, and investing?  

While the goal is admirable, the method is not. Positioning financial literacy as something separate from—or even more important than—economics misunderstands what financial literacy actually is and sets up students for failure. 

Financial literacy is not a standalone subject; it is actually applied economics.  

While economics has a bad reputation for being complicated and irrelevant, at its heart, economics is simply the study of choices. This means that economics is the basis for all decisions we make in our lives: financial, civic, and even personal.  

Every decision we face—whether to rent or buy a home, when to pay down debt or invest, whether to accept a job offer—requires the analytical tools that economics provides such as opportunity cost, marginal thinking, time value of money, incentive structures, risk and return. Teaching financial literacy stripped of economics leaves students with little more than a collection of rules lacking the reasoning to apply them. 

Research on financial education has consistently found that only teaching students “rules” produces modest, short-lived behavioral change. Students learn the rule, and pass the assessment, but within months the knowledge has faded. This is because it was never anchored to a conceptual framework, like economics.  

Practically, you can’t teach about the stock market and how stock prices change without using the idea of markets and prices. Or, why home, auto, and other loan rates change without understanding the role the Federal Reserve plays in maintaining stable prices and employment. Students won’t be able to make spending and saving decisions absent an understanding of the costs and benefits of these choices. 

My organization, the Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE), identifies five Economic Reasoning Propositions that are the engine beneath every personal finance decision: people choose; choices involve costs; people respond to incentives; institutions shape choices; and sound decisions are grounded in evidence.  

These are the specific cognitive tools a person needs to evaluate a mortgage, resist a high-interest credit offer, or understand why a “free” financial product is never actually free. Financial literacy without these tools is navigation without a compass. 

I have observed this pattern consistently over my teaching career at university and K-12 levels. Students who arrive in personal finance courses with even a basic grounding in economic reasoning—an understanding of trade-offs, incentives, and the concept of scarcity—absorb and retain financial concepts far more effectively than those encountering them cold.

The students who struggle are not those who lack exposure to budget worksheets. They are the ones who have never learned to think about decisions the way an economist does. 

To be clear: none of this is an argument against financial literacy education. Instead, it’s an argument for doing it right.  

The most effective programs integrate economic reasoning as the connective tissue that makes financial concepts coherent and transferable. Teaching how interest rates work is financial literacy. Teaching why central banks adjust them, how those decisions flow through to mortgage markets, and how a household should respond is economics and financial literacy working together. 

Sound financial decision-making necessitates a capacity for reasoned judgment under uncertainty, built on a foundation of economic principles. Students deserve that foundation, and we can’t provide it by treating financial literacy as a standalone subject. If students are ever to make sense of the rapidly changing world around them, they need the economic way of thinking as a grounding.

This Financial Literacy Month, we should focus on keeping basic economics in the classroom, for our students’ (and nation’s) economic future. 

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"There is a storm in our nation" according to Democrat Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who called for a release of foot soldiers to fight the "darkness and wind" during an address at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus Legacy Luncheon, seemingly dismissing the need for help from God.

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In the next few days, much more about the overall investigative review underway in Florida will likely begin to surface.  The review has been led by USAO Jason A. Reding Quiñones, a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Florida. Quinones is now supported by Counsel to the AG, Joe diGenova. As with all investigations […]

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A comprehensive analysis has found that major online news aggregators including Google News, Yahoo News, and Microsoft Bing News overwhelmingly feature content from left-leaning media outlets, while almost completely excludinng right-leaning outlets.

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Why did the National Park Service regularly denigrate the events of 1776 prior to the Trump Administration? In the Claremont Review of Books’ 25th anniversary issue, Jeffrey Anderson describes a visit to Independence National Historical Park, situated in the heart of old Philadelphia and run by the National Park Service. Congress created Independence Park for the purpose of “preserving” historic sites associated with “the American Revolution and the founding and growth of the United States,” as Anderson notes.

Anderson found an overwhelming emphasis on slavery and race—25 of 30 signs at the park’s President’s House, where George Washington and John Adams lived during part of their presidencies, “focus on slavery or race relations.” He writes that Washington and other founders “stand accused” of “‘injustice’” and “‘immorality.’” The first U.S. president’s “actions [are] characterized as ‘deplorable,’ ‘profoundly disturbing,’ and as having ‘mocked the nation’s pretense to be a beacon of liberty.’”

How did this situation come to pass?

We must go back 24 years to the formation of the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition (ATAC). A lawyer, community activist, and founding member of ATAC, Michael Coard, expressed the mindset of the group in a July 4, 2021, essay in the Philadelphia Tribune:

July Fourth is a celebration of kidnapping, transporting/buying/selling human beings, separating families, torture, whippings, rapes, castrations, lynchings and enslavement…. So why do many Black folks continue to do their flag-waving, fireworks-blasting, and swine-barbecuing thing on July Fourth? The answer is obvious. They’re ignorant or they’re traitors or they’re both.

Incidentally, ATAC sponsors “Anti-Fourth of July Day” events annually—and its mailing address happens to be Coard’s law office. To describe the group as anti-American and particularly hostile to patriotic African Americans is an understatement.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that beginning in 2002, ATAC “worked with local scholars, lobbied elected officials, and negotiated directly with Independence Park to ensure the history of slavery was centered at” the President’s House. The Inquirer noted that “It wasn’t until roughly six years after their advocacy began, when [ATAC] felt like focusing the site on slavery was a done deal.” Michael Coard stated, “We all agreed that slavery was going to be prominent.” “The question was how prominent?” Coard credited the late Mary A. Bomar, the former National Park Service director under President George W. Bush, as being cooperative with ATAC.

The President’s House, with an overwhelming emphasis on slavery, opened in December 2010. It was immediately attacked by cultural critic Edward Rothstein, then with the New York Times. Rothstein rejected the argument of the site’s adherents that the new interpretation was based on history previously not examined. In a rebuttal, the Times writer argued it was far more beholden to identity politics advocacy than nuanced historical analysis: “It is not really a reinterpretation of history; it overturns the idea of history, making it subservient to the claims of contemporary identity politics.”

He continued:

After $10.5 million and more than eight years; after tugs of war between the city and the National Park Service and black community organizations; after the establishment of a contentious oversight committee and street demonstrations, overturned concepts and racial debates, it bears all the scars of its creation, lacking both intellectual coherence and emotional power.

Most importantly, Rothstein contended in a follow-up piece that the new ideological interpretation ignored what was significant for American history in the President’s House: the fact that the Washington and Adams administrations were influential in creating a new nation, a constitutional republic. Rothstein writes, “In the upstairs world of Washington and Adams, so blatantly ignored in the Philadelphia site, was the beginning of a national experiment: the faltering and difficult task of shaping a new society in which equality and liberty would indeed be governing principles, ultimately weakening the institution of slavery.”

Criticism also came from Williams College Professor Michael J. Lewis in Commentary Magazine in April 2011. In an essay entitled “Trashing the President’s House,” Lewis writes that its exhibition is akin to “making a national monument to the sins and failings of the Founding Fathers.”

Restoring History

Fortunately, on March 27, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” declaring that there has been a “widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history” and to promote a “distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” This “revisionist movement” casts American “founding principles and historic milestones in a negative light.” The executive order called for “revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing the spread of divisive ideology.”

In January 2026, in keeping with the implementation of Trump’s executive order, the National Park Service NPS began removing the current signage from the President’s House, replacing the ideologically driven interpretation with a more comprehensive and nuanced one for America’s 250th anniversary celebration. However, the City of Philadelphia, strongly allied with activist-advocacy groups, sued to block the removal of the signage. District Court Judge Cynthia Rufe agreed with the city and ordered the NPS to put the signs disparaging Washington and his presidency back up. She maintained that the NPS could not act unilaterally because it had entered into a series of cooperative agreements with the City of Philadelphia.

Judge Rufe declared that by removing signage developed by activists, including the anti-July 4th Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, revisionist historians, and the Democratic political leadership of the City of Philadelphia, the Trump Administration’s Department of the Interior (DOI) was involved in “dismantling objective historical truth.” Ruge continued, noting the “government claims it alone has the power to erase, alter, remove, and hide historical accounts…. Its claims in this regard echo Big Brother’s domain in Orwell’s 1984.” Rufe contended the removal of the signage “undermines public trust, and compromises the integrity of public memory.” Further, she maintained that it has harmed “the City’s tourism” and the “promotion of its history in advance of the founding of the United States of America.”

An appeals court temporarily stayed Judge Rufe’s order until further proceedings can determine the status of the President’s House. Meanwhile, Trump’s DOI posted on its website alternative signage to replace the City of Philadelphia’s activist narrative.

Patriotism Versus Anti-Americanism

The crucial question for any honest proponent of an objective, fact-based American history is which framework—the city’s or the Interior Department’s—best presents to millions of visitors (citizens and foreigners alike) a comprehensive overview of both freedom and slavery in America’s past?

As noted earlier, the Philadelphia-activist version overwhelmingly references slavery and race. George Washington is discussed mostly in negative terms. His actions are “deplorable” and “mocked the nation’s pretense to be a beacon of liberty.” Rather than seriously examining the administrations of the two men who lived in the President’s House, the activist signage dismisses their accomplishments, stating that as “Washington and Adams governed the new nation, slavery continued to grow.”

In contrast to the tendentious Philadelphia-activist interpretation of slavery, the proposed Trump DOI signage provides a complex discussion of the tension between slavery and freedom in the founding period in a section entitled “Presidents Washington and Adams on Slavery.”

It tells us that two years before the Declaration of Independence, “Washington helped draft the Fairfax Resolves at Mount Vernon. These condemned the slave trade as ‘wicked,’ cruel,’ and ‘unnatural’ and called for putting ‘an entire Stop’ to it.” The proposed signage also acknowledges that as president, Washington “signed legislation that both upheld and limited slavery.” He “approved the Fugitive Slave Act” but “also signed measures restricting slavery’s expansion, including the 1789 Northwest Ordinance, which banned slavery in the Northwest Territory, and the 1794 Slave Trade Act, which barred the participation of American ships in the transatlantic slave trade.”

The Interior Department signage also notes that Washington freed his slaves in his will and “made provisions that the elderly and sick be supported by his estate for the rest of their lives.” The Trump DOI’s interpretation concludes: “Although Washington placed national unity above immediate abolition, he hoped for gradual legislation that would eventually bring slavery to an end.”

Since John Adams was a lifelong opponent of slavery and never owned any slaves, he could not serve as a useful foil to promote the Philadelphia activist’s claim that “the American founding is all about slavery.” Therefore, Adams is barely mentioned in their signage, although he, like Washington, lived in the President’s House throughout his administration. The Interior Department interpretation reminds us that “During the Adams administration the United States supported” Toussaint Louverture’s slave rebellion in Haiti “economically with trade and supplies and militarily with arms and U.S. Navy ships.”

Besides providing a much more thorough analysis of the slavery issue during the Washington and Adams administrations, the DOI’s signage includes a much richer presentation of the history of the anti-slavery and abolitionist movements. Unlike the Philadelphia activist interpretation, the Interior Department version examines the history of the Underground Railroad, the careers of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, and Lincoln’s role in achieving the final abolition of slavery.

The interpretation of the history of slavery and the founding offered by the Trump Administration’s DOI is not “erasing history” in “Orwellian” fashion as Judge Rufe and advocates for the Philadelphia activists’ signage contend. Instead, it is comprehensively expanding our historical understanding of the detailed and nuanced history of the tension between slavery and freedom in our constitutional republic. If anyone is substituting propaganda for history, it is the Philadelphia-activist narrative, as New York Times critic Edward Rothstein pointed out 16 years ago.

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While the lives of Supreme Court conservatives were in danger, liberal justices dithered — and Justice Brett Kavanaugh almost paid the ultimate price. In the months leading up to the […]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facing increased criticism over the ongoing conflict with Iran, President Donald Trump promised to learn from his mistakes just as soon as he did something wrong.

FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against The Atlantic after it published an article last week claiming he has been drinking heavily and was frequently absent […]

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