Friday on CNN’s “The Arena,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said “we can expect continuing efforts” by President Donald Trump to “try to rig this election.” Host Kasie Hunt said, “The Supreme Court just weighed in and said that the administration can

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Polling shows incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) leading Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) in the Georgia U.S. Senate race, and billionaire healthcare executive Rick Jackson (R) is narrowly ahead of former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) in the state’s gubernatorial contest.

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Pope Leo XIV was welcomed by thousands of French Catholics with a ceremony in Paris on Friday that filled the country's largest stadium.

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In 1986, the federal government built a computer database called SAVE, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. The purpose was simple – when a noncitizen applies for public benefits the state govt can check whether the applicant was legally in the country. The SAVE system worked. Nobody talked about it for 39 years. In March 2025, […]

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On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said that there has been “movement” by China on stopping aid to Iran, “That’s what the commitment is. They assured us yesterday, they are

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On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said that “we don’t know” when the sale of $14 billion in military hardware for Taiwan that is on President Donald Trump’s desk will

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The Supreme Court rejected a mid-decade congressional redistricting map in Missouri amid the continuing gerrymandering wars in the lead-up to the 2026 midterms.

In a setback for Republicans, Missouri will have to use the map drawn in 2022 and used in the 2022 and 2024 elections. The maps could have a major impact on who controls the House of Representatives.

The 2025 map was believed to net Republicans an additional House seat.

The high court issued the order Friday evening. The ruling had no noted dissents, The Associated Press reported.

“At this late date, ordering reversion to the 2025 map in the midst of an ongoing election would usher in electoral chaos,” an unsigned opinion said. “The District Court and Court of Appeals should not enjoin or otherwise prohibit the use of the 2022 map in the 2026 congressional election in Missouri.”

The ruling demonstrates that different facts and points of law in each state redistricting case can impact the outcome. The high court likewise rejected a Democrat-friendly Virginia congressional map but upheld a Republican-friendly map in Texas and a Democrat-friendly map in California.

In the Missouri case Friday, the justices reversed an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Monday to keep the map for the November elections, which will determine control of Congress. The new district was used in the August primary, and the appeals court determined it would be unconstitutional to switch districts between a primary and general election.

The Supreme Court instead let a Missouri Supreme Court ruling stand. The state’s high court determined that a citizen petition prevents the new map from being used without first being approved in a November referendum.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave an extensive press conference following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the conclusion of U.S. participation in the 2026 UNGA.  The full video and transcript are below. There’s little argument that Secretary Rubio is one of the most remarkable Secretary of States’ in our modern history. […]

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Black gender and sexuality, Filipino sexuality culture, colonialism, social justice, and white supremacy are all phrases you might hear in a progressive activist meeting, but at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), these represent ethnic studies courses that are a required part of the curriculum.

An investigation by Defending Education found that students only have the option to pick from eight different courses, all of which uphold a narrow narrative of systemic racism.

Below is a list of the eight course options, all framed through a progressive, social-justice-oriented lens:

For an estimated $30,000 a year, you can take “Culture, Power, and Ecology” and explain how “white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism affect human labor, cultural autonomy, and human-ecological relations.”

You can also choose a course called “Filipina/x/o American LGBTQ+ Identities and Experiences.” This one describes itself as helping students to “analyze the varied expressions of gender identities and sexualities in Filipina/x/o American communities.”

The full list and course descriptions are available at Defending Education.

Reagan Dugan, director of higher education initiatives at Defending Education, told the Daily Signal that these courses go beyond teaching a different point of view.

“Students at CSUEB can’t graduate without taking one of these eight courses focused on social justice,” he said. “That goes past teaching contested ideas and mandates coursework that starts from one ideological premise.”

Reagan continued, “That may be unsurprising in California, but students there still deserve better than ideological mandates in their gen eds.”

The requirement reaches beyond CSUEB. California now requires all CSU students to complete an ethnic studies course to graduate, meaning students are paying tuition to take courses that are framed through a progressive, social-justice-oriented lens while being offered no alternative.

Dylan Frazin, a senior at Cal State University of Fullerton and conservative student journalist, described having to take these courses as “utterly appalling.”

Frazin shared his personal experience taking a Chicano studies course, thinking he would learn about “Latin history in America.” He soon found out he was very wrong. 

“Our first assignment was having to watch a children’s film, “Zootopia,” and to assign a race to one of the animals and describe why that animal is that race. Within the first two weeks, we were already reading an intro to [critical race theory] by Ibram Kendi and being taught how to be antiracist.”

Frazin also shared a disturbing moment in class where students were forced to watch a gay sex scene.

“We were also forced to watch a movie, ‘La Mission,’ more specifically the gay sex scene contained in the movie, to teach us how parents can demonstrate “toxic masculinity” towards their gay children,” he said.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Friday retracted a policy he recently proposed that would have allowed government health officials to access one’s property without a warrant and speak to students directly without parental consent.

The move came after the governor received strong pushback from the state’s residents.

“After our members raised serious concerns about the Shapiro administration’s overreach, and after they received over 6,000 appeals from the public, the PA [Department of Health] has WITHDRAWN their proposed COVID-era regulatory changes,” Pennsylvania House Republicans wrote on X.

Previously, the governor proposed the rule, formally known as Regulation #10-242, amending 28 Pennsylvania Code Chapter 27, which states that the “Department or a local health authority may enter an apartment, a building, a health care facility, a school, college or university, or other location as necessary,” despite it having been rejected by Pennsylvania voters twice in recent years.

Additionally, in 2021, Pennsylvania voters approved a constitutional amendment to limit executive authority following the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Pennsylvanians do not support governing by decree. However, the proposed regulations reinstate and expand these executive powers,” the Commonwealth Foundation said in a press release obtained by the Daily Signal. “Governor Shapiro is asking his own agency to write itself new powers.”

In its statement, the foundation added that the governor’s action was to “cut to the very heart of our freedoms as citizens,” and that this invocation sets “a dangerous precedent” that should “concern” any citizen who believes the government’s job is to answer to its citizens.

Apart from potential executive overreach by Shapiro’s administration, the rule itself raises other grave concerns, the foundation stated.

Not only does it lack adequate cost analysis, the foundation said in its press release, but it raises serious constitutional concerns as state health officials no longer need a warrant or parental consent when addressing Pennsylvanians.

The rule has already been challenged by over 9,000 comments from citizens and organizations. Another 16 legislative comments have come from 110 lawmakers. 

“This absolutely is COVID 2.0, but it’s even worse because Josh Shapiro is trying to circumnavigate or skirt the constitutional provision that we the people in Pennsylvania voted to take that kind of power away from the governor,” state Rep. Russ Diamond, who is leading the charge against the policy changes, told Fox News Digital.

Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of the Commonwealth Foundation Megan Martin said in a statement shared with the Daily Signal that residents are speaking out because they do not want to “relive the egregious and illegal executive overreach of the COVID-19 lockdown era. Pennsylvanians spoke loud and clear then, as they are doing now.”

“The governor and his administration are not above the law. Pennsylvanians didn’t want this abuse of power in 2021, and they certainly don’t want it now,” Martin continued.

Shapiro’s office did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.

Politico (EU) puts the spin on the actual ask by saying, “NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe U.S. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich wants more information on escalating hybrid threats.” However, if you pull back the NATO wording and current position, what it really looks like is U.S NATO leaders telling Europe to prove all of these “hybrid […]

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