Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the Treasury Department was investigating reports that Minnesota taxpayer funds "may have been diverted to the terrorist organization" Al-Shabaab.

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'A precious opportunity to ask ourselves who Jesus Christ is'

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Charlie Kirk’s legacy could live on for generations to come in Ohio if a bill on education ultimately becomes law, and it’s one step closer to doing so. The Ohio House voted along party lines last month to pass the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act, which permits the teaching of Christian influence on American history.

State Rep. Gary Click, a Republican who represents Ohio’s 88th district and who sponsored the bill, previously told The Daily Signal that the bill aims to prevent teachers from feeling “shackled” when teaching about the influence of religion. There’s also a free speech component.

The bill “works to preserve the ability for educators to discuss the positive impact of religion on American history, highlighting its consistency with freedom of speech and emphasizing how imperative it is to reduce politically motivated hate and violence in society,” according to a November press release.

Kirk was assassinated during a Turning Point USA event on September 10 at Utah Valley University. Click told The Daily Signal that although he had been aware of issues for teachers speaking about religious influence “for a long time,” Kirk’s assassination prompted this legislation.

“Charlie was a committed Christian, whose life and work will serve as a testament to the power of conservative ideals combined with a legacy of faith for generations to come,” Click added.

Throughout October and early November, the bill went through sponsor testimony, and legislators heard from proponents and opponents.

Opposition

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, among other left-leaning groups, opposed the bill.

“H.B. 486 is an uncomplicated bill, essentially confirming Ohio’s K-12 public school teachers and faculty at our state universities and colleges are permitted to teach about religion in their classrooms,” Gary Daniels, the group’s legislative director, testified in October. “If that is all H.B. 486 seeks to accomplish, then House Bill 486 is entirely unnecessary and it’s introduction is deeply puzzling.”

Both the U.S. and Ohio Constitutions protect such teaching, Daniels noted.

“However, H.B. 486 does not stop there,” he noted. “Indeed, the other admitted goal of H.B. 486 is to promote Christianity to captive K-12 school students and also adults in our colleges and our universities.”

He argued that references to Christianity in the bill aim to “paint Christianity in the most positive light while deliberately avoiding the negative,” such as historic justifications for slavery, denying women the right to vote, and the battles between different Christian denominations. He warned that “promotion and celebration of one particular religious faith or set of religious beliefs” will “create far more problems than it solves.”

Clarity

Finn Laursen, an education consultant for Christian Educators, told The Daily Signal that the bill provides needed clarity about what educators are allowed to teach. Laursen also testified for the bill last month.

Ohioans tend to assume, Laursen warned, that public schools must be secular. “Quite frankly, well-meaning administrators stop it,” he noted, even when it comes to the role that Christianity played in America’s founding. In addition to his role as a consultant, Laursen has 32 years of experience working within public schools as a teacher, counselor, principal, and superintendent.

Laursen argued that neutrality towards religion is often “misunderstood.”

“Here’s the truth: that schools are government schools, employees are government employees, so they need to be neutral to religion,” he stressed. “And I think that’s what’s misunderstood. Neutral means you can’t proselytize. You can’t push your beliefs on someone. But it doesn’t mean you can’t study it. I mean, the Bible is taught in public schools across the nation, but not as the divine Word of God, but as history, as sometimes poetry, literature.”

Gabe Guidarini, chairman of the Ohio College Republican Federation, expressed hope for a revival of sorts, if the bill becomes law.

“I’m thrilled to see the Ohio House act in line with the spirit of America’s founding by passing this bill,” Guidarini told The Daily Signal. “If the bill makes it past the governor’s desk, it’ll help empower a rebirth of education on our nation’s Christian ideals and history. I want to especially thank Representatives Gary Click and Mike Dovilla who made this victory possible.”

Rep. Mike Dovilla, a Republican who represents the 17th district, also sponsored the bill.

“It’s essential that we highlight the positive influence religion has had throughout our history – uniting communities, enriching our shared values, and safeguarding our First Amendment rights as Americans to speak and worship freely,” Dovilla said.

Kirk was known for his Christian faith, and his group of Turning Point USA has been devoted to equipping and empowering high school and college students. Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, now heads the group.

After passing the Ohio House, the bill goes to the Senate.

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Israel will deploy its first full-power Iron Beam laser defense battery by year’s end, with senior defense officials declaring the system will “fundamentally change the rules of engagement on the battlefield” as the Jewish state braces for continued clashes with Iran and its terror proxies.

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Taiwan’s Vice President sits down with Natalie Winters in an exclusive, pre recorded  interview filmed on the ground in Taipei. The conversation covers Taiwan’s democratic journey from martial law to a modern, self governing nation, the country’s identity as a free society, and its front line fight against CCP aggression.

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The Transportation Security Administration said it screened a record 3.13 million passengers on Sunday, surpassing the agency's previous single-day high set earlier this year.

India’s manufacturing sector posted a nine-month low in growth on Monday, attributed largely to downward pressure on demand caused by U.S. tariffs.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out a big problem with a New York Times story that claimed President Donald Trump is showing signs of fatigue in his second […]

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk about immigration, legal and illegal. Under President Joe Biden, we let in an estimated 2 million illegal immigrants and about 1 million legal immigrants. We’re starting to see some of the consequences that happen when you don’t vet people at the border.

We have, over the years, a massive Somali expatriate population in Minnesota. Now we are learning that during the COVID-19 period, when there were not audits and scrutiny, as there should have been, a lot of Somali expatriates, both legal citizens and green card holders and illegal aliens, ran a massive fraud against their adopted country, perhaps multibillion.

And Rep. Ilhan Omar, the self-appointed representative and the elected representative of the Somali community, has denied anything was wrong. Tim Walz, who is the governor of Minnesota, doesn’t wanna talk about it. That entire community abused the hospitality that was accorded to them.

Now we hear that an Afghan refugee who came in, largely unvetted, they say he was militarily vetted, but that doesn’t—that’s not the same criteria for someone that we want to bring in and accord enormous generosity to: give him a subsidized apartment, let him, his wife, and five children have access to it and subsidies with it ahead of normal U.S. citizens.

And he repays that gratitude with what? He drives across the country and executes a young National Guardsman from West Virginia and almost fatally wounds—seriously wounds—his companion. Murders one and tries the murder of the other, who’s in critical condition. As what? Thanks for the generosity that was accorded to them?

Almost daily, we hear of an illegal alien who is involved in a DUI and kills innocents on the road. We hear about murders. And we’re kind of tired of it, and we’re reexamining immigration.

We all understand that illegal immigration is clearly wrong. You cannot come into the country without legal authorization, and if you are here illegally, then you should return to your home. I think all Americans agree with that. They may disagree about the tactics of finding illegal immigrants. It’s much easier to destroy the border and allow 10,000 people to come across a day than it is the hard work of finding them and then rounding them up when they don’t wanna go back home, and then having the Left champion them as if they’re saviors or heroes or something for breaking the U.S. immigration law.

But I want to get back to just a larger issue of immigration. Something is wrong with all of this because we are not inculcating immigration—talking about it in the way that we used to talk about it. We’re talking about it in the salad bowl, not the melting pot.

We’re assuming that people that come in here, when—the moment they arrive, they have grievances against this country. They’ve been victims of oppression. We don’t really audit them legally. We don’t say to them, “We want you to know English. We want you to respect our laws. We want you to be acquainted with our traditions and customs and history, and we insist that you acculturate, you integrate, and you assimilate and do full American citizenship.” We don’t do that.

And so, we have truck drivers who are here both legally and illegally who don’t speak English, they don’t read English. And yet, out of our kindness, our naivete, or stupidity, we give them driver’s licenses. And the result is they’re killing people on American freeways. And yet, we can’t object because we feel that we’re going to be illiberal.

So, what is the solution? The solution is to rethink legal immigration. It should be much smaller, maybe 200,000 or 300,000, a number that we feel we can comfortably and easily assimilate. They must come in with knowledge of the English language. They should have some skill sets, so they do not become wards of the local, state, or federal government.

And most importantly, we have to have a civic education program in K-12 and outreach to them that explains, “You wanted to come to our country. We don’t wanna go to your country. You made the decision. You said that you wanted to give up your homeland, your customs, everything about it, and transfer across the ocean to the United States. If you wanted to do that, then we can accommodate you, but it’s going to be brutal. You’re going to be an American citizen first and a Somali or an Indian or a Mexican or a Guatemalan second. You’ll be fully assimilated. But don’t come over here and then congregate in a community where you speak your native language and you break our laws, and you feel that you can do so with impunity, as if you’re some victim on a Marxist binary of victim/victimizer, oppressed/oppressor. It’s not gonna work.”

Yes, we are a nation of immigrants*. We’re a nation of legal immigrants whose first mission upon arrival in America was to be a better American than a native-born American. And many millions were. I don’t think that is the case now, and the fault is not just with the immigrant, it’s with us.

We ask nothing of the immigrant. So little confidence, perhaps, we had in our own culture and civilization, we were derelict. And it’s the 11th hour, and if we don’t change rapidly in our approaches to legal immigration, we’re gonna end up and have a rendezvous with the European disaster and tragedy.

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A group representing more than 480 Minnesota Department of Human Services employees has sharply criticized Gov. Tim Walz, accusing his administration of overseeing a massive social-services fraud scheme and retaliating against those who tried to expose it.

A group representing more than 480 employees from Minn.’s Depy. of Human Services has strongly rebuked Democrat Gov. Tim Walz for what it said is a massive social services fraud scheme under his watch, as well as efforts to retaliate against those who tried to expose it.

If an extraterrestrial touched down on this planet and attempted to learn about President Donald Trump through nothing but the establishment media, the alien would get a pretty contemptible portrait […]

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For people of a certain age, there was this memorable thing called the “nuclear arms race” between the U.S. and the Soviet Union following World War II. For people living […]

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Dec. 1 (UPI) — Netflix released a teaser for the four-part docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which arrives on the streamer Tuesday.

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