Month: October 2021

The news to know for Thursday, October 7th, 2021!

What to know about a possible compromise on Capitol Hill just days before the U.S. is set to default on its debt. That could trigger a financial crisis.

Also, what a judge just ruled about the abortion ban in Texas.

And a first-of-its-kind vaccine for Malaria.

Plus, we'll explain a student loan overhaul happening soon, how GM is taking on Tesla, and new features on Google to help you go green.

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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Northern Virginia continues to be a battleground between school boards and parents over what should be taught in public schools. The latest incident involves a series of books in Fairfax Public School libraries containing graphic depictions of sex between children and adults.

Stacy Langton, a mom from Fairfax County, Virginia, made headlines after she read aloud and showed images from those books, “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe and “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison, during a School Board meeting.

While the books have been temporarily removed from the Fairfax County Public School libraries, Langton is still concerned that a child will be permanently affected by the obscene pictures.

"You're going to accidentally have your child stumble across this and open up. And once you see this, you can't unsee these images," she says.

Langton joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about that School Board meeting, and the larger issue of such books being in public school libraries in the first place.

We also cover these stories:

• Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., won't agree to spend more than $1.5 trillion on congressional Democrats’ social welfare spending bill.
• A Colorado woman was told she would be unable to receive a lifesaving kidney transplant unless she received a COVID-19 vaccine.
• The national gas price average is currently $3.22 per gallon. The last time the average was that high was October 2014.

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The comments during testimony before Congress follow a similar sentiment from Fed Chair Jerome Powell last week.

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Today on “The Breakdown,” another major regulatory figure has confirmed he has no intention of banning crypto. During testimony before Congress this week, Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) asked Gensler if he planned to follow China in banning crypto (the same question Budd asked Powell last week). Gensler’s answer, if not any sort of endorsement of crypto, did make clear that banning crypto wasn’t the SEC’s intention (or remit). On this episode, NLW looks at a number of other questions Gensler faced, along with a set of bills that have been introduced to change the way the U.S. deals with tokens. 

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