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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Members of Congress have yet to elect a new speaker of the House.
• Israel’s energy minister says until the hostages are released, Gaza will not receive any humanitarian aid and all basic resources like food, water, and fuel will be cut off. 
• CEOs call on Harvard University to release the list of names of students who issued a letter supporting Palestine and condemning Israel. 
• The former leader of Hamas calls for Friday to be a day of Jihad.
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the consumer price index, which is a key measure of inflation, rose 0.4% in September.
• Sen. Bob Menendez faces charges of conspiring to act as an agent of the Egyptian government. 

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For some in Israel, daily life is continuing, now set by a backdrop of war. 

“Rocket alert sirens will go off, and they'll say, 'Hold on, let me take my computer, let me go to the safe room,'” Scott Phillips said of his friends living in Israel, adding that while talking to him on video calls, “They keep their call going in the safe room. That's the Israeli spirit.”

Phillips serves as the CEO of Passages, a Christian organization that has taken 1,000 students to Israel since 2016, including to two border villages that were decimated during Hamas' recent attacks. Phillips was preparing to leave for Israel next week, but is instead mourning the loss of “two of our speakers who speak to our students in these border communities."

The CEO said he has never seen anything like this happen in Israel, "where Israelis were just murdered [in] cold blood, and over 1,200 now is the count."

Phillips joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what life is like for those living in Israel right now and why the attack from Hamas was such a surprise. Phillips also explains how Americans can support Israel and offers advice on how Christians can pray for both Israelis and Palestinians right now. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Israel has formed a war-time cabinet just days after the terrorist organization Hamas launched a surprise attack against the country. Tyler’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/11/there-blood-hamas-issues-unambiguous-call-arms-support-jihad-waging-gaza/ 
• House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has secured the party’s nomination for the position. 
• Fred Lucas reports that House Republicans are stepping up their investigation into the Biden administration’s use of officials who have sympathetic ties to Iran’s Islamist regime. Fred’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/11/house-oversight-panel-investigates-bidens-iran-negotiations/
• What is California’s new “Ebony Alert”?

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The attack Hamas launched on Israel Saturday was “a genocidal savage rampage by uncontrollable militants who were simply trying to destroy Jews,” says Victoria Coates, who formerly served as a deputy national security advisor to President Donald Trump.

Hundreds of Israelis were killed in the initial attack and the death toll, which includes at least 14 Americans, continues to rise. 

Reports of Hamas torturing Israeli citizens and beheading babies are “appalling, and it shows you what these people are capable of,” says Coates, who is vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

Coates joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain where Hamas got the resources to launch such an attack against Israel, and why Hamas and Israel have been in conflict for so long. 

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• The war between Israel and Hamas continues today days after the terrorist organization launched a surprise attack. Jason Bedrick’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/09/iran-is-responsible-israels-9-11/ 
• Pro-Palestine protests held throughout the U.S., including in New York City and San Francisco
• The House of Representatives remains without a speaker a week after Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted from the position. 
• Mary Margaret Olohan reports that “a national, pro-Palestine group is calling for a day of resistance on college campuses Thursday in support of the attacks on Israel, emphasizing that “we as Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.”
• https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/10/10/national-pro-palestine-student-group-calls-for-day-of-resistance-backing-attacks-on-israel/

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At a time when America faces innumerable challenges, Alexandra Hudson wants her fellow citizens to focus on something only they can control: civility toward others.

Hudson’s new book, “The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves,” is on sale today. She joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about something why civility is so lacking in our society and what to do about it.

In this era of “cancel culture,” Hudson believes it’s critical to have tough discussions and debates with our friends and neighbors—especially those with whom we disagree—but we’ve lost sight of what it means to do so in a respectful way.

Listen to the full episode or read a lightly edited transcript at The Daily Signal. You’ll learn how to live tolerantly with others despite your differences.

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Erin Boggs was 16 in 1992 when she learned she was pregnant. 

“I was scared, definitely kind of alone,” Boggs says. “So, I knew the decision was going to land on me solely, and it felt like a critically important decision.” 

Boggs says people around her suggested she could parent or abort, but no one recommended adoption, but that was ultimately the choice she made. 

“It was honestly through prayer and putting myself in each scenario and thinking through what each would look like, and adoption just made sense,” she says. 

About 23 years after Boggs placed her son Jordan for adoption with Jeanne and Scott Hamilton, she had the opportunity to meet him. 

From their first meeting, Boggs and Jordan Hamilton began building a relationship, and nearly eight years later, they, along with Jeanne and Scott Hamilton, are sharing their family story.

Boggs and Jordan and Jeanne Hamilton join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how adoption changed all their lives, and why it’s a powerful answer to unplanned pregnancy.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• President Biden criticizes Republicans, telling them it’s time to pass a budget. 
• Former President Donald Trump endorses Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker. 
• Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton calls Trump supporters cult members. 
• The new jobs report boosts stock market, but the devil is in the details. 

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A Southern California school district requires teachers and staff to notify parents when their children say they have been bullied, are considering self-harm, or decide to publicly identify as a gender opposite their biological sex at school.

But California's Democratic attorney general, Rob Bonta, sued the district to block that policy, claiming that it violates the state's constitution; specifically, the students' privacy rights.

Emily Rae, senior counsel at the nonprofit Liberty Justice Center, sat down with "The Daily Signal Podcast" to break down the issues at the center of the case. Her organization represents the Chino Valley Unified School District, the Los Angeles-area district whose policy Bonta opposes.

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announces plans to begin construction of a border wall in Starr County, Texas.
• Elon Musk has threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League, but now it looks like a truce was reached. 
• President Joe Biden has nominated a former colleague of his son Hunter Biden to run an internal watchdog agency in his administration. 
• A number of lawmakers are in San Francisco today for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s memorial service. 

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