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

• President Joe Biden continues to be hit with corruption allegations by House Republicans who have been digging into the Biden family’s business dealings.
• Tyler O’Neil reports that FBI Director Christopher Wray may have lied under oath concerning the FBI Richmond office’s Jan. 23 memo citing the Southern Poverty Law Center in urging investigation of “radical traditional Catholic hate groups,” Rep. Jim Jordan suggested in a letter sent Wednesday.
• Tyler’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/09/fbi-director-lied-oath-memo-targeting-radical-traditional-catholics-new-memo-suggests/ 
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used an executive order on Wednesday to suspend Monique Worrell, the state attorney for the state’s Ninth Judicial Circuit, for under prosecuting criminals in her district.
• The pro-life movement has suffered a loss in Ohio. 
• After a seven-year legal battle that ended with a victory at the Supreme Court, Joe Kennedy will be back on the field Sept. 1 coaching football and taking a knee in prayer.  

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INTERVIEW: The English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, who died in 1822 at age 29, played a significant role in developing the ideas of the feminist movement, author Carrie Gress says. 

Ideas of the “the occult, smashing the patriarchy, and free love” played a significant role in Shelley’s writing and ideology, says Gress, author of the new book “The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us.”

Shelley was a “barbaric man” who was “involved in the occult,” Gress says. His wife was Mary Shelley, author of the 1818 novel “Frankenstein,” she notes, and Shelley drew on the ideas of her parents—a vision of a “women’s revolution where there’s no monogamy, there’s no marriage, all of these things are just erased, and people just live this bucolic life without any reference to their human nature.” 

Shelley’s ideology contributed to the modern feminist movement, a movement that has led to what Gress calls “The End of Woman.”

Gress, also a fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the history of feminism and explain how the feminist movement has harmed women and left women unfulfilled.

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

• The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today in a case relating to the Biden administration’s so-called ghost gun restrictions. 
• Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has declared a state of emergency because of the “rapidly rising numbers of migrant families arriving” in her state “in need of shelter and services and a severe lack of shelter availability in the state,” according to the governor’s office. 
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign has a new manager. 
• An Ohio school district’s policy enabling students to use the bathroom based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex surpassed a legal battle this week.

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Parents Defending Education’s new report, “Little Red Classrooms,” offers some worrisome information about China’s reach in U.S. K-12 schools through so-called Confucius Classrooms.

The report notes that Parents Defending Education “uncovered contracts that show Confucius Classrooms, or other Chinese government-backed programming, are still in operation” in a number of schools throughout the U.S., including Tulsa Public Schools in Oklahoma. 

“On July 11, 2022, the Tulsa Public Schools board of education approved entering into an agreement with the Confucius Classroom Coordination Offices, which [operate] out of the International Leadership of Texas Global nonprofit,” the report says. “The Chinese International Education Foundation would cover the cost of the program. Carver Middle School offers students a ‘Confucius Connection’ through its ‘Global Awareness’ programming.”

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma state superintendent of public instruction, says, “What we did is, we — immediately upon finding this out — we have required the district to turn over any contracts, any curriculum, anything that’s been handed out through this course.”

“So, we are actively compiling that from the district right now to do a deep dive into, ‘Hey, what was the Chinese government trying to get in this classroom? What were the teachers discussing in these classes?'” Walters says, adding:

So that’s what we’ve required of the district right now. So, we are going to be looking for that information to have a better understanding of what was being funneled into these classrooms.

Walters joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the Parents Defending Education report, whether he has spoken with any teachers, parents, or students at Tulsa’s Carver Middle School, and Tulsa Public Schools’ response to his Twitter video, “China will not be allowed in Oklahoma schools.”

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

• 2024 Presidential Candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says former President Donald Trump lost the election in 2020. 
• Ohioans are headed to the polls Tuesday and will vote on an initiative to protect the state’s constitutions. 
• The Washington Free Beacon reports that A University of Kentucky clinic has performed gender reassignment surgeries on minors.
• A pro-LGBTQ organization has awarded grants to more than 70 public and charter schools in the U.S. and Canada. 
• Ukrainian officials arrest a woman who allegedly was helping plan an assassination plot against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 
• Former Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao is sentenced to almost 5 years in prison. 

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INTERVIEW: Pro-abortion forces have moved from physically attacking pro-life pregnancy care centers to weaponizing legislation against them, according to the Rev. Jim Harden. 

In recent months, “we started to see an ebb in the violent attacks against pro-life entities and a rise in potential weaponization of legislation specifically targeting pro-life activity in the public square, and specifically even more so pregnancy center activity,” says Harden, CEO of the pro-life New York-based organization CompassCare.

In Illinois for example, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill "specifically giving the attorney general in Illinois the … unfettered ability to define what 'deceptive practices' means and what 'misinformation' means when it comes to the activities and speech of pro-life pregnancy centers,” Harden says. Violating the law “comes with $50,000 fines for each occurrence [of spreading misinformation] as they define it,” Harden said. 

Harden joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain the ways in which pro-abortion activists are using legislation to target pro-life centers, and to offer advice to these pro-life organizations as to what they can do to protect themselves so they can continue serving the women and babies who need them. 

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

• Former President Donald Trump says the U.S. Supreme Court “must intercede” in his legal battles. 
• Our colleague Rob Bluey is reporting that over the past three months, the number of reporters with access to the White House dropped by 31%.
• Rob’s story: White House Purges 442 Reporters Using New Press Credential Rules
• Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee is weighing in on the so-called Facebook files. 

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Parents Defending Education has released a new report that offers some unsettling information about the reach of the People’s Republic of China in U.S. K-12 schools through so-called Confucius Classrooms. 

“Confucius Classrooms are a program that is intended to teach children Chinese language and culture, which on its face sounds benign, but some of your viewers, listeners might remember Confucius Institutes, which were the corollary in the university system,” says Nicole Neily, founder and president of Parents Defending Education.

Parents Defending Education describes itself on its website as “a national grass-roots organization working to reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas.”

“That’s something that [Cabinet] Secretaries [Betsy] DeVos and [Mike] Pompeo reined in during the Trump administration, because Confucius Institutes at the higher-ed level were actually found by the U.S. State Department to be considered foreign missions of the People’s Republic of China,” Neily says, adding:

And so, the fact that these are operating in K-12 schools across the country, even though we have, for the large part, reined in these programs at the higher-ed level, should really concern a lot of people.

Neily joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what’s being taught in Confucius Classrooms, some key takeaways of the report, and reactions from U.S. lawmakers about the report.

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

• President Donald Trump appears before a federal judge to face his third indictment.
• Fox News uncovers new Facebook files showing that The White House colluded with the social media company to target users who were hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccines. 
• Pro-life father ​​Mark Houck announces his campaign for Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District. 
• Hunter Biden admits to making money from dealings in China even though His father, President Biden, has previously said he did not.
• President Biden calls for the immediate release of Niger's elected president. 

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INTERVIEW: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was indicted for a third time, and "it's striking that there's really nothing new in the indictment," Steven Bradbury says.

The latest indictment by special counsel Jack Smith is "all based on what we already knew publicly from the work of the Jan. 6 committee and from all the news coverage," Bradbury said, adding that the new indictment is "hollow in the sense of no new allegations."

Bradbury, a distinguished fellow in the executive vice president’s office at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" ahead of Trump's arraignment in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to explain what charges Trump is facing. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)

Bradbury, who served as the Department of Transportation's chief legal counsel in the Trump administration, also explains what the indictment says about the Biden administration’s Department of Justice.

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