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A proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that “would limit tailpipe emissions so that in order to comply, auto companies would have to sell 60% of new vehicles as electric by 2030” would adversely affect the safety of cars.

So says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.)

“Well, since [electric] vehicles are more expensive, people would postpone buying them. So, they would stay with their older cars, and newer cars have more safety features. If they get in an accident, they’re less likely to hurt the passenger,” Furchtgott-Roth says.

“So, because of that, you have increases in injuries and fatalities, if you make new cars more expensive. And that’s if you increase [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] standards for normal gasoline-powered vehicles, or you mandate electric vehicles,” she adds. According to the Department of Transportation, CAFE standards are fleetwide averages that must be achieved by each automaker for its car and truck fleet.

Furchtgott-Roth joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to further discuss the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule and what environmental benefits the EPA is hoping to accomplish in potentially implementing that rule, as well as the role that China plays in producing electric vehicles.

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

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the inflation numbers for last month and President Biden is claiming victory for “Bidenomics,” even as economists note that inflation remains higher than when the president took office.
• FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government today, answering and dodging important questions about the FBI’s record in recent years.
• President Biden is in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the NATO summit this week. Yet the president is making news with where he is not going. Biden opted out of a dinner with his NATO counterparts Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported.
• A student paper at a Roman Catholic college is raising money for its legal defense after a professor sued the paper for defamation.
• Dylan Mulvaney, the male “influencer” who claims to identify as a transgender “girl” and whose promotion with Bud Light kicked off a firestorm of controversy for the beer giant, said he has gone to Peru to “feel safe.”

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The anti-human trafficking film “Sound of Freedom” has raked in more than $41 million since opening on July 4th. 

Variety has praised the movie, saying it “makes the desire to “take action” seem more than an action-movie gesture.” And World magazine called the movie a “wake-up call, reminding Americans of the evil that’s perpetrated both inside and outside our borders.” But not all reviews have been positive. 

The Guardian of London wrote a review of the film titled “Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America.” And the website Jezebel called the movie “an Anti-Child Trafficking Fantasy Fit for QAnon.” QAnon is a conspiracy theory involving the belief that a group of Satan worshiping pedophiles control aspects of the "deep state government."

Asked why he thinks some left-leaning media outlets have critiqued the film in this way, Angel Studios CEO Neal Harmon says the film is not political. 

"Everyone who's seen this film knows that it has nothing to do with politics or conspiracy, and that it's just a great, true story, well-told," Harmon says, adding that "if you're on the fence about it, you want to see for yourself, you can pick up a free ticket, and you can find out for yourself what this phenomenon is about."

Angel Studios, the streaming platform known for the multi-season series about the life of Christ, "The Chosen," is distributing "Sound of Freedom."

Harmon joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the success “Sound of Freedom” has experienced at the box office and to address the praise and criticism of the movie. Harmon also explains how to see the movie for free while it is still in theaters. 

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

• Tyler O’Neil reports that the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report on Monday, revealing that the FBI under President Joe Biden urged Meta, Instagram’s parent company, to remove the U.S. State Department’s official Russian-language Instagram account. Tyler’s article: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/11/big-tech-censorship-backfires-biden-admin-flags-itself-pro-ukraine-accounts-russian-disinformation-docs-reveal/ 
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Francis Collins, the former head of the National Institutes of Health, reportedly helped with downplaying the lab leak theory in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• The Associated Press reports that staff of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor would ask libraries and colleges to buy her books ahead of speaking engagements. Full article: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-sotomayor-book-sales-ethics-colleges-b2cb93493f927f995829762cb8338c02
• Gigi De La Torre reports an American cycling competition created a third division for “transgender” cyclists on Friday after a male recently won a cycling event in the women’s division.

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The Biden administration's embrace of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives represents an effort to “create equality of outcomes rather than equality of opportunity,” Tarren Bragdon says. 

Bragdon, president and CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, says the current administration has taken actions to “use the power of the federal government to force certain political goals that really judge people based on the color of their skin, or maybe even their gender identity.”

Bragdon joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how the Foundation for Government Accountability is working to expose questionable policies within the Biden administration. 

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

• President Joe Biden meets with English Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III. 
• Biden is reportedly prone to yelling profanity at his staff. 
• Well-known attorney Todd McMurtry joins a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
• An academic publisher retracts a scholarly article on rapid onset gender dysphoria. 
• The former disgraced Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is stabbed in prison. 

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/10/attorney-defamed-covington-catholic-teen-joins-legal-team-immigration-group-suing-splc/ 

And 

https://www.thefp.com/p/trans-activists-killed-my-scientific-paper 

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Last week, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to stop strong-arming Big Tech into silencing Americans' free speech online in a first-of-its-kind temporary injunction. Rather than celebrating this move to uphold free speech, many legacy media outlets appear to be demonizing the very idea of protecting speech from government censorship, according to one of the lead attorneys in the case.

Liz Murrill, the solicitor general of Louisiana and co-counsel in the case Missouri v. Biden, spoke with The Daily Signal about the "misinformation or disinformation censorship complex" and criticized media outlets for suggesting that this censorship apparatus is a good thing.

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

• Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in China for a four-day visit to meet with Premier Li Qiang, U.S. businesses operating in China, and Ambassador from the People’s Republic of China Xie Feng. 
• The Biden administration gears up to send cluster munitions to Ukraine.
• Henry Rodger’s story: ​​https://dailycaller.com/2023/07/06/jim-jordan-house-republicans-blackrock-vanguard-esg-practices/ 
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering housing illegal aliens in public schools over the summer. 
• A man who interpreted for U.S. troops in Afghanistan is shot to death in D.C.
• The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability launches an investigation into the cocaine found at the White House. 

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The State Department has released an After Action Review on Afghanistannearly two years after the U.S.’ catastrophic military withdrawal from that country, which concluded on Aug. 30, 2021.

The report was released following a 90-day review and included more than “150 interviews with current and former State Department officials at all levels of the organization and reviewed relevant documents and other materials.”

The State Department released the report, finalized in March 2022, on June 30. 

“It’s just shameful, and starting with the timing of the release, they dropped it on the afternoon of the Friday before the 4th of July, which is just a naked attempt to bury it, to not have anybody pay attention to it,” says Victoria Coates, a senior research fellow in international affairs and national security at The Heritage Foundation. “But fortunately, there is such interest in this topic that they can’t. They can’t hide how bad this is and this is their own people doing the reporting.” (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) 

Coates adds:

The State Department was shifting blame to the Department of Defense, and basically nobody wanted to be left holding the bag. And what the result was, was 13 dead American heroes in Kabul that didn’t need to be sacrificed.

Coates joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the State Department’s report and her thoughts on the timing of its release, as well as on the end of Israel’s recent military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.

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

• Our colleague Fred Lucas is reporting that a personal aide to Donald Trump in the White House and after his presidency pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Miami, in a delayed development in Trump’s classified documents case. 
• 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump raised over $35 million in the second quarter. 
• Eric Holder, who served as former president Barack Obama’s attorney general, weighed in on a federal judge’s decision to issue a historic order temporarily blocking the federal government from pressuring tech companies to stifle speech.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising trans and non-binary people on how to “chestfeed” their infants. 

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