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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: 

 

• TikTok is facing an uncertain future in the United States after a federal appeals court upheld a law that would ban the app. The TikTok ban goes into effect January 19 unless the company’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, sells it to a non-Chinese company. TikTok said it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• President Joe Biden’s reported plans to preemptively pardon friends and allies has Washington abuzz. Biden granted his son Hunter a sweeping pardon Sunday, which draw swift backlash from across the political spectrum. Now there’s talk that Biden could pardon potential targets of retribution from the incoming Trump administration.
• President-elect Trump’s pick for secretary of defense picked up a key endorsement from Senator Katie Britt, an Alabama Republican. Pete Hegseth spent the week in Washington to meet with senators who will vote on his confirmation in January. Hours after Britt signaled her support, Trump today posted on Truth Social to reiterate his confidence in Hegseth.

Plus:

• The U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs in November.
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez officially entered the race to become the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.
• The manhunt continues in New York City for the killer of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson.
• The Department of Agriculture announced it will start testing milk for the bird flu virus on Dec. 16.

 

Links From Today’s Show:

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/02/why-hunters-pardon-could-expand-accountability-for-biden-family/

https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/12/04/pete-hegseth-tells-megyn-kelly-he-believes-he-is-being-kavanaughd-during-confirmation-process/

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover:

• The defendant in a landmark court case determining if states can protect kids from transgenderism explains US v Skrmetti.
• President-elect Donald Trump announced a slew of nominees.
• Employees at the United Auto Workers, the sixth-largest union in America, have gone on strike against the union this week.
• Police released photos of the man who allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
• Michel Barnier, the French Prime Minister, is rumored to be resigning on Thursday.
• The South Korean president is up for impeachment

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

• The Supreme Court hears oral arguments for a major transgender case. The big question before the court is: Can a state ban transgender treatments on minors? 
• Trump might replace Pete Hegseth - his pick to lead the Defense Department — with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
• Trump taps Jared Isaacman to lead NASA.

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

• The Supreme Court will hear a case determining if states can ban transagender procedures for minors. 
• South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law.
• Gov. Gavin Newsom wants 25 million in funding for legal battles against the incoming Trump administration. 
• New Jersey resident punished for waving American flag. 
• DOJ revisits gag order against transgender children’s hospital whistleblower, Dr. Eithan Haim. 

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

• White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is defending President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter Biden.
• President-elect Donald Trump caused plenty of stir over the long holiday weekend by naming Kash Patel to head the FBI. 
• Israeli American hostage Omer Neutra is confirmed dead. 

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Lora Ries, Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, joins Bradley Devlin on “The Signal Sitdown,” a Daily Signal original podcast series, to discuss exactly how President-Elect Donald Trump might execute his “mass deportation” program. 

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In April, the Biden-Harris administration finalized a rule requiring foster parents to affirm a child’s gender ideology. 

“The provider must commit to establishing an environment that supports the child’s LGBTQI+ status or identity,” according to the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. 

The policy, according to Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, “made people of faith into a different category of foster and adoptive parent, saying that because they didn't give in to this pro-radical LGBTQ+ agenda, that they couldn't foster any child with gender dysphoria or any child that might be having any questions about their LGBTQ status.” 

“Faith-based Christian people were put on the sidelines and not able to participate in our foster care and adoption system in the same way,” according to Newell. 

With over 350,000 children in the U.S. foster care system, and over 100,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted, Newell says he is hopeful the incoming Trump administration will roll back these “oppressive administrative rulings.” 

During Trump’s first administration, there was a sense that “the problem is way too big for us to exclude anyone from the table,” Newell said, noting that he was invited to “West Wing of the White House three times during [Trump’s] presidency.” During the Biden administration, Newell said neither he nor any other faith-based adoption leaders that he knows of were extended such an invitation. 

Newell joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the adoption and foster care policy changes he hopes to see under a second Trump administration. He also explains the ramifications of China’s decision to end international adoptions to the U.S.

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Last week, Russia fired an intermediate range ballistic missile at Ukraine. The missile, according to nuclear deterrence and missile defense expert Robert Peters, is designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads, sending a clear message to Washington to “knock it off.” 

Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, America has told Ukraine that it could use the provided weapons only within the “borders of Ukraine to expel the Russian forces,” says Peters, who before becoming a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation served as the lead strategist at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. 

Then, in mid-November, President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia. Ukraine wasted no time in firing one. 

Almost immediately afterward, Russia issued a new doctrine on its use of nuclear weapons. As Peters summarizes it, Russia warns “that if anyone conducts deep, penetrating strikes inside of Russia to include using conventional missiles or aircraft or even drones, Russia reserves the right to respond with nuclear weapons.” 

Russia also said that a nation that supplied the weapons also could become the target of a retaliatory nuclear strike by Russia. 

Russia’s decision to fire the ballistic missile Thursday at Ukraine can be considered a “mock nuclear strike,” Peters says. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin “doesn't want a nuclear war,” Peters says. “He doesn't want to fight the United States. But he really, really can't stand that we're giving [Ukraine] these kinds of precise, long-range, deep-penetrating strike capabilities. And he's trying to get us to stop, and he may be willing to use these [nuclear] weapons. It's hard to say.” 

Peters joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how the U.S. should proceed in its foreign policy with Ukraine, why a nuclear war would look different than many Americans imagine, and the likelihood that World War III might be approaching. 

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

• Special Council Jack Smith has taken action to drop all charges against Donald Trump. 
• It appears that Israel and Lebanon have reached a ceasefire agreement. The agreement would end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. 
• The pentagon has lost $2.5 trillion. 

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