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‘Misinformation’: Is NewsGuard manipulating public education? New AI tool raises concerns
NewsGuard claims its factchecking is “apolitical,” but PragerU accuses the organization of forcing a leftist narrative onto children. NewsGuard is an organization that claims to find reliable information for enterprises and consumers and now features an AI tool that just became free to students. According to its website, the chatbot delivers “reliable responses to prompts” using information from “rigorously vetted” journalists.
Is NewsGuard Censoring Children’s Education? New AI Tool Raises Concerns
NewsGuard co-CEOs Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz (Shuran Huang for The Washington Post via Getty Images) NewsGuard claims its factchecking is “apolitical,” but PragerU accuses the organization of forcing a leftist narrative onto children. NewsGuard is an organization that claims to find reliable information for enterprises and consumers and now features an AI tool that just became free to students.
What the Nation’s Report Card Teaches Us About Repairing the Human Soul
Linda McMahon (Taylor Hill/WireImage) Stories bemoaning U.S. student test scores have become a bromide. But some reports on student achievement offer a glimpse into the reasons why achievement is so poor. So it is with the latest Long Term Trend report from the Nation’s Report Card, the National Assessment of Education Progress.
New York’s Attack on the Free Exercise of Religion
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (Alexander MacDougall/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) Seven members of the Little Sisters of the Poor left their order’s motherhouse in La Tour Saint-Joseph, France, on Aug. 28, 1868, and headed for the coast. Three days later, they boarded the Napoleon III steamship and began a trip across the Atlantic. Two weeks later, they arrived in New York. Then, a few days after that, they established their first American nursing home in Brooklyn.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Shows Education Can Be Fixed
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) Amid celebrations of our nation’s 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation’s core institutions. “Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low,” reports Gallup.
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(The Daily Signal) – Pennsylvania’s Republican-led Legislature has successfully pushed back against Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to cut two scholarship programs from the 2026–27 budget. Shapiro’s… Read More
Democrat Gov. Denied: Kids’ Educational Scholarships Are Saved
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images) Pennsylvania’s Republican-led legislature has successfully pushed back against Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro’s proposal to cut two scholarship programs from the 2026–27 budget. Gov. Shapiro’s original budget proposal, HB 2632, called for eliminating two programs: the Educational Improvement Tax Credit and the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit.
American Psychological Association Pushes Bias on College Campuses
Rep. Tim Walberg arrives at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on May 13, 2026. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Professional associations drive progressive bias into college classrooms, and this needs to stop. Accreditation is not just a tiresome administrative routine. It’s a seal of approval that drives access to student loans, official diplomas, and occupational licenses.
Gavin Newsom’s Hollywood Bailout
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks in Oakland, California, on July 13, 2026. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) Gov. Gavin Newsom spent the past year celebrating a massive expansion of California’s Hollywood tax credit program, boosting it to a record $750 million a year. Then his own budget managed to kneecap it. Now Sacramento is scrambling to fix one of the governor’s biggest political headaches.
Erasing Little Italy Is About More Than a Map
Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech on July 3, 2026, in New York City. (Anna Connors – Pool/Getty Images) New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach—these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America’s largest city while gradually becoming part of it.
Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity
Girls winner Natasza Dudek (center) poses with runner-up Blair Bartlett (left) and third-place finisher Jaelyn Williams during the NXN Nike Cross Nationals cross country meet at Glendoveer Golf Course on Dec. 6, 2025, in Portland, Oregon. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images) In 2024, a Tunisian biological male defeated a Chinese woman for Olympic women’s boxing gold. The spectacle shocked the world and renewed calls to protect single-sex women’s sports.
Defending America’s Founding Principles in a Divided Age
A police officer salutes during the playing of the United States national anthem prior to the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group I match between Norway and France at Boston Stadium on June 26, 2026, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Marc Atkins/Getty Images) The United States nation faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans.
I Visited Wartime Israel. Here’s What the Headlines Aren’t Telling You.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19, 2026. (Ronen Zvulun / POOL /Getty Images) From May 30 to June 9 this year, I traveled to Israel with a group, seeing holy sites and hearing from survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks. When Iran and Israel began exchanging fire, my phone buzzed. Rockets. I ran to the stairwell of my Jerusalem hotel. Another guest shared a video showing a missile being intercepted above the hotel.
AP Warns Against Trump’s ‘Darkly Political’ Anti-Communist Remarks
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a May Day rally marking International Workers’ Day in New York, on May 1, 2026. (Kena Betancur /Getty Images) Communism is an evil philosophy. Communist regimes have killed hundreds of millions of people and made millions more live in a police state. But somehow, speaking ill of communism alarms the same journalists who constantly suggest democracy is in peril under President Donald Trump. Authoritarianism is bad—unless it’s communist.
MAHA Win in Arkansas: ‘Food, Not Junk’ for Food Stamps
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (L) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. smile after U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins signs three new SNAP food choice waivers for the states of Idaho, Utah, and Arkansas in her office at the United States Department of Agriculture Whitten Building on June 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Arkansas Gov.
Freedom 250 CEO Addresses Performer Controversies, Security Concerns
(Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Summit) Freedom 250 CEO Keith Krach declared that events celebrating America’s 250th anniversary will be secure, adding that the lineup will feature plenty of entertainers following criticism that performers are fleeing the celebration. “Look, we’ve got so many entertainers here,” he told the Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. “We’ve got a military band. We have all these different acts.
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‘What you really see is one vision of the country, and one mood among Republicans, and a very, very different vision of the country and mood among both independents and Democrats’
Why are Americans feeling less proud of their country? Original
First Lady Melania Trump greets parents and children participating in Take Our Sons and Daughters to Work Day, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House photo by Andrea Hanks) A growing number of Americans are feeling less patriotic about their country as the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Patriotism Declines as US Nears 250th Anniversary, Driven by Sharp Partisan Divide
Allison Joyce/Getty Images A growing number of Americans are feeling less patriotic about their country as the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. According to a Public Religion Research Institute poll released last week, “Just half of Americans are extremely or very proud of being an American (51%) or of America’s 250-year history (49%).” Those low numbers are being fueled by Democrats, according to the survey.
Sen. Hawley: MLB should not enjoy freedom from antitrust laws after religious discrimination
Major League Baseball should no longer benefit from an exclusion of antitrust laws, especially after the league’s recent religious discrimination against numerous Christian players this week, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, told The Lion in an interview. “Major League Baseball gets a special sweetheart deal that no other sport gets, and no other business gets. They are exempt from the antitrust laws. That is worth billions of dollars to Major League Baseball every year.
Eugenics is trending again: YouTube influencer aborts Down syndrome baby Original
Popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, aborted their unborn baby because of a Down syndrome diagnosis. Ridgway runs a YouTube account called McJuggerNuggets with 4.34 million subscribers, where he makes videos featuring scripted stories. His “Psycho Series” alone has earned over 2 billion views. Last Wednesday, Ridgway went to X to announce the “very difficult” abortion decision to his large following. At first, he says, he was “shocked but optimistic” after receiving the diagnosis.
Eugenics Is Trending Again: YouTube Influencer Aborts Down Syndrome Baby
Heidi Crowter stands in front of her supporters, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in central London on November 25, 2022, as the Court of Appeal releases its judgement relating to legislation which allows the abortion of babies with Down’s Syndrome up until birth. (James Manning/Getty Images) Popular YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife, Ashley, aborted their unborn baby because of a Down syndrome diagnosis.
Florida Lawmakers Move to Block State Use of Media Rating Firms
Florida lawmakers once again approved a provision in their budget to prohibit state agencies from contracting with advertising and marketing firms that track media outlets using rating systems. Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the budget into law this month. For the second year in a row, the legislature opted to include the language in the state budget to combat the use of media blacklists, which often target conservative news outlets.
Inside Speaker Johnson’s Private Capitol Tour: Faith and America’s Founding
Heather Diehl/Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson led a private tour of the U.S. Capitol recently, emphasizing the role of faith in America’s founding 250 years ago. Frank Turek, founder and president of the Christian ministry CrossExamined.org, recorded portions of Johnson’s May 20 tour and shared clips on his show, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.” As busy as he is as House speaker, Johnson doesn’t give many personal U.S. Capitol tours.
Meta Accused of Discriminating Against Non-Chinese Workers
Mark Zuckerberg (Wally Skalij/Getty Images) On Wednesday, May 20, Jeremy Bernier was laid off from his software engineering job at Meta. He immediately took to social media to accuse the Big Tech giant of discrimination against non-Chinese. Starting that day, he posted on social media about Meta and the discrimination he allegedly experienced and watched.
Fox News Dominates Competitors in Latest Ratings
Fox News host Bret Baier appears on air on March 4, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images) Powered by what surveys show is the most diverse and loyal audience in cable news, Fox News again ended the week of May 18 as the most-watched television news channel, a title it has held almost every week for 24 consecutive years.
MLB team allegedly keeps Christian pitcher off social media due to faith
(The Daily Signal) – The Washington Nationals made news for something other than their play on the baseball field this week. Sean Hudson, the team’s director of community relations, was caught on a hidden camera by James O’Keefe making disparaging comments about pitcher Trevor Williams, who is Catholic. O’Keefe posted footage Tuesday on X of Hudson alleging the team discriminated against Williams because of his “Christian-Catholic” faith.
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