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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.  Relevant Links: 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 Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Relevant LinksListen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Relevant LinksListen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas grew up with little. He and his younger brother slept on a dirt floor, and their mother struggled to make enough money to feed them. When he was a boy, Thomas’ mother sent him and his brother to live with his grandparents in hopes of a better life. Thomas’ “grandfather raised them with an iron fist,” federal appeals court Judge Amul Thapar says, “and this becomes important as you go through his jurisprudence, because there were a couple of things his grandfather did that impacted a young Clarence Thomas.” Thomas’ grandfather taught him that complaining accomplished nothing, that education was invaluable, and to think for himself, Thapar says. Those principles, he says, have influenced Thomas, now 75, as a Supreme Court justice. But despite Thomas’ commitment to the Constitution, he has faced criticism from the Left over the years, something Thapar contends is a result of the justice’s loyalty to judicial originalism. “Critics need a caricature because they don't like originalism,” Thapar says. “Why? What is originalism at its heart? It returns the power to the American people.” In his new book “The People's Justice: Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him,” Thapar details how Thomas has sought through his time on the bench since 1991 to return power to the American people. Thapar, elevated to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by then-President Donald Trump in 2017, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share stories of Thomas’ life and his legacy as a Supreme Court justice.Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: A federal judge condemns the Biden administration as being “Orwellian.”  Cocaine is found in the White House, but culprit remains unknown.  Business platform conducts study of resumes with they/them preferred pronouns.   Israel ends its two day military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.  Relevant LinksListen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcastsSign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An ancestry service based in Israel aims to connect people across the globe, helping them explore their family trees and see whether they have any relatives living in the Holy Land today."People believe that they have a connection to the Holy Land, and I think one of the things we have now through DNA and through family trees is a way to perhaps see whether there's more to that connection than just a feeling," Aaron Godfrey, vice president of Marketing at MyHeritage, told The Daily Signal Podcast in an interview last month."Perhaps there's a genetic link, perhaps within you, there is some Jewish DNA," Godfrey said. "We have five different strands of Jewish DNA that we're looking at. Perhaps there's relatives that you'll find in your family tree who have moved to Israel. Perhaps there's some record of the family visiting Israel that you never perhaps knew about. And all of this is just a way simply from your own home, finding out whether this connection that you feel in your heart is something more, is something perhaps that actually took place in your story."Godfrey sat down with The Daily Signal at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Orlando last month. Many Israelis spoke at the convention, which prominently featured organizations tying American evangelicals with Jews in the Holy Land.Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The American Revolution served as a test to see if the 13 colonies could come together to “identity as a people, as a nation,” Richard Reinsch says. The question after the war was “had they actually become in effect one people and no longer 13 separate colonies or even 13 separate states?”After the war, the Articles of Confederation served as America’s frame of government, but it quickly became apartments that the articles could not successfully create a strong united country, according to Reinsch. “The problem with the Articles of Confederation… is they don't create in effect any central government that can actually regulate, that can tax, that can conduct an authoritative foreign policy, [or] that can regulate commerce,” he said. The founding fathers acknowledged that a central government was needed to bring the diverse states together and create a sustainable union. By the time the founding fathers “go to the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, there's a consensus throughout the 13 states that there's a problem, and that the weak and ineffectual government has to be remedied in some capacity,” Reinsch says. Reinsch joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” for the third part of the show’s Independence Day series to discuss the crafting of the Constitution and how the document became the foundation of American freedom. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many Americans at the time didn't think it was possible to defeat a military power as great as Britain at the start of the Revolutionary War, according to Paul Moreno."I think just about any historian looking backwards would say, 'Yeah, the odds were certainly very overwhelmingly against the Colonists,'" says Moreno, a professor of history and dean of social sciences at Hillsdale College.The Founding Fathers understood they were risking their "lives and fortunes and honor, but most of them thought that it was a risk that was worth taking, that was justified because their cause was right," he says.It was clear from the start of the war that no man was better equipped to handle the challenges of leading the Continental Army against the British than George Washington."One of the subtitles of great biographies of Washington is 'The Indispensable Man,' and that's absolutely what he was," Moreno says of Washington, adding that "he was a man of such a character, that he's sort of embodied the virtue that the American people believed their cause and the cause of republican government depended upon."Moreno joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" for the second part of an Independence Day series to discuss how the Colonists, under Washington's leadership, defeated the British to win to Revolutionary War. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices