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The Trump administration <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/politics/trump-israel-bombs.html">greenlit</a> a $2.8 billion arms deal to supply Israel with thousands of heavy-duty 2,000-pound bombs, signaling a significant expansion of military aid.
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The proposed package encompasses 40,000 one-ton munitions that are split evenly between standard MK-84s and BLU-117s along with 20,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads designed to smash through deep underground soil, rock, and concrete before detonating.
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While the State Department has submitted the proposed sale for informal congressional review, Secretary of State Marco Rubio retains emergency authority to bypass Capitol Hill, where a two-thirds majority in both chambers would be required to block the transaction.
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The move fully cements a policy reversal from the Biden era, which paused a single shipment of 2,000-pound bombs meant for Israel. The current administration quickly unblocked that shipment upon taking office and approved an initial $2.7 billion weapons transfer shortly thereafter.
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The rationale for providing these munitions comes from the reality of fortified underground warfare. John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, has emphasized that 2,000-pound bombs are vital tactical tools rather than indiscriminately destructive weapons. He has blasted myths surrounding the bombs, making clear that while they produce blast craters depending on the area, they are precise weapons intended for heavily fortified military targets.
&#8220;By no definition (words have meaning) has Israel done a genocide in Gaza,&#8221; Spencer <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerGuard/status/2099948300002873362">wrote</a>. &#8220;Not by the definition&#8217;s intent or actions requirements. No actual evidence support the intent or actions allegation. The government of Israel was in a war against the terror army of Hamas in Gaza after they invaded Israel on October 7th and withdrew into Gaza with 250 hostages; they were also at war with the terror army (more equipped than many nations) Hezbollah in Lebanon after they attack on October 8th. Israel is not working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza or Lebanon. No evidence shows they have targeted civilians. All of the Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran fronts have contained buried and fortified targets that can justify the use of modern 2,000-pound bombs.&#8221;
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According to Spencer’s expert <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/vilifying-israels-use-2000-pound-bombs-only-ends-costing-more-lives-opinion-1927905">analysis</a>, Israel’s biggest strategic challenge lies in neutralizing deeply buried command structures and stockpiles. Both Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon have spent decades building huge underground networks, which sometimes went as deep as 200 feet under heavily populated areas. Smaller munitions simply lack the kinetic force and penetration capabilities required to collapse these hardened bunkers or reach high-value targets.
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Furthermore, Spencer argues that restricting a military&#8217;s access to heavy bombs during city battles does not reduce civilian harm. Instead, it often leads to longer, far more destructive engagements.
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Historical events such as the WWII Battle of Manila or the 1950 siege of Seoul showed that when bombs were restricted, fighting degenerated into drawn-out, block-by-block ground sieges that dramatically increased casualties and devastation of the cities.
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By depriving an army of the bombs needed to quickly eliminate fortified positions, military operations stall, dragging out the duration of the war.
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In Spencer&#8217;s view, ensuring Israel retains access to 2,000-pound bombs is critical for dismantling deeply entrenched terror networks and preventing prolonged warfare that ultimately increases human suffering on all sides.
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We should have at least one simple rule when it comes to legal immigration: If you are here to sponge off the American taxpayer, get the hell out. 
Don&#8217;t plan on working? Out. Bring an entire family, most of whom will draw on the taxpayer dime? Nope. 
This is what the Trump administration is arguing. 
And New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the rest of the Democrats are screaming bloody murder.
The question is: Why? Why are Democrats so desperate to import people who are dependent on the American taxpayer? Why aren&#8217;t Democrats concerned with the people who actually pay the taxes in the United States? 
When my great-great-grandparents came here from Lithuania and Russia more than 100 years ago, they had pretty much nothing. And they were entitled to pretty much nothing because that&#8217;s the way that things work. 
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This was true of virtually all immigrants to the United States for roughly the first 160 years of our existence. They came here knowing that they probably weren&#8217;t going to get anything. There were some mutual aid societies, perhaps some friends and family who were already here, who might be able to help them out. 
But the government was not going to be the primary means of support for these people. And they knew it. They were coming here because they were coming for the opportunity. 
First, all of that meant high levels of assimilation. If you couldn&#8217;t get paid without a job, and if you couldn&#8217;t get a job without assimilating, you actually had to assimilate. 
My great-great-grandparents came here speaking Yiddish, and within a generation everyone was speaking English. This was very common among immigrants from the places that my ancestors came from. They came here, and they said to their kids, “You are not allowed to speak Yiddish in the home. You actually have to speak English so that you can learn English and then assimilate.”
Second, it meant much greater involvement with social institutions. If you were a Christian immigrant and needed help, you went to your local religious institution. That was good, because when you go to your local religious institution for help — as opposed to going to the government — that comes with strings.
If you&#8217;re part of a community and you&#8217;re drawing from the communal pool in terms of support, you owe something to the community. You’re not simply getting a faceless check in the mail.
Third, the situation drew a certain type of immigrant, a type of person who came here for the opportunity, who wanted to work, and who was upwardly mobile. That was the basic bargain. 
It&#8217;s the difference between a store putting out a “help wanted” sign and a store putting out a free donut sign; the stores draw two very different types of people. “Help wanted” brings people looking for a job; “free donuts” brings the people who want free donuts. 
If you change the incentive structure, you are going to draw different people. 
For nearly 150 years — longer than any modern federal welfare or entitlement program has existed — U.S. immigration law has included some form of public charge exclusion. In the Immigration Act of 1889, Congress excluded paupers and persons likely to become a public charge.
 Congress recognized that, given the fact that the United States is very wealthy, a lot of people would come here and be better off as paupers than they would be staying in their native countries. That remains very true today.
The current form of the public charge rule is found in the Immigration and Nationality Act. It provides that any alien who, in the opinion of the consular officer at the time of application for a visa or in the opinion of the attorney general at the time of application for admission or adjustment of status, is likely at any time to become a public charge, is inadmissible.
The problem is pretty much no one is getting deported on this basis. No one. The current standard is based on a 1999 interim field guidance issued during the Clinton administration. That standard is not particularly hard to meet.
In 2017, roughly 1,000 immigrant visa petitions out of 1 million were rejected based on the public charge rule, which is insane. The idea that you have over 1 million people who are coming here, many of whom will become public charges, and only 1,000 of whom get rejected on those grounds, is nuts. 
What happened? Why wasn&#8217;t the public charge rule really implemented? Look at the history of how immigration worked in the United States. In the beginning of the 20th century, there was vast migration to the United States, but virtually no federal welfare programs. Then, in the 1930s, you had the New Deal programs, which were accessible to legal residents, but immigrant households were less likely to receive welfare than native-born households.
It progressed from there.
One of the reasons that you have seen a vast spate of right-wing upsurges in Europe is not just because of a lack of assimilation or no-go zones across the continent, from Sweden to France to Germany. It is also because of welfare dependency.
Welfare dependency and crime have a heavy overlap because if you are coming to a country to take advantage of its welfare benefits and not integrate into the system, the same mentality that says that the government owes you something, that says society owes you something, makes it easy to justify stealing from people.
So why do Democrats favor this? 
Because Democrats love importing people who become dependent on the government. They want them to become citizens, and they want them to vote. That is the goal, because that fosters the kind of government they seek. 
Zohran Mamdani would love to import millions more people into Manhattan, increasing demand without increasing supply, to have those people be dependent on public welfare benefits and then vote for him.
If you can vote with other people&#8217;s money, you will keep doing so until the end of time. 
Thus, the Trump administration announced that it was going to start strictly applying the public charge rule that insists that if you come here and you&#8217;re dependent on welfare benefits, out you go. 
The Democrats have gotten very upset about this. Mamdani joined other mayors across the country in a joint lawsuit to challenge the new public charge rule on Monday.
Entitlement programs are a massive problem. They drive our national debt. They bankrupt cities. They bankrupt states. They bankrupt the country. The very idea that these programs are titled “entitlements” as opposed to what they actually are, which is the dole, is a way of changing the mentality people have toward drawing from the state.
In the movie &#8220;Cinderella Man,&#8221; the main character, James J. Braddock, has to go on welfare in the 1930s. In one scene, after he becomes rich again by boxing, he brings money back to the welfare office and drops it off. 
No one in America would do that now because of the entire mentality shift about taking taxpayer dollars.
Remember, taxpayer dollars, even ones that are created out of thin air by racking up the debt, are someone else&#8217;s dollars. They do not belong to you. But because we keep saying “entitlement” over and over and over, the basic idea is that you&#8217;re entitled to draw on the taxpayers. You&#8217;re entitled to it. 
I don&#8217;t care who you are in the United States; if you are healthy but you are taking advantage of the entitlement programs to avoid working, you are doing something morally wrong.
It&#8217;s even worse when we&#8217;re importing vast numbers of people to do this. We should not be standing up entire programs, opening our doors wide and saying, “You are entitled to this,” but that is what Mamdani wants. 
I have a question. Why is Mamdani more worried about people coming here who want to become citizens and are already on the dole than the people paying for them? 
Because Zohran Mamdani is an “Eat the rich guy.” There&#8217;s nothing he wants more than that.
Of course, we get the usual routine: “People will die,” which is the stupidest form of politics. Unless you can show an actual correlation between the policy change that is being made and the malicious death of people, that is the dumbest argument possible. 
Every public policy argument has risks and benefits. All of them. Going all the way to “people could die” is malicious. He is saying that you maliciously want those people to die. 
There is no data that says if people don&#8217;t have Medicaid because they are immigrants, there will be mass death.
This is part and parcel of a broader worldview for people like Zohran Mamdani. It is not just about importing people who are dependent on the federal government and on the state government and local government. 
It is also about importing people who fundamentally hate our country and what it stands for. 
It is about destroying America.

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Trump administration officials are drafting a rule that would let married couples with a stay-at-home parent tap into a federal child care fund currently reserved for working families, people familiar with the plan <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/us/politics/stay-at-home-parents-subsidies.html">told</a> The New York Times.
The proposal would rework the Child Care and Development Fund, a roughly $12 billion Health and Human Services program dating to the Clinton era that helps low- and moderate-income parents pay for care so they can work, attend school, or complete job training. Under the draft rule, a married couple could still collect aid — worth about $9,000 per child annually — if one spouse stays home to raise the child while the other works at least 35 hours a week. No such federal benefit currently exists.
The change would not require congressional approval, though it still needs sign-off from the White House and a public comment period before taking effect, potentially as early as next year, the Times reported.
Vice President JD Vance, who for years has argued that young children fare better with a parent at home than in day care, is said to be the driving force behind the effort. The draft also draws on child care legislation Secretary of State Marco Rubio <a href="https://www.legistorm.com/stormfeed/view_rss/2403570/member/2809/title/rubio-introduces-bill-promoting-family-centered-child-care.html">authored while in the Senate</a>, and echoes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/08/project-2025-trump-vance-childcare">a proposal in Project 2025</a>, the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s blueprint for a second Trump term. Heritage&#8217;s Roger Severino, who authored that blueprint&#8217;s child care section, told the Times the change would put stay-at-home caregiving on equal footing with paid day care and would likely survive legal scrutiny, including for married same-sex couples under existing Supreme Court precedent.
The plan would not extend to unmarried couples or non-working single parents. Critics warn that without new funding, opening eligibility to a wider pool of families would squeeze the roughly 870,000 households — 80% led by single working parents, mostly mothers — that currently rely on the subsidy, along with the child care providers that depend on those payments, according to the Times. Some administration lawyers have reportedly flagged legal risk in conditioning benefits on marital status, as well as fraud tied to sending money directly to individuals rather than licensed providers — a concern that has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-somali-daycare-scam-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-the-truth-will-shock-you">drawn administration scrutiny before</a>. Vance <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/jd-vance-justice-dept-fraud-post.html">announced</a> a Justice Department task force in January after a child care fraud scandal in Minnesota involving shell organizations posing as day care providers.

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Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer oversaw a “toxic, intimidating, and humiliating” workplace where employees were pressured to drink on the job and ordered to perform personal errands, according to a new report from the Department of Labor’s inspector general.
The <a href="https://oig.dol.gov/public/oifindings/50-26-004-01-001.pdf">report</a>, released Thursday, details the findings of a months-long investigation into Chavez-DeRemer and several of her senior aides. Investigators interviewed 53 current and former Labor Department employees and reviewed more than 500 documents, photographs, and videos.
The investigation found that Chavez-DeRemer&#8217;s conduct was inconsistent with applicable policies and ethical standards in multiple areas. Those findings included an “<a href="https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer-under-investigation-for-inappropriate-relationship-with-employee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inappropriately close and unprofessional relationship</a>” with a senior member of her security detail, improper travel, unauthorized possession and consumption of alcohol on federal property, misuse of government resources, and failure to properly report gifts.  
One particularly bizarre episode occurred during a personal trip to Oregon, when Chavez-DeRemer asked to stop at a strip club with members of her security detail. According to the report, Chavez-DeRemer gave a security agent serving as her driver money from her purse and instructed him to give it to a female performer. 
When he hesitated, a senior security official told him to comply. Chavez-DeRemer then handed the driver additional cash and instructed him to drop the bills one at a time onto the woman.
The inspector general did not find direct evidence that Chavez-DeRemer and the security official had a romantic or sexual relationship. Investigators nevertheless documented an extensive series of interactions between the two, including personal outings, physical contact, and overnight stays in the same hotels.
Hotel door-lock records from two Las Vegas trips appeared to indicate that Chavez-DeRemer and the security official spent portions of nights in each other&#8217;s rooms. 
Key-fob records and surveillance footage also documented the security official visiting Chavez-DeRemer&#8217;s home. The report said the relationship appeared to continue even after the agent had been placed on administrative leave and suspended from his official duties. Chavez-DeRemer and the security official both declined to be interviewed by investigators. 
The report also found that alcohol was repeatedly consumed and stored on federal property without authorization. Witnesses told investigators that Chavez-DeRemer and members of her senior staff drank during the workday and pressured other employees to drink as well, including ridiculing employees who declined.
The alleged misuse of employees’ time extended beyond drinking. At one point, Chavez-DeRemer directed her personal aide and executive assistant to drive to her home in a Labor Department vehicle during working hours to organize her bedroom closet. The employees were instructed to hang clothing and dry cleaning and arrange her shoes, purses, and other belongings. They were then asked to provide a video documenting the completed work. The inspector general included an image of the organized closet in its report. Other employees were allegedly sent to retrieve Chavez-DeRemer’s personal packages, make personal purchases, and handle other errands unrelated to their government duties.
The report also found that Chavez-DeRemer combined personal and official travel, including trips involving family, personal residences, and Las Vegas. Investigators identified gifts that were not properly reported, including rodeo tickets, cowboy hats, and an alligator-hide wallet.
The broader workplace described by investigators was similarly troubling. Employees said senior officials routinely engaged in “threatening, demeaning, and abusive verbal and written communication.” Witnesses described employees being berated in front of colleagues, performance issues being discussed publicly, and staff members being threatened with termination.
Investigators also heard allegations that staffing decisions were influenced by physical appearance rather than qualifications. In one instance, a senior official allegedly wanted an employee’s desk moved because they did not want a “fat person” visible in the front office.
Chavez-DeRemer resigned from the Cabinet in April, becoming the third Trump Cabinet official to leave office during the administration. The White House said she was departing for a private-sector position, while her attorney said she wanted to prevent the allegations from distracting from the Labor Department&#8217;s work. Her resignation came one day before she was scheduled to sit for an interview with the inspector general. Her attorney later declined to make her available.
Her attorney, Nick Oberheiden, disputed the significance of the report, telling the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/09/04/lori-chavez-deremer-former-labor-secretary-drank-job-misused-funds-report-finds/">Washington Post</a> that it “confirms that Secretary Chavez-DeRemer did not violate any laws.” 
Chavez-DeRemer previously characterized the allegations as attacks and distractions.
The Department of Labor is now led by Keith Sonderling, whom President Donald Trump has nominated to permanently head the agency.

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Oil is now flowing out of the Persian Gulf at higher levels than before the war with Iran, according to the Trump administration, even as the U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes this week.
Forty commercial vessels carrying roughly 18 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, marking a wartime high, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/02/politics/latest-us-strikes-against-iran-marked-a-shift-in-strategy">CNN reported</a>, citing U.S. officials.
The latest figure follows U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/02/energy-secretary-chris-wright-tells-cnbc-that-more-than-17-million-barrels-of-oil-transited-hormuz-on-monday.html">claim to CNBC</a> that more than 17 million barrels of oil crossed the Strait on Monday. He added that total regional exports have surged above pre-war levels when including oil from pipelines that bypass the strait. 
“With or without Iran, oil and gas will flow out of the Arabian Gulf region,” Wright said.
Before the conflict began on February 28, roughly 20 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products moved through the Strait each day. That took a nosedive once Iran moved to restrict traffic through the critical waterway, making reopening the Strait a new central objective for the Trump administration. 
American forces have established a shipping corridor along Oman&#8217;s coast for tankers from allied Gulf states, with some vessels making the passage at night and turning off their tracking signals to make them harder to target. Iran has repeatedly threatened commercial shipping in the narrow waterway that carried roughly one-fifth of the world&#8217;s oil shipments before the war. 
The military said last month that it had cleared Iranian sea mines from the Strait. But Trump said Wednesday that Iran had attempted to develop missiles capable of deploying new mines, as he pointed to the U.S. strikes on Iranian military assets aimed at limiting Tehran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping this week.
The administration&#8217;s figures are higher than those from independent trackers. <a href="https://x.com/Kpler/status/2094728791557841128">Kpler</a> recorded just five confirmed crossings through Hormuz on Monday, down by half from the previous day. U.S. officials say the discrepancy comes from tankers moving covertly at night, sometimes with help from the Navy and with their transponders turned off.
The continued flow of oil has not, however, brought prices back to pre-war levels. Crude, which traded at about $70 a barrel before the conflict, has climbed to roughly $90 or more. The average price of gasoline in the United States has risen from about $2.98 a gallon on the eve of the war to roughly $4.14 on Thursday.
The war has also accelerated efforts by Gulf states to find ways to bypass the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint altogether. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last month that new pipeline capacity could eventually make shipping through Hormuz “irrelevant.”
The United Arab Emirates is moving the fastest. Abu Dhabi is expanding the pipeline connecting its oil fields to the port of Fujairah, on the Gulf of Oman, allowing crude to reach the open sea without using the strait. Kpler estimates the project could raise the UAE&#8217;s bypass capacity from roughly 1.8 million barrels a day to 3.6 million, with the new line expected to begin operating in 2027.
Saudi Arabia is looking at expanding its East-West pipeline, which can already move as much as 7 million barrels a day from the kingdom&#8217;s eastern oil fields to Yanbu on the Red Sea. But increasing exports would require additional capacity at Yanbu&#8217;s terminals, making a major expansion a longer-term project.
The Iraqi government is considering routes that would connect its southern oil fields to Turkey and Syria, potentially giving Iraqi crude another path to Mediterranean markets without relying on Hormuz, though diplomatic disagreements between Turkey and Iraq have slowed efforts.
Still, analysts caution that the new pipelines will not replace the Strait&#8217;s capacity anytime soon, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/g-s1-140309/us-iran-middle-east-oil-pipelines-hormuz">reported Axios</a>. Goldwyn Global Strategies president David Goldwyn has estimated that projects expected to come online over the next several years would add only about 10 million to 12 million barrels a day of bypass capacity, compared with roughly 20 million barrels a day that moved through Hormuz before the war.
“I think that we have to accept that this crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, the constraints on exports are going to be a somewhat permanent feature for the next few years,&#8221; said Goldwyn to Axios.
And pipelines cannot solve the problem for every Gulf energy producer.
Liquefied natural gas, unlike crude oil, cannot simply be sent through oil pipelines. Qatar, one of the world&#8217;s largest LNG exporters, remains heavily exposed to the Strait because its offshore gas reserves are connected to the same giant field Iran calls South Pars.
“There is no bypass pipeline for LNG,” Goldwyn said. Qatar, he added, could therefore remain dependent on Iran for the safe movement of its exports, creating a risk that could eventually reach natural gas markets around the world.
The Strait has become a central focus of Trump’s campaign against Iran. On Wednesday, he took that focus a step further, suggesting on social media that it should be renamed.
“Should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT???” he wrote.

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The South appears poised to become the new center of medical education across the country as the battle over diversity, equity, and inclusion continues to rage through academia. 
Watchdog organization Do No Harm released its <a href="https://cam.donoharmmedicine.org/medical-school-index/">second annual ranking</a> of medical schools on Thursday, evaluating schools based on their embrace of merit-based standards versus DEI. The ranking, first shared with The Daily Wire, shows medical schools in states with stringent DEI bans differentiating themselves from states that have identity politics embedded in their education systems. 
“DEI and excellence are concepts that are inherently at odds and in conflict with one another,” Do No Harm’s Ian Kingsbury told The Daily Wire. “So the more the school embraces DEI, the less they embrace merit and excellence.”
Do No Harm evaluated nearly every medical school across the country on the quality of students admitted, commitment to DEI, and transparency in evaluating student performance. The rankings revealed that many schools in southern states, where Republican lawmakers have pushed to ban DEI, are rising to the top. 
The release of the second annual ranking comes as the Trump administration wages a national war on DEI programs in educational institutions across the country. While some states have fought the administration and pushed to maintain DEI, others appear to be complying with the push to abandon identity politics. 
Kingsbury, the director of Do No Harm’s Center for Accountability in Medicine, told The Daily Wire that a clear pattern was emerging across the country of schools in states where leaders have fought DEI. 
“What we see is that for the most part, the public red state universities in those states that have passed good anti-DEI legislation, especially Florida and Texas, that most of those schools do appear to be compliant and appear to have extirpated DEI,” he said. 
Five of the top 10 schools that award doctorates in medicine are state schools located in Florida or Texas. The report found that red state medical schools were less likely to have a formal DEI office while maintaining rigorous grading systems and selective academic standards. 
The number one ranked school for the second year in a row was the University of South Florida’s Health Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa. 
“They are right at the top because they have consciously made a decision that they&#8217;re not going to engage in this identity politicking, and that they&#8217;re in fact going to take their best applicants,” Kingsbury said. 
Two of the other top five schools are also in southern red states: the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee. The other schools that made it into the top five were the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. 
Those schools are ahead of traditional powerhouse schools like Harvard Medical School (53) and Stanford University School of Medicine (61). 
“Medical education shapes the physicians who will care for Americans for decades. Schools that prioritize cognitive excellence, reject commitments to DEI, and maintain transparent standards of student performance serve patients best,” a Do No Harm report that accompanied the rankings said. 
At the bottom of Do No Harm’s rankings were the Roseman University College of Medicine, the University of California-Riverside School of Medicine, the California University of Science and Medicine, the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
Some schools are expected to improve their standings as states adopt new policies. For example, the LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport is expected to rise thanks to a new state law mandating that it adopt differentiated and multi-tier grading.
“We want this to be a resource to patients [and] to lawmakers who are concerned about the state of medical education and want to know how to improve things in their state,” Kingsbury said. “We hope that they look to these rankings as a roadmap.”

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The Trump administration says states accepting federal welfare funds must require every state agency, not only welfare offices, to report illegal immigrants benefiting from welfare programs or risk losing program funding, The Daily Wire has learned.
The Department of Justice&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel reached that conclusion in a new opinion obtained by The Daily Wire on Wednesday. States that refuse to share the information with federal officials will risk losing federal dollars, according to the Justice Department.
The opinion applies to all states participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. All 50 states, Washington, D.C., and several American territories participate in the welfare programs.
&#8220;Congress wrote this requirement plainly,&#8221; T. Elliot Gaiser, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, said in a statement. &#8220;When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States. Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.&#8221;
With its latest opinion, the Justice Department withdrew a 1998 opinion that held only state agencies administering the welfare benefits were required to provide information on illegal immigrants to federal immigration authorities.
&#8220;Our clarification does not impose new obligations on states,&#8221; Joshua Craddock, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel and author of the opinion, said.
&#8220;It simply restores the original meaning of the statute Congress enacted and ensures that DHS receives the information it is legally entitled to. States that accept TANF funding must abide by federal law, and failure to comply may lead to serious consequences, including loss of program funding,&#8221; Craddock said.
The latest action comes as the Trump administration continues its ongoing crackdown on illegal immigrants exploiting the welfare system.
Last week, the Trump administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-pauses-all-immigrant-visa-appointments?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Pauses+All+Immigrant+Visa+Appointments">paused</a> all visa appointments worldwide to train consular staff to better evaluate whether applicants are likely to become dependent on the American welfare system, the Washington Post reported.
“A more prosperous America means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need,” the State Department said in a recent statement.
The goal of the training is to ensure consular officers &#8220;are fully equipped to evaluate every visa applicant comprehensively and consistently,&#8221; the department said. The pause does not appear to affect visas for tourists, foreign workers, or students, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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For years, the CO2 Coalition and independent scientists have warned that the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) rested on a foundation of sand. Its dramatic projections of catastrophe relied heavily on U.N.-sponsored Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) and its successor SSP5-8.5 — both extreme predictions of carbon dioxide emissions that were treated as realistic.
As far back as 2017, <a href="https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https:/www.researchgate.net/publication/319157132_Why_do_climate_change_scenarios_return_to_coal___.YXAzOmNyY2E6YzpvZmZpY2UzNjVfZW1haWxzX2F0dGFjaG1lbnQ6MDk1ZmNmYTNhYmI2ZDEzMDY0MjJiM2ZjOGQyNmUxZjg6NzpjYmQzOjQ3ZDA2MzVkNWE5NDcwYmVhZjgxNzkyNjBjYTcwNjRlYzExOWNhNzcwNWUyMDdlNjM1OWIzMjZhYWFhMzk2MjE6cDpUOkY">scientists noted</a> the far-fetched nature of the U.N. predictions. In August, the Trump administration proposed an <a href="https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https:/www.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2026-08/NCA5-Proposed-Amendment-August-2026.pdf___.YXAzOmNyY2E6YzpvZmZpY2UzNjVfZW1haWxzX2F0dGFjaG1lbnQ6MDk1ZmNmYTNhYmI2ZDEzMDY0MjJiM2ZjOGQyNmUxZjg6NzpkN2VkOmYyYTU0NDdlNzBjNTBlZTYzZjgyYjAyNDZkNmUyYTc3ZTI0MDJlM2IxYTYzYjY0MmUxNjcxMzhjOTI5NDBhZDM6cDpUOkY">amendment</a> to NCA5 that acknowledges its emission forecasts are implausible and must not guide federal policymaking. This is a welcome restoration of scientific integrity.
The amendment, issued under the U.S. Global Change Research Program and aligned with Executive Order 14303, “Restoring Gold Standard Science,” states that results dependent on RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, or equivalent emission scenarios “should not be used as expected, baseline, business-as-usual, likely, central, or policy-relevant planning futures.”
Any NCA5 figure, table, or claim based on these “implausible” scenarios must carry an explicit caveat. Projections of damages, health effects, or ecosystem collapse cannot stand alone as policy premises without comparison to plausible alternatives and real-world observations.
This correction is long overdue. RCP8.5 was never designed to forecast the most likely future. It was constructed as an upper bound for climate-model experiments — an exploratory tool for imaginary, extreme conditions. Its predictions of global warming defied observed trends in coal consumption growth, technological development, and socioeconomic trajectories, according to multiple peer-reviewed analyses.
Treating extreme emission scenarios as ordinary distorted the entire national climate assessment. It inflated projected impacts, fueled exaggerated risk narratives, and justified costly regulatory interventions that ignored economics and human welfare. The amendment properly requires that such results be contextualized or set aside for decision-making.
Yet this amendment, while necessary, is only a first step. NCA5’s deeper problems remain. It continues to lean on climate models that have systematically overestimated warming and failed basic observational tests. It elevates politically driven documents of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change over scientific data. Most critically, it omits the extraordinary benefits of rising atmospheric CO2 and of the fossil fuels that produce it.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant; it is the essential plant food that makes life on Earth possible. Current concentrations, near 420 parts per million, remain far below levels that have prevailed for much of Earth’s history and are still low for optimal plant growth. Decades of laboratory and field evidence demonstrate that elevated CO2 increases photosynthetic rates, improves water-use efficiency, and boosts crop yields — wheat by 20% to 30% and soybeans by up to 46% under controlled conditions. Satellite observations confirm global greening, with rising CO2 responsible for most of the increase in leaf area across vast regions. Nitrogen fertilizers derived from fossil fuels support roughly half the world’s population.
Without affordable energy and the CO2 fertilization effect, feeding eight billion people becomes far more difficult.
Modest warming itself brings many benefits, including longer growing seasons in temperate zones, reduced cold-related mortality (which exceeds deaths from heat), and expanded habitable ranges. Trends in weather-driven disasters — hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires — do not match the alarmist storyline when examined against long-term records rather than model outputs.
The real catastrophe would come from policies that deliberately restrict reliable energy in pursuit of net zero. Such policies raise energy costs, harm the poor, slow development in the Global South, and risk food insecurity by limiting fertilizers and mechanization.
True gold-standard science demands that we begin with observations, test models against data, disclose assumptions transparently, and weigh risks and benefits. Future assessments must evaluate every emission scenario on empirical grounding, not institutional pedigree. They must acknowledge that humanity’s use of fossil fuels has lifted billions from poverty while restoring CO2 to levels that enhance the biosphere.
Validating what rigorous scientists have documented for years, the proposed NCA5 amendment is progress. Now, policymakers should seize this moment to reassess the entire report against observations, restore balance by including the benefits of CO2, and reject fearmongering that has driven policy for too long.
Energy abundance, a greener planet, and prosperity can be celebrated and further advanced through the application of science when ideology is set aside.
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Angela Wheeler is executive director of the <a href="https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https:/co2coalition.org/___.YXAzOmNyY2E6YzpvZmZpY2UzNjVfZW1haWxzX2F0dGFjaG1lbnQ6MDk1ZmNmYTNhYmI2ZDEzMDY0MjJiM2ZjOGQyNmUxZjg6NzpiYzRkOjlhZTRiODM4YmRhNTA2Zjg2OTA5ZTg5YjE4NDFmODg5YjNhOWU2YWZmZWEzMmUxMDYzOWUzMGFiMmMwYTVkYzA6cDpUOkY">CO2 Coalition</a>, Fairfax, Virginia. She is a cum laude graduate of Emporia State University, Kansas, where she studied communication, with additional biology and pre-medicine coursework.

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WASHINGTON — Friends and colleagues on Thursday praised White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who will depart the Trump administration on Friday.
The youngest White House press secretary in history, Leavitt made a name for herself through her steadfast loyalty to President Donald Trump, her curled-lip responses to legacy media from the podium, and her embrace of new media outlets at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
“It is a blessing, a privilege and honor to stand behind the White House podium,” she said Thursday morning, reflecting on her 20 months in the role. “So, whoever gets the job next is a very lucky person to work for this president at this moment in history, and I’ll be here to help every step of the way.”
Leavitt took the role at 27 years old and has been praised for a confidence and presence that many of her older predecessors lacked. Prior to each briefing, she said a prayer for strength and wisdom with her team, then strode through the lower press door, flashing a big, camera-ready smile. She maintained that smile through much of the briefings, doing her best to call on each reporter by name.
<div id="attachment_1167103" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karoline-leavitt-departs-trump-white-house-to-praise-and-gratitude/president-trump-departs-the-white-house-for-pittsburgh-5" rel="attachment wp-att-1167103"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1167103" class="wp-image-1167103 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2225249320-1-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2225249320-1-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2225249320-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2225249320-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2225249320-1.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
Many of the reporters asking questions in those high-profile briefings were unable to cross the threshold of the James Brady Briefing Room during past administrations. Under Leavitt&#8217;s watch, the White House opened up the briefings to &#8220;new media&#8221; — conservative reporters, podcasters, influencers, and other non-traditional forms of media that had become prominent during the 2024 election.
“It’s essential to our team that we share President Trump’s message everywhere,&#8221; she told the press in January 2025. Thanks to this effort, The Daily Wire has been able to attend countless briefings and Oval Office gaggles, travel on Air Force One and Air Force Two, and even gain a seat in the briefing room.
Leavitt typically remained poised and calm during briefings, sharing updates from the president and promising reporters she would check with Trump when she didn&#8217;t know the answer to their questions. Often she was humorous with the press: “It’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,&#8221; she joked during one briefing.
But she could occasionally be biting.
“You’re a left-wing hack,&#8221; she <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2011874658694676942">fiercely told one offender</a> in January 2026. &#8220;You’re not a reporter. You’re posing in this room as a journalist&#8230; You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist — you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat.”
“We are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats and the mainstream media, who turned the other cheek when the Biden Administration, because of their incompetence, left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan and not a single person in the previous Administration was held accountable,&#8221; she said sternly on another occasion.
<div id="attachment_1167107" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karoline-leavitt-departs-trump-white-house-to-praise-and-gratitude/white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-speaks-to-the-media" rel="attachment wp-att-1167107"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1167107" class="wp-image-1167107 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2246387169.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2246387169.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2246387169-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2246387169-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2246387169-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Leavitt in November 2025 (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)</div>
When she first took the podium in January 2025, she was a mother with a son, Niko, about six months old. Even before she began the White House role, Leavitt was working for Trump on the campaign, jumping back on television four days after she gave birth in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. She gave birth to her second child, a baby daughter, in May of this year, and said that she is departing the administration to focus more on her role as a wife and mother.
Speaking to The Daily Wire ahead of Mother&#8217;s Day in 2025, Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-being-a-mom-at-the-white-house">reflected on the sacrifices</a> that the mothers in the administration were making to support the president. Her job was the opportunity of a lifetime, she said, and it was a temporary position.
&#8220;President Trump is only going to be here for four years, and this is a historic moment in history,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire at the time. &#8220;I work for a president whom I truly believe in and know that his policies are making a difference.”
When she wasn&#8217;t preparing for briefings or defending the president on television, Leavitt was quietly fielding questions from reporters, persuading them on framing, and overseeing a communications team that has operated far more smoothly than Trump&#8217;s first administration could ever have dreamed. She was up at 5 a.m. every day, immediately reading the news and catching up on whatever the president had posted overnight, preparing herself to take on the news media once again.
She did her best to spend time with her son Niko before she headed to the White House and sought to get home in time for dinner.
“I do really try to prioritize returning home for bedtime,” she shared in May 2025 with The Daily Wire. “I savor that time — eating dinner together, doing tubby, doing book time, and then putting him down every night is a priority for me.”
<div id="attachment_1167117" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karoline-leavitt-departs-trump-white-house-to-praise-and-gratitude/president-trump-hosts-white-house-easter-egg-roll" rel="attachment wp-att-1167117"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1167117" class="wp-image-1167117 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2269572140.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="683" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2269572140.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2269572140-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2269572140-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/08/GettyImages-2269572140-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Leavitt carries her son during the 2026 White House Easter Egg Roll. Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images</div>
“That’s actually advice I was given by my predecessor Sarah Sanders, who encouraged me to set that boundary. Of course it’s not possible every night,” she added. “There are national security crises, real challenges that we are working on solving every day, and so when duty calls I remain, but I do prioritize my job as a mother above anything and try to make it home.”
She will now have that opportunity to prioritize her family. Trump, who will notice her absence more than any other administration departure, said he understands.
&#8220;Are we gonna miss Karoline?&#8221; he asked reporters outside Air Force One. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna miss her!&#8221;
He added with a smile: &#8220;She&#8217;s made that job very glamorous.&#8221;

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The State Department has temporarily paused all immigrant visa appointments for applicants across the globe.
The federal government said it made the decision because it needs time to train all consular staff to better screen visa applicants to determine whether they are likely to become dependent on the American welfare system, the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/08/26/state-dept-pauses-immigrant-visa-appointments-worldwide-says-staff-need-training/">reported</a> on Wednesday. It is not clear when the appointments will restart.
&#8220;A more prosperous America means ensuring that visa applicants are not likely to become a public charge, as defined under U.S. law and regulation, and not likely to become dependent on U.S. public benefits reserved for qualified Americans in need,&#8221; the State Department said in a statement.
The department said the training would ensure consular officers &#8220;are fully equipped to evaluate every visa applicant comprehensively and consistently.&#8221; The pause is not expected to affect visas for tourists, foreign workers, or students, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23">according</a> to The Wall Street Journal.
Last Friday, a federal judge struck down the Trump administration&#8217;s 75-country visa ban that sought to target those looking to take advantage of taxpayer-funded public benefits.
U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, said the 75-country policy  &#8220;represents a direct abrogation&#8221; of the consular officers&#8217; authority to determine which foreigners are eligible for visas.
The latest move comes as the Trump administration has taken recent actions to reform legal immigration programs.
As part of the effort, the federal government has revoked roughly 175,000 visas tied to individuals accused or convicted of crimes.
Federal officials are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-readies-for-largest-mass-visa-revocation-effort?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Prepares+To+Revoke+More+Visas+Than+Ever+Before">preparing</a> to revoke the business and tourist visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who later sought asylum in the United States. The targets of the plan received their visas between 2016 and 2026.
In an X post on Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau voiced the administration’s concerns about immigrants who game the visa system to extend their stay in the United States by later applying for asylum.
&#8220;People in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims. Asylum isn’t supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration laws; rather, it’s supposed to provide a narrow safe harbor for persons persecuted because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion,&#8221; Landau wrote.
The Trump administration also recently proposed a $103,265 fee for employers looking to hire employees through the H-1B visa program, arguing that employers have abused the program to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor and that the existing system fails to prioritize the most highly skilled workers.
It is the administration&#8217;s second attempt at instituting a six-figure fee for the program after a federal judge struck down a previous plan to charge a $100,000 fee.

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A federal judge’s decision to dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Harvard over antisemitism should alarm every American who believes universities have an obligation to protect their students.
Judge Stearns dismissed the case because the incidents were &#8220;too isolated and episodic&#8221; and mostly dated to the 2023-2024 school year — not because the harassment didn&#8217;t happen. Harvard&#8217;s own attorneys admitted the university failed to properly confront antisemitism in the past.
Jewish students at Harvard were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/business/antisemitism-college-harvard-upenn">spat</a> on for wearing yarmulkes and jeered by peers with shouts of &#8220;dirty Jew.&#8221; But according to Judge Stearns, it&#8217;s all water under the bridge. Not for the Jewish students heading back to campus this fall.
The decision leaves Jewish students on college and university campuses across the country at risk of continued discrimination and violence. When the most powerful, most scrutinized university in the country can walk away from a federal antisemitism lawsuit on a technicality, that&#8217;s not just a Harvard problem. It signals to other schools that turn a blind eye that — with enough time — they can outrun accountability.
Across the country, universities have tolerated environments where Jewish students increasingly feel unwelcome, threatened, or isolated. <a href="https://abc7.com/post/ucla-pay-6-million-settle-complaints-antisemitic-discrimination-jewish-students/17352511/">UCLA agreed to pay $6 million to settle claims</a> that it allowed a &#8220;Jew Exclusion Zone&#8221; on campus, where anti-Israel protesters segregated Jewish students and blocked them from parts of campus. UC Berkeley settled a lawsuit after at least 20 student organizations on campus adopted policies banning Zionist speakers — a practice the university itself acknowledged has <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-890685">&#8220;historically been used by some individuals and institutions as a pretext for excluding Jews.&#8221;</a>
Unfortunately, antisemitism is only one symptom of a much deeper crisis in higher education: hatred of Western values and America itself. Over the past several years, I have visited universities across nearly every state in the country. What I have found is a culture increasingly hostile to the foundational values that built the United States. Campuses have become centers of anti-Americanism, ideological conformity, and grievance politics. Western civilization is treated as something to be dismantled rather than studied. Traditional religious beliefs are mocked.
Fixing higher education requires structural reform but the steps are simple. First, every governor should use the Ron DeSantis “New College” approach to state universities and replace the trustees at each university with reformers. University presidents should be ousted and replaced with leaders focused on academics, not activism. Administrative bloat has created an army of taxpayer-funded activists; they need to go.
Second, it’s time to end tenure at public universities. We’re told that tenure exists to protect academic freedom. That’s a lie. At the universities Accuracy in Media has investigated, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/democrats-collect-nearly-all-swing-state-college-faculty-contributions/">usually around 95% of the political donations from staff go to Democrats</a>. Some political science departments don’t have a single Republican on staff. There’s only academic freedom if you share a particular ideological view of academia.
Academia claims to value diversity, but tenure has created perhaps the most homogeneous group in all of society. No other workforce agrees on politics 95% of the time. Instead of creating academic freedom, tenure simply protects the racists, the radicals, and the lawbreakers who have no business collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck. No one in the private sector has tenure, nor should anyone who collects a taxpayer-funded salary.
Third, all federal funding to Harvard must stop immediately and the IRS must strip Harvard’s 501(c)(3) status. Under the precedent of Bob Jones University v. United States, <a href="https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/news/when-irs-comes-knocking-understanding-501c3-status-revocation">non-profit organizations must not run contrary to established fundamental public policy</a>. In addition, “<a href="https://www.icnl.org/post/news/evolving-threats-to-the-tax-exempt-status-of-501c3-nonprofits">providing material support for unlawful activities</a>” violates the requirements of a tax exemption. This is an institution that literally <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-879241">employs known racists</a> and <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/us-news/harvard-hires-divinity-school-graduate-elom-tettey-tamaklo-who-faced-assault-charges-against-an-israeli-student-at-a-protest/">known violent individuals</a>.
No institution should be able to escape meaningful consequences for repeatedly failing to uphold federal civil rights obligations. As we kick off the 2026-2027 academic year, higher education will get another chance to provide the learning environment that Western tradition values. Unfortunately, thanks to the pass Judge Stearns has given them, it’s unlikely that anything will change. Jewish students deserve better than that. So does America.
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<a href="https://x.com/adamguillette?lang=en">Adam Guillette is President of Accuracy in Media (AIM)</a>

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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke up to 200,000 visas issued to foreigners who later sought asylum in the United States, part of an effort to crack down on what officials say is abuse of the immigration system, The Associated Press reported Monday.
The State Department is expected to announce the effort soon, targeting foreigners with B1 and B2 business and tourist visas issued between 2016 and 2026 who later applied for asylum, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-rubio-visas-revoke-e9c14fdfd0ada439d2b9d8694e678a46?utm_source=app&amp;utm_medium=iOS_share&amp;utm_campaign=email#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the AP. The administration says some foreigners are obtaining temporary visas under false pretenses and then using the asylum process to remain in the United States.
&#8220;We are coordinating with DHS to identify and revoke the nonimmigrant visas of foreigners who have come to the United States claiming to be short-term visitors, but then file for asylum to stay here permanently,&#8221; State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said in a statement to the AP.
Pigott did not reveal the exact number of foreigners the State Department is hoping to target, saying &#8220;as the process will be ongoing, the number of revocations remains dynamic and will be done on a rolling basis.&#8221;
Revoking the visas would not necessarily result in immediate deportation, the AP reported. Instead, some pending asylum applications would be shifted from the affirmative asylum process to the defensive process, meaning the applicants would make their asylum cases before immigration judges while facing removal proceedings.
In an X post Monday, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau outlined the administration&#8217;s concerns about immigrants who officials say abuse the visa system and later apply for asylum to extend their stay in the United States. Many foreigners overstay their visas and use the years-long asylum adjudication process to remain in the country beyond their welcome.
&#8220;People in the US and all over the world are fed up with bogus asylum claims. Asylum isn’t supposed to be a loophole to circumvent immigration laws; rather, it’s supposed to provide a narrow safe harbor for persons persecuted because of their “race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion,&#8221; Landau wrote.
Since President Donald Trump&#8217;s return to the White House, the administration has taken a series of steps to tighten restrictions on legal immigration programs. In doing so, officials have revoked roughly 175,000 visas tied to individuals accused or convicted of crimes.
As part of the latest initiative, federal officials have sought to target birth tourism schemes coaching foreigners on how to fraudulently obtain visas in order to give birth in the United States.

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