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April 22, 2025
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| The Two-Coast War on Girls' Sports |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| It may feel like the country is finally embracing sanity on girls' sports, but not everyone has boarded the bipartisan bandwagon. While Americans of all political stripes loathe the idea of biological boys competing against their daughters, there are still some powerful holdouts making life absolutely miserable for the brave voices demanding justice. And on both coasts, they're paying a steep price for it. |
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| Trump Administration Is Tired of War, Tired of Peace Talks with Russia, Ukraine |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| If the Trump administration does not broker a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine soon, it may give up the whole enterprise in search of easier diplomatic success. That was the sentiment which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio conveyed in remarks to the press on Friday, announcing a broad framework with "more specific outlines of what it might take to end the war." |
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| Backers Say Trump's Schedule F Will Make Federal Bureaucracy More Accountable, Efficient, and Manageable |
| by Mark Tapscott |
| Officials with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) made public late in the day Good Friday the Schedule F reform President Donald Trump promises will make the federal government's 2.3 million-strong career civil service bureaucracy more efficient, accountable, and manageable. It could also prompt much-needed reforms in state and local government personnel management. |
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| Can Parents Opt Out? Supreme Court Takes on School LGBT Story Hour Case |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Mahmoud v. Taylor on Tuesday, April 22, marking a key step in Maryland parents' ongoing effort to shield their young children from mandatory participation in LGBT-themed, sexually explicit storybook reading sessions in elementary schools. |
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| 9th Circuit Keeps Military Transgender Policy on Ice |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| Caught between hostile judges on both coasts, the Pentagon military transgender policy remains inactive after the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined on Friday to halt a district judge's nationwide preliminary injunction. In a brief order (Shilling v. Trump), a three-judge panel (a Biden appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Clinton appointee on senior status) justified their ruling with a single sentence: "Appellants have not demonstrated that they will suffer irreparable harm absent a stay." |
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| Pope Francis Dead at Age 88 |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Catholics around the globe are mourning the loss of Pope Francis. Vatican officials announced that Pope Francis died early on Easter Monday at the age of 88. "Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow I must announce the death of our Holy Father Francis," Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is serving as Camerlengo of the Catholic Church until the election of a new pope, shared. |
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| 'Unprecedented and Legally Questionable': SCOTUS Issues Controversial Halt to Trump's Deportations |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Controversy over President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda is still ongoing, this time boiling over at the level of the U.S. Supreme Court. Early Saturday - at 1:00 a.m. EST, in fact - the Supreme Court issued an order temporarily halting the president's deportation of Venezuelan nationals affiliated with the Tren de Aragua (TdA) foreign terrorist organization under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798. The unsigned order stated that the Trump administration "is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court." |
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| Expert: Trump's Energy Policies Will Reignite U.S. Energy Dominance and Boost National Security |
| by Dan Hart |
| Following the release of multiple energy-related executive orders earlier this month aimed at "reinvigorating" the American coal industry, strengthening the reliability and security of the electrical grid, and removing controversial climate change regulations, experts say the policies will help usher in a new era of American energy independence and enhanced national security. |
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| Louisiana's Education Comeback: Rising to the Top amid National Decline |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the nation's report card," revealed that an overwhelming amount of American students have not recovered from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. For years, it appears most states have only seen a continual decline in scores. "National scores are below pre-pandemic levels (2019) in ALL tested grades and subjects," the report noted. However, at least for Louisiana, there's been a significant upward shift. While most states are still falling behind, Louisiana is slowly rising to the top. |
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| Illinois's Assisted Suicide Bill Would Turn Medicine into a 'Culture of Death,' Representative Warns |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| Ten U.S. states have legalized assisted suicide. Now, Americans are watching anxiously to see if Illinois will become the 11th. |
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