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October 28, 2025
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| Cracks Start to Show in Democrats Shaky Shutdown Strategy |
| by Suzanne Bowdey |
| Federal workers may have missed a paycheck, but they won't be missing meals thanks to Jose Andres's World Central Kitchen. The organization, which usually feeds victims of war, disaster, and catastrophic need, announced that it's kicking off a string of free lunches for furloughed workers with food from two D.C. hotspots - Lebanese Taverna and 2Fifty BBQ. While the banner "Chefs for Feds" feels a little less compelling than, say, hurricane relief, it's another sign that things in the nation's capital are anything but normal. |
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| President Trump, Please Urge Xi Jinping to Release Imprisoned Church Leaders in China |
| by Bob Fu |
| When President Donald Trump meets China's President Xi Jinping on October 30 during the APEC Summit in Seoul, South Korea, he will face a defining moral test: will he speak boldly for those who cannot speak for themselves - the imprisoned shepherds and faithful believers of China's house churches? |
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| The Partisan Divide in Sinking U.S. Birth Rates |
| by Chuck Donovan |
| A few decades back, a Wall Street Journal editor named James Taranto posited what he called "the Roe Effect." The idea was spawned by data showing a correlation between a woman's political views and her views and actions regarding abortion. Taranto argued that, over time, conservative women and families would have more children and liberal woman, accepting abortion, would have a lower birth rate, and this would lead to diminishing popular support for legal abortion. |
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| Trump Romps through East Asia before Xi Showdown |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| President Donald Trump kicked off a sweeping Asia tour this week with a flurry of trade agreements in southeast Asia, bolstering America's standing in the region before the trip's title event: a Thursday meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea. Agreements with Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam affirm and elucidate Trump's other diplomatic activities, but the greatest test is still to come. |
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| Federal Judge Strikes Down Controversial HHS Rule Redefining Sex Discrimination to Include 'Gender Identity' |
| by Sarah Holliday |
| The Biden administration's attempt to reinstate an Obama-era regulation extending federal anti-discrimination protections in health care to individuals seeking transgender-related "medical services" has been overturned. A federal judge's ruling, following a lawsuit by 15 states, officially struck down the regulation, marking another chapter in its tumultuous history across multiple presidential administrations. |
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| Texas Doctor Sued for Gender Transition Procedures on Minors Surrenders Medical License |
| by Joshua Arnold |
| The nationwide trend to protect minors from gender transition procedures has entered a new phase. After 27 states enacted protections for minors against gender transition procedures (Legislation Phase), and the Supreme Court decisively ruled they had a right to do so (Litigation Phase), came the much more difficult task of carrying out the laws (Enforcement Phase). The Enforcement Phase has now gone live, after a Texas doctor accused of providing gender transition procedures to 21 minors in violation of state law surrendered her medical license, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced Friday. |
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| Trump Admin. Ends Biden-Era Abortion Rule Likely Linked to Child Sex Trafficking |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| President Donald Trump and his administration are undoing a Biden-era immigration provision that would have facilitated abortions for children. The Daily Signal reported that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is terminating rules and programs that violate the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal taxpayer dollars for abortions. |
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| Socialist Mamdani Earns High Marks from Foreigners as GOP Eyes Denaturalization and Deportation |
| by S.A. McCarthy |
| Both Democrats and Republicans are scrambling to respond to the very real possibility that a foreign-born Muslim and avowed socialist could soon become the mayor of the largest city in America. Republicans in the House of Representatives are considering denaturalizing and possibly even deporting Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani, according to the New York Post. Reps. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) and Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) are pressing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to examine Mamdani's naturalization process to identify any errors or disqualifying factors in order to strip the Ugandan native of his American citizenship. |
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