Plus: Arizona Senate Seeks More Voter Data as Election Audit Raises Questions
July 16 2021
Happy Friday from Washington, where developments in Cuba test President Biden’s inclination to play nice with the communist regime. Our Fred Lucas suggests what to watch as Cubans demand freedom and other essentials. The main Black Lives Matter group, meanwhile, embraces Havana and blames America, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, Rachel del Guidice discovers how one organization wants to depoliticize school classrooms. Plus: Arizona’s election audit focuses on 74,000 ballots and a 14-year-old girl spells trouble for the left. On this date in 1945, a secret U.S. government effort called the Manhattan Project results in the explosion of the first atom bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico.
In 2020, The New York Times insisted there were no connections between Black Lives Matter and Marxism, that it was nothing but a conservative conspiracy.
Nearly 4,000 Maricopa County voters in the presidential election registered after a court-ordered deadline of Oct. 15, says the head of the company that conducted the election audit.
The U.S. is concerned about the crackdown on protesters that the Cuban government referred to as a “call to combat,” a U.S. State Department spokesman says.
Alleigh Marre, president of the Free to Learn Coalition, shares how her organization aims to take politics and activism, including critical race theory, out of the classroom.
After officials sneakily changed the name of Junipero Serra High School to Canyon Hills High School/Mat Kwatup KunKun, some Californians fight back in court, alleging it was illegal.
