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December 23 2021
Good morning from Washington, where it’s looking a lot like Christmas. Just south of us, Virginia parents sue their school district for teaching racial discrimination. Mary Margaret Olohan has the scoop. EPA officials seek diversity, not a balance of views, in science advisers, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, a terrorism expert assesses Hamas’ threat to Israel. Plus: Sen. Joe Manchin stands up for responsible welfare policy; the resurgence of global COVID-19 craziness; women in crisis find grace at a special maternity home; and the facts behind a beloved Christmas carol. On this date in 1620, construction begins on the first permanent European settlement in New England. Morning Bell will return Tuesday. Merry Christmas!
A Virginia school district is indoctrinating students with an ideology that “teaches children to affirmatively discriminate based on race,” nine parents allege in a lawsuit.
Mikaela, 18, had nowhere to go. Her father had turned her out of the house in a rage, insisting that she abort her baby. Then she found Mary’s Shelter.
“There’s no work requirements whatsoever,” the West Virginian says of fellow Democrats’ bill. “There’s no education requirements whatsoever for better skill sets.”
As the omicron variant of coronavirus spreads, lawmakers in many countries seem all too eager to respond again by imposing outsize measures to stop it.
The winter of 1863 was a grim one for American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—and for the entire country. The Civil War had been raging for two years.
