Plus: Fact-Checking 6 Claims From Biden’s Voting Speech
January 12 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the Biden administration is quietly testing how to track those who cite religion in seeking an exemption from vaccine mandates. Sarah Parshall Perry and GianCarlo Canaparo have the scoop. Was the president factually correct in his big “voting rights” speech? Fred Lucas fact-checks. On the podcast, why tensions in a former Soviet republic matter to Americans. Plus: senators seek answers on the COVID-19 test shortage; how to sideline Russia’s new natural gas pipeline; and teachers unions again spur school choice. Ninety years ago today, Hattie Wyatt Caraway, an Arkansas Democrat, becomes the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
An agency in D.C. announces a policy that likely will serve as a model for a government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine.
“[Kazakhstan] has about 40% of the world’s uranium. It has lots of oil and gas and big U.S. companies like Chevron are deeply involved,” says Heritage Foundation scholar Luke Coffey.
The federal government has supplied $5 billion to Illinois for the purpose of keeping schools open with in-classroom teaching. But Illinois has been using the money for other purposes.
School officials say they’re taking “corrective action” over lecture materials telling high school students they are inherently privileged if they are Christian, straight, or male.
