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Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters says the Biden administration’s trans-inclusive changes to Title IX are “the most egregious oversteps we’ve seen from the federal government.” “I sent a letter to [Department of Education] Secretary Cardona, I told him he should resign in disgrace over this,” he says. “You couldn’t see somebody more tone-deaf than this radical president and his regime here.”

Dr. Kelly Victory, Chief of Disaster and Emergency Medicine at The Wellness Company, says the World Health Organization’s proposed amendments could dictate what medication doctors are allowed to prescribe. Dr. Victory explains how the United States saw a “snapshot” of what this looked like during the COVID pandemic.

Just the News Reporter Madeleine Hubbard says many students she spoke with at Fordham University’s anti-Israel protest did not understand what they were supporting. She says the university’s encampment started just hours after NYPD broke up Columbia’s encampment.

Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow and former Pentagon official Brent Sadler says Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel last weekend shows how meaningless President Joe Biden’s verbal warning to Tehran was. Sadler says the Biden administration’s warnings without actions are why Russia and China do not take the United States seriously.

Vance Ginn, former OMB Chief Economist under President Donald Trump, says governors should rein in spending and lower regulations in order to promote economic growth and prosperity. He also urges governors to become less dependent on federal funding. “At some point, Congress is going to reach a spending crisis. I think we’re already there,” Ginn says. “They’re going to have to start cutting their spending and one of the top places they’re going to want to cut is funding to states. So you got to have that as one of the top things that they want to do.”

Center for Union Facts Executive Director Mike Saltsman says Volkswagen autoworkers have a lot of personal factors to consider before joining the United Auto Workers union. “I think they’re going to make these decisions on what does it mean for their pocketbooks and do they agree with the values of an organization that they’re now going to be sending a significant amount of their paychecks to each month,” he says. Saltsman also notes Volkswagen’s neutral position on UAW representation at their Chattanooga plant.

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Stacy Washington, “Eternally Cancel Proof” author and host of “Stacy On The Right,” says Democrats are threatened by former President Donald Trump’s moderate position on abortion. “I think they’re afraid that he and his moderate stance will appeal to voters who really don’t care about abortion,” says Washington. “They want to know how can they get their 401ks back up, how can they seal up the border, lower crime, how can they spend 25% less on groceries like they did when Trump was in office."

Former Federal Prosecutor Kash Patel says that in order to charge former President Donald Trump with mishandling classified documents, President Joe Biden had to singularly direct the Justice Department “to vitiate Donald Trump’s executive privilege.” “And if that weren’t bad enough, now we have his cohorts at DOJ instructing NARA to break protocol,” he says. “Like you said John, this had never been done before and NARA admitted that, and then NARA bent the knee to the will of the Biden DOJ and the Biden White House to bring charges, baselessly so, against Donald Trump for political reasons."

Gun Owners of America Director of Federal Affairs Aiden Johnston says the Biden administration’s rule on “ghost guns” violates the law and invades gunowner’s privacy. “There’s a lot of good reasons that a privacy conscious gunowner might want to purchase one of these kits and also they’re great fun for hobbyists," says Johnston. “And that’s what Gun Owners of America is going to be fighting for with our amicus brief in this case.”

Just the News reporter Madeleine Hubbard reports on the Anti-Defamation League’s latest “Antisemitism Report Card” grading of 85 schools across the country. Hubbard says many of the "failing" higher education institutions are facing investigations and lawsuits over antisemitic activities on their campuses.

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider says Facebook’s censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story had a tremendous impact on the 2020 election outcome. “That’s a story that almost half of Biden voters had never even heard about because of Big Tech censorship and because of legacy media censorship,” says Schneider. "Based on our own poll at the Media Research Center, 9.4% of these Biden voters would not have voted for him had they known of the Hunter Biden laptop story. This story, and this story alone, explains why Donald Trump is not the sitting president of the United States today.”

Former Federal Prosecutor Kash Patel says New York Judge Juan Merchan was acting with “political purposes” when he told former President Donald Trump he would have him arrested if he did not appear in court for every day of his criminal trial. “The two-tiered system of justice is wildly on display here,” says Patel.

Gun Owners of America National Spokesman Luis Valdes denounces the Colorado House for approving a bill that would ban assault weapons. “It’s a travesty that a state like Colorado has fallen behind the wayside,” he says. The legislation is expected to pass in the Senate and be signed into law by Democratic Governor Jared Polis.

Just the News Now: April 29, 2024 Feds warn employers can be punished for failing to use preferred transgender pronouns, restrooms https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/feds-warn-employers-can-be-punished-failing-use-preferred-transgender Louisiana AG announces lawsuit against Biden administration over Title IX rule https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/louisiana-ag-announces-lawsuit-against-biden-administration-over-title-ix Speaker Johnson slams ICC for reportedly considering arrest warrant for Netanyahu: 'Disgraceful' https://justthenews.com/government/congress/speaker-johnson-slams-icc-reportedly-considering-arrest-warrant-netanyahu Three members of US Marshals Task Force killed during investigation in North Carolina https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/members-us-marshals-task-force-struck-gunfire-during-investigation

Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow and former Pentagon official Brent Sadler says the FBI needs to investigate whether a cybersecurity attack caused a shipping vessel to crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26. “It doesn’t mean that it is the cause but [it], at the very least, needs to be seriously looked at,” Sadler says, noting that a month before the incident, the White House issued new guidance about Chinese cranes with cyber-attack vectors.

Freedom Square Founder and CEO Tom Sodeika talks about how he vets companies for his pro-America business network. Sodeika highlights some of the tech, health and news media companies Freedom Square has connected with.

Dr. Shea Bradley-Farrell, President of the Counterpoint Institute for Policy, Research, and Education, says she does not trust President Joe Biden’s new executive order on women’s health research because of his administration’s push to incorporate transgenderism into women’s spaces. “They are obsessed with mixing transgenderism with women’s initiatives and policy,” says Dr. Bradley-Farrell. “Every policy that they’ve put out, whether it’s domestic like the White House Gender Policy Council or [the] State Department’s Women Empowerment Policy, all of them mix transgenderism, so called “transgender rights” with women’s issues.”

Sen. John Fetterman tells reporter Nicholas Ballasy he has a message for pro-Palestine protestors on college campuses and public coffee shops. Get the full story here on Just The News!

Jesse Binnall, attorney for Donald Trump, says it’s unlikely Judge Juan Merchan will be disqualified from the former president’s criminal trial. “I think in order to put a permanent stop to the lawfare of the left that we’re seeing right now, there is going to have to be long-term accountability and we need to send a message loud and clear to future prosecutors and future judges that you will not use your judicial office in order to play politics,” says Binnall. “If you want to play politics, take off your robe for good, go run for office, go be a political consultant. But if you’re going to wear the robe, do not engage in politics.”

Former President Donald Trump tells a campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan that he will promote peace among world leaders.

Southeastern Legal Foundation Executive Director Kimberly Hermann says she expects the National Collegiate Athletics Association to follow the Biden administration's lead on Title IX reform and require schools to allow men to compete in women’s sports. “At the end of the day, a woman is a woman, a man is a man, and Title IX is there to protect women in education and not to eviscerate them,” says Hermann.

U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart talks about electric vehicles' costly impact on Big Three automakers first quarter earnings. “They’re coming around to the fact that there’s absolutely no subsidy that will save a business plan like this if you're trying to sell something that people don’t want,” says Stewart.

Mountain States Legal Foundation General Counsel William Trachman explains how the Federal Aviation Administration’s race-based hiring practices began under former President Barack Obama. “We are seeing the infection of DEI throughout the aviation industry right now. It’s at the FAA, it’s at Boeing, it’s throughout the airlines. There’s definitely a focus on race and skin color and gender as opposed to merit,” says Trachman.

Empower Oversight Founder and Chair Jason Foster says FBI and IRS whistleblowers represented by his organization are still suspended without pay and forbidden from taking outside work or charity. Foster says the Inspector General has been investigating the situation since Empower Oversight submitted a complaint last year. “That investigation should be coming to a close by now, in the very near future, and hopefully we’ll have some news for you on that very soon," he says.