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1 week ago | 
afn.net | Chris Woodward |Billy Davis
The high court ruled 6-3 to uphold and defend a Tennessee law that bans puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors who say they are transgender, meaning they claim to identify as the opposite sex. The term “gender-affirming care” is the trans-friendly description for body-altering medical procedures, such as dispensing estrogen to young boys and performing a body-chopping surgery that removes the breasts of girls.
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3 weeks ago | 
afn.net | Bronson Woodruff |Billy Davis
After the U.S. State Department announced it was revoking student visas of Chinese nationals, China expert Gordon Chang told AFN revoking the visas is a “drastic” but necessary decision because “drastic action” is long overdue. “We know that many of these students have been engaged in espionage against the United States, perhaps as many as 13% of them according to one survey,” he told AFN in an interview.
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3 weeks ago | 
afn.net | Chris Woodward |Billy Davis
Pictured: A screenshot from the Delta Air Lines website
A consumer advocacy group is not backing down from confronting major corporations that are not backing away from pushing DEI policies that flirt with discriminatory hirings and promotions.
A new “Woke Alert” from Consumers’ Research is challenging the policies of Delta Air Lines, Apple, Costco, Microsoft, and Sephora.
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3 weeks ago | 
afn.net | Steve Jordahl |Billy Davis
With the second term of Donald Trump just now hitting the five-month mark, Gary Bauer of American Values tells AFN he is watching news around the world with deep concern. From a war with China over Taiwan to Iran’s nuclear bomb plans, Bauer says it feels like war could break out anywhere. Worse, he adds, it will take years for the new administration to prepare the U.S. armed forces to fight and win.
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3 weeks ago | 
afn.net | Chris Woodward |Billy Davis
The nine-member court requires four votes from its justices to schedule a legal review on the court calendar. That pivotal vote often leads to landmark decisions, including gun-rights cases such as Heller and Bruen, but the high court has now turned away two of them to the surprise of many.
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3 weeks ago | 
afn.net | Bronson Woodruff |Billy Davis
San Francisco Unified School District was set to implement a pilot program called “Grading for Equity,” but the plan sparked widespread public backlash for its merit-lowering approach. The plan lowers the grading scale; ignores class tardiness and drops homework assignments; and allows students to retake a test multiple times after failing. San Francisco schools oversees about 50,000 students in 122 schools.
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1 month ago | 
afn.net | Chad Groening |Billy Davis
Attendance at the “Walk with Israel” exceeded 56,000 participants despite concerns about violence or even a terrorist attack from radical Islamists. The event also came days after a pro-Palestinian gunman admitting to shooting and killing two people outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.Dr. Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College, attended the weekend march after telling AFN last week he was concerned about the safety of attendees and the lack of support from police.
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1 month ago | 
afn.net | Bob Kellogg |Billy Davis
Pictured: Text from California bill AB 1084
In liberal California, where parents are fighting schools and the legislature over gender indoctrination, a new bill allows children to change their name and sex on state documents without parental consent.
The bill, AB 1084, states its goal is to speed up the legal process for Californians to change legal documents, such as a marriage license or birth certificate, if they believe they are the opposite gender.
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1 month ago | 
afn.net | Chad Groening |Billy Davis
Seated just a few feet from President Trump in the Oval Office, South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa watched the lights dim and White House staff play a video from his country of black political activists and their “Kill the farmer!” chants. When the lights came back on, Trump picked up a stack of news articles and thumbed through them to show the photos of murdered whites. “Death. Death. Death,” Trump bluntly said of the murdered victims.
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1 month ago | 
afn.net | Chad Groening |Billy Davis
As part of his vision for a more lethal, war-ready armed forces, Hegseth has already approved more rigorous physical standards and booted non-deployable troops who identify as transgender. He is apparently also focused on ending race-based and gender-based admissions standards at the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy. Those military schools, known as military service academies, prepare graduates for a military career as an officer in the U.S. armed forces.
