REUTERS—U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and ABC’s “This Week,” Noem said authorities think alleged shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal was already living in Washington state when he became radicalized. Investigators are seeking more information from family members and others, Noem said. .@Sec_Noem on the National Guards attacker: "We believe he was radicalized since he has been here in this country. We do believe that it was through connections in his home community and state… Unvetted by Joe Biden, allowed to run free." pic.twitter.com/6X2YtMMmTl— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 30, 2025 Authorities identified Lakanwal, 29, as the suspect in a Wednesday shooting that took place just blocks away from the White House and which killed one National Guard member and critically wounded another. After the shooting, President Donald Trump’s administration pointed to a lack of vetting of Afghans and other foreign nationals during the term of former President Joe Biden, although Lakanwal was granted asylum under Trump. Trump told reporters on Sunday his administration could pause asylum admissions into the United States for an extended period. “No time limit, but it could be a long time,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “We have enough problems. We don’t want those people.” .@POTUS on reverse migration: "It means get people OUT that in are in our country — get them out of here. I want to get them out. We got a lot of people in our country that shouldn't be here and they came in through Biden… We're paying a big price for it." pic.twitter.com/a7fMfjOugP— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 30, 2025 Lakanwal entered the U.S. in 2021 as part of the Biden administration’s mass evacuation of Afghans who aided U.S. forces during the two-decade war in Afghanistan as the Taliban took power. He was granted asylum in April by Trump’s administration, a government file reviewed by Reuters showed. Noem’s comments suggest Lakanwal, who was part of a CIA-backed unit in Afghanistan, may have embraced extremism after arriving in the United States. “We believe he was radicalized since he’s been here in this country,” Noem told NBC News. “We do believe it was through connections in his home community and state, and we’re going to continue to talk to those who interacted with him, who were his family members.” Noem said U.S. officials have received “some participation” so far from people who knew Lakanwal and warned the U.S. would pursue anyone connected to the shooting. “Anyone who has the information on this needs to know that we will be coming after you, and we will bring you to justice,” Noem said. After Wednesday’s attack, the Trump administration took steps to clamp down on some legal immigration, including a freeze on processing of all asylum applications. "Will you deport people with pending asylum claims?"@Sec_Noem: "We will if they should be, absolutely. Yes. We are going to go through every single person that has a pending asylum claim." pic.twitter.com/3puyEdIopl— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 30, 2025 Noem said on Sunday immigration officials would consider deporting people with active asylum cases if it was warranted. “We are going to go through every single person that has a pending asylum claim,” she said. (Reporting by Ted Hesson and Jasper Ward; additional reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Sergio Non, Chizu Nomiyama and Chris Reese) The post National Guard Shooting Suspect Radicalized in US, Homeland Secretary Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Minnesota’s largest teachers union is under fire this week over its “professional development” courses on topics such as “Interrupting Whiteness” and “LGBTQ+ Training.” The “racial equity trainings” can be brought “to your building” when requested by Education Minnesota members, the union website explains, and offer instruction on topics like “Culturally Responsive Teaching With a Racial Justice Lens” and “Cultural Competency.” Educators in the state are required to fulfill a “cultural competency” training in order to renew their teaching licenses, which can include topics such as “Systemic Racism,” “Gender Identity, Including Transgender Students,” “Language Diversity,” and more, according to the state government page. The union website features similar content across the board, offering materials on “Anti-immigrant rhetoric & deportation,”  various “anti-racism” resources,  and a “racial and social justice” page claiming “certain politicians” are using police officers against minority students. “Most of us believe that every child, no matter what they look like or where they come from, deserves a safe and welcoming school where they can thrive,” it says. “But certain politicians try to divide us by sending police to monitor and punish Black and brown students in schools that have been denied funding to even cover the basics, while ensuring well-resourced schools with mostly white students have enrichment activities, teacher training, and parent engagement.” The website also names “the murder of George Floyd” and “attacks on honesty in education” as hardships the group is fighting against. Education Minnesota’s programs are part of the “Facing Inequities and Racism in Education” (FIRE) series, designed to “disrupt systemic racism and racial inequities in Minnesota’s education system.” The union operates a “Racial Equity Advocate network” and offers “Equity EdCamps.” Education Minnesota did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. Meanwhile, more than half of 4th-grade students in Minnesota tested below the national proficiency standard in 2024. About 66% of 8th-grade students tested below proficient in math in the same year, and 72% tested below proficient in reading. Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, former vice presidential nominee, signed a law in 2024 that funded race-based teacher trainings and aimed to increase the number of “diverse” teachers in schools. In 2023, Walz signed a law requiring schools to offer “ethnic studies” courses, introducing children to racially divisive topics beginning in kindergarten. Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Union Gives Teachers ‘Interrupting Whiteness’ Classes and More in Radical Left Training Series appeared first on The Daily Signal.

As we enter the final month of 2025, there’s no better time to start thinking about the year ahead and how we as conservatives can find unity in our purpose to save this great nation we call home. It’s our duty as Americans to make sure future generations enjoy the same promise of those who came before us. At Heritage, we’ve started this conversation, centered around four questions plain enough to ask around the dinner table with your family and significant enough to guide a movement and save a republic: What does it mean to be a flourishing American family? What does it mean to honor the dignity of work and secure the future of?free enterprise? What does it mean to have true national security? What does it mean to be an American citizen? As readers of The Daily Signal, with its roots stemming from Heritage, you already know we have a point of view based a core set of conservative principles. We’re confident in our thinking and our institution’s 52 years of robust intellectual history to dedicate ourselves to answering these questions. Taking Back Washington to Save America We believe that united, good-faith conservatives will engage in this discussion. We are also certain we know what a restored America looks like: Marriage and family celebrated, not ignored or mocked. Work dignified, wages rising, and two incomes a family choice, not a necessity. Borders secure, military strong, enemies deterred. Children learning truth—not ideology—in educational institutions that parents control. Faith respected, civic virtue restored, patriotism the norm. Government limited, debt shrinking, freedom expanding. We call this Heritage 2.0 inside our organization, where every colleague contributed to its creation. We present it to you as our battle plan to save America. Let there be no mistake; we are taking back Washington to save America. That puts a target on us—from the uniparty, the entrenched bureaucracy, and the deep state. Now may be a suitable time to reiterate with clarity our message to the purveyors of the status quo: Bring it on. We sweat not for the elites, but for everyday Americans. We toil not to be keyboard warriors but to chart a course of national renewal. The future of conservatism—a fusion of old and new right—will succeed when we return power to the people. The Beauty of Our American System Today’s populism didn’t emerge in a vacuum. It arose from failed leadership, calcified institutions, and elites who prioritized bureaucracy over everyday Americans. The people aren’t seeking minor fixes; they’re challenging the very credibility of the system, and often, they’re spot on. This ought to inspire our movement! The clearest path to returning power to the people is through a wholehearted rejuvenation of federalism. We will never lose sight of the many millions who feel the weight of the world on their shoulders. More than any organization across the country, Heritage is fully engaged in the work required to ensure a free, self-governing people can raise families and engage in community and commerce with peace, principles, and prosperity. Of course, the people will decide our future, as President Donald Trump recently noted, appealing to the beauty of our American system. We are clear-eyed that our effort comes at a time of cultural and civic strain. But we’ve been here before. My friend and predecessor Ed Feulner wrote in his book “The March of Freedom” that conservatism is “a broad social movement of diverse but reinforcing beliefs, gathering travelers on the same journey—pilgrims who argue over the topography of their promised land but move in the same direction.” Building for America’s Next 250 Years As Vice President JD Vance also said, the forces arrayed against conservatives of all stripes have massive resources, and there is a point where infighting becomes counterproductive. So, let’s get to work. It’s time to channel that turbulent passion, refine it with cool reason through public deliberation, and build a better America for the next 250 years, rooted in self-governance. Our Heritage is our future. Through it, together, we will save the republic and secure its future. The post Kevin Roberts: A Playbook for the Work Ahead appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The cultural stereotype of a Catholic nun is often very uptight—as in unmercifully swatting a child’s knuckles with a ruler—but sometimes it’s more violent. Nuns plot murders. This happened on the CBS crime drama/dramedy “Elsbeth” on Nov. 20. The main character, Elsbeth Tascioni, is a Chicago lawyer sent to New York City to enforce a federal consent decree with the New York Police Department. But every week, she’s solving murders while she floats around in flamboyant outfits and a collection of large handbags. In this implausible episode, the Archdiocese of New York decided to sell a 200-year-old convent to a scandalous pop star named Alaia Jade so she can transform it into a recording studio. At the beginning, the soon-to-be-displaced nuns about are watching one of her music videos, where she writhes and crawls around dressed in slutty-nun garb in a church setting, licking a crucifix and singing, “Crucify me / You can vilify me / I spit your gospel out / And fill you full of doubt.” This might be inspired by the pop star Sabrina Carpenter, who flounced about in a tiny black dress and a cross necklace inside a Catholic church in Brooklyn for her music video “Feather” two years ago. In that case, Carpenter’s lyrics had nothing to do with religion. She was just dropping her love interest like a feather. But in that real-life scenario, it became wildly controversial that the church allowed this filming. That’s what makes this CBS plot so ridiculous. Can anyone really imagine the archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, selling a historic convent to a scandalous musician and dumping the nuns out on the street? The New York press would have a series of field days. Convents are typically owned by the religious order that operates them, not by the church itself. But this plot helped explain why the convent’s Mother Superior decided to kill the pop star and save the convent. In a conversation with Alaia, the nun suggested she climb up into their decrepit bell tower and view the sunset for inspiration. Once there, a nun was tricked into ringing the bell early, causing the singer to be knocked out of a very big window by a very big bell. It was so cartoonish you’d expect a splat like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Once Elsbeth started circling the bell tower and figuring out how Mother Superior conspired in the dirty deed, the nun entered the confessional and told a priest who aspired to be bishop that she encouraged the pop star’s climb and it could cause “irreparable harm to the church.” The priest banned Elsbeth and the cops from the premises unless they had a search warrant. This makes both priests and nuns look very shady. To throw off the odor of anti-Catholic bias, the rest of the nuns were all presented as wonderful, like they’d marched in from the set of “Sister Act.” Elsbeth not only solved the murder but saved the convent by engineering a designation of historic preservation. Couldn’t the church have figured that out before someone was murdered? “Elsbeth” was created by Robert and Michelle King, best known for the CBS drama “The Good Wife.” They also made a Catholic-centered drama called “Evil” about exorcisms for CBS and Paramount Plus. This episode wasn’t vicious, like the “Law & Order: SVU” episode in 2016 where the auxiliary bishop of New York was running a large sex trafficking ring with Catholic school girls. But it still exploited sacred spaces of Catholic life for its juicy murder plot—like a slutty pop star. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post CBS Exploits a Murdering Mother Superior appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Rahm Emanuel wants to take leadership of the Democratic Party and capture its nomination for president in 2028. He shares his thoughts in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. It’s the first time a Democrat has made me smile since President Bill Clinton announced in his 1996 State of the Union address that “The era of big government is over.” Emanuel has a stellar political resume that includes senior adviser in the White House to Clinton, chief of staff to President Barack Obama, member of Congress, mayor of Chicago and ambassador to Japan. He has a reputation for political astuteness, being a tough fighter and being the father of the oft-quoted, “You never want a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” These instincts are raising his finely honed political antennae that his party has badly, and destructively, lost direction. And here he could not be more right. Emanuel seeks a “politics based on values.” Not a politics of “identity, grievance, or victimhood,” of “oppressors” and “oppressed.” He says he is talking about values that say, “government’s proper role is to clear a path so those who put in the elbow grease can earn success.” Hey, he is sounding like a Republican. Emanuel should take cues from his former boss Clinton who, in 1992, announced his intention to “change welfare as we know it.” “For too long our welfare system has undermined the values of family and work, instead of supporting them,” Clinton said in his 1996 State of the Union. And then, working with a Republican Congress, he signed historic welfare reform into law, replacing the disastrous Aid to Families with Dependent Children with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. Work requirements were introduced and welfare rolls were dramatically reduced. Clinton also urged, in that 1996 State of the Union, that “permanent deficit spending must come to an end,” and he was the last president to leave office with a budget surplus. However, one reform to which Clinton aspired that sunk in the political swamp of his impeachment in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal was reform of Social Security. In December 1998, Clinton convened the first-ever White House Conference on Social Security. Clinton wanted genuine reform that would fix a broken and flawed system. Among options that captured his attention was the reform done in Chile, in which a system much like ours was transformed to one of ownership and personal retirement accounts. The White House invited José Pinera, the architect of the Chilean reform, to come speak at the conference and share the success they had in Chile with this reform. In his 1999 State of the Union, Clinton proposed creation of personal retirement accounts that individuals could seed with funds with a tax credit and then qualify for additional matching funds. Emanuel says his party “needs an economic agenda rooted in American values.” “Everyone should feel they have skin in this game and all citizens should feel they can contribute to the nation’s renewal,” he says. Our existing Social Security is not viable in its current form. Cash flow from the system will be insufficient to meet obligations by 2034, just nine years from now, per the latest Trustees report. Nothing can give every American more “skin in the game” than participating in ownership and growth of our nation’s economy. Let every American invest rather than pay taxes. Let every American become an owner and share in the experience of capitalism and growth. Let’s not let the crisis of our broken Social Security system go to waste. Emanuel should pick up the ball from his former boss, Clinton. Nothing could be greater for the American people than Democrats and Republicans competing to make every American an owner and a capitalist. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Rahm Emanuel Sounding Like a Republican appeared first on The Daily Signal.