A troubling trend is emerging as medical schools place higher value on producing politicized research over academic excellence, a watchdog report found.  Do No Harm, an organization focused on getting politics out of medicine, discovered that as medical school students have produced more research, they have increasingly focused on leftist-driven research at the same time. This occurred as schools moved away from the traditional letter grade system to pass/fail standards, according to a study from Do No Harm first obtained by The Daily Wire.  Jay Greene, the director of research at Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire the shift away from traditional grading as institutions placed higher emphasis on research production triggered an “arms race” that has significantly lowered the quality of the nation’s future doctors.  “Without the use of the letter-grade system, students are searching for other ways to stand out for fellowships and residency programs, which has inevitably led to an arms race in publications authored by medical students,” Greene told The Daily Wire.  Greene found in his study that fewer than a dozen student-authored or co-authored papers were published per year in the early 2000s, but grew to over 700 per year by the 2020s.  “The increase in medical-student research was driven in large part by their desire to pad résumés and compete for residency positions as other signals of quality,” the study found.  Do No Harm. Greene noted that most medical students are not trained in scientific research techniques.  “Medical students are generally very smart and motivated, but they are no better able to conduct scientific research without adequate preparation than they would be to conduct open-heart surgery without formal training,” the study found.  While production has increased, quality has not kept up as more research has focused on political topics emphasizing racial or sexual identity.  “To compound the problem, quantity is incentivized over quality — leading to shoddy research and focus on politicized topics,” Greene told The Daily Wire.  Greene measured this by analyzing publications by student-authors cataloged in PubMed that had descriptions featuring terms like “equity,” “disparities,” “social,” “justice,” “diversity,” or “racism,” among others. He found that just 6% of publications between 2000 and 2013 fell into the woke category before the number ballooned to 11% in 2014 to 2020 and 21% between 2021 and 2025.  Do No Harm. Greene examined competing academic studies on student research output. One study from the Wayne State University School of Medicine argued that research quality had improved while a study published in the Researchers’ Journal of Internal Medicine demonstrated that quality had not improved as production increased.  Do No Harm argued that the problem could be addressed by returning to letter grading and capping the number of student publications medical school students can list on applications to residency placement.  “By returning to objective letter grading, schools would incentivize students to focus on mastering their skill set in the clinical space rather than fluffing their résumés with baseless research endeavors,” Greene said. 

Federal immigration officers across the country have been told to stop pulling over vehicles after recent shootings in Maine and Texas. Two Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire Tuesday that they were told “no more vehicle stops for now.” The pause comes a day after a 26-year-old Colombian man was fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were trying to pull over his vehicle in Biddeford, Maine. In a statement, ICE said the driver, who was shot and killed, “attempted to flee” and that the officer who fired their weapon was “fearing for public safety.” This is a breaking story that will be updated further. 

Taxpayers may end up paying up to $10 million to defend the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk as the case drags out for months, according to a new report.  Multiple lawyers told The New York Post that 23-year-old Tyler Robinson’s defense team is challenging every aspect of the case with the goal of pressuring state prosecutors into offering a plea deal. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty for Robinson, who is charged with gunning Kirk down during an event at Utah Valley University in September 2025.  Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, told the Post that Robinson’s lawyers “are litigating anything and everything to try to bring the prosecution to the table to offer a life-without-the-possibility-of-parole deal.” Robinson’s defense is being paid for by the county and the lawyers defending him have to be specially trained because it involves the death penalty.  “So yeah, it is costing taxpayers,” Rahmani said. “But what do you expect the defense to do? They’re playing the hand that they’re dealt, right? And it’s not a good hand.” Rahmani said if the case is prolonged enough then prosecutors may choose to secure life in prison through a plea deal and avoid the many appeals that come with the death penalty.  “If the state offered a plea deal and a life sentence, the taxpayers would save millions and millions of dollars,” he said.  Last week, Judge Tony Graf Jr. oversaw the preliminary hearing in the case where prosecutors presented the evidence they planned to use during the trial. Graf will rule in September whether there is enough evidence against Robinson to schedule a trial.  “I think all the attention on the case, he doesn’t want to make a mistake or be overturned on appeal,” Rahmani said. “He’s very slow, he’s very thorough, and very deliberate.” Rahmani said the longer the process takes, the more pressure there is on the prosecution. He pointed to the high-profile case of Bryan Kohberger, who avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students.  “They’re trying to put pressure on the prosecution to offer a life deal. Like they did in Kohberger,” he said.  Nathan Evershed, a former deputy district attorney for Salt Lake County, agreed the longer the case took the more likely a plea deal would be.  “Usually what happens is that the longer a case can get delayed, the more of a chance there can be an off-ramp or a plea deal,” he told the Post. “And an off-ramp is harder to find when it’s raw and very, very fraught with emotions. Whereas it’s easier to find when it’s less raw and you’re able to come to the table.” Evershed added that it would be quite expensive before the whole ordeal closed.  “It’s going to cost quite a bit of money to get to that point,” he said. “And the only people that will be paying for that are the taxpayers.”

The latest episode of “Real History with Matt Walsh” may be the most important of the series as it exposes the clear connections between communist Russia and modern-day America. Walsh’s recent release of “The Real History of Communism: The Russian Revolution” dives into how Left-wing radicals took control of the Russian Empire, killing millions and causing endless suffering for seven decades. Walsh then depicts the similarities of Left-wing radicals taking over Russia over a century ago with what we are seeing in our own country today.  WATCH: The Real History of Communism: The Russian Revolution “The Real History of Communism: The Russian Revolution” is broken into six chapters, telling the story of the uprising of the communist party. Walsh then examines the eight rules of a communist takeover and how they still apply today. The episode looks specifically at Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks targeting the family, the church, and the media in 1917 Russia. In the episode, Walsh describes how the “playbook” the Bolsheviks used in their revolution is the same that the Left is using to push radical, resentment-fueled movements on institutions in America in 2026. The sixth episode is more connected to what is happening today than any of the previous five episodes as it dives into the parallels of communist Russia and current events and headlines in the United States. Viewers don’t have to be “history buffs” to get invested throughout the episode as Walsh shows the patterns of the communist revolution and leftist tactics. Walsh aims to tell the main story of communism that was not taught in history classes — the rise of the system and it’s ability to take over an entire empire. Walsh wants to inform viewers of the true history of communism so Americans realize that history is on pace to repeat itself. “The Real History of Communism: The Russian Revolution” is now available exclusively on DailyWire+.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s administration nuked a Biden-era rule requiring children struggling with gender issues to be placed with pro-LGBTQ families, The Daily Wire can first report. On Tuesday morning, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families officially removed the April 2024 rule, which required federal agencies to ensure children who “self identify with an alternative sexual orientation or self-identify as something other than their sex in foster care” are placed with families who would affirm that identity. “The message that we think it sends is that all families are welcome,” Assistant Secretary Alex Adams explained in a phone interview with The Daily Wire. “We have too few foster families nationally. We must roll out the red carpet, and we must ensure that there’s homes waiting on kids, not kids waiting on homes.” Though the Biden rule never actually took effect since it was vacated by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the Trump administration is removing the provisions that remain in the Code of Federal Regulations to “ensure clarity,” a final nail in the coffin of the effort. Adams explained to The Daily Wire that the move builds on first lady Melania Trump’s “Fostering the Future” initiative and related executive order charting a “whole-of-government approach to improving child welfare and foster care.” Part of this is Adams’s “Home for Every Child” campaign, which focuses on increasing the ratio of foster homes to foster kids. “Nationally, we have a shortage,” he explained. “We only have 57 homes for every 100 kids coming in, so we can and must do better to ensure that there’s enough homes for kids because when there’s not enough homes, kids end up in short-term rentals, hotels, government office spaces, etc.” Families most likely to step forward and offer to foster children are those with sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions, Adams said, arguing that the message that HHS sends to families of faith is extremely important since it will “either make or break your recruitment and your retention of existing foster homes.” “The 2024 designated placement rule was one of those things that we think sent the wrong message,” he explained. “It would have segmented families into those that are ‘LGBTQ-friendly’ and those that are not.”