The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Moderna’s next generation lower-dose COVID-19 vaccines.

The Ukraine-Russia talks failed after one hour this morning. President Zelensky’s opener to the peace talks was bragging about the attack inside Russia. For their part, the Russian Federation forces have conquered 20 settlements this past week. However, the Ukrainian droning of jets deep into Russia was a major PR coup. Mood at the Istanbul […] The post Ukraine – Russia Talks Fell Apart in an Hour appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

WASHINGTON—The Education Department has launched two investigations into high-profile, Title IX-related cases that occurred during President Joe Biden’s administration, The Daily Wire can first report. As part of its observance of the first “Title IX Month” — celebrated in place of Pride Month — the Education Department will launch probes into the University of Wyoming and Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado. These investigations will be conducted by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights. Each of these probes will deal with a case that garnered national outrage and attention for allowing males in intimate female spaces. NEW: The Education Department has declared June “Title IX Month” rather than Pride Month. It’s also launching probes into two high-profile cases that developed under President Biden’s watch: one in Colorado and the other in Wyoming. Details first in @realDailyWire: pic.twitter.com/SZDmjvWMoT — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) June 2, 2025 University of Wyoming Members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming sued the university and Artemis Langford, a male who identifies as a woman, after Langford joined their sorority and lived in their sorority house. The girls accused Langford of watching them shower and change and making inappropriate comments — and having visible erections as he watched them. “Langford states that he is transgender and that he self-identifies as a woman. His behavior, however, does not reflect a man living as a woman let alone a man attempting to ‘consistently live’ as a woman,” the girls said in their lawsuit, as The Daily Wire’s Leif Le Mahieu previously reported. “Other than occasionally wearing women’s clothing, Langford makes little effort to resemble a woman. He has not undergone treatments to create a more feminine appearance, such as female hormones, feminization surgery, or laser hair removal.” In August 2023, the lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge who declined to define what a woman was. “The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson, a Reagan appointee, in his decision. “The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman,’ otherwise undefined in the nonprofit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.” The University of Wyoming did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Jefferson County Public Schools The second investigation deals with Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado, where an 11-year-old girl was assigned to share a bed with a male student who identifies as a transgender girl while on a cross-country school trip, as The Daily Signal first reported. This was not the only incident of its kind within the district, as The Daily Wire reported. Jefferson County School District’s “Transgender Students” policy requires that all students on overnight visits are to be roomed by their gender identity, rather than their actual sex, according to a September 2024 lawsuit first reported by The Daily Wire. NEW: This week we sat down with Joe + Serena Wailes, the parents of an 11-year-old girl shocked to discover on her school trip that she had been assigned to share a bed with a boy who identified as a trans girl. Joe and Serena share their nightmare story with @DailySignal: pic.twitter.com/w847Oi7nnO — Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 21, 2023 Though the district shared this policy with trans-identifying students and chaperones, it did not share the policy with students or their parents, who were unaware of the policy until their children found themselves rooming with students and chaperones of the opposite gender on trips. “I was really upset,” the child’s mother, Serena Wailes, told The Daily Signal in December 2023. “One, I was really upset that she was put in that situation at 11 years old—I don’t feel that is fair to put kids in that kind of situation—and two, that we were not even given the information that this was a possibility before the trip. The whole time they’re saying, ‘Girls on one floor, boys on another, they’re not going to be in each other’s rooms unless it is pre-approved.’ So we’re going through this whole process, not even recognizing that this is a possibility.” The girl’s father, Joe Wailes, told The Daily Signal that his wife called him from the hotel and filled him in on what had occurred. “I felt a bit helpless,” he said at the time. “I was 2,000 miles away. My daughter is scared in a bathroom trying to get herself out of a situation. It was a frustrating experience, and I just really felt like it was not a situation my daughter should be put in.” In another instance, according to the 2024 lawsuit, the school district placed an 18-year-old female student— who identified as a man but only a week earlier had identified as female — in a cabin with 11 and 12-year-old boys, where she allegedly supervised their changing and showering. Jefferson County Public Schools did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

'Biden's ridiculous Open Borders Policy'

'116 arrest warrants were served'

this entire episode should be taken as a lesson for conservatives

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Fiscal conservatives lately have argued that the federal government should spend as it did before COVID-19 ruined everything. Thankfully, the global pandemic is a speck in the rearview mirror. Only a few diehards cling bitterly to their masks and grow misty with lockdown nostalgia. Restoring spending to its trajectory in Fiscal Year 2019—the last before COVID wandered out of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology—could be treacherous, even for die-hard budget hawks. January 2025’s domestic-discretionary baseline for FY 2026 is $1.897 trillion. In August 2019, it was $1.332 trillion. Adopting the latter would require a one-year, $565 billion spending cut. Similar hefty disbursement reductions would continue every year thereafter. Such belt-tightening would hurt. The Congressional Budget Office would have to hire a staff anesthesiologist. Why not roll spending back to the future? A less painful target would be the outlay totals that CBO foreshadowed for today — but in summer 2019. Congress should write checks at the pace that CBO anticipated for FY 2026, before Earth shut down, and massive expenditures for ventilators, vaccines, Paycheck Protection and the American Rescue Plan Act drained the Treasury.  Rather than CBO’s January 2025 prediction of $1.897 trillion in domestic discretionary spending for FY 2026, in FY 2019, it foresaw a mere $1.622 trillion in such expenses, starting on October 1. This reasonable fiscal discipline would save taxpayers $275 billion this year. For FY 2027, the relevant figures are $1.951 trillion, $1.661 trillion, and $290 billion—the latter in lower costs. From FY 2026 through FY 2029, this exercise would curb planned spending from $7.883 trillion to $6.725 trillion. This would spare taxpayers a whopping $1.158 trillion. Rather than bomb America with those Benjamins, as if via B52s, this sum could underwrite national-debt reduction, deeper tax cuts, or a big, beautiful combination of both. President Donald J. Trump and Congressional Republicans could prioritize spending beneath these lower ceilings. They could ax programs that are properly reserved for the states, duplicative, or downright idiotic. They could maintain or even increase expenditures that are effective or nationally important. While defense, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid deserve strict scrutiny, this idea would leave them untouched. Democrats will scream falsely that this initiative would endanger Grandpa’s entitlements and throw Grandma from a train. But Democrats lie more than rugs. Republicans should ignore them and govern. “Alas, as Elon Musk has ruefully discovered, cutting spending is harder than pulling teeth from an angry hippopotamus,” free-market stalwart Steve Forbes tells me. “The far Left running the Biden White House were smart in making sure that plenty of red states got lots of Green New Deal money. That’s why so many Republicans were reluctant to seriously whack these appropriations. And all too many GOPers got frightened by Democrats demagoguing Medicaid instead of going on offense.”  “The GOP’s appetite for reductions even on this scale is small,” Forbes added. “But such an approach could well prod the senators to do better than what the House did — and that would be splendid under the circumstances!”   Heritage Foundation financial economist E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. is more sanguine about this concept. “Anything we can do to rein in spending is a win in my book, and this definitely makes economic sense,” he says. “Rather than return to 2019 levels, this plan would also be much more politically palatable to a wider number of congressional Republicans who (stupidly) hesitate to cut spending. Today’s cost-of-living crisis is a direct result of the last five years of blowout spending in Washington. We may not be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube, but this at least prevents squeezing out more.” Antoni continues: “Using a forecast that predates the spendthrift Biden Administration implicitly acknowledges how wasteful those four years were, and the need to omit those anni horribiles from any baseline budget.” The Senate should shove COVID-19 down the memory hole and start spending as if that virus never escaped that Red Chinese laboratory. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Back to the Future: Congress Should Follow Pre-COVID Plans and Save $1.16 Trillion appeared first on The Daily Signal.