President Donald Trump, along with many other political figures, have sent their best wishes to former President Joe Biden after it was revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 

FBI Director Kash Patel teased a coming “wave of transparency” with regard to the Russiagate controversy that dogged President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House. In a Fox News interview alongside Deputy Director Dan Bongino, Patel spoke to “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo about reviving trust in the bureau years after the scandal that they have long examined and criticized. Trump signed an order in March for the declassification of materials related to the Russia investigation, codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane,” led by the FBI. Just The News chief investigative correspondent Jerry Dunleavy has already begun to report some of their contents. “I can speak to the folks that were in our seats, our predecessors, and they intentionally failed the American public by putting on the biggest D.C. deception game we have ever seen. They said the FBI was the most storied institution for law enforcement, and it was. And it will be again very soon,” Patel said. Patel then made reference to several major Russiagate figures who previously served in the bureau: former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former agent Peter Strzok, and former General Counsel James Baker. The interview, which aired Sunday, was recorded before federal authorities opened an investigation into Comey over a social media post that some have taken to be a threat against Trump. Comey denies that he intended to call for violence. “But when the likes of Comey and McCabe and Strzok and company came in here with the James Bakers of the world and intentionally lied to a federal court, only to rig a presidential election by lying to the American public and using taxpayer dollars, likely illegally, to fund this entire operation, and then withhold exculpatory information from a federal court that I used to appear before to manhunt terrorists, that’s what broke the FBI,” Patel said, referring to a FISA scandal within Russiagate. “And then, when they were caught, they lied about it,” Patel added. “And you and a few others like Dan and others were brave enough to cover it six, seven, eight years ago. And we’re still talking about it today, because, as Congress is working rigorously with us, the Crossfire Hurricane documents are coming fast and hard. And they’re being sent there unredacted, so we can have full accountability. And that’s how you restore … the trust that was lost to the American public when it comes to the FBI.” Bartiromo pushed back. “Yes, but, come on, Director. With all due respect, we have been talking about this for a long time, and I have been demanding accountability for many, many years,” she said. “One of the — you mentioned Comey, Strzok and the rest. They have got TV shows. They have got media platforms. They’re fine. There’s been no accountability.” In response to what he conceded was “a fair criticism,” Patel emphasized the situation is now different. “What I will tell people is, we weren’t here in the FBI in the last five years, when we had statute of limitations that were still in play, where we could have investigated criminal conduct. Most of these statute of limitations are five years old,” Patel said. “And we will investigate criminal conduct where we find a righteous case to do so and the law and the facts allow us to. But a lot of it, we’re precluded from. So we will take the criticism, and it’s rightfully so, that could we have done more in the past? Sure, people before us could have.” He continued: “But what we can do now is continue to put out the documents and the information that these people withheld from the American public. And I’m just telling you, right now, as much as we know about Crossfire Hurricane, he and I just found out more last week. And we’re continuing to work with Congress to put those documents out. That’s how vindictive and vicious the former leadership structure here was. Not only did they bastardize the FISA process and lie to the American public. They withheld and hid documentation and put it in rooms where people weren’t supposed to look. And it’s a good thing we’re here now to clean it up, and you’re about to see a wave of transparency.” Pressed to explain what he meant, Patel added with a smile, “Just give us about a week or two.”

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Mississippi leads the nation. That’s not a typographical error. And it’s not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things. Once upon a time, that was true, and in some respects it still is. Mississippi has the lowest or nearly the lowest income levels of any state. It’s been lagging in population growth over the last decade and in the longer term. Mississippi topped the 2-million mark in 1930, and it got within 18,000 of the 3-million mark in 2018, 88 years later, but it has fallen by 55,000 since. Mississippi has long been the state with the highest percentage of black residents, and black people have had, on average, lower incomes and educational achievement by various measures than others. Thus, not much notice was taken in 2011, nearly a decade after passage of the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, when Mississippi finished dead last in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in reading and math taken by fourth- and eighth-grade students. Louisiana, with the second-highest black population percentage, ranked 49th. The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests produced some starkly different results. Mississippi jumped to No. 14 in fourth-grade math and No. 9 in fourth-grade reading. And when the Urban Institute adjusted the scores for various poverty measures, thus measuring students in one state with those in another of the same level of economic status, Mississippi ranked No. 1 in both fourth-grade reading and fourth-grade math. Louisiana ranked No. 2 and Florida No. 3 in adjusted fourth-grade reading, and Florida, Texas and Louisiana ranked just behind Mississippi in fourth-grade math. On the eighth-grade tests, Mississippi fell in the lower half of states in unadjusted reading and math scores. However, in the Urban Institute’s adjusted scores, Mississippi ranked fourth in reading, behind Massachusetts—whose unadjusted National Assessment of Educational Progress scores typically lead the nation—Louisiana and Georgia. And on adjusted eighth-grade math scores, Mississippi ranked first. These astonishing numbers represent substantial and, so far as I know, entirely unpredicted progress in Mississippi, and just slightly less in Louisiana. They stand in vivid contrast to the national trend, as lengthy school shutdowns produced by powerful teacher unions in more “progressive” states resulted in sharply diminished learning and lower test scores. The watering down of No Child Left Behind standards in the bipartisan 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act has also produced less proficiency in many states. “States like New York and Washington, with powerful teachers’ unions,” RealClearInvestigation’s Vince Bielski writes, have been “tamping down rigor, such as testing for graduation and accelerated programs, to achieve ‘equity’ for disadvantaged students.” In contrast, “Southern states have seized on a political environment that allows them to do the things that matter,” Frederick Hess, American Enterprise Institute education policy studies director, writes. “To drive improvement, it’s easier if you have the politics of Mississippi than the politics of Massachusetts.” As a result, black and low-income pupils are getting a better education in Deep South states such as Mississippi and Louisiana than in the “progressive” big cities of the North. What is Mississippi doing right? According to The 74’s Chad Aldeman, over the last decade, it has deployed literacy coaches to low-performing schools, prompted schools to screen pupils early for reading problems, and required holding back third graders not reaching reading proficiency. Schools use “science of reading” phonics-based curricula, which require repetitive drills that education school professors and many teachers loathe but young children thrive on. Parents are notified when their children are lagging and mobilized to help. One gets the sense of group mobilization to encourage constructive learning rather than fostering grievance—something like the culture of mutual reinforcement that has produced so many successful black STEM graduates at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Meyerhoff program. Three generations ago, from 1940 to 1965, millions of black people moved from places such as the Mississippi Delta to “the promised land” of cities such as Chicago. Today, young black people are receiving better educations in Mississippi than they are in Chicago, whose mayor, Brandon Johnson, is a former teachers union organizer. Johnson has the city government borrowing to pay for current spending on a contract with raises for teachers and administrators for a school system that parents have fled, with enrollment down 20% over the past decade. His fellow Democrats seem little bothered by this doubling down on a failed system. Former Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ 2024 platform talked about preschool and college loan forgiveness but said nothing about K-12 public schools. Those interested in doing so, and improving the life chances of disadvantaged children, need to look to Mississippi and to other mostly Republican-run states in the South, which have shown the nation the way without substantial spending increases. 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 On Education, Mississippi Shows the Way appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A gender confused NYU student thought she was breaking some new ground toward universal justice by smugly standing up in front of her graduating class and using her commencement speech to virtue signal for Hamas. “As I search my heart today in addressing you all, my moral and political commitments guide me to say that the only appropriate thing to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine,” preached theatre student Logan Rozos, who is apparently a biological woman pretending to be a man.  First, know this: This young man has had his diploma suspended for doing this. Now, watch what he did:pic.twitter.com/oKVhJoKa88 — Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) May 15, 2025 She was correct in admitting one thing: Her commitment to leftist ideology requires her to pledge her unwavering loyalty, by turning her speech into a self important lecture rather than thanking her family who sacrificed their time and money so she could stand up there and piss it all away.  Related: 'F*** YOUR FINALS!' Wannabe Jihadis Storm Columbia University's Library Calling For Terrorism “The genocide currently occurring is supported politically and militarily by the United States, is paid for by our tax dollars, and has been live-streamed to our phones for the past 18 months,” she continued.  You know what IS paid for by our taxpayer dollars? This spoiled dilettante's TikTok-level education.   Apparently, four years of Ivory Tower indoctrination provide this 20-something-year-old with the moral authority and life experience to “speak for all people of conscience” and bloviate on a foreign war he’s learned about through social media.  “I want to say that I condemn this genocide and complicity in this genocide,” she concluded, repeating the same empty cliches to the roaring other 20-something year old ignoramuses.  In a statement apologizing for the public embarrassment, NYU accused Rozos of lying about the original remarks she had submitted and claimed “this moment was stolen by someone who abused a privilege that was conferred upon him.” It appears the university has taken down her student profile from their website and suspended his diploma, according to CNN.

In my previous piece about Pope Leo XIV, I discussed last weekend’s social media buzz around the first American pope’s love of baseball. Unfortunately, the article went to press before I could confirm one crucial detail: The pope is a White Sox fan. For every meme of the pope wearing a Sox jersey, someone else is crying because the pope used to go to her high school or speaks with his accent. "He was never ever a Cubs fan, so I don’t know where that came from. He was always a Sox fan," the new pope's younger brother, John Prevost, told WGN TV. White smoke, White Sox Footage even emerged on Friday afternoon showing a younger Pope Leo in the stands for Game 1 of the Sox's historic 2005 World Series sweep of the Houston Astros. The news was also confirmed by Cincinnati Reds fan Vice President JD Vance, who joked that Pope Leo’s White Sox fandom may be good for his spirituality. “I had a friend of mine that had a pretty funny take on this," recalled Vance. "He said, ‘If Pope Leo really is a Chicago White Sox fan, then he’s already actually faced the stress of martyrdom multiple times,’ so maybe we have a real winner in the new Holy Father.” Sorry, Cubs. No word on whether club chairman Tom Ricketts' invitation for Pope Leo to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at Wrigley Field still stands. Da memes Despite enduring some jabs for prematurely claiming Pope Leo as one of their own, Cubs fans seem undeterred, cranking out just as much Leo-themed merchandise and memes as their crosstown rivals. The sheer number of “da pope” memes, shirts, posters, and bobble-heads that have been made in the past few days shows that Chicagoans love being the hometown of the new Holy Father. One local restaurant chain even named an Italian beef sandwich after the pope, while another local pizza joint is seeing skyrocketing business after it was revealed that the pope ate there. The buzz has yet to die down! As it turns out, Chicagoans of all baseball persuasions have fallen head over heels for Pope Leo in the past few days. It all seems a little provincial compared to the significance of the larger milestone: that an American from anywhere in the country made the cut. American pious Catholic commentators have long thought the Church would be unlikely ever to choose a leader from a country already so dominant in politics, economics, and culture. Africa or South America, where much of Catholicism's recent growth has occurred, seemed much more likely candidate pools. That’s why so many Americans are trying to find a message behind the papal conclave's choice of Cardinal Prevost. What made an American so uniquely suited to this moment in Catholic history, given America’s history of Protestant anti-clericalism and its dubious distinction of being one of the only countries in history to have a heresy named after it? Was this a statement about the remarkable revival of the Church in America (through folks like Bishop Barron and Fr. Mike Schmitz) or a warning that its vocal "trad" element needs to be more like the politically moderate Pope Leo XIV? The Chicago way Back in my native Chicago, any such speculation seems fairly abstract when compared to the ever-present buzz of excitement. Midwest Americans feel a connection to the pope they’ve never felt before. This is particularly true in Chicago, where Polish, Irish, German, Slavic, Italian, and Hispanic Catholic communities are deeply rooted in the city’s identity and people. For every meme of the pope wearing a Sox jersey, someone else is crying because the pope used to go to her high school or speaks with his accent, creating a new level of identification they’ve never felt with their spiritual father. Local clergy and laypeople I've spoken to in the last few days are bursting with excitement that a graduate of the South Side's Catholic Theological Union — and a man with whom they share myriad personal connections — is now the supreme pontiff. Fellow Chicago native and Catholic apologist Bishop Robert Barron put it well in a video last Friday, reflecting how touching it is to have grown up in the same milieu as Pope Leo. They are only a few years apart in age. “He’s not only an American; he’s from Chicago. He’s from my hometown," said Barrron. "In fact, he grew up in Dalton, and I grew up in Western Springs. [In good traffic] I could get to Dalton in 25 minutes." Barron couldn't resist pointing out one crucial way in which he dissents from Pope Leo: "I’m a Cubs fan.” Chi-town represent Regardless of team — or even religious affiliation — it’s a powerful thing to see yourself represented in such a significant institution. As my friends have put it, it is both surreal and intensely moving to hear a pope speak English with an American accent. Especially moved are those who grew up in the neighborhoods that Pope Leo lived and served in. I’m seeing Facebook friends, many who aren’t Catholic, share with obvious pride that their family members went to the same high school as the pope. As Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says, “This is a tremendous moment for our Catholic community and for all Chicagoans.” I can't say I'm not enjoying it myself. However, as much fun as it is to see all the Mike Ditka and “da Bears” jokes, I must admit I am getting queasy from the memes showing the Eucharist replaced with a deep dish pizza. And the wine replaced with Malort. Setting aside the mild sacrilege, I don’t like the idea of getting a heartburn from holy communion.

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With NetherRealm Studios winding down support for Mortal Kombat 1, the studio's next game isn't known yet. Still, if a recent tease by a leaker is anything to go by, the studio might return to the Injustice franchise.