Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, passed away. She was 67. “This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie. Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives,” her family said in a statement, according to NBC News. “We are grateful to the doctors and health care workers who provided her excellent care and the friends, family, and well-wishers who have been by her side during this challenging time,” the statement added. We are heartbroken to lose the indomitable force that is our former president, Cecile Richards. In her 12 devoted years of service to our org, she brought us to new heights in our health care, education, and advocacy work. She was the embodiment of “Care, no matter what.” https://t.co/4SiosVpba8 — Planned Parenthood (@PPFA) January 20, 2025 NBC News reports: She was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in 2023, she revealed to The Cut last year. The family said to those who would like to celebrate Richards’ memory, “we invite you to put on some New Orleans jazz, gather with friends and family over a good meal.” The family ended with a quotation of Richards’ to remember: “It’s not hard to imagine future generations one day asking: ‘When there was so much at stake for our country, what did you do?’ The only acceptable answer is: ‘Everything we could.’” Richards, the daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, previously served as deputy chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California. “Approximately 4 million babies were killed during the time Cecile Richards was president of Planned Parenthood. We mourn their deaths,” LifeNews commented. Approximately 4 million babies were killed during the time Cecile Richards was president of Planned Parenthood. We mourn their deaths. — LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) January 20, 2025 Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president, dies at 67. Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/3p4NEMmSMd — AF Post (@AFpost) January 20, 2025 Per CNN: Richards served as president of Planned Parenthood from 2006 to 2018, helping boost the profile of an organization long criticized by conservatives and anti-abortion activists who have called on the government to strip its funding. With nearly 600 health centers, Planned Parenthood bills itself as the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care and its largest provider of sex education. “Together, we have made real progress in this country, expanding access to services and making reproductive rights a central priority of our nation’s health care system,” Richards said in January 2018 when she announced she was stepping down. “I’m deeply proud of the progress we’ve made for the millions of people Planned Parenthood health centers serve across the country each year.” Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund are “heartbroken to lose a giant in the fight for reproductive freedom,” they said Monday in a statement. “Cecile Richards was an indomitable force,” the groups said. “In her 12 devoted years of service to our organization, Cecile brought Planned Parenthood Federation of America to new heights in our health care, education, and advocacy work. She led us through fights that transformed the reproductive health and rights landscape and made Planned Parenthood Action Fund the advocacy and political force that it remains to this day.” The women in Richards’ family were no strangers to political power: Her mother was the late Gov. Ann Richards of Texas and her daughter, Lily Adams, served as a political appointee in former President Joe Biden’s administration.

You might have missed it in all the commotion of today, but I wanted to be sure you saw Franklin Graham’s powerful prayer this morning at President Trump’s Inauguration. He’s no Billy, but he delivered a strong prayer and very clearly invoked the name of “Jesus Christ” and not just some random prayer to “God”. Franklin himself posted this to X: I was honored to give an invocation at our nation’s 60th presidential inauguration ceremony before President @realDonaldTrump and Vice President @JDVance were sworn in today. I urged those in attendance to stand still and remember the great things that God has done for this… pic.twitter.com/qcSD6s6Z4I — Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) January 20, 2025 I was honored to give an invocation at our nation’s 60th presidential inauguration ceremony before President @realDonaldTrump and Vice President @JDVance were sworn in today. I urged those in attendance to stand still and remember the great things that God has done for this country and to keep our eyes fixed on Him. Will you join me in praying for President Trump and our leaders? “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His. And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.” (Daniel 2:20-21) He did a great job with this part: Thank you @Franklin_Graham for being clear about Jesus Christ pic.twitter.com/aYbz4AlgjV — Pastor Mark Driscoll (@PastorMark) January 20, 2025 You can watch the full prayer with captions here: WATCH: Franklin Graham’s powerful invocation at President Trump’s Inauguration pic.twitter.com/oEFpDSpuoD — Noah Christopher (@DailyNoahNews) January 20, 2025 FULL TRANSCRIPT:  Franklin Graham: Our Father and our God, Thou hast said, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. As the Prophet Daniel prayed, blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His. He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings; He raises up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. Our Father today, as President Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office once again, we come to say thank you, O Lord our God. Father, when Donald Trump’s enemies thought he was down and out, You and You alone saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by Your mighty hand. We pray for President Trump that You shall watch over, protect, guide, and direct him; give him Your wisdom from Your throne on high. We ask that You would bless him and that our nation would be blessed through him. We also ask that You would bless and protect Melania as First Lady. We thank You for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that she shows not only to this nation but to the whole world. We thank You for Vice President-Elect JD Vance and his wife Usha and their young family. May he be a strength to President Trump, to stand beside him, to hold up his arms like Aaron held up the arms of Moses in the midst of battle. The Prophet Samuel reminded the people it was You that brought them up from the land of Egypt, and he said, now stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord. So, Father, we take this moment to stand still, to remember the great things that You have done for this nation. Thank You for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we so enjoy. We remember to keep our eyes fixed on You, and may our hearts be inclined to Your voice. We know that America can never be great again if we turn our backs on You. We ask for Your help, and we pray all of this in the name of the King of Kings, the Lord of lords, Your Son, my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen. RELATED REPORT: “He Brought Them All To Church!” "He Brought Them All To Church!" Introducing Pastor Lorenzo Sewell. President Trump personally invited Pastor Sewell to pray at his Inauguration and he did NOT disappoint. To paraphrase my good friend "Pepe Lives Matter"....he brought them ALL to church! My goodness. This guy brought everyone to church. pic.twitter.com/WUHcknaDaW — Green Lives Matter (@Ultrafrog17) January 20, 2025 Yes he did! Delivering a powerful message praying to our "Heavenly Father" in the name of "Jesus", Sewell expertly mixed in portions of Martin Luther King Jr's most famous speeches (prayers) honoring the fact that it is Martin Luther King Day today, while delivering a powerful prayer right in the face of many in the crowd who you might deem as being openly hostile to Christianity. It was a powerful moment. Short clip here: Rev. Lorenzo Sewell prays at President Trump’s Inauguration. pic.twitter.com/ypqva0zFhE — Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) January 20, 2025 Longer clip here: President Trump invited Pastor Lorenzo Sewell from Detroit to pray at the Inauguration, and he did NOT disappoint. God is back in America. pic.twitter.com/3dT7Jn46Wf — George (@BehizyTweets) January 20, 2025 Larger video player here: President Trump invited Pastor Lorenzo Sewell from Detroit to pray at the Inauguration, and he did NOT disappoint. God is back in America. pic.twitter.com/3dT7Jn46Wf — George (@BehizyTweets) January 20, 2025 FULL TEXT OF THE PRAYER: Pastor Lorenzo Sewell: Heavenly Father, we're so grateful that you gave our 45th and now our 47th president a millimeter miracle. We are grateful that you are the one that has called him for such a time as this, that America would begin to dream again. We pray that we would fulfill the true meaning of our creed: that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. We pray that you use our president, that we would live in a nation where we will not be judged by the color of our skin but by the content of our character. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, we are so grateful today that you will use our 47th president so we would sing with new meaning: "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." And because America is called to be a great nation, we believe that you will make this come true. So let freedom reign from the precious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous hilltops of California. But God, we're asking you not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill in Mississippi, from every state, every city, every village, and every hamlet. And when we let freedom ring, we will be able to speed up that day: all of your children—Black men and White men, Protestant and Catholic, Jew and Gentile— will be able to sing in the meaning of that old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank you, God Almighty, we are free at last." If you believe where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Come on, put your hands together and give your great God great Glory Thank you Pastor, well done!

Yesterday, we brought you a report about Vivek Ramaswamy stepping down from the Department of Government Efficiency, which he was originally slated to co-chair with Elon Musk. At the time, we could not confirm whether it was fact or fiction. But today, shortly after President Trump was sworn in as 47th President of the USA, a spokesperson for the Trump adminstration confirmed that the rumors were true and that Vivek officially stepped down from DOGE. However, it’s not for the reason that the original CBS News report had implied — namely that Ramaswamy had “worn out his welcome” with staffers. Even though Vivek had faced controversy over the H1-B visa issue a few weeks back, this appears to just be the media trying to sow seeds of division (no surprise there!) It’s actually for an entirely different reason: Vivek’s political ambitions. Vivek intends on running for Governor of Ohio, and due to the structure of non-governmental DOGE, he could not be involved. VIVEK ALLEGEDLY STEPS AWAY FROM DOGE TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR?! According to reports Vivek has left DOGE, hours after Trump took office, as he is looking to run for Ohio’s governor. Anna Kelly, spokeswoman for DOGE: “Vivek Ramaswamy played a critical role in helping us create… https://t.co/upG6c56EY6 pic.twitter.com/bfrcped2fU — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 20, 2025 Marketwatch explained: Billionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who was tapped alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk to run Trump’s commission to “dismantle government bureaucracy,” is stepping down to run for governor of Ohio instead. There had been reports over the weekend that the 39-year-old former Republican presidential candidate was planning to leave the “DOGE” commission, but he made it official hours after Trump took office on Monday. “Vivek Ramaswamy played a critical role in helping us create DOGE,” Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the commission, said in a statement. “He intends to run for elected office soon, which requires him to remain outside of DOGE, based on the structure that we announced today. We thank him immensely for his contributions over the last 2 months and expect him to play a vital role in making America great again.” NBC News also reported: Vivek Ramaswamy will launch a campaign for governor in Ohio early next week and is parting ways with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, two sources familiar with his plans told NBC News. Ramaswamy’s interest in seeking office in his home state is not a surprise. But his decision to leave DOGE now removes him from the high command of a federal spending watchdog group that he was supposed to run with Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO and owner of X. “He’s leaving DOGE. He’s going to announce early next week for governor,” said one of the sources, who was granted anonymity to discuss preparations for a campaign that has not officially launched. “It became increasingly clear over the last week that pursuing the governor’s race and running DOGE was not compatible. He’s leaving on good terms with Trump, Elon and the team.” Despite what the media was originally reporting, all seems good between Vivek and Elon Musk. Vivek Ramaswamy himself shared a photo of the two together this afternoon at the Inauguration: A new dawn. pic.twitter.com/a3Vthjth69 — Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) January 20, 2025 It seems that Ramaswamy’s departure from DOGE was purely political. He simply feels that he can serve better in a governmental position, as governor of Ohio, as opposed to running DOGE alongside Elon. Good luck Mr. Ramaswamy in your future endeavors!

In an effort to inhibit the process from being as lengthy and strenuous, a Florida sheriff shared some words of advice with illegal immigrants in his state right before President Trump's inauguration.

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The U.S. Senate voted on Monday evening to confirm Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, making him the first official member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet. The vote was unanimous, with 99 senators voting in his favor. Senate confirms Rubio as Secretary of State, 99-0 — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 20, 2025 Rubio broke tradition and cast a vote for himself, according to Fox News congressional reporter Chad Pergram. “Vote still open, but Senate on track to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State, 99-0 First cabinet secretary in the Trump administration. There are only 99 senators now with the Vance vacancy. Note that Rubio broke with custom and voted for himself. Senators usually vote ‘present’ when they are up for cabinet slots,” he noted before the vote was made official. Immediately after his confirmation, Rubio resigned as senator, leaving the door open for Governor Ron DeSantis’ (R-FL) choice to replace him in the deliberative body. Rubio resigns his Senate seat after his confirmation as Secretary of State — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 20, 2025 Just over an our prior to his confirmation, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had also voted unanimously (22-0) to advance his nomination to the floor. Two of Rubio’s fellow nominees — Pete Hegseth (Defense Secretary) and John Ratcliffe (CIA) — have also advanced from their respective committees. Ratcliffe, like Rubio, saw a few Democrats cross party lines to vote in favor of advancing his nomination. Hegseth’s advance was along party lines. The Senate also voted on Monday to pass the Laken Riley Act.

When Katie Clem uploaded a YouTube video surprising her daughters with a Disney trip in 2013, she never could have imagined what would happen next. Her 7-year-old daughter, Lily, couldn’t contain her excitement, but 2-year-old Chloe was less than impressed. A screenshot of Chloe side-eyeing her mother became one of the most famous memes on the planet. Trust us, we’ve sent Chloe’s disapproving face plenty of times in the family group chat. It’s sometimes hard to understand that memes are real people, and having your face plastered all over the internet can be overwhelming. The family sold the image in 2021, and the money changed their life. Katie told People, “10 years ago, we were so poor. This happened to us and we’re like, ‘What? We can pay bills. We can upgrade our tiny apartment for the four of us.’ It was real-world issues,” the Tennessee resident explains. “That money literally helped us survive for a decade. Every ounce of the money, aside from saving it and putting it away, was helping us get through our life. Rent, bills, food.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chloe (@chloeclem) Chole’s Side-Eyeing Fame Was Fun For A While Katie told People, “In the beginning, it was really fun … You just hop on this train and you say yes to everything,” she said. “I did not include my kids’ consent at all in the beginning. We just did it because you get wrapped up in all of the things.” Katie added, “Eventually, it got too much with my kids, and I just felt like no one was benefiting from it.” Katie said she realized all the attention on her family wasn’t the direction she wanted to go and eventually stopped posting on YouTube. Today, Chloe’s a teenager who looks nothing like her former self. She doesn’t get recognized like she did, but side-eyeing Chloe has a permanent place in pop culture history. “I’m in the What Do You Meme game, so I would always bring my card from that game to show people,” Chloe told People. “It’s super cool.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post “Side-Eyeing Chloe” Is A Thriving Teenager Today & It’s All Thanks To Her Meme! appeared first on InspireMore.

Gratitude transforms our hearts and minds, helping us find peace at the end of each day. By reflecting on God’s faithfulness, even on stormy days, we foster a habit of thankfulness that grounds us in His love and goodness.

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democrats and corporate media figures were highly critical about pardons being issued preemptively prior to the end of President Donald Trump’s first term. Former President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, members of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee and members of his family on the last day of his term of office. One prominent critic of the concept of preemptive pardons during Trump’s first term was then-Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who was one of the committee members to whom Biden granted clemency on Monday. “Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime, who’s just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that? Just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they’re an innocent person,” MSNBC host Joy Reid asked Schiff in 2020. Schiff responded, “No, it’s the president’s own family. It’s people that have been covering up for the president in addition to his own family.” Later in the video, when asked by CNN host Wolf Blitzer if accepting the pardons would be viewed as an “admission of guilt,” Schiff answered in the affirmative. “I certainly would view it that way. I think millions of Americans would view it that way,” Schiff replied at the time. “If there was no belief in criminality, why would he think a pardon was necessary?” Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann echoed similar sentiments in an appearance with MSNBC host Brian Williams. “Is there an innocent explanation for someone to seek preemptive pardons for family members? Would you do that if you knew you were innocent and just worried about outside forces?” Williams asked. “The answer to that is going to be no,” Weissmann responded. “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you sit there and go, what do you need a preemptive pardon for?” Elie Mystal, a frequent guest on MSNBC, hinted that state and local prosecutors were a backstop against pardons from Trump. “We have Tish James. We have Xavier Becerra. Mimi Rocah is literally my PA in my town,” Mystal told “Morning Joy” guest host Jason Johnson. “There—there will be opportunities to prosecute these people, regardless if they—if they abuse the pardon power as they are thinking.” “Hopefully, Elie, there will be a skyfall on this entire crime family, and there will be another day for them to die,” Johnson said. During his last term, Trump considered preemptively pardoning his children as well as former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City in the wake of his efforts to contest the 2020 election. Trump himself was later indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over his efforts to contest the 2020 election results in Georgia, while Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg also indicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records and secured a conviction against him from a Manhattan jury. Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The post What Democrats, Corporate Media Said About Potential Preemptive Pardons from Trump Four Years Ago appeared first on The Daily Signal.