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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris sat down for an interview with CNN and said her values have not changed.  Former President Donald Trump announces a major policy promise supporting IVF.  The Biden administration is unpausing an immigration program that was paused due to widespread fraud concerns.  Movie review of “Leo.”  Relevant Links https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/30/cnns-softball-interview-of-kamala-harris/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdow

China's production of batteries for electric vehicles is “definitely not clean,” says energy expert Diana Furchtgott-Roth. Without its own vast natural energy resources, China is the world’s largest energy importer, but has seized on the economic opportunities of the “green energy” movement. Yet the production of products such as EVs is causing harm to the environment, says Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. China produces about 80% of the world’s EV batteries and “mining for the critical minerals in the batteries … causes vast amounts of environmental damage,” she explains. Production of one EV battery involves moving “hundreds of thousands of pounds of earth to get the critical minerals for one battery,” Furchtgott-Roth notes, adding that “China is buying mines in Africa so that it can get the critical minerals, [as well as] mines in Latin America.” Furchtgott-Roth is the co-author of “How the Forced Energy Transition and Reliance on China Will Harm America,” a new Heritage Foundation report exposing the ways in which the “green energy” movement is harming America while benefiting China. She joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to explain it all.

TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump. The Secret Service placed at least 5 members on administrative leave. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer demanded information from TSA about Tulsi Gabbard allegedly being placed on a suspected terrorist watch list. Democratic nominee Kamala Harris addressed the Democratic National Convention last night. Relevant Links https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/23/rfk-suspends-campaign-endorses-trump/ https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/08/21/rand-paul-tsa-open-skies-surveillance-program/ Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda

A Republican congresswoman from Texas succeeded in amending the annual National Defense Authorization Act to prevent the Pentagon from subsidizing abortions with taxpayer dollars.  Rep. Beth Van Duyne's amendment to the $883.7 billion fiscal 2025 NDAA would block President Joe Biden’s Defense Department from using federal funds to reimburse abortion-related expenses. Van Duyne told The Daily Signal her amendment would roll back Biden's illegal Department of Defense travel policy issued in a memo on Oct. 20, 2022, which she said was "in clear violation of historic bipartisan norms and current law." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Already rocked by the war in Ukraine, the world uneasily looks towards Asia and the Chinese Communist Party. The authoritarian state has cast its gaze towards the small island of Taiwan, and dreams of conquest. America will inevitably be drawn into a potential conflict between China and Taiwan, but author and defense expert Elbridge Colby says we are woefully unprepared.  “We're not doing what we need to do,” Colby says. “We spend a lot of money on defense, honestly, but we have not focused enough on dealing with China and adapting our force to deal with that specifically. I think we're just asking for trouble.” To Colby, an ascendent China is the biggest geopolitical threat currently facing the globe. And America needs to step up to deal with that threat.  He says, “American interests in the world are Americans' physical security, our freedom and our prosperity. What is the chief danger of that? Well, by far it's China, and it's China dominating Asia in particular.” Colby joins the show to discuss what makes China so dangerous, and what steps America must take to neutralize the threat. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The Justice Department wants to review the documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. The Ukraine military makes some large strategic advances against Russia.  Authorities found 22 pounds of fentanyl during a drug bust in Forsyth County, North Carolina.  America’s debt clock is ticking faster and approaching $31 trillion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Woke corporations are increasingly embracing the left’s political agenda and taking aim at the values we as conservatives cherish. So what can we do about it? Matt Peterson is cofounder of New Founding, president of New Founding Media, and host of "The Matthew Peterson Show." He’s fighting back against woke corporations and joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to tell us about New Founding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Justice Neil Gorsuch says he hopes there will be news soon regarding who leaked the Dobbs draft decision back in May. Podcast Movement apologizes to conservative news site The Daily Wire following backlash over how it treated Ben Shapiro. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges Europe in the face of rising energy prices from Europe Brigham Young University reports there was no evidence to confirm a black Duke women’s volleyball player’s allegation that she was racially harassed at a game last month after concluding an investigation into the matter.  Oberlin College says it will pay small family owned Gibson’s Bakery nearly $37 million after the school lost a defamation lawsuit that began in 2016. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Conservatism has a long and storied history. It evolved with various times and places, and adapted to fit the needs of rising generations. But one thing has remained consistent in conservatism throughout the ages, says Yoram Hazony, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. Conservatism and religion are inextricably linked, Hazony says. He defines conservatism as "a political standpoint that regards the national religious traditions as the key to maintaining and to strengthening a nation" and says that American conservatives need to reawaken to that reality. Hazony joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss his new book "Conservatism: A Rediscovery" and explain why religion can't be separated from conservatism.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: The British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II dies. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announces it has finalized a regulation that would pull back public-charge immigration rules instituted under President Trump. Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declares an emergency over incoming illegal migrants and creates a new Office of Migrant Services to handle new arrivals.  Former White House Chief Strategist under President Trump Steve Bannon pleads not guilty on money laundering, conspiracy, and fraud charges filed by the State of New York over an alleged scheme to defraud donors who thought they were helping build the US-Mexico Border Wall. Las Vegas police arrest Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who previously ran as a Democrat for his position, in connection with the murder of investigative journalist Jeff German, after Telles' DNA was found at the scene of the crime. The Department of the Interior announces it had finalized replacement names for more than 600 public places that used the anti-Native American slur “squaw.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.