Trump Promotes More Jobs for Americans … at the UN

The Daily Signal
July 31, 2018

Good afternoon from Washington, where due to technical issues, your Morning Bell is arriving this afternoon. We apologize. In today's newsletter, we cover that President Trump is pressing the United Nations to employ more U.S. citizens, and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is assembling a team to defend religious liberty. Fred Lucas has both stories. The Justice Department is right to say "illegal aliens," Hans von Spakovsky argues. Some University of Virginia alums have the back of a Trump administration veteran. Katherine Rohloff reports. Who is killing Catholics in Nicaragua? Ana Quintana explains on the podcast. Plus: Genevieve Wood talks on camera with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

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Trump Promotes More Jobs for Americans … at the UN

The Trump administration is trying to secure more jobs for American citizens in the United Nations bureaucracy, as a recent State Department report finds woeful underrepresentation even though the United States contributes more to the world body than any other government.

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Commentary

'Undocumented Immigrant' Is a Made-Up Term That Ignores the Law

The news media are reporting that an internal email at the Justice Department has reminded its lawyers that the legally correct term they should be using in their briefs is "illegal alien," not the euphemism "undocumented immigrant."

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What Jeff Sessions' New Task Force Will Do to Defend Religious Freedom

"A dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom," says Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

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Sean Spicer's Candid Thoughts on His 6 Months as White House Press Secretary

"My skepticism of the media changed significantly. I thought that I had known a lot of these individuals over the years, and I was ... taken back by the level of vitriol," says Spicer.

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Commentary

The Crisis in Nicaragua, Explained

"The government started … massively repressing students because that's who were essentially leading the opposition movements. And they started essentially slaughtering students at universities, started slaughtering members of the Catholic Church," says The Heritage Foundation's Ana Quintana. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript.

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U.Va. Alumni Back Disputed Hiring of White House Aide

Eleven prominent members of the University of Virginia's alumni network released a letter Monday expressing support for President Trump's former legislative director, Marc Short, whose hiring as a scholar at a presidential center affiliated with the university is under partisan fire.

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Commentary

We Are Living Amid the Greatest Hysteria in American History

There have been conspiracy theories throughout American history. But this is the first time the media have created and promoted a conspiracy.

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Man Changes Gender to Save on Car Insurance

After finding out that if he were a woman he would save 1,100 Canadian dollars on his car insurance, one man decided to start identifying legally as a woman.

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