Department of Education to Probe Athletic Program Allowing Transgender Females to Compete With Girls

Plus: Voter ID Opponents Lose Again. This Time in North Dakota.

Aug 09, 2019   Good morning from Washington, where the Department of Education enters the fray over transgender athletes in high school sports for girls. Carmel Kookogey reports. What do House Democrats want with Trump's former White House counsel? Kevin Daley smells an impeachment effort. Let Kaylee Greenlee introduce you to the new ambassador to the U.N. On the podcast, a former terrorist explains his new mission. Plus: Hans von Spakovsky on a victory for clean elections, and Ben Shapiro on standing together when madmen strike. On this date in 1974, Gerald Ford becomes president when Richard Nixon resigns. Enjoy the weekend.     News Department of Education to Probe Athletic Program Allowing Transgender Females to Compete With Girls The agency's Office for Civil Rights opens an investigation into whether female high school athletes are discriminated against because Connecticut allows males who identify as females to compete with the girls. More Commentary Voter ID Opponents Lose Again. This Time in North Dakota. Advocates of election integrity win the latest in a long string of cases as a three-judge appeals panel reinstates North Dakota's voter ID requirement and tosses out an injunction issued by a lower court. More News House Democrats Hope to Force Former White House Counsel to Testify A House committee takes a step toward impeachment proceedings against the president by filing a lawsuit in federal court to force former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify. More Analysis Youngest Person in US Prosecuted for Terrorism Now Fights Islamist Extremism At 15, Mohammed Khalid became the youngest person in America to be prosecuted as a terrorist. Don't miss his story of what happened next. More News ICE Arrests 680 Illegal Immigrants in Biggest Raid in Decades Roughly 600 special agents were involved in the operation, spreading out to plants owned by five different companies. More News 5 Things to Know About Our New UN Ambassador Kentucky's Kelly Knight Craft replaces the popular Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, in the U.N. post. More News Employee Accuses Google of Discriminating Against Pregnant Women A memo by the unnamed Google employee, who says she won't return from maternity leave, has been read by over 10,000 fellow workers at the tech giant after going viral on internal message boards. More Special Feature 13 Photos of a Presidential Visit to Comfort Shooting Survivors Here are some of the photos capturing the emotional trips by the president and first lady to Texas and Ohio. More Commentary Why Can't We Unify in the Face of Evil? When a white supremacist terrorist shoots up a Walmart filled with innocents in El Paso, Texas, we should all be on the same side. More           The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.

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