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Majority Support Trump’s Deportation of Non-Criminal Migrants

Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel is reaffirming her commitment to defending Michigan’s state sovereignty. As National Guard deployments continue in other states, Nessel cautions that Michigan could soon face similar action, adding that her office is prepared to respond to what she perceives as a threat to the state.

According to her recent interview with CBS News Detroit, Nessel says she’s ready to file a lawsuit to block what she views as blatant federal overreach by the Trump administration – potentially adding yet another case to the more than 30 lawsuits she’s already pursued or joined against the president.

Trump has been deploying, and attempting to deploy, the National Guard to Democrat-led cities struggling with surging crime, aiming to protect citizens from both domestic criminals and illegal immigrants. Click here to read more.

 

Family’s cat joins their vacation after riding 100 miles on van’s roof

KITTANNING, Pa.- A Pennsylvania family’s vacation plans changed to include their cat when they found him on the roof of their van after driving 100 miles from home.

The Denardo family was all ready for their big trip to New Hampshire for a marathon then on to New York City. They said their goodbyes to their pets and locked up the house, but little did they know, one family member had a secret plan: Ray Ray the cat had no intention of being left behind.

As the family’s van rolled out of Kittanning, Pennsylvania, climbed hills and sped down Interstate 80 at 70 miles per hour, Ray Ray was there with them – on the roof.

“We had driven for two hours and needed to stop for gas,” Mara Denardo said. “My husband gets out of the car to pump the gas and is like, ‘The cat is on the roof.’” Click here to read more.

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The First Amendment Applies to the Doctor’s Office, Too

CLEVELAND, OH - The First Amendment protects more than our right to criticize our leaders. It also protects our livelihoods, and sometimes even our very lives. A case scheduled to be heard next week before the Supreme Court may decide whether the government can shut off that lifeline. The Court should side with freedom.

Free speech saved Jun Abell’s life. At 18 months old, Jun’s parents learned he had a rare and deadly brain tumor. Jun’s dad plunged into a feverish phone campaign, calling every pediatric oncologist in the country he could find. Finally, he ran across Shannon MacDonald, a doctor in Massachusetts. Dr. MacDonald specializes in proton therapy, an innovative treatment that could give Jun a fighting chance.

Jun’s family lived in New York, so they consulted with Dr. MacDonald via telehealth. Thankfully, unlike many states, New York law does not forbid telehealth visits between New York patients and out-of-state practitioners. Click here to read more.

 

Virginia: ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Alien Pedophile Convicted of Identity Theft

Virginia: ICE Agents Arrest Illegal Alien Pedophile Convicted of Identity Theft

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John Binder

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien pedophile in the state of Virginia who has an extensive criminal record.

Last month, ICE agents arrested 36-year-old illegal alien David Ambrosio-Herrera of Mexico in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ambrosio-Herrera is a registered sex offender after having been convicted of indecent liberties with a child under 15 years old.

In October 2024, Ambrosio-Herrera was arrested by the Albemarle County Police Department after he exposed himself to a child at a school bus stop. Last month, Ambrosio-Herrera was convicted of those charges and sentenced to six years in prison, but the court suspended all six years of the sentence.

As Ambrosio-Herrera was exiting the courthouse, ICE agents arrested him. He attempted to flee the scene but was apprehended and will remain in federal custody pending deportation. Click here to read more.

 

Social media must warn users of ‘profound’ health risks under new California law

SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a law mandating health warning labels for social media, making California the latest U.S. state to wield a rule originally designed to curb tobacco addiction as a digital safety feature.

The new law is part of a national push to combat social media’s potential health risks that has grown since former President Joe Biden’s surgeon general first advocated the labels. Recent research has linked the technology to increased anxiety, body dysmorphia and sleep interruption in children, among other impacts.

Newsom said “some truly horrific and tragic examples of young people harmed by unregulated tech” factored into his decision to approve warning labels, alongside other online safety policies, including digital age-checks and artificial intelligence chatbot controls. Click here to read more.

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Majority Support Trump’s Deportation of Non-Criminal Migrants

Two new polls show a solid majority supporting President Donald Trump’s policy of deporting economic migrants, including migrants not guilty of additional crimes.

Just one in four Americans strongly oppose the policy, which is helping to shift opportunities and wealth back to younger Americans and their families.

The New York Times poll asked 1313 registered people if they approve of Trump’s policy of “Deporting immigrants living in the United States illegally back to their home countries.”

Fifty-four percent approved, including 38 percent who strongly approve.

But just 24 percent — or one-in-four — strongly disapprove of the opportunity program. That bloc includes 25 percent of independents, one percent of Trump voters, and 43 percent of voters who backed Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024

The New York Times poll was conducted September 22-27. Click here to read more.

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Chicago Teachers Union pays for audit, doesn’t let members see it

The Chicago Teachers Union’s annual reporting with the U.S. Department of Labor shows it has been paying accountants to conduct its audits.

But it hasn’t released those “annual” audits in over five years.

CTU is required by its own internal rules to provide an audit of its finances every year. But it hasn’t done so since Sept. 9, 2020.

The union reported to the U.S. Department of Labor that it did have an outside auditor conduct an audit in 2025 and that the cost totaled nearly $80,000.

A spokesperson for Roblox said in a statement to The National News Desk that the lawsuit is based on information that’s outdated and taken out of context. Click here to read more.

CTU’s internal rules are clear: an annual audit must be performed and published each year.

Specifically, the CTU financial secretary is required in union bylaws to “furnish an audited report of the Union which shall be printed in the Union’s publication.” Click here to read more.

 

5-year-old girl ‘unrecognizable’ after alleged beating by group of kids, mother says

CLEVELAND -An investigation is ongoing after an Ohio mother reported her 5-year-old daughter was beaten, assaulted and scalped. Police say the suspects are under the age of 10.

Antavia Kennibrew says she found her 5-year-old daughter beaten and abused. For her daughter’s safety, the mother is not sharing the girl’s name but describes her as bubbly and sweet.

“I literally saw the worst thing ever! I saw my daughter unrecognizable,” Kennibrew said. “I couldn’t wrap my head around it.”

The mother says she dropped her daughter off Sept. 13 at a family member’s home in Cleveland. Somehow, the 5-year-old walked out the front door and was allegedly badly beaten by a group of kids.

When Kennibrew found out, she rushed over and saw EMS treating her daughter several blocks over. Click here to read more.

 

‘This B**** Needs To Die’: New Jersey School Board Candidate Threatens Conservative Rival

MARLBORO TWP, NJ - A text scandal has hit a New Jersey school board race, culminating in two candidates running on a largely liberal platform dropping out of the race.

Conservative mother of three and Marlboro Township school board member Danielle Bellomo was revealed to be the target of school board candidate Scott Semaya, according to a snapped image of his phone. Semaya apparently texted about Bellomo’s “n*ps” being hard in a group text called “ThisB****NeedsToDie.”

“Bellomo must be cold — her nips could cut glass right n–” one message allegedly being typed by Semaya said.

Chad Hyett, the Marlboro school board vice president, was allegedly in the group chat, as well as the husband of a board member.

According to Bellomo, who spoke to the New York Post, those weren’t the only nasty messages shared about her. Some of the messages included “very specific actions that they want to do to me and what their intention is,” she said. Click here to read more.

 

Gun rights groups gear up to fight restrictions after appeals court clears open carry

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida gun rights advocates are mobilizing against what they describe as a stealth effort by Republican lawmakers to impose new restrictions on open carry, weeks after an appellate court ruling overturned the state’s decades-old ban on openly displaying firearms.

Executive Director of Florida Gun Rights Logan Edge told Florida’s Voice his organization is “going full steam ahead” to generate opposition during the pre-session committee weeks after hearing “rumblings” from legislators and state attorney offices about efforts to limit the court’s decision.

“It’s the Republicans [who are seeking restrictions],” Edge said, noting he was “not surprised in the slightest” given the legislature’s history of fighting open carry, including excluding it from the 2023 constitutional carry bill. Click here to read more.

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan’s effort to overhaul its K–12 health education standards has ignited a political and cultural firestorm, with critics accusing the state of embedding gender and diversity ideology into required coursework that parents cannot opt their children out of.

The proposed Health Education Standards Framework, released in September by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), is the first such update since 2007. Officials say the changes modernize lessons on mental health, substance abuse, relationships, and wellness to match contemporary realities. But parental rights groups, editorial voices, and political candidates warn the revisions cross a line, blurring the boundary between required health instruction and elective sex education, and undermining state laws that guarantee families opt-out rights.

The Michigan Department of Education is taking comments from the public at this link up until midnight on October 10.

What the draft would change

The framework expands instruction across multiple areas:

• Mental and emotional health: More emphasis on resilience, coping skills, and social-emotional learning.

• Healthy relationships and sexuality: Lessons on consent, gender identity, sexual orientation, and inclusive language.

• Substance use: Updates covering vaping, prescription misuse, and harm reduction.

• Personal health, safety, and wellness: Broader connections between health, community, and environment.

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According to the draft, students as young as middle school would learn to “apply a decision-making process” to “sexual relationships” and discuss “consent or non-consent.” By high school, students would be expected to support programs that “promote respect for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.”

Supporters say the update reflects national health standards and aims to be “culturally responsive.” Critics call it a blueprint for embedding sexual and gender identity instruction in mandatory health classes, circumventing the statutory rules that govern sex education.

Critics: “A back-door effort”

Kaitlyn Buss, editorial page editor for the Detroit News, blasted the plan in a recent column. She described it as “an identity agenda, beginning in the earliest grades, marked by wholly inappropriate instruction on gender fluidity, sex and relationships as the students age into middle school.”

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Buss argued the framework “folds sexually centered guidelines into regular K–12 health classes” that are separate from elective sex education under Michigan law. “What the Education Department is planning is a back-door effort to enact stalled legislation … that would have rewritten sex ed language and allowed contraception to be given out at schools,” she wrote.

The editorial cited passages directing middle schoolers to role-play discussions about consent and affection. “What does it look like in practice for a teacher to role-play ‘non-consent’ to a classroom of middle schoolers? The possibilities for harm are endless,” Buss wrote.

She warned that the draft encourages students to become LGBTQ activists and “subject them to inappropriate, sexually explicit instruction,” concluding: “These aren’t topics that need to be explored in a school setting, regardless of the available opt-outs. The State Board of Education should reject Rice’s proposed changes outright.”

Faith and advocacy groups echo concerns

Faith-based advocacy organizations share those worries. Katherine Bussard of Salt & Light Global said the state has been “misleading and dishonest” in describing how opt-outs would apply.

“Health class is mandatory K–12. Sex education courses are separate, with different statutes that include opt-out provisions,” Bussard wrote. “Teaching content related to sex education in health class is still health class, governed by health class laws.”

She pointed to Michigan’s compulsory attendance laws, warning that parents who withheld their children from mandatory health classes could face truancy or other penalties.

Political voices: parental rights under threat

Republican attorney general candidate Kevin Kijewski called the proposal “a blatant overreach” that undermines parental authority. “The Michigan State Board of Education wants to strip away parents’ rights to opt their children out of lessons on gender and sexual identity that have no place in our schools without transparency and consent,” he said in a message to supporters.

Kijewski urged residents to submit public comments before the October 10 deadline, vowing to launch a Division of Parental and Student Rights if elected.

The state’s defense: modernization and local control

MDE officials insist nothing in the draft changes parental rights under Michigan law. “In Michigan, parents can opt out of sex education programs,” spokesperson Bob Wheaton said. “General health education is a graduation requirement under Michigan law. Sex education is not mandated, with the exception of instruction about HIV, which since 2004 has been mandated by state law.”

Former Superintendent Michael Rice, who retired October 3, defended the revisions as necessary to reflect “current trends, terminology, and best practices.” He said the standards would make instruction “more culturally responsive” and align Michigan with national benchmarks.

The department emphasizes that local districts will decide how to implement sexual health content, guided by sex education advisory boards made up of at least 50 percent parents.

Legal backdrop

Michigan law separates health education and sex education:

• MCL 380.1170 and related statutes make health education mandatory for all K–12 students and part of the Michigan Merit Curriculum.

• MCL 380.1507 governs sex education, requiring parental notice, advisory board review, and opt-out rights.

Critics argue that by embedding topics like gender identity and sexual orientation into health courses, the state effectively bypasses opt-out protections designed for sex education.

District challenges

Even if adopted, the framework leaves practical hurdles:

• Curriculum adoption: Districts must decide how to meet standards while balancing community concerns.

• Teacher training: Instructors may need preparation to handle sensitive discussions on identity and consent.

• Transparency: Schools will have to manage parental requests for review and potential opt-outs.

• Community alignment: Districts in conservative areas may face pushback, board fights, or lawsuits.

What’s next

Public comment on the draft standards closes at midnight October 10. The State Board of Education will then review feedback before voting on final adoption. Newly appointed Superintendent Glenn Maleyko is expected to play a pivotal role in deciding whether to continue Rice’s approach or modify it.

Lawmakers are already signaling their own response. The House is expected to introduce a resolution opposing the framework, setting the stage for further clashes in Lansing.

Regardless of the outcome, the controversy has already ensured that health education will be a flashpoint in Michigan’s education and political debates, pitting parental rights against calls for more inclusive instru