Month: February 2023

PREMIERING NOW: Ian Rowe: We’re Handicapping Children With Victimhood Narratives Instead of Teaching Them How to Succeed

“If you say that there’s structural racism, institutional racism, systemic racism, then I have to insist on one other kind of racism. And that is surmountable racism,” says Ian Rowe, co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-focused, International Baccalaureate high schools in the Bronx. Prior to this, he was CEO of the…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Ian Rowe: We’re Handicapping Children With Victimhood Narratives Instead of Teaching Them How to Succeed

“If you say that there’s structural racism, institutional racism, systemic racism, then I have to insist on one other kind of racism. And that is surmountable racism,” says Ian Rowe, co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-focused, International Baccalaureate high schools in the Bronx. Prior to this, he was CEO of the…


House Committee Testimony Highlights How Border Policy Failures Are Driving America’s Fentanyl Crisis

Poignant testimony delivered during a Feb. 28 Congressional hearing on the U.S. border crisis brought legislators to a firm conclusion: failed or ineffective immigration policies are directly fueling America’s drug crisis. “Our country faces record fatalities from drug overdoses, eclipsing 100,000 deaths, 71,000 from synthetic opioids alone,” Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said during the hearing….


Supreme Court Slashes IRS Penalty Against Taxpayer for Not Reporting Foreign Bank Accounts

The Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in a fractured opinion on Feb. 28 that the IRS imposed an excessive fine on a businessman for failing to report foreign bank accounts, reducing the financial penalty from $2.72 million to $50,000. The decision came after the U.S. House of Representatives, now controlled by Republicans, voted in January to…


NTD Evening News (Feb. 28): SCOTUS Skeptical of Biden Student Loan Cancellation Plan; Pentagon Officials Testify on Ukraine Aid

During oral arguments on Feb. 28, conservative members of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical of Biden administration statements that the government’s plan to partially forgive student loans is authorized by federal law. The Defense Department’s inspector general and other Pentagon officials testified on oversight of U.S. military aid to Ukraine before the House Armed Services…


LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (Feb. 28): SCOTUS Skeptical of Biden Student Loan Cancellation Plan; Pentagon Officials Testify on Ukraine Aid

During oral arguments on Feb. 28, conservative members of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical of Biden administration statements that the government’s plan to partially forgive student loans is authorized by federal law. The Defense Department’s inspector general and other Pentagon officials testified on oversight of U.S. military aid to Ukraine before the House Armed Services…


LIVE 6:30 PM ET: NTD Evening News (Feb. 28): SCOTUS Skeptical of Biden Student Loan Cancellation Plan; Pentagon Officials Testify on Ukraine Aid

During oral arguments on Feb. 28, conservative members of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical of Biden administration statements that the government’s plan to partially forgive student loans is authorized by federal law. The Defense Department’s inspector general and other Pentagon officials testified on oversight of U.S. military aid to Ukraine before the House Armed Services…


Lawmaker Sees ‘Moonshot Moment’ for All-Out Effort to Propel US Tech, Fight China Threat

While fending off Chinese efforts to steal American technology remains top-of-mind, some lawmakers are excited about the recent scientific breakthrough involving fusion energy. “It feels like this is a moonshot moment for us,” U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) told fellow members of a congressional committee examining China’s technology threat. U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), in an undated…


Pennsylvania Unseals Search Warrant in Idaho College Killings

STROUDSBURG, Pa.—Law enforcement officials seized dark clothing, medical gloves, a flashlight, and other items from a Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death, according to newly unsealed court documents. The records were made public Tuesday, two months after Pennsylvania State Police arrested Bryan Kohberger…


North Korean Refugee Who Became Best-Selling Author: ‘Only in Capitalism Is My Story Possible’

Commentary In 2022 I had the opportunity to attend a two-day conference in Colorado hosted by the Objective Standard Institute. While there were many powerful speakers, the one whose story captivated me the most was that of Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector who in 2007 managed to escape her totalitarian country at age 13…