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BREAKING: Trump Taps Key Cabinet Official to Take Control of DC Police
President Donald Trump is placing Washington, D.C., law enforcement under federal control. “This is ‘Liberation Day’ in D.C.,” Trump told the press in a Monday briefing, “and we’re going to take our capital back.” “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs, and… -
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BREAKING: ‘New Evidence’ Exposes Obama Administration’s Alleged Involvement in Russiagate
New evidence has come to light in what is the “most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history,” Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, announced Wednesday morning. Under the direction of President Donald Trump, Gabbard said she has declassified a House Intelligence Committee report “that exposes how the Obama administration manufactured the… -
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Trump Makes ‘Experts’ Eat Their Words With Record-Breaking 3 Weeks
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Everyone is talking about President Donald Trump’s big last three weeks in praise. I mean, after… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Allows Trump’s ‘Transformation of the Federal Bureaucracy’ to Proceed
The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a district judge’s injunction blocking President Donald Trump from carrying out a “critical transformation of the federal bureaucracy.” Trump signed Executive Order 14210 on Feb. 11, implementing the Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative. On Feb. 26, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel… -
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Senate Passes Big, Beautiful Bill in Tie-Breaking Vote
After weeks of negotiations, the Senate has passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a 10-year fiscal package that would serve as the vehicle for fulfilling President Donald Trump’s campaign promises on tax cuts and border security. Despite intra-party debates on overall deficit levels, health care reform, and how to undo former President Joe Biden’s environmental… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Courts Applying Universal Injunctions
The Supreme Court struck down a lower court injunction blocking the Trump administration’s executive order on birthright citizenship, laying out clear rules for courts utilizing universal injunctions going forward. The case, Trump v. CASA, concerns universal injunctions that lower court judges have ordered pausing President Donald Trump’s order interpreting the 14th Amendment as not guaranteeing… -
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BREAKING: Iran Launches Missiles at US Military Base in Middle East
The Islamic Republic of Iran launched missiles against at least one U.S. military base in the Middle East Monday in retaliation for the U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities over the weekend, according to news reports. Qatari forces announced that the missiles had been intercepted with no loss of life. “I can confirm that al… -
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BREAKING: Trump Announces Bombs Dropped on Iran Nuclear Sites
President Donald Trump announced Saturday evening that the U.S. had dropped bombs on three major nuclear sites in Iran. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,” the president posted on Truth Social. “All planes are now outside of Iran air space.” “A full… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Mexico’s Attack on US Gun Manufacturers
The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Mexico's challenge to U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that they cannot be blamed for crime and cartel violence south of the border. Justice Elena Kagan delivered the unanimous opinion of the court. Justices Clarence Thomas and Kentanji Brown Jackson filed concurring opinions. Kagan ruled that because Mexico did not plausibly… -
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BREAKING: Justice Department Opens Investigation Into California for Allowing Males in Women’s Sports
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division warned California officials Wednesday that it is opening an investigation into whether the Golden State violates federal civil rights law by allowing males to compete in women’s sports. “Title IX exists to protect women and girls in education. It is perverse to allow males to compete against girls, invade… -
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‘Heartbreaking’: Young People Honor Couple Slain Outside Jewish Museum
Adrian Huizenga stood on Thursday afternoon outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., where less than 24 hours earlier, a couple—Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—were fatally shot. “It’s just so sad, just heartbreaking that … you see this rhetoric and this antisemitic violence going on that is very clearly targeting Jewish people,” Huizenga, 26,… -
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BREAKING: Mike Waltz to Be UN Ambassador
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, is getting a new role Trump announced in a post on Truth Social that he was “pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations.” From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Blocks Order Forcing Trump to Rehire 16,000 Bureaucrats
The Supreme Court stayed a lower court judge's order forcing the Trump administration to reinstate more than 16,000 probationary federal employees. The Supreme Court move will keep the employees off the payroll while lower courts resolve the underlying question of the firings' legality. In the case, the American Federation of Government Employees—the largest public sector… -
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BREAKING: Would-Be Assassin Who Targeted Supreme Court Justice Will Plead Guilty in Court
The California man who planned to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will plead guilty in federal court, his lawyers said in a Wednesday filing. Nicholas Roske, 29, who staked out near Kavanaugh’s home with weapons in 2022 before turning himself in to authorities, was set to face trial in June. The attempted assassination charge… -
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‘There’s a Lot of Reasons’: First-Time Trump Voter Explains Why 2024 Was Her Breaking Point
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Connecticut mother explained on Thursday why she voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 after casting ballots for independent candidates in 2016 and 2020. In an appearance on journalist Mark Halperin’s “2WAY Tonight” Axios’ Trump White House reporter Marc Caputo asked a woman identified as Alex when she decided she had to vote… -
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BREAKING: RFK Jr. Confirmed as HHS Chief
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by the Senate in a mostly party-line 52-48 vote Thursday morning. All 45 Senate Democrats and the two nominal independents who caucus with them voted “no.” They were joined by one Republican, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who also… -
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BREAKING: Trump Signs First Piece of Legislation as 47th President
Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday, the first piece of legislation he has signed since being sworn in as the 47th president. The law directs U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to arrest and detain illegal aliens charged with theft, assaulting a law enforcement officer, or other crimes causing death or serious bodily… -
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BREAKING: Trump Makes Key Endorsement in House Speaker Race
President-elect Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson for another round as leader of the House of Representatives Monday. Conservatives had wondered if Trump would oppose Johnson’s bid after the president-elect effectively killed the first massive spending bill to fund the government earlier this month. “We are the Party of COMMON SENSE, a primary reason… -
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BREAKING: ABC News Publishes False Information About Trump Education Nominee
On Dec. 11, ABC News’ Jay O’Brien reported false information about Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. secretary of education, on “ABC News Live Prime.” In the first minute of an eight-minute overview, O’Brien stated that McMahon has no formal education training and little experience: “If she receives Senate confirmation, McMahon, who has… -
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Here Are Times Biden, KJP Promised President Wouldn’t Pardon Hunter Before Breaking His Word
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on several occasions that Biden would not issue a pardon for his son, Hunter, prior to announcing that he had reversed his position on Sunday. Biden said in a statement released Sunday that he issued the pardon because Hunter had been “singled out” due to…