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    Vance Anti-Fraud Effort Adds Major Enforcer

    The Senate confirmed an experienced federal prosecutor, Colin McDonald, Tuesday afternoon to act as the Justice Department’s anti-fraud division lead. In a party-line vote, McDonald was confirmed 52-47 to be the first assistant attorney general for national fraud enforcement at the DOJ. McDonald will work with Vice President JD Vance, whom President Donald Trump named the White House “fraud czar” to lead a new task force…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Proposed ‘Trump Wildlife Preserve’ Draws Strong Reactions

    A wildlife preserve in Ohio could be the latest government-run facility to bear the president’s name, but not in the way one might expect. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently unveiled a proposed rule to rename the “Charles O. Trump Wildlife Preserve” to the “Trump Wildlife Preserve.” The 128-acre area located in Pickaway County…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Consent Decree Marks Final Defeat of ‘Orwellian’ Biden ‘Censorship Regime’

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, federal health agencies and the White House under President Joe Biden pressured social media companies to censor speech that contradicted the federal government’s narrative, but two Republican attorneys general secured a consent decree Tuesday that will prevent the government from returning to that “Orwellian” strategy. “It was absolutely Orwellian,” Louisiana Attorney…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Demands More From NATO as Gulf States ‘Hit So Hard’ 

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday continued his call for more NATO assistance in the Middle East.  When asked by The Daily Signal’s White House Correspondent Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell if he wanted the Gulf States to be more involved in the ongoing operation against Iran, Trump said, “A little bit, but more—more NATO.”   “I think our Gulf allies have been pretty good, to be honest with…
    Reagan Campbell
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    South Carolina Lawmakers Must Protect Parent Rights. Here’s What Families Need to Know.

    It happened again: A parent, this one in South Carolina, has accused teachers at her child’s school of hiding information about him from his family. Fortunately, state lawmakers are considering a proposal to protect parents from educators who insert a wedge between them and their children. Members of the state’s House of Representatives have advanced…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    White House Reveals New Strategy to Require Voter ID

    The Trump administration wants to use the process of reconciliation to move the SAVE America Act through the Senate, new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said in response to a question from The Daily Signal.  “There’s a framework that we can do through reconciliation, paying for, putting some of the policies that cost money…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Pesticides and the Fight for America’s Health

    “You cannot have human health until you first have soil health,” says Rick Clark, a fifth-generation regenerative farmer.  Clark joined public health and public policy experts Monday at The Heritage Foundation to discuss “Feeding America Safely: A Practical Path Forward on Pesticides.”  The discussion focused on the importance of openness and transparency, the negative effects of pesticide residues in…
    Paul Nguyen
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The New Democratic Party

    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 all practical purposes, there is no longer a Democratic Party, at least as we’ve known it for 50 to 100 years….
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Critical Swing State Poll Shows Trump Retains High Support Among Base

    Ahead of the 2026 midterms, polling from a critical swing state found that President Donald Trump is retaining a vast majority of his voting base. A new League of American Workers survey showed that 85% of Wisconsin voters who voted for Trump in 2024 remain favorable of the president after he announced the commencement of…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Republicans Pitch Trump on Funding All of DHS But Deportations

    A group of Republican senators is pitching President Donald Trump on a plan to fund part of the currently shutdown Department of Homeland Security, while allowing for a future party-line budget bill to cover deportations later. Republicans already acceded to Democrat demands in February, when they agreed to separate the DHS funding bill from a…
    George Caldwell
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    Pentagon to Deploy 82nd Airborne to Middle East  

    The Pentagon is expected to send a combat team from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, according to multiple reports.   The elite 82nd Airborne Division is known for its rapid deployment, and “secures key objectives for follow-on military operations in support of U.S. national interests,” the Army states.   The move follows…
    Virginia Allen
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    Champagne Socialists Descend on Cuba to Virtue Signal Solidarity With Tyrants

    The sputtering Castro-ist regime in Cuba has managed to stick to its communist roots. It’s doing this by ensuring that while everyone is “equal,” foreign stooges and social influencers willing to spread propaganda for the regime are treated more equally than others. That’s a time-honored, socialist tradition. Over the weekend a junket of various activists…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Democrat Governor Celebrates Ramadan at Hamas-Linked Mosque

    New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, celebrated Ramadan at a mosque whose co-founder was convicted of funneling money to Hamas and with an imam who faced deportation proceedings over alleged Hamas ties. This imam also called for a “new intifada.” “Thank you to the Islamic Center of Passaic County for welcoming me to join…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Documents Shed New Light on How Far the ‘Arctic Frost’ Probe Reached

    Newly released Justice Department documents provide details on former special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenas for phone records of current administration officials and members of Congress. The documents were made public shortly before a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, titled “Arctic Frost: A Modern Watergate.” They reveal…
    Fred Lucas
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    Taxpayers Forced to Fund University Drag Shows

    My brother is being forced to pay for a drag queen performance. At the University of South Carolina Beaufort campus, my brother (Jesse speaking here), freshman Joshua Castrinos, was leaving his rhetoric and composition class when he noticed a flyer on the bulletin board for a drag queen bingo show: The show is being sponsored…
    Jesse Castrinos
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    EXCLUSIVE: Congress Probes Role of Left-Leaning Groups in Census Miscounts

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House is seeking more information about the Census Bureau’s partnership with left-leaning organizations ahead of the 2020 census, during which it potentially incorrectly awarded Democrat congressional districts and Electoral College votes. House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote Tuesday to acting Census Bureau Director George Cook seeking…
    Fred Lucas
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    Delta Suspends Special Services for Congress Amid Shutdown

    Amid a five-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has led to reduced airport staffing, Delta Air Lines is suspending special services for members of Congress. The airline’s special desk at airports enables members to bypass the public queue to arrange travel between Washington, D.C., and their homes. “Due to the impact on resources from…
    George Caldwell
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    Paul Ehrlich’s Failed Doomsday Predictions Expose the Media’s Climate Alarmism Double Standard

    When Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich appeared on “60 Minutes” in 2023, he warned that humanity was on an unsustainable path and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.” He explicitly linked overpopulation and consumption to climate disruption, claiming it was already killing people.  Ehrlich recently…
    Frank Lasee
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    A Tariff Ceasefire in Time of War Would Help Everybody

    TOWNHALL—Iran’s efforts to close the Strait of Hormuz have made gas prices rise to the point where they may threaten President Donald Trump’s affordability agenda. Whether the closure is short or long, consumers are feeling the pain, just as the latest economic figures show an economy that is sputtering and can use a boost.  But…
    EJ Antoni
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    EXCLUSIVE: Texas Lawmakers Demand GOP Fight for Stronger Child Protections Against AI

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A bipartisan group of 20 Texas state senators wrote a letter to the state’s U.S. senators demanding stronger protections for children online. The coalition says that a U.S. House bill meant to protect kids online is too weak. The Energy and Commerce Committee recently marked up the Kids Internet and Digital…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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