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    Jack Smith Forced to Explain ‘Enemies List’ of Congressional Phone Records

    Lawmakers grilled former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday for scooping up phone records of members of Congress while concealing his targets from a judge. Smith testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee after giving a private deposition last month regarding his nearly two-year probe of then-former President Donald Trump. Smith’s investigation focused on alleged…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Sues JPMorgan Chase, Bank Says

    REUTERS—U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on accusations of debanking, the largest U.S. lender said in a statement on Thursday. Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, filed the $5 billion lawsuit Thursday morning in Florida state court in Miami on behalf of the president and several of his hospitality companies, a Fox…
    Manya Saini
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    House Members Hail Return to ‘Regular Order’ in Funding

    On Thursday, Congress could take a step toward restoring a now old-fashioned way of funding the government while eliminating a spending policy from President Joe Biden’s administration. The House will consider its final batch of appropriations bills for fiscal year 2026 to fund several federal agencies. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday…
    George Caldwell
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    Virginia Could Lose Surprising Number of Republican Seats in Congress

    Virginia’s new Democrat-controlled government could pursue a redistricting effort that could wipe out four of the five Republican congressional seats heading into the midterms. Newly-minted Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger is backing the effort “100%.” Democrats are pushing a redistricting effort that could change Virginia’s congressional representation from six Democrats and five Republicans to 10 Democrats and one Republican. House Republicans already have…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Ringleaders of Anti-ICE Church Invasion Arrested

    Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that law enforcement had arrested some of the agitators who invaded a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. “Minutes ago at my direction [Homeland Security Investigations] and [FBI] agents executed an arrest in Minnesota,” Bondi posted on X Thursday morning. “So far, we have arrested Nekima Levy…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Scrutinizes Vast Sum of COVID-19 Funding for Planned Parenthood

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration is reviewing whether Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally received $88 million in loans during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Daily Signal can first report. “At the height of the pandemic, affiliates of Planned Parenthood took $88 million in taxpayer dollars to fund their abortion-on-demand agenda—and the Biden…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    17 House Republicans Cave on Subsidies While California Loots Medicaid

    Seventeen House Republicans gave California Democrats a late Christmas present this month when they crossed the aisle to vote for extending enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies for another three years. Not only did they move these massive handouts one step closer to permanent entitlement status, but they failed to advance reforms that would actually lower health…
    Vance Ginn
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    Justices Unanimously Hold That Restitution Under Victim Act Is Part of the Punishment

    Victims of crime, especially violent crime, are not mere witnesses. They have a special status under state and federal law and are entitled to certain rights, including the right to be heard, to be treated fairly, and in some cases, to get restitution. Until Tuesday, it was an open question of whether the restitution owed…
    Cully Stimson
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    From Rock to Tech, Talent Flees Taxes

    California Democrats should listen to The Rolling Stones. The band famously fled England in the 1970s, heading into tax exile in the south of France. Mick Jagger and his mates weren’t alone—a generation of rock royalty abandoned the U.K. because of its steep taxes: David Bowie opted for Switzerland; Rod Stewart went to California. “We…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    MAGA Baby Boom? Vance Baby News Takes Internet by Storm

    For the first time in more than 150 years, the second family is growing. On Tuesday afternoon, Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance announced that she is pregnant with her fourth child, a boy, due at the end of July. The Vances referred to this pregnancy as “this exciting and hectic time”…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Minneapolis ‘Protesters’ Must Be Prosecuted

    First Amendment freedoms are sacrosanct—especially the right to gather together and worship God.  But over Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Minneapolis/St. Paul anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters and their supporters perversely invoked the First Amendment to justify desecrating a house of worship and interfering with others’ First Amendment rights. While congregants of Cities Church—a…
    Zack Smith
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    As ICE Begins Crackdown in Maine, Where Might the Next Target Be?

    The Department of Homeland Security announced “Operation Catch of the Day” on Wednesday, with federal immigration agents arriving in Maine to find and arrest criminal illegal aliens. The agency noted that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already arrested criminal illegal aliens convicted of endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated assault.   “We have launched…
    Virginia Allen
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    These Democrats Voted To Hold Clintons in Contempt for Obstructing Epstein Probe

    The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to send a contempt of Congress citation against former President Bill Clinton to the House floor, for not cooperating with the probe into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  The vote to hold former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt for her failure to…
    Fred Lucas
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    What We Know of the Rumored ‘Sonic Weapon’ in Maduro Capture

    Use of a “sonic weapon” in the overnight capture of a country’s leader might sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but experts confirm that sort of technology exists. U.S. military use of sound as a non-lethal weapon “is credible” and “has been demonstrated,” according to Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow at…
    Virginia Allen
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    EXCLUSIVE: Linda McMahon Explains Why Department Paused Involuntary Student Loan Collection

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education paused involuntary collection of defaulted student loans, but Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told The Daily Signal the process will restart “sooner rather than later.” McMahon said the department delayed the plan to garnish wages from defaulted borrowers in order to create time to make people aware…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Life Just Got Harder and More Expensive’ in Virginia Less Than 1 Week Into Spanberger’s Term

    Only one week into the new Democrat-led legislative session in Virginia and Democrats are proposing tax hikes and a policy that is expected to cost households over $1,000 per year. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Democrats won their elections in November 2025 because of their promises to make Virginia more affordable. Spanberger was sworn in as…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Celebrate Its Demise

    Fifty-three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of its most consequential and controversial decisions: Roe v. Wade. That Jan. 22, 1973, decision would not make it to its 50th birthday. Its victims, an estimated 63 million of them, however, would never reach the age of 1. As a result of the decision…
    Rebecca Downs
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    America Just Hit a New Record, But Not a Good One

    The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 22. America has hit another record, but it’s not a good one. Last year, the median age…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Virginia Democrats Quickly Proving That ‘Affordability’ Pivot Is a Farce

    Remember when Democrats spent an entire election cycle talking about “affordability” as if that’s all they care about now? Well, if you bought that, then there’s a socialist mayor in New York who’s got a bridge to sell you. But New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t actually the one completely blowing up the affordability farce,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    In Bipartisan Votes, House Panel Advances Clintons’ Contempt Citations

    In bipartisan votes, the House committee investigating convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein advanced contempt of Congress citations against former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton for their failure to testify in the inquiry.  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday on the citations after the former president and former secretary of state refused…
    Fred Lucas
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