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    Marco Rubio Lays Out How Trump Admin Will Gauge Venezuelan Cooperation

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secretary of State Marco Rubio told ABC News host George Stephanopoulos on Sunday that Venezuelan cooperation would be judged by the ruling party’s actions after the arrest of the country’s president. American military forces, reportedly including the United States Army’s elite Delta Force, spearheaded the protection of a law enforcement operation which…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Has the West Given Up Protecting Its Citizens?

    Two centuries ago, gentlemen routinely carried swords or pistols to protect themselves, their families and their property. On the unlit dirt backroads of England or colonial America, armed highwaymen like Dick Turpin could demand “your money or your life!” without warning. There was no 911. No local law enforcement or highway patrol on the roads….
    Simon Hankinson
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    Congress Should Prioritize American Graduates, Not Foreigners Who Promised to Go Home

    Young American college graduates are getting a raw deal. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates, aged 20 to 24 years, reached 9.3% in August 2025, according to Forbes. For comparison, older college graduates, aged 25 to 34, had an unemployment rate of 3.6%, and high school graduates had a rate of 4.3%. Why? Business…
    Lora Ries
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    Peter Navarro’s Book Is a Raw Retelling of His Experience in Prison

    Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, said in an interview about his newest book “I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land”…
    Salena Zito
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    7 Left-Wing Groups to Watch in 2026

    This year doesn’t just mark the 250th anniversary of the United States—it also means another year of President Donald Trump’s second term and impending midterm elections. Last year, we saw the same leftist groups that staffed and advised the Biden administration gear up to oppose the president’s agenda, from filing lawsuits to block his executive…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Announces Major Victory in Venezuelan Drug War

    President Donald Trump celebrated the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, explaining how U.S. forces extradited the dictator and brought him to the U.S. to face narcoterrorism charges. “All Venezuelan military capacities were rendered powerless,” as U.S. forces “successfully captured Maduro in the dead of night,” he announced. Trump said both Maduro and his wife,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Autopsy on America: 2025’s HUGE Wins and Loses  

    The world changed forever in 2025. President Donald Trump returned to the White House and immediately began implementing his “America First” agenda, including closing the southern border and removing woke policies from every corner of the government.   On the international stage, Trump took an active role in ending multiple wars and conflicts, including bombing three…
    Virginia Allen
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    How AI Undermines Education

    If you want to develop human intelligence, you can’t let students rely on artificial intelligence. Generative AI will transform the world, even if no one is quite sure what the end product will look like. These are artificial intelligence programs that create new content based on prompts or questions submitted by a user. You can…
    Victor Joecks
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    Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Yeah, I’m Really Worried About the Intelligence Agencies’

    In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson answers additional questions from listeners, including one on the undue influence of our intelligence agencies on U.S. policy. This content was recorded prior to Hanson’s major surgery on Dec. 30. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    World Leaders Who Were Winners and Losers in 2025

    It would be an understatement to say President Donald Trump was active on the world stage in 2025.  Trump’s national security strategy is reshaping geopolitics in real time. Meanwhile, his trade policies are remaking the global economy. While the Trump administration boasts the fact that it has brokered nearly 10 peace agreements and ceasefires in…
    Bradley Devlin
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    23 Books to Read in 2026

    As you set your 2026 goals, reading lists, and New Year’s resolutions, The Daily Signal is proud to offer you some of our favorite reads from 2025. We asked our own staff, plus others from The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action, for their thoughts and to offer some of their recommendations. They are listed below. 1. ‘Israel…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    At Long Last, Washington Remembers Its Own Neighborhood

    At the dawn of the new year, the most important foreign-policy debate facing the United States isn’t unfolding in Ukraine or the Middle East. It’s playing out much closer to home—in Central and South America. The United States has long viewed the Western Hemisphere like a fire extinguisher: important in theory, hopefully unnecessary, out of…
    Melissa Maldonado
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    10 Times Democrats, Corporate Media Leaped to Defend Somalis Despite Massive Fraud Scandals

    Democrats and the corporate media rushed to defend Somalis throughout the end of 2025 as reports emerged that they committed widespread fraud in Minnesota. Federal prosecutors charged dozens of Somalis with stealing over $9 billion of taxpayer money intended for social services, including the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. As more details have emerged about their…
    Nicole Silverio
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    What the Education Department’s New Portal Means for Foreign Influence on University Campuses

    On Jan. 2, the Department of Education officially launched its new and improved portal for universities to report foreign funding. In an earlier update, the department noted, the “current reporting portal had not been meaningfully updated since the first Trump administration.” This new portal is intended to make it easier for higher ed institutions to…
    Madison Marino Doan
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    Victor Davis Hanson Answers a Listener’s Question About Tanks

    In this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson answers a round of questions submitted by listeners. Here he’s asked about tanks and tank warfare. This episode was recorded before Hanson’s major surgery on Dec. 30. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a segment from today’s edition…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • Census Battle: How This Lawsuit Could Change Political Power in Congress

    A federal lawsuit could be decided in early 2026 to require the Census Bureau to only count people rather than use statistical sampling—a move that could determine who controls Congress.  The 2020 Census overcounted the population of several Democrat-leaning states and undercounted the population of several Republican-leaning states. While the agency admitted this was an error, plaintiffs in the…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Media’s Revealing Fawning Over Pelosi

    Nancy Pelosi may be retiring from Congress, but no one should expect the DNC media to stop treating her as a most glorious political figure. She draws deep bows wherever she goes. She’s always the Best Ever.   On CBS’s “Sunday Morning” in early 2024, substitute host Tracy Smith announced Pelosi “has a new book out, ‘The Art…
    Tim Graham
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    4 Things to Expect From the Trump Administration in 2026

    After the Trump administration wrapped up its first news-packed year of the president’s second term, the White House will gear up for a year of addressing health care costs and other affordability concerns, saving the Republican majority in Congress, and more. Here are four things to expect from year two of Trump 47: 1. Saving…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Will America Collapse?

    While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, “We’re a nation in decline.” Now that he’s president, the left agrees. “We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire,” says Cornel West. Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us? If we don’t learn from history, says historian…
    John Stossel
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    Somalia’s Values Matter

    I recall a saying from my youth that went, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”  This comes to mind reading reports of the mind-boggling welfare fraud megascandal that has been exposed in Minnesota.  For perspective on the scope of the scandal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson estimates fraud losses in Minnesota since 2018…
    Star Parker
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