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    Fox News Just Beat a Broadcast Giant in TV Ratings
    Fox News Channel continued its unprecedented dominance of cable news in January, marking 24 consecutive years as the top-rated network.  The cable channel’s ratings rivaled those of broadcast TV networks and beat CBS, even though those channels are more widely available to a bigger audience. CBS suffered its worst ratings this century across multiple programs, according to Nielsen data…
    Robert B. Bluey | Pedro Rodriguez
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    Congress Probes as Newsom Seeks $33 Billion Relief Package
    Marking one year since the devastating California Pacific Palisades fire, Congress is investigating the tragedy “thoroughly” as Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks $33 billion in federal funding to rebuild. “This was not a failure of effort by firefighters,” Patrick Butler, California fire chief and harbor master, testified, “It was a failure of leadership above them.”  The Palisades fire burned in California for nearly all…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Before FBI Raid, Georgia Elections Board Questioned Fulton County Over Voter Rolls
    One week before the FBI raid of the Fulton County elections office to gather information on the 2020 election, members of the Georgia State Election Board questioned the county for alleged mismanagement of voter registration rolls.  State officials have been demanding answers from Fulton County election staff about ongoing matters such as double voter registrants…
    Fred Lucas
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    Republicans Defect as Senate Funding Vote Fails, Making Shutdown Likely
    Eight Senate Republicans joined Democrats in blocking a six-bill funding package Thursday, greatly increasing the probability of a partial government shutdown. The Senate failed to reach the 60-vote threshold necessary to end debate on a package that would fund the State Department and financial regulators, as well as agencies overseeing homeland security, war, education, labor,…
    George Caldwell
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    Parents Are Back in Charge, and Voters Are With Them
    Parents didn’t ask for an education revolution. They were pushed into one. When schools closed, lessons moved online, and basic expectations broke down, parents got a front-row seat to a system that too often puts bureaucracy ahead of kids. What they saw changed everything. Parents want control back, and most Americans agree. A national poll…
    Erika Donalds
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    New Video Shines Light on Alex Pretti’s Confrontation With Federal Agents
    State and federal authorities are investigating the shooting death of Alex Pretti, 37, at the hands of U.S. Border Patrol agents on Saturday, but newly released video confirms Pretti had a previous confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement this month. The video, captured by The News Movement, shows Pretti shouting at federal agents before kicking…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Celebrating Catholic Schools
    “United in Faith and Community.” That’s the theme of this year’s Catholic Schools Week, which takes place between Jan. 25 and Jan. 31. In 1974, the National Catholic Educational Association, or NCEA, established this tradition to typically fall during the last full week of January to coincide with the beginning of enrollment season. NCEA states…
    Thomas Griffin
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    Democrats’ Response to Minneapolis Chaos Could Be to Their Detriment
    The unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis did not arise by accident. It is the product of a combustible mix: deliberate obstruction by Democrat officials, wall-to-wall legacy media coverage and two tragic incidents that were mishandled by senior figures inside the Trump administration. Together, these forces have produced exactly the chaos critics warned about—and…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Josh Shapiro Criticizes Vance Despite Similar Holocaust Remembrance Day Posts
    Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro criticized Vice President JD Vance for his Holocaust Remembrance Day post on X, despite shocking similarities between the two men’s posts. Vance took to X on Tuesday to memorialize Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Ohio’s Haitians Made Headlines in 2024 Election, But Will They Head Home in 2026?
    The town of Springfield, Ohio, unexpectedly found itself in the national spotlight in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election. At question was the town’s sizable community of Haitian migrants, which had grown mightily during former President Joe Biden’s administration. And Springfield might soon be in the national spotlight once again because Temporary Protected Status…
    Rebecca Downs
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    7 Extreme Democrat Attacks on ICE Help Explain Why Some Americans Are Losing Their Minds
    Every day, it seems anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators perpetrate a new atrocity against innocent people, and Democrats demonizing ICE arguably bear some of the blame. On Sunday, they effectively laid siege to the Home2 Suites by Hilton Hotel, smashing the windows and spray-painting anti-ICE slogans, leading both state police and federal agents to respond….
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Nobody Stepped Up’: Spencer Pratt Runs for LA Mayor After Fire Destroys His Home
    Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of Los Angeles after losing his home last year in the devastating Palisades fire.  In an interview Wednesday with “Fox & Friends,” Pratt said, “I was driving away from my home and watching on the security cameras … watching my son’s bed engulfed in flames.”  This tragedy is what led Pratt to run…
    Reagan Campbell
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    Your Tax Dollars Went to a Group Training ‘Constitutional Observers’ in Minneapolis
    Protests over two immigration enforcement-involved shootings have highlighted the agitators organizing against federal agents on the ground in Minnesota, and the organization Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accíon Latina, or COPAL Education Fund, is a major player. COPAL describes itself as a group that works “to improve the quality of life of Latine families.”…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Is the Government About to Shut Down Over ICE Funding?
    Congress is likely about to trigger a shutdown as Democrat leaders, responding to pressure from their base, demand restraints on immigration law enforcement in exchange for funding the Department of Homeland Security. On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., laid his demands out on the table. The House has sent the Senate the final…
    George Caldwell
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    How Conservatives Are Winning the War on Transgenderism
    The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 29. For the first time in my lifetime, conservatives are dominating a battle…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Senator Warns Democrat Shutdown Could Endanger Americans Facing Winter Storm
    An impending government shutdown would “stall funding” for the Federal Emergency Management Agency shortly after a “crippling” winter storm, Sen. Marsha Blackburn told The Daily Signal. “Most of the Democrats do not want a shutdown,” Blackburn said. “I think also it’s important to realize we have had a massive storm. It has crippled much of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Finds California Illegally Hid Gender Identity From Parents
    President Donald Trump’s Department of Education found that California violated federal parental rights law by pressuring schools to hide children’s so-called transgender identity from their parents. A U.S. Department of Education investigation found that the California Department of Education violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, known as FERPA. The state’s policies “have created…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Rubio Debunks ‘Torture’ Claim During Senate Testimony
    At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that “innocent people” were tortured and deported because of President Donald Trump’s use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act. Duckworth asked Rubio if he would “encourage” the president to “rescind” the invocation of a presidential authority…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Dem Won’t Drop Out of Ohio AG Race After Plan to ‘Kill Trump’
    Elliot Forhan, a Democrat running for attorney general in Ohio, has told The Daily Signal he’s still “running to be Ohio’s next attorney general,” after saying he’s “going to kill [President] Donald Trump.” Forhan explained in a Facebook video on Tuesday that he will get Trump convicted of a capital crime if he becomes the…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Rubio: Venezuela Regime Now Aiding U.S. Counter-Narcotics for First Time in 20 Years
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators this morning that, after the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan government is cooperating with the U.S. on confronting narco-terrorism. “For the first time in 20 years, we are having serious counter-narcotic talks with Venezuelan authorities,” Rubio said in his opening remarks.   Rubio appeared as a witness to a Senate Foreign Relations…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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