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    ’60 Minutes’ Offers ‘Syrupy Minutes’ for the Left
    CBS “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi raged against the network’s Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss when she delayed her story on how the Trump administration deported illegal immigrants from Venezuela to a “notorious” prison in El Salvador. Weiss wanted more reporting and more rebuttal from the Trump administration in it. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes…
    Tim Graham
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    FDA Chief Shares Attainable Holiday Health Advice
    You don’t have to be up to the 100 pushup, 50 pullup “Bobby Kennedy Fitness Challenge” this Christmas to follow U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary’s holiday health recommendation. When asked by The Daily Signal how Americans can stay healthy during the holiday season, Makary gave a simple answer: drink more water….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    A Christmas Gift to the World? Wars and Conflicts Trump Says He Ended in 2025 
    On Jan. 20, 2025, the American people knew President Donald Trump’s agenda included securing the southern border, removing criminal illegal aliens from the country, ending woke policies within the federal government, and increasing American energy production. But what Americans did not realize was just how concerned Trump would be during his first year in office with ending conflicts around the world.   “I’ve restored American strength, settled eight wars…
    Virginia Allen
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    Military Recruitment Exploded Under Trump. Here’s the Reason.
    The War Department announced Tuesday that the military has reached its highest level of recruitment in a decade and a half in a stunning, yet predictable, reversal from just a few years ago. “Since November 2024, our military has seen its highest recruiting percentage of mission achieved in more than 15 years,” Chief Pentagon spokesman…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    The Left Framed Trump on ‘Affordability’ Crisis. Here’s What Trump Must Do Now.
    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. The 2026 midterms, as we’ve talked about, will be determined by the economy. That was brought…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    CCP Conducts Mass Arrests of Christians Days Before Christmas
    Hundreds of Christians in China will likely spend Christmas in jail this year, according to a recent report. Starting on Dec. 13, the Chinese Communist Party mobilized “more than a thousand police officers, SWAT units, anti-riot forces, and firefighters” in the Zhejiang Province’s Yayang Town in Wenzhou City, raiding churches and conducting mass arrests of Christians,…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    Here Are Some of the Wackiest Things Featured In Rand Paul’s New Report Alleging $1,639,135,969,608 in Gov’t Waste
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul released the latest edition of his annual “Festivus” report Tuesday detailing over $1 trillion in alleged wasteful spending in the U.S. government throughout 2025. The newly released report found an estimated $1,639,135,969,608 total in government waste over the past year. Paul, a prominent fiscal hawk who serves as the chairman of…
    Ireland Owens
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    Federal Judge ‘Fully and Permanently Dismantled Gender Secrecy Policies’ in California
    A federal judge ruled Monday against a California school district’s policy ordering teachers to hide kids’ transgender identities from their parents, in a ruling that a lawyer hails as the definitive end to gender secrecy policies in the Golden State. “The court has fully and permanently dismantled gender secrecy policies across the state of California,”…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Bars Global Censorship Agents From Entering US
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump is barring five “agents of the global censorship-industrial complex” from entering the United States, The Daily Signal can first report.  The State Department has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on five European individuals “whose entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    DEEP STATE CLEARS OUT: DOJ Staff Resignations Prove Harmeet Dhillon’s Real Worth
    More than 200 former staff at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division signed a letter condemning Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, and in doing so, they outed themselves as deep state actors and demonstrated Dhillon’s effectiveness in restoring the division to its true mission. The lawyers wrote to “sound the alarm about the near destruction…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Former GOP Sen. Ben Sasse Reveals He Has Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer, Says He Is ‘Gonna Die’
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Sasse, 53, resigned from his second term in the Senate in 2023 to become president of the University of Florida. He later left that position in July 2024, citing concerns about the health of his wife,…
    Adam Pack
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    Recruitment Up Across 5 Branches of the Military
    The military reported its best recruitment numbers in more than 15 years in 2025, according to the Pentagon.   “In 2025, the department exceeded our annual active-duty recruitment accession goals across all five services,” Undersecretary of War for Personnel and Readiness Anthony J. Tata said Monday.  Tata credited President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth with the influx of new recruits.  …
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Celebrates ‘Expectation-Smashing’ GDP Report
    President Donald Trump said tariffs are the reason that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 4.3% in the third quarter of 2025. In July, August, and September, GDP increased at 4.3%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, even though economists predicted the economy would grow at a 3.2% annual rate…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Truth Dies in Darkness: Washington Post Refuses to Correct Fake Heritage Quotes
    The Washington Post published an article Monday that fabricates two quotes attributed to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. Roberts sent an email Sunday to Heritage staff announcing personnel changes at the organization. Washington Post reporters Jacob Bogage and Isaac Arnsdorf claim to have obtained the internal email, although the two quotes they cite from Roberts…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Victor Davis Hanson Debunks Tucker Carlson’s Claims About Israel
    Victor Davis Hanson responds to Tucker Carlson’s claims that Israel offers little strategic value to the United States, laying out Israel’s cultural importance, democratic legitimacy, military cooperation, and technological innovation—and why America benefits directly on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Why Western Leaders Won’t Acknowledge ‘Radical Islam’
    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. We’ve had a lot of incidents worldwide of Islamic terrorism or threats of Islamic terrorism. The…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Christmas Ad Draws Inspiration From ‘Home Alone’ to Unwrap Dangers of Illegal Vapes  
    A new Christmas ad aims to expose the “greedy criminals targeting vulnerable kids” with illegal vapes.   Illegal vapes, largely from China, have flooded the U.S. market in recent years with flavors and advertising specifically aimed at enticing children.    “This Christmas, it’s time to get those who profit from illegal vapes a supersized dose of Kevin,” the ad tells viewers, referring to Kevin…
    Virginia Allen
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    How AmericaFest Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Legacy
    PHOENIX—In an interview just months before his assassination, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk said, “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith, that would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith.” More than 10,000 gathered at AmericaFest in Phoenix over the weekend, the first major Turning Point USA conference since Kirk’s…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Accreditation Mandates Bring CRT Into Colleges and K-12 Schools
    A recent report from Defending Education has found that more than half of collegiate social work programs appear to embed anti-racism and diversity, equity, and inclusion standards into their core competencies, admissions requirements, and field work evaluations. This is not by accident. The sole accreditor of these schools, the Council on Social Work Education, requires…
    Reagan Dugan | Paul Runko
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    Slippery Slopes Have 2 Sides
    Most conservatives are likely familiar with John Adams’ insightful observation, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” For years, we have accepted the obvious implication of that statement: If the system isn’t working as intended, the problem is with the people….
    Steve McKee
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