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Parsing the President’s Tweets on Tariffs Amid China Trade Talks
It’s crunch time in U.S.-China negotiations, and President Donald Trump may have just thrown negotiators under the bus. Over the weekend, Trump tweeted that perhaps trade talks with China aren’t going as well as we’ve been led to believe. This prompted domestic and international markets to respond with pessimism. For almost a year now, tariffs… -
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House Democrats Ready Vote to Undercut Health Care Innovation
House Democrats this week will vote on HR 986, a bill that would harm Americans by leading to fewer health care choices and higher health care costs. It also would undercut what polls tell us 64% of Americans say they want in health care: to build on what is working and fix what isn’t. The… -
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Judges Can’t Ignore Immigration Laws They Don’t Like
Remember when judges used to uphold the law? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case today. Consider the Massachusetts trial judge who is accused of helping a twice-deported illegal immigrant slip out the back door rather than hand him over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent waiting to arrest him. According to authorities, Massachusetts District Court Judge Shelley Joseph… -
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Poorest Americans Are Benefiting Most From Strong Economy
It’s hard to escape the good economic news these days. New reports show that in the first quarter of 2019, the U.S. economy grew by 3.2%, outpacing expectations by almost a full percentage point. In the month of April, unemployment fell to a 50-year low of 3.6%. Businesses continue to add hundreds of thousands of… -
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Hillary Clinton Says Election Was ‘Stolen’ From Her
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a Los Angeles event Saturday that the 2016 election was stolen from her. The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee spoke with her husband at “An Evening With The Clintons” event. “You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election… -
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8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Join Her Sport
When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut’s girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn’t just a local news story. To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state… -
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Interview: Why Gary Sinise, aka Lt. Dan, Is a Grateful American
Twenty-five years ago, Gary Sinise played the role of Lt. Dan Taylor in the blockbuster movie "Forrest Gump." It transformed his acting career and changed his life. Today, Sinise is an outspoken advocate for America's military veterans. He's also the author of "Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service." Sinise recently spoke to The… -
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We Hear You: The Equality Act and the LGBT Agenda
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience had much to say about our coverage of House Democrats' Equality Act, which would create civil rights protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity rather than simply sex. A sampling leads off this week's mailbag. You may write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Other than the… -
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Poynter Smears Daily Signal as Fake News. Then Removes List Altogether.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies ran a list this week of 515, quote, “unreliable news websites” that included The Daily Signal. But after mounting pressure, the institute nuked the list altogether. “We began an audit to test the accuracy and veracity of the list, and while we feel that many of the sites did… -
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Voter Fraud Charges Endanger Texas Mayor, Topple Another in NJ
In a tale of two city mayors arrested last week on voter fraud charges, one resigned while the other says a jury will decide. Edinburg, Texas, Mayor Richard Molina doesn’t plan to go anywhere. Molina won the mayor’s race in November 2017 by 1,240 votes. But on April 25, Texas Rangers arrested the mayor and… -
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Border Mayor Meets Trump, Seeks Help for Overwhelmed City
An Arizona mayor anticipates getting more federal help to transport illegal immigrants out of his overwhelmed city, where he declared a state of emergency last month. During a visit to Washington this week, Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls met with President Donald Trump, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, and members of Arizona’s congressional delegation. “We… -
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Perjury Fantasies: No, Barr Didn’t Commit Perjury. Here Are the Facts.
Disappointed with, frustrated by, and angry at special counsel Robert Mueller’s unhelpful conclusion that President Donald Trump was not in cahoots with the Russians during the 2016 campaign, Democrats are desperately searching for something, anything, that they can use to impeach the Mueller report by impugning the integrity of Attorney General William Barr. House Speaker… -
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The Real Reason Democrats Hate William Barr
On the day of Attorney General William Barr’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, there was, as always, a selective leak dropped into the fray. With bated breath, we learned special counsel Robert Mueller had sent the attorney general a sternly worded letter grousing that Barr’s four-page March 24 explanation of… -
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Signs of the Times
It took a few days, but The New York Times finally got around to apologizing for publishing in its international edition a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon depicting a blind President Donald Trump wearing a yarmulke and being led by a dog resembling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The dog wore a Star of David around its… -
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New Jobs Report Shows Record Unemployment Lows for Hispanics, Women
It’s time to celebrate: We have the lowest unemployment rate in 49 years, and wages continue to rise—especially for lower-wage workers. On Friday, the Bureau of Labor statistics reported that in April, the economy created a whopping 263,000 jobs, and the U-3 unemployment rate—the one commonly cited—fell from 3.8% to 3.6%. The alternate measure for… -
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Jewish Congressman Decries ‘Double Standard’ for Liberals and Anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is disturbingly on the rise in America. In fact, most religion-based hate crimes in America are against Jews. Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., has fought anti-Semitism on the front lines in Congress—and he sits on the same committee as Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a freshman congresswoman accused of making anti-Semitic remarks. Read the transcript, posted… -
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Against Liberal Assaults, Barr Proves Unflappable
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee—some of them candidates for their party’s presidential nomination and hungry for TV exposure—battered Attorney General William Barr Wednesday with hostile and often insulting questions when he testified about his handling of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Barr remained unflappable in his testimony about the Mueller report,… -
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Trump Announces New Protections for Religious Liberty, Conscience on National Day of Prayer
President Donald Trump spoke out on religious freedom Thursday, as he vowed to protect conscience rights and to combat anti-Semitism. “Just today, we finalized new protections of conscience rights for physicians, pharmacists, nurses, teachers, students, and faith-based charities,” Trump said at a White House Rose Garden event with faith leaders from across the country on… -
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Trump Fed Nominee Stephen Moore Withdraws Bid
Economist Stephen Moore withdrew Thursday as the president’s nominee for the Federal Reserve Board, citing a sustained political attack on him. Moore, a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is a former economics writer for The Wall Street Journal who previously was president of the pro-business Club for Growth. President Donald Trump announced March 22…