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Governor’s Surprise Veto Sinks School Choice Opportunity for North Dakota
Last week, North Dakota was poised to become the 17th state to make every K-12 student eligible for school choice. Instead, the failure of Gov. Kelly Armstrong and state legislators to reach a compromise has left North Dakota families in the cold. The North Dakota Legislature passed House Bill 1540, a bill to create a…Jason Bedrick -
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The Making of a Golden Age
Editor’s note: Emily Johnson is a senior at Xavier University and a student ambassador for the Network of enlightened Women. During his 1984 presidential campaign, President Ronald Reagan famously claimed, “It’s morning again in America.” These words remain strikingly true over 40 years later with the dawn of the second Trump administration. The feeling of…Emily Johnson -
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Shocking Data Shows Far Higher Risks of Mifepristone Than FDA Claimed
During the Biden administration, abortion advocates tried mightily to cover up the corruption and political maneuvering at the Food and Drug Administration that has promoted the drug mifepristone, which now causes nearly two-thirds of all abortions. A lawsuit seeking to expose how the FDA unlawfully approved and pushed this dangerous drug was cut short, with…Thomas Jipping -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Transportation Department Cut $9.5B of Waste in 100 Days
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary Sean Duffy is celebrating 100 days of prioritizing safety and efficiency at the Department of Transportation. “The Department of Transportation is focused on its core mission of safety and efficiency,” Duffy said in a statement shared with The Daily Signal. “Under this administration, America is building again—forging a future with…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Trump Border Czar Tom Homan to Illegal Immigrants: Go Home
WASHINGTON—In all my years of covering immigration politics, I’ve never seen this kind of clarity. During a White House press briefing Monday morning, Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, had a message to migrants living illegally in the United States: Go home. If you don’t, he explained, we’ll find you, we’ll prosecute you, and…Debra Saunders -
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Court Upholds Majority of Trump’s Executive Order on Election Integrity
If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” you’ve been misled (as usual) by the mainstream media. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia only issued a preliminary…Hans von Spakovsky -
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Trump to Sign Executive Order Providing Automakers Tariff Relief
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday relaxing some of his 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts. The directive is the result of conversations directly with domestic auto manufacturers, a senior Commerce Department official said on a call with reporters. The order “will go substantially toward reassuring American auto manufacturing,” Treasury…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Oklahoma Case Offers Supreme Court Chance to Benefit Families
A great many of the cases heard by our nation’s courts, at every level, require the delicate parsing of subtly contradictory facts and opinions leading to a decision that, almost inevitably, will greatly benefit some people while frustrating the lives and purposes of others. Happily, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond is not one…Andrea Dill -
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Ballot-Counting Case Could Be On Way to Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court could decide a case regarding whether voters’ ballots rolling in days or weeks after Election Day still can be counted. Just weeks before last November’s election, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case from Mississippi that federal law requires mail-in ballots to arrive by Election Day. Mississippi…Fred Lucas -
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States May Have to Adjust to Medicaid Reforms, Speaker Johnson Says
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said Tuesday that states will have to figure out on their own how to adjust to proposed reforms to food stamps and health care programs in the congressional Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget bill. “We’re going to be good stewards of the taxpayers' resources,” Johnson, R-La., said to The Daily…George Caldwell -
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Who Is Mark Carney, the Newly Elected Liberal Prime Minister of Canada?
The Liberal Party of Canada won a narrow victory on Monday night, catapulting its leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to his first general election win. The win is a fourth consecutive term for the party, and a remarkable reversal of fortune for Carney, who had originally faced a nearly 30-point deficit in polling to Conservative…Jacob Adams -
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Leavitt Slams Amazon for ‘Hostile and Political’ Attack on Tariffs
Amazon’s decision to display a number next to the price of each product on its website that shows how much President Donald Trump’s recent tariffs are adding to the cost is “hostile and political,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday. “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon,” she said. “Why didn’t…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Canadian Election Results Portend America, Canada Likely to Remain at Odds
After a topsy-turvy election cycle in which the Conservatives started up 25 points before trade tensions with the United States and a Liberal leadership change, Canadian voters have given the Liberal Party another mandate in Ottawa. This is a big win for Mark Carney, the newly installed Canadian prime minister who had spent a career…Jordan Embree -
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State Attracting Gunmakers, Sellers by Shielding Them From Left’s Weaponized Lawsuits
As gunmakers flee an increasingly inhospitable environment in blue states, Tennessee lawmakers took action this month to protect the state’s firearms industry from a proliferation of “weaponized” lawsuits. On April 15, the Tennessee General Assembly passed House Bill 873 / Senate Bill 1360, which shields manufacturers and sellers of guns, ammunition, and other weapons from…Kevin Stocklin -
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Trump’s First 100 Days Have Exposed the Left
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House are historic in many ways: From restoring American exceptionalism and strong leadership in the Oval Office to securing the border in record time to deconstructing the administrative state with the Department of Government Efficiency, there’s no issue too…David Bossie -
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Hill GOP Budget Leaders in ‘Lockstep,’ Treasury Chief Bessent Says
“The House is moving things along quickly, and the Senate is in lockstep,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Monday, in reference to the Republican budget reconciliation bill that is being ushered through Congress. The message of unity comes after the treasury secretary met with the top four Republican congressional leaders in the budget reconciliation…Jacob Adams -
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House OKs Anti-‘Revenge Porn’ Bill Backed by Melania Trump
The House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill against “revenge porn” by a 409-2 vote, in a showing of bipartisan support for legislation backed by first lady Melania Trump. Revenge porn is the malicious distribution of sexual images of a victim. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who argued the bill was “ripe for abuse,” and…George Caldwell -
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Trump Rejects Obama-Era Race-Based School Discipline Policies
The second Donald Trump administration continues to ferret out racial favoritism in education and the federal workforce, and there is plenty to be found. The administration is now turning to K-12 classrooms and already has a good model to use for its latest order to end race-based quotas in school discipline. On Wednesday, the White…Jonathan Butcher -
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Fact-Checking the Left’s 3 Claims Denouncing the Trump DOJ’s Arrest of Judges
Democrats and legacy media outlets warned about the perils of the Trump administration’s arrest of state judges last week for obstructing the arrests of illegal immigrants. Commentators and politicians cast the arrests of former New Mexico state Judge Joel Cano and Wisconsin state Judge Hannah Dugan as an unprecedented attack on an independent judiciary and…Fred Lucas -
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Here’s What Trump Has Done During His First 100 Days in Office
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’re coming up over the three-month mark or the proverbial “100 days” are on the horizon…Victor Davis Hanson