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EXCLUSIVE: In First 100 Days, NASA Moves Toward Trump’s Goal of US Flag on Mars
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—During the Trump administration’s first 100 days, NASA has made significant moves toward planting an American flag on Mars and getting a man back on the moon. In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said America “will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Envoy to Israel Huckabee Says Deal Can Be Reached If Iran Gives Up Ambitions of ‘Nuclear Weaponry’
JERUSALEM, Israel—Iran could see a breakthrough in its nuclear nonproliferation negotiations with the United States, but “it’s up to them,” according to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Iran has “never ever been anything but clear in that their goal is the annihilation of Israel, and ultimately the annihilation of every free-thinking, free-living person…Virginia Allen -
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‘BRIDGE TOO FAR’: Colorado House Minority Leader Warns Transgender Custody Bill Is ‘Huge Violation of Parental Rights’
The minority leader of the Colorado House of Representatives warned that a bill making its way in the Colorado Senate represents a “huge violation of parental rights.” The state Senate will hear testimony about House Bill 1312, which would remove kids from parents’ custody for behaviors like “misgendering” and “deadnaming,” on Wednesday. The bill passed…Tyler O’Neil -
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Thune Faces Tough Call on Overturning Electric Vehicle Mandate
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is facing a tough decision in the Senate, one that might determine whether or not California is saddled with an electric vehicle mandate in the near future. At the end of his term, former President Joe Biden granted California an Environmental Protection Agency waiver, allowing it to implement regulations…George Caldwell -
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Trump Administration Is Ending Kendi-ism
The Trump administration is waging a necessary, multifront battle to collapse a DEI regime that’s poisoned Western institutions and caused Americans to lose faith in the equal application of standards and laws. President Donald Trump’s first 100 days of his second term have been filled with a flurry of executive actions not seen since the…Jarrett Stepman -
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White House Directly Involved in House Republicans’ $69B Border Security Funding Plan
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump has been directly involved in House Republicans’ move to dedicate $69 billion to building the border wall and hiring more Border Patrol agents, a White House official confirmed to The Daily Signal. The House Homeland Security Committee released its budget proposal Sunday, calling for $46.5 billion in new…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Why DC Remains One of the Nation’s Most Dangerous Cities
Once in a blue moon, you run across a statistic or record that is mind-boggling. Some are amazing, like Alex Ovechkin’s 895 goals or Serena Williams’ 23 Grand Slam singles titles. But others are disturbing, like the fact that in Washington, D.C., between 2018 and 2022, only 1.7% of people arrested for carrying a pistol…Cully Stimson -
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Trump’s Migrant Hunt Digs Into the IRS and Social Security
Against fierce resistance, the Trump administration is enlisting the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration in its crackdown on illegal immigration. On April 7, the IRS signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that alarmed progressive pro-immigration groups and like-minded advocates—and reportedly prompted the tax bureau’s acting chief to resign in protest. The deal allows…Ben Weingarten -
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Who Will Rule Gaza After the War? Ex-IDF Spokesman Sees Just One Option
JERUSALEM, Israel—If Hamas is dismantled and the war between Israel and the terrorist group comes to an end, Israel will need to step in and “rule Gaza” for a time, a former international spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces says. “I think in [an] interim period, Israel will apply a military occupation of it…Virginia Allen -
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‘ONLY THE BEGINNING’: IBM’s Rejection of DEI Will Spark a ‘Corporate Realignment,’ Shareholder Says
IBM’s latest moves rejecting woke orthodoxy and the diversity, equity, and inclusion movement will spark a “corporate realignment” against DEI, one of its shareholders predicts. The shareholders for International Business Machines Corporation—better known as IBM—will meet Tuesday, one day after the company announced a $150 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing. The Heritage Foundation, one of…Tyler O’Neil -
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Advisers Purged at Pentagon
In the latest shake-up under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, a number of policy advisers from previous administrations have been ousted from the Pentagon. The dismissals, announced Friday, come amid growing concerns about leaks at the Pentagon—an issue that led to the dismissal of three members of Hegseth’s inner circle in April. Hegseth scrubbed the…George Caldwell -
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Trump Vows to Revive Columbus Day. Here’s Why We Should Honor the Great Explorer.
Editor’s Note: On Sunday, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he is “bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes” and that he is saving the legacy of the famed explorer from the “ashes.” In 2021, then-President Joe Biden became the first president to make an official statement celebrating “Indigenous Peoples Day,” a holiday…Jarrett Stepman -
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Trump to Sign Executive Orders Strengthening Law Enforcement, Punishing Sanctuary Cities
President Donald Trump will sign two executive orders Monday aimed at securing the southern border. The first order “will strengthen and unleash American law enforcement to pursue criminals and protect innocent citizens,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a morning briefing. The second order will start a crackdown on sanctuary cities, which the White House…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Elite Universities Should Stop Digging Themselves Into a Hole
Elite universities are so determined to fight the Donald Trump administration that they’ve decided to double down on their antisemitism and stick with anti-Israel protesters and ideological rigidity. If they hadn’t abandoned scholarly rigor years ago, they’d remember the first rule of finding yourself in a hole. Stop digging. The confrontation breaking out between universities and the president is the…Mike Gonzalez -
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Under Trump Order, Federal Unions May No Longer Be Able to Protect Poor Performers
First things first: President Donald Trump’s executive order on collective bargaining does not “strip unionization rights from most federal workers,” as some media outlets have wrongly stated. Not a single federal employee has lost his or her right to belong to a union. What the order does do is end the practice of collective bargaining…Rachel Greszler -
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Biden vs. Trump: What Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu Says About Working With Each President
JERUSALEM, Israel—When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers were discussing the plan to detonate explosives located inside pagers used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, some close to the Israeli leader encouraged him to give the Biden administration advance warning. Netanyahu refused. “I said, ‘no,’ and we didn’t,” Netanyahu said, adding, “I didn’t read…Virginia Allen -
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America’s Founding Documents Are Selling Like Gangbusters
America’s founding documents are selling at the fastest rate since 2004, when market research firm Circana began keeping track, prompting publishers to plan new editions. The rising civic interest is being attributed, at least in part, to the tumultuous state of America’s political affairs. The U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers have sold…Joshua Arnold -
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Newsom Touts Calif. as World’s 4th-Largest Economy on Paper as Real Jobs Fall
THE CENTER SQUARE—California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is now the world’s fourth largest economy. But after accounting for the high cost of goods and services, California only barely edges out low-performing Italy, with the state’s continued losses in private sector jobs amid falling corporate and sales tax revenue painting a darker picture of the Golden…Kenneth Schrupp -
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Corporate Media Loathes Arrival of ‘MAGA Media’ Inside the White House
The New York Times recently published a hissy fit about the White House allowing reporters into the Briefing Room who didn’t vote for Kamala Harris. Here was the amazing protest sentence: “Longtime White House reporters say the result has been an erosion of their independence.” The presence of a reporter who didn’t vote Democrat doesn’t…Tim Graham -
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New Secure Messaging Platform Offers Quantum-Resistant Defense Against Chinese Cyber Threats
A communications platform called Titanium Secure is positioning itself as a quantum-resistant defense against growing cyber threats from China and data harvesting by Big Tech companies. “We saw a need for conservatives to have their own platform where they could do several different things, and part of those was to secure communication and secure data,”…Robert B. Bluey