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Hawley Decries Anti-Hate Activist’s Defense of Hamas Sympathizer Khalil
A Senate committee met Thursday to expose and combat antisemitic disruptions on college campuses around the country with the aim of ensuring safe learning environments for all students. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee member Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., took one of the witnesses to task for criticizing the decision of the Trump administration…Jacob Adams -
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Texas Lawmaker ‘Sneaks’ into University’s Transgender Event, Exposes Programs Funded by Taxpayers
Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison sounded the alarm after he “snuck” into a state-funded transgender conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, according to a string of posts on his X account. “The Texas Government is promoting a radical, liberal agenda … with your tax dollars,” the Republican wrote on X, adding,…R.E. Wermus -
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GOP Bill Protects Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers From Being Forced to Promote Abortion
Republican lawmakers announced a bill Monday to prohibit federal and state governments from discriminating against pro-life pregnancy resource centers by requiring them to perform or encourage abortions. The Let Pregnancy Care Centers Serve Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and four of his Republican colleagues, would amend the Public Health Service Act to “prohibit…Moira Gleason -
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Trump to Pull Stefanik UN Ambassador Nomination to Protect Republican House Majority
President Donald Trump is pulling the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., to be United Nations ambassador. The move is designed to protect House Republicans’ slim majority, the president said. “With a very tight Majority, I don’t want to take a chance on anyone else running for Elise’s seat,” the president said on Truth Social….Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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DHS and HUD Team Up to Tackle Illegal Immigration and Housing Affordability
In a move to kill two birds with one stone, the Trump administration is simultaneously tackling both illegal immigration and the U.S. housing crisis. In a “Memorandum of Understanding” signed Monday, the U.S. departments of Homeland Security and Housing and Urban Development agreed to work together to ensure that taxpayer-funded public housing is afforded to American citizens,…S.A. McCarthy -
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Domestic Violence Offender Charged in Tesla Vandalism Spree
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Texas man who previously pleaded guilty to domestic violence is suspected of attacking three Tesla vehicles in a 4-wheeler ramming spree to protest Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Texarkana, Texas, police charged 33-year-old Demarqeyun Marquize Cox on Wednesday with allegedly ramming an ATV-style vehicle into a Tesla car and believe he did the…Hudson Crozier -
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Trump Floats Cutting Tariffs on China to Salvage TikTok Deal
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump said Wednesday he may reduce tariffs on China to help facilitate the forced sale of TikTok just days ahead of the app’s looming U.S. ban deadline. The Chinese-owned platform, used by some 170 million Americans, faces an April 5 shutdown unless Beijing greenlights a sale to a U.S. buyer….Thomas English -
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Senate Confirms Trump Nominees for His Make America Healthy Again, Finance Agenda
The Senate has been working this week to confirm more of President Donald Trump’s nominees essential to his agenda on health care and finance. Those nominees, though less high-profile than Cabinet members, will play leading roles in the Trump administration. The week saw the confirmation of two nominees important to Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again”…George Caldwell -
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Trump Administration Pushes Back as UN Meeting on Women Embraces Abortion, Gender Ideology
The UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded its annual meeting in New York last week. As always, sex radicals from the developed world did their best to push their agenda—under the cover of women’s equality—on rightly resistant countries in the developing world. The meeting marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Congress…Grace Melton -
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FBI Finally Releases Long-Sought Documents About 2017 Congressional Baseball Game Shootings
Nearly eight years after a deranged gunman opened fire on members of Congress and others at a practice session for the annual charity Congressional Baseball Game in June 2017, seriously injuring Rep. Steve Scalise, the FBI on Wednesday released all its files on the matter requested by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Scalise,…Jacob Adams -
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Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments
Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Medicaid paid health insurance companies for hundreds of thousands of patients who signed up for the program in two or more separate states. This happened when a patient moved to a different state…Fred Lucas -
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Top MS-13 Gang Member Arrested in Virginia
Authorities have arrested a top MS-13 gang member, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday morning. “This is a massive victory for a safer America,” Patel wrote on X, adding, “Justice is coming.” The man’s name has not been released, but Fox News Digital reports that authorities arrested the 24-year-old suspect, who is reportedly the gang’s…Virginia Allen -
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Maternal Mortality Rate Dropped After Roe Overturned but Still Too High
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals a striking 17% decline in maternal mortality after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, defying alarmist predictions. The decline tells us two things. First, it proves that protecting preborn children does not trigger a maternal health catastrophe, as critics often warned. The evidence is now clear:…Clare Ath -
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Maine Insists on Standoff With Trump Over Men in Women’s Sports. Who’s Winning This One?
Maine is putting it all on the line in the name of “transgender rights.” The state has gone so far as to risk federal funding for education and to strip some Maine residents of representation in the state capital. The ongoing dispute between the state and the federal government over Title IX violations is set…Moira Gleason -
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‘We’re Going to Defy the Odds’: House GOP Whip Tom Emmer Makes Bold Prediction About Congress
When Rep. Tom Emmer became the House GOP whip in 2023, Republicans’ mission was simple: Limit the damage President Joe Biden did before President Donald Trump returned to the White House. While coordinated and successful opposition is no easy chore (just ask former Speaker Kevin McCarthy or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer), governing, even with…Bradley Devlin -
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The 5 Biggest Threats to America’s Principles and Way of Life
These remarks were presented at the Philadelphia Society meeting in Plano, Texas, on March 22, 2025. In thinking about the practical and philosophical threats to America’s principles and way of life, I thought it might be useful to look back to a notable American’s description of such threats in an earlier era. And since I come…Jeffrey H. Anderson -
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DHS Chief Issues Warning to Illegal Aliens During Visit to Prison Holding Deported Criminals
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday and met with the Central American nation's president, Nayib Bukele, to discuss deportation flights and removals of criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. Noem’s visit follows the recent deportation of about 250 criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. to the detention facility…Virginia Allen -
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Course Correction: How Conservatives Are Reclaiming Pop Culture
Conservatives struggled to engage the culture for years, and in some cases, willingly left the space to the radical Left. Because of that, Adrienne Gray says, she “always felt like sort of the black swan here in the conservative movement.” Many conservatives “condemn pop culture, we suppress it a lot, because we don’t, again, align…Virginia Allen -
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Supreme Court Reconsiders Constitutionality of Agency Policymaking
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case testing the limits of the nondelegation doctrine, an issue that may sound lawyerly, but which is of the utmost importance in ensuring separation among the federal branches and accountability for the important decisions that affect us all. Nondelegation is the principle that one branch of…Jack Fitzhenry -
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Trump Admin, Don’t Try to Befriend People Who Despise You
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. There’s been a story out this week about a leak with national security implications. Apparently, about…Victor Davis Hanson