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opinion
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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
opinion
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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Group Seeks DOJ, FEC Probes of Jasmine Crockett
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative organization filed requests for federal investigations into Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, regarding ActBlue campaign contributions, as well as alleged voter intimidation. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation wants the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission, and the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Crockett’s actions. The letter to the Justice Department’s… -
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4 Takeaways as House DOGE Panel Grills NPR, PBS Chiefs
The heads of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service testified about content and fielded questions about bias in a hearing Wednesday, as House Republicans called for defunding. NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger answered questions from the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or the DOGE… -
opinion
NPR CEO’s Disastrous Congressional Testimony Shows Why We Need to Defund NPR
It’s now obvious why NPR’s CEO didn’t show up to defend her taxpayer-funded network at a congressional hearing last year. On Wednesday, National Public Radio’s Katherine Maher testified before the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency and demonstrated why sometimes it’s better to plead the Fifth. If you watch nothing else from the hearing,… -
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Debt Limit Forecast Adds Pressure to GOP House-Senate Budget Negotiations
The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released a stark forecast of when the government’s borrowing limit would be exhausted—increasing the urgency of congressional Republicans' budget negotiations. The forecast warns that if the government doesn't raise the limit of its debt, then it will no longer be able to borrow money and pay its obligations. “CBO… -
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Did President Biden Make Fires Worse at the Beck and Call of an Environmentalist Group?
As fires ravage the Carolinas and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster declares a state of emergency, I remember how my brother and I spent long, hot summers in rural Colorado, cleaning up dry brush and dead wood to protect our mountain home from fires. My father, a volunteer fireman, taught us the importance of forest… -
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The Commission to ‘Make America Healthy Again’: Opening a New Conversation on Health
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has a herculean task: “Make America Healthy Again.” As Politico recently reported, Kennedy’s ambitious agenda could even dwarf the efforts of Elon Musk, the genius entrepreneur attempting to streamline federal bureaucracies and save taxpayers the hundreds of billions of dollars… -
opinion
Activist Judges Are Pulling a Reverse Marbury v Madison
Are we to be a nation ruled by one man? I’m not talking about President Donald Trump, I’m talking about district court judges who increasingly abuse their position to thwart the president’s actions on a nationwide level. The Trump administration has racked up victory after victory as Democrats fail to mount an effective counter. Right… -
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This Gov’t Agency Is Still Spending $1,000,000,000 on DEI Despite Trump’s Order to Cut It Out
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The National Institutes of Health continues to fund more than a billion dollars in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, even after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to eliminate them. While other agencies have moved to eliminate the “illegal and immoral programs” targeted in Trump’s day-one executive order, NIH is still funding over… -
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‘Hoax-Peddlers’: Pentagon Spokesman Attacks Atlantic After More Signal Chat Messages Released
On heels of the testimony of several leaders of the U.S. intelligence agencies, The Atlantic released additional screenshots from the Signal group chat that was composed of high-ranking Trump administration national security officials and accidentally also included The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. “It’s no surprise hoax-peddlers at the Atlantic have already abandoned their ‘war plans’… -
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Signal Lawsuit Against Trump Assigned to Same Judge Who Blocked Tren De Aragua Flights
The judge who ordered that flights carrying suspected Tren de Aragua gangbangers to El Salvador must return to the U.S. was assigned a lawsuit against Trump administration national security officials regarding a Signal chat. A far-left government watchdog is suing Trump administration national security personnel for discussing the forthcoming strike on the Houthis in a… -
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‘Critically Important’: Iran Allegedly Used China as Golden Ticket to Quietly Operate in Panama Canal
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—China’s growing foothold over the Panama Canal isn’t just fueling its own commercial interests, it also appears to be helping America’s adversaries engage side-step sanctions, court documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show. China has expanded its presence considerably in the Panama Canal since former President Jimmy Carter sold the shipping lane… -
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Gabbard Rejects Claims of Classified Info Leak on Signal Chat
Three of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members defended the administration’s conduct at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, shortly after a follow-up report from The Atlantic showing messages related to a military attack on Houthis in Yemen that were inadvertently sent to its editor-in-chief. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John… -
opinion
Reversing Biden’s Red Tape: Trump’s Deregulation Agenda Drives Down Inflation
U.S. inflation fell last month, with core prices at their lowest level in four years. It’s a harbinger for future price drops to come, thanks to planned spending cuts and tax reforms that will drop inflation further. Inflation will also likely decline thanks to President Donald Trump’s herculean deregulation efforts. The White House estimates that…