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Texas AG Paxton Sues School District for ‘Illegally Teaching’ Critical Race Theory
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Coppell Independent School District for “illegally teaching woke and hateful critical race theory curriculum,” his office said in a Wednesday press release. The lawsuit follows an undercover video revealing Coppell school district’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction Evan Whitfield admitting to defying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on… -
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Is ‘Severance’ a Stealth Critique of the Pro-Choice Movement?
Spoiler alert: This article will assume the reader has already seen the first season. Is hit series “Severance” subtly making the case we should consider what we owe to unborn babies? Apple TV+’s “Severance,” Ben Stiller’s darkly comedic psychological thriller starring Adam Scott (“Parks and Recreation,” “The Good Place”), lends itself to interpretations, most proposing… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Probes EPA Waste, Financial Conflicts
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Financial conflicts of interest and billions of questionable expenditures under the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency are facing fresh scrutiny by House investigators. In a letter Thursday, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for a briefing, while also commending… -
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Here’s Why America Needs the HALT Fentanyl Act, and Why It Won’t Lead to Overcriminalization
I worked with President Donald Trump on the First Step Act and am acutely aware of the damage that unnecessarily tough-on-crime laws can do, but I am glad to vouch for the HALT Fentanyl Act, which advances both public health and just enforcement. Trump visited the Justice Department Tuesday, reaffirming his commitment to combating the… -
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How Los Angeles Is Getting Scorched by Its Homeless Problem
VENICE, Calif.—Francesca Padilla was awakened by the sound of screaming people and breaking glass. Soon she could hear the tortured howls of her neighbor’s dog Togo as the bungalow right next to her Venice home was engulfed in flames. “It was yelping so loud—the sound isn’t the usual dog sound—it was suffering,” another neighbor told… -
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CBS Paints Trump as Worse Than Venezuelan Gangs
In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president. The Trump administration sent a plane stuffed with alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador, which is apparently more of a crime… -
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs for Kennedy Center Crybabies
WASHINGTON—Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don’t belong on our turf. Ah, but there’s a new sheriff at the opera. President Donald Trump is now chairman of the Kennedy… -
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President Trump’s Near-Impossible Task, Explained
President Donald Trump has inherited an unstable world from his successor. His administration has the daunting task of simultaneously bringing two wars, one in Ukraine, the other in the Levant, to a close. On the heels of a Tuesday phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Curt Mills, executive director of The American… -
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Here’s What Christians Urged Trump to Prioritize in Talks at White House
A Baptist leader urged the Trump administration to use its platform to promote Biblical pro-family policies during a White House roundtable on Wednesday, The Daily Signal has learned. President Donald Trump’s White House Faith Office held a meeting with several pastors to discuss the priorities of American Christians and hear their recommendations. The head of… -
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The Left’s Lies Did Terrible Damage to America
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. The last week we’ve been hearing a lot about these lies. I guess there’s no other… -
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Expert on JFK Assassination: Released Files Reveal How CIA Strived to Conceal Questionable ’60s Operations
Craig Iffland, an expert on the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, says the files released Tuesday evening show the CIA went to extraordinary lengths to hide embarrassing details about its operations in the 1960s. It is Iffland’s expert opinion that “[m]ost of the major documents long sought by researchers can be found… -
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Woman Arrested by Attorney General in Texas for Performing Illegal Abortions
A woman was arrested in Texas for allegedly providing illegal abortions, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. The arrest is the first of its kind under a 2022 near-total abortion ban in the state. “In Texas, life is sacred,” Paxton said in a press release. “I will always do everything in my power to… -
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Paul Calls for Review of UK’s Encrypted Data Demands
Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday demanded action from Attorney General Pam Bondi on the United Kingdom's requiring that American tech companies provide access to encrypted data. The Kentucky Republican senator implied that the U.K. demanding access to American data was a dangerous violation of an agreement between the two nations. Paul calls the United Kingdom's… -
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Payton McNabb: Women’s Sports, Delta Zeta & the Cost of Truth
Editor’s note: An X post in this article contains language that might be offensive to some readers. It would have felt hypocritical to not speak up, Payton McNabb says, remembering how nervous she felt to confront the man standing in the women’s restroom on her college campus. For months, McNabb had been advocating for… -
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WATCH: Despite Flood of Opposition, Homeschool Act Advances Out of Committee
THE CENTER SQUARE—Despite a historic number of witness slips in opposition to the Illinois Homeschool Act, the controversial legislation is advancing. Hundreds of homeschool families were in Springfield Wednesday to oppose the measure that adds more regulations on homeschooling families. Among the requirements are that families report to the state that they are homeschooling. If… -
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Trump Admin ‘Not Going to Tolerate’ Illinois School Forcing Girls to Change Clothes Alongside Trans Classmate
As an Illinois mother seeks justice against the school district that forced her daughter to change in front a boy, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration won’t tolerate males invading private female-only spaces. “The president has made it incredibly clear that it is the policy of this administration that there are… -
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Another Federal Court Determines Parents Had No Right to Know School Was Socially Transitioning Daughter
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit recently determined that the efforts of a Florida middle school to help a minor child socially transition to a different gender behind her parents’ backs were not sufficiently egregious to “shock the conscience” and allow the parents’ claim to proceed. But in granting… -
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Doug Burgum’s ‘4 Babies’ Plan for US Energy Dominance
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum outlined the Trump administration’s aggressive strategy to restore American energy leadership through what he called the “four babies” approach: drill, baby, drill; map, baby, map; mine, baby, mine; and build baby build. In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle, Burgum said he’s committed to drilling… -
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One Texas Jail Tells the Story of America’s Illegal Immigration Crisis
Mexican cartel members are “running scared” and fearful of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, according to the sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas. Like many local law enforcement officials, Sheriff Bill Waybourn has witnessed the sharp spike in illegal immigration over the past four years. He welcomed the increased enforcement from the federal government. … -
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PBS and NPR Heads Asked to Testify Before DOGE Committee
THE CENTER SQUARE—The House Subcommittee for the Delivering on Government Efficiency is calling the leadership of National Public Radio, a news operation that receives taxpayer funding, to testify before Congress, it said Wednesday. The House subcommittee was created to operate similarly to the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump administration’s federal effort to cut waste,…