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Don’t Close Columbia’s Research Labs. Move Them.
The Trump administration is threatening to cut $400 million in research funding at Columbia University unless the institution remedies its failure to comply with Title VI civil rights requirements to protect its Jewish students. Columbia University is responding with threats of its own, saying that some beneficial projects in medical science will have to be… -
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Conservative Activist Rufo Named 2025 Bradley Prize Winner
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation on Tuesday announced writer-filmmaker-conservative commentator Christopher F. Rufo as a 2025 Bradley Prize winner. Rufo, a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute—and former Daily Signal contributor—will receive the award at the Bradley Prizes ceremony on May 29 in Washington, D.C. … -
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Less Pain at Pump: Trump Energy Policies Cited as Gas Prices Dip
With gas prices plummeting across the United States, the Trump administration is taking credit for Americans’ savings at the pump. The White House’s “Rapid Response” team sent out a flurry of jubilant posts on X on Monday, celebrating the fourth consecutive week of falling gas prices. But can Trump take credit? Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas,… -
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Could the Bluest State in the Nation Get Voter ID?
California, one of the most solidly blue states in the nation, could be voting on adopting voter ID—an initiative that President Donald Trump called for the state to adopt as a condition for continued federal aid. Republican state legislators launched the ballot initiative drive late last week to gain 1 million signatures after failing to… -
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Too Many Drugs, Not Enough Prosecution, Texas Border Sheriff Says
HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas—The courts are “failing” in West Texas, Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West says. Law enforcement is apprehending drugs every day in his county, which borders Mexico, but West says his deputies are tired of repeatedly arresting the same people. “When I get on the deputies about, ‘Y'all need to stop this… -
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Will This Conservative Activist’s Death Doom the Best Chance to Hold the SPLC Accountable?
D.A. King was well on his way to demonstrating in court that the Southern Poverty Law Center twisted the truth in branding his organization an “anti-immigrant hate group” and placing it on the SPLC “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. A former insurance agent, King started a nonprofit aimed at encouraging Georgia… -
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West Texas Sheriffs: Oil Theft Is a Major Crime Issue
HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas—Law enforcement in West Texas say they don’t have enough manpower to deal with the rise of oil theft. “Everybody's shorthanded,” Sheriff Art Granado of Reeves County told The Daily Signal at the March Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association meeting while explaining the oil theft issue in his community. “There is… -
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Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Will Cost Up to $2 Trillion by 2035, Study Estimates
The Biden-Harris administration’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act will cost up to between $936 billion and $1.97 trillion over the next 10 years, according to a new study from the Cato Institute. Democrats in the House and Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, said to cost $891 billion at the time, without a single Republican vote. Then-President… -
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How Many Tax Dollars Bankrolled Union Efforts to Block Trump?
Your hard-earned tax dollars don't just fund the salaries of federal bureaucrats, they also support public-sector unions who negotiate sweetheart deals between the bureaucrats and management. Federal bureaucrats feverishly renegotiated those deals just before President Donald Trump entered office, attempting to block his reforms. Now, the Trump administration is demanding that each agency provide an… -
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Down to Earth: Trump, Musk Bringing Stranded Astronauts Home
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, two American astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June, are scheduled to touch down on the Gulf Coast near Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. Tuesday. Their successful rescue will be another example of a promise kept by President Donald Trump. The president has made returning… -
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Public Service Worthy of JFK’s Entreaty: Bongino Gave Up Broadcast, Podcast for FBI Post
For many elected and appointed public figures, public service has proved to be extraordinarily lucrative. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Joe Biden and his extended family, and former COVID-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci come to mind in that regard. For conservative talk radio titan Dan Bongino, not so much. In fact, it will be… -
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House Republicans Zero in on 26 ‘Vulnerable’ Democrat Incumbents
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Twenty-six House Democrats have been deemed “vulnerable” in the 2026 midterm elections by the National Republican Congressional Committee, posing a prime opportunity for Republicans to expand their razor-thin margin over Democrats in the House. Five months after Republicans won a government trifecta in 2024, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Democratic Congressional… -
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Vance: The American Economy Is Quitting the ‘Drug’ of Cheap Labor
“Cheap labor,” according to Vice President JD Vance, “inhibits innovation” and is “a drug that too many American firms got addicted to” over previous decades of globalization. “Whether we were offshoring factories to cheap labor economies or importing cheap labor through our immigration system,” Vance continued, “cheap labor became the drug of Western economies.” Vance’s… -
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DOJ Reviewing Lawfare Case of Colorado Election Clerk Tina Peters
The Department of Justice announced in a March 3 court filing that it will conduct a “review” of Colorado’s prosecution of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County election clerk convicted in connection with her efforts to prove election software had been tampered with in the 2020 election. Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser is none too… -
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Trump Ready to Enforce the Death Penalty
WASHINGTON—Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing. Like all defendants, Mangione enters the courtroom with the presumption of innocence. But if a jury finds him guilty of the capital murder of which he… -
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The Fall of Black Lives Matter Plaza
If you’re too young to remember the tearing down of the Berlin Wall or even to realize why it mattered, Washington, D.C., may offer you something that also has symbolic value in the fight for freedom. Black Lives Matter Plaza is being torn up in the nation’s capital. Just like the wall that separated free, capitalist West Berlin from communist… -
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The Trump Counterrevolution’s Next Moves Abroad
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. President Donald Trump caused a stir, again, when he suggested that the recent independence vote in… -
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Ignoring All the President’s Women, Vanity Fair Ludicrously Accuses Trump of Nazi-Style Sexism
For a fresh look at how infantile, indolent, and insane the “Hate Trump” media have become, look no further than Olivia Campbell’s latest finger painting in Vanity Fair. This masterpiece of anti-MAGA madness is headlined “Trump’s New Administration Is Anti-Woman—a Playbook from Nazi-Era Germany.” First things first: This headline writer should don a dunce cap and stand in… -
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Virginia Parties Change Leadership as Nation Eyes Crucial Off-Year Elections
With Virginia’s governor’s mansion and control of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly up for grabs in less than eight months, both the Republican and Democratic parties in Virginia are changing leaders. Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he was nominating Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Rich Anderson to become the assistant secretary… -
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Some FBI Agents Haven’t Gotten the Message Yet on Gender Ideology
UPDATE—March 18, 2025: We have already heard from sources inside the FBI that as soon as this article was published, it was read by senior FBI officials and they immediately took care of the problem. Less than 24 hours after they learned about it. There will be no more questions asked about gender identity in any background investigations…