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Trump’s VOA Pick Kari Lake Also Named Adviser to Global Media Agency
Kari Lake, who is President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Voice of America, will become a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the VOA. The acting U.S. Agency for Global Media chief, Roman Napoli, announced Lake’s arrival in an email to the staff, VOA reported Friday, that read, “As…Fred Lucas -
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Restoring Trust in Public Health: Next Time, Don’t Close Schools Needlessly in a Pandemic
This is the third in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,…Robert Moffit -
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Yes, Every Noncitizen in the US Should Register: The BorderLine
President Donald Trump has lost no time keeping his promises to secure the border, curtail illegal immigration, and enforce our immigration laws. He has signed a series of executive orders, appointed an experienced Cabinet and White House team for immigration policy, and undone former President Joe Biden’s open border policies like mass release, mass parole,…Simon Hankinson -
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3 Reasons Why the Creative Destruction of DOGE Is Just What DC Needs
It seems that the Department of Government Efficiency is evil and bad for America. Elon Musk, the godfather of DOGE, has celebrated cutting the federal government with a chainsaw. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., has described DOGE as “the Elon Musk chainsaw massacre.” As DOGE moves through the federal government, workers have lost their jobs, federal…Tyler O’Neil -
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Barnard College’s Jihadist Problem Is a Trump Opportunity
As Israel buried a mother and her two babies—Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas—who had been kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian jihadists, students at the Barnard College in New York City rallied on Wednesday in support of the jihadists. Keffiyeh-clad campus radicals violently stormed into university buildings while chanting Nazi-inspired Hamas slogans calling for the ethnic…Jason Bedrick -
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‘It’s Just Common Sense,’ Virginia AG Says of Governor’s Order Requiring Law Enforcement to Cooperate With ICE
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed an executive order requiring all cities and counties in the commonwealth to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It's just common sense that our law enforcement, our state and local law enforcement, are working with—instead of against—our federal authorities,” Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares told The Daily Signal…Virginia Allen -
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EXCLUSIVE: ADF Investigates Free Speech Violations by US Science Agency
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A religious liberty law firm has launched an investigation into censorship of Americans’ free speech within the government’s science agency. Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Free Speech filed two public records requests shared with The Daily Signal to federal government agencies seeking information related to possible free speech violations within the…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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‘Either Joe or Hunter’: Trump Says He Wants to Find Real Story Behind White House Cocaine
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump said in an interview published Friday that he suspects a member of the Biden family was responsible for leaving a bag of cocaine in the White House in July 2023. The discovery of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House quickly became a national scandal, with speculation running rampant as to…Nick Pope -
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House vs. Senate: GOP’s Budgetary Tug-of-War Begins in Earnest
After the passage of the House of Representatives’ budget resolution on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers face a major challenge: getting Senate Republicans to sign off on the plan without making too many changes so as to make it impossible to pass when it comes back to the House. This complicated game of legislative sudoku will require…George Caldwell -
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At Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vance Praises Pope, Suggests Avoiding Media Controversies
Vice President JD Vance on Friday addressed his relationship with the Catholic faith and Pope Francis at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Vance also discussed the elephant in the room about his relationship with the head of the Catholic Church, who nearly died this week. “We are not called as Christians to obsess over every…Jacob Adams -
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Jeff Bezos Launches Intervention at Washington Post
WASHINGTON—Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sent a wake-up call to Big Media Wednesday when he announced on X “a change coming to our opinion pages.” “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos explained. “We’ll cover other topics too of course, but…Debra Saunders -
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The Censors Are Coming
If you think that regimes trying to control their people through suppressing expression the government doesn’t like only happens in “those” parts of the world, think again. From the U.K. and Canada to Australia, the powers that be are steadily promoting their agenda by censoring and punishing contrary views. And the censors are heading our…Thomas Jipping -
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How the Biden Admin Interfered in Poland’s Elections to Shift Our Ally Leftward
When JD Vance was still a senator, in January 2024, he lamented on X: “Until recently, Poland had a conservative government. Using a lot of diplomatic and economic pressure, the Biden administration (and many European nations) attacked that government as anti-democracy. … In the name of protecting democracy, they are using your tax dollars to…Filip Styczynski -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Caused the Counterrevolution?
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars…Victor Davis Hanson -
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It’s Time to End the War Between Ukraine and Russia
Three years have now passed since war broke out between Russia and Ukraine. The toll this needless conflict has taken is unbearable and needless. From the onset, I have opposed every single penny of American taxpayer dollars to fund the proxy war. Let me be clear: I feel no animus toward the Ukrainian people, nor…Rep. Paul Gosar -
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The Left’s DOGE Tantrum
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 lot of commotion lately about the Elon Musk cuts and the Donald Trump…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Money Trails and Backgrounds of 10 Democrat-Appointed Judges Blocking Trump Policies
Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. These judges have issued rulings to block Trump’s policies on immigration, federal spending, the Department…Fred Lucas -
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71% of Americans Favor Removing Illegals From Medicaid, Adding Work Requirements
As Congress considers a transformational budget bill that can pass the Senate with just 51 votes instead of 60 through the process of reconciliation, a recent poll finds that nearly three-quarters of Americans support reforms to Medicaid, one of the major entitlement programs that takes up a large percentage of federal spending. "A proposal has…Tyler O’Neil -
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Bondi Demands FBI Give Her Missing Epstein Documents
Attorney General Pam Bondi is demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel turn over additional documents related to the activities of human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, after social media influencers received some documents related to his case Thursday. Saying she had requested “the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein,” Bondi alleged in a letter to…George Caldwell -
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Surprise Chinese Naval Drills Spark Midair Chaos, Escalate Tensions With US and Allies
In yet another provocation of U.S. allies, China conducted live-fire naval drills in international waters on Friday without providing adequate notice, causing nearly 50 commercial flights to suddenly alter their courses in midair to avoid the area. Typically, warnings are given 12-24 hours in advance to allow airlines to adjust flight paths—China gave no warning…Anna Gustafson