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    This Group Is Suing Trump Admin After Cuts to Refugee Program Slush Fund

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the State Department cutting funding for refugee assistance. The lawsuit alleges USCCB “faces irreparable damage” due to the loss of funds, with millions of dollars already spent on nearly 7,000 refugees that will no longer be reimbursed following the Jan. 24 refugee…
    Jaryn Crouson
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    The First ‘Mini-Me’ Executive Branch Case Gets to the Supreme Court on an Emergency Appeal

    The first case involving judicial interference in the president’s executive authority has reached the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal filed over President Donald Trump’s firing of Hampton Dellinger, the Biden-appointed head of the Office of Special Counsel. In what acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris rightly calls an “unprecedented assault on the separation of powers”…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘They Took Away My Humanity’: Former Hostage Tells Her Story

    About 450 days ago, Ilana Gritzewsky was set free after spending 55 days in captivity in Gaza, but she says a part of her never returned home.   “My body returned, but my soul remains trapped,” Gritzewsky said while speaking at an event at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “I always feel that I am not…
    Virginia Allen
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    FDA’s ‘Drug Safety Priorities’ Working Group Politicized Under Biden Administration

    America’s Food and Drug Administration leadership has been making decisions based on ideology, not drug safety. Back in the early 2000s, the FDA launched the Safety First Steering Committee. It was created to address the safety concerns of marketed drugs of noteworthy concern to Americans. Today, the acronym is still found ubiquitously throughout FDA documents,…
    David Gortler
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    Documents Show How Biden’s State Dept Ignored Warnings About Funding Hamas-Linked UN Organization

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Among the many actions President Donald Trump took during his eventful first two weeks was ruling out any resumption of American funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency—again. In his executive order announcing the decision, he noted, “UNRWA has reportedly been infiltrated by members of groups long designated by the Secretary of State (Secretary) as…
    Michael Chamberlain
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    ‘DEI Isn’t for Us’: Some Black-Owned Businesses Say Diversity Policies Don’t Work

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Some black-owned businesses are blowing the whistle on diversity, equity and inclusion policies, telling Reuters that the initiatives have not been effective in helping out black people and other minority business owners. Black business owners are now saying that they have not benefited much from diversity efforts intended to help them, and…
    Ireland Owens
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    The Next Big Trial Lawyer Bankruptcy Shakedown

    A Texas bankruptcy case is on the verge of paying out billions to cancer patients and others who have health claims relating to talc, which is used in products like makeup and baby powder. But on the eve of final approval, there is a frantic effort by a set of trial lawyers to hold up…
    O.H. Skinner
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    The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Restore Trump’s Authority Amid an Onslaught of Leftist Lawfare

    Is Donald Trump a president in name only? The very idea seems absurd, but federal judges have issued injunction after injunction after injunction, blocking the president’s ability to exercise executive authority—the very authority the Constitution clearly vests in him. Trump has appealed one of these injunctions to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    500 Days in Captivity: The Plight of the Hamas Hostages

    Editor’s note: Feb. 17, 2025, marked 500 days in captivity for the remaining 76 of the 250 hostages taken when Hamas terrorists struck southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and killed over 1,200 people. The Heritage Foundation hosted an event marking those 500 days on Tuesday, hearing from family members of those still held hostage…
    Victoria Coates
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    Paralyzed but Undeterred: Dennis Prager Fights to Get Back on the Air

    Nationally syndicated radio host Dennis Prager says he hopes to return to the radio soon after sustaining a serious injury in November, according to his family and colleagues. That could also mean his weekly columns might be returning to The Daily Signal, too, as Prager is a longtime favorite of Daily Signal readers. “When you…
    Moira Gleason
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    ‘Trump Effect’: Illegal Border Crossings Could Be on Track to Hit Near 50-Year Low

    The White House has touted January’s 36% decline in border apprehensions—the lowest number of illegal aliens apprehended along the border in almost five years—as the “Trump effect.” That total includes 29,116 apprehended at the border outside of official ports of entry, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That’s the lowest since May 2020. And…
    Fred Lucas
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    Legacy Media Goes All in on Europe’s Censorship Regimes

    It says a lot about America’s fast fading legacy media establishment leaders that they’ve decided to use up the last shreds of their credibility to glorify censorship. This dynamic is exactly what’s been playing out following Vice President JD Vance’s speech in Munich, Germany, on Friday. In that speech, he excoriated European governments for, among other things, retreating…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    JD Vance’s Message to European Leaders: Listen to Your People, Don’t Go Hard Left

    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 has been a maelstrom of controversy about Vice President JD Vance. Last week he spoke…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Conservatives Express Support for Colby for Pentagon Post

    Elbridge Colby, nominated to be undersecretary of defense for policy, received robust support from conservative Republicans over the weekend after there was some online discussion of potential Senate holdouts on his confirmation over previously expressed views on Iran. Colby is set to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee at a to-be-determined date for a…
    Jacob Adams
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    Patel, Stefanik, McMahon Among Picks Awaiting Senate OK

    Just short of a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, the Senate has already confirmed the vast majority of Trump’s top Cabinet nominees.  Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., celebrated the feverish pace of the confirmations, writing on X, “The liberal media told you [Tulsi Gabbard’s, Pete Hegseth’s, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s] Cabinet nominations were…
    George Caldwell
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    New Guidance Seeks to End Use of ‘Race Preferences, Stereotypes’ in School Admissions

    THE CENTER SQUARE—Though there has been talk of President Donald Trump abolishing the U.S. Department of Education through an executive order, for now, he’s chosen to act through existing means to refashion the department. On Tuesday, the department notified schools that they have 14 days to end all admissions, scholarship, discipline, and employment practices that…
    Morgan Sweeney
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    Key Judicial Body Does Sheldon Whitehouse’s Dirty Work With Proposed Changes to Amicus Disclosure Rules

    Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has declared war on the judicial branch. Among his many complaints, he has insinuated without proof that judicial opinions he disagrees with are influenced by amicus—“friend of court”—briefs entangled in webs of dark money. To combat this supposed problem, he has pushed for onerous disclosure requirements that would essentially reveal everyone…
    Zack Smith
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    Defensive Gun Uses Show Faulty Premise of California Gun Laws

    As wildfires raged last month in California, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, often with just minutes of warning. To make matters worse, looters took advantage of the chaos and lack of police resources, showing up in droves to ransack evacuated areas—sometimes as helpless residents looked on in horror as…
    Amy Swearer
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    Trump Puts Anti-Fraud Expert in Charge of Social Security After Acting Chief Quits in DOGE Clash

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump appointed a fraud detection expert to lead the Social Security Administration after its acting commissioner reportedly resigned following a dispute over access to sensitive documents, according to The Washington Post. Leland Dudek, who manages SSA’s anti-fraud office, will serve as acting commissioner while the Senate vets Frank Bisignano, Trump’s…
    Thomas English
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    Blacklisted Book on Transgender Movement Restored by Amazon

    The online commerce behemoth Amazon has announced that it will be relisting “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement,” a bestselling and influential book critical of the transgender movement that had been delisted at the behest of LGBTQ+ activists. The move comes as President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders…
    Jacob Adams
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