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Netanyahu and Trump Discuss Fate of Middle East
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday for the first time since Trump’s return to the White House to discuss national security issues in the Middle East, including Israel’s war with Hamas. At two separate press conferences Tuesday, Trump struck a friendly tone with his Israeli counterpart. “We have the… -
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Vance Addresses Religious Liberty Leaders in Washington
At a time when nongovernmental organizations are under intense scrutiny for what they are doing with federal funding, religious leaders, nonprofit executives, and religious liberty advocates gathered Wednesday to hear Vice President JD Vance articulate the Trump administration’s position on religious freedom. “Now, our administration believes we must stand for religious freedom, not just as… -
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Future of Charter Schools Jeopardized by Their Own Political Shortsightedness
A decade ago, charter schools were heralded as the crowning achievement of bipartisan education reform efforts. But during last week’s National School Choice Week observations, charters were barely an afterthought, their political energy having been largely reappropriated to newer, more robust systems of school choice. The future of the charter school movement is likely to be… -
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Ted Cruz Rips Into USAID Partnership With George Soros
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, slammed the U.S. Agency for International Development after The Daily Signal highlighted its longstanding partnership with the leftist funding network established by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros. “It is no surprise that the woke leftists running USAID had the same priorities as George Soros and his global… -
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TOO GENEROUS? Poll Finds Most Americans Back Trump’s Bureaucrat Buyout Plan, But There’s a Catch
While government unions have been up in arms about President Donald Trump’s off-ramp for federal bureaucrats who may not want to serve in his administration or return to the office in person, a new poll shows that Americans generally support his move. When asked whether they favor the Trump administration’s order that all federal employees… -
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Biden Admin Filled Terrorist Coffers With Over $1.3 Billion Before Trump Took Wrecking Ball to Foreign Aid
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism. Federal watchdog reports and other documents show former President Joe Biden’s aid programs funneled the money toward a network of terrorism in the Muslim world—largely by reversing Trump-era policies. National security experts told… -
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MAGA Agenda on the Line as Cabinet Picks Move to the Senate Floor
Some of President Donald Trump’s most contentious Cabinet picks are facing crucial votes this week after a string of hearings that saw senators on both sides of the aisle grill nominees on key issues, including abortion, vaccines, and immigration. With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination passing out of committee by a 14-13 margin Tuesday morning… -
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When the FAA and DEI Don’t Mix
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. I’d like to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion. [President] Donald Trump caused a firestorm in the aftermath of this horrific and tragic crash at… -
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Trump: US Will ‘Take Over the Gaza Strip’
The U.S. will “take over the Gaza Strip,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday night while speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. “We’ll own it,” Trump said of the Gaza Strip, adding that the U.S. will “be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on… -
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Trump’s Freeze of USAID Is a Blow to Global Leftist Empire
The Trump administration is putting a stick of dynamite under the deep state, and Democrats are apoplectic. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump put nearly all District of Columbia-based employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave. According to Politico, this amounts to about 1,400 people in addition to 600 employees who were put on… -
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants Us to Forgive, Forget Facebook’s Sins
Mark Zuckerberg is waging a charm offensive. His company, Meta, just agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed back in 2021 after being suspended by Facebook and Instagram. The settlement comes on the heels of Zuckerberg’s attendance at Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Meta’s purported shift away from… -
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Birthright Citizenship: The Legal Debate Heats Up
Legal experts are debating the interpretation of the 14th Amendment inside and outside of courtrooms this week. The amendment has often been interpreted to mean anyone born in the United States is automatically a U.S. citizen, and yet its interpretation may not be that simple, according to Kurt Lash, professor at the University of Richmond School… -
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Here’s How Trump’s Move on USAID Will Impact George Soros’ Funding Empire
By pausing foreign funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, President Donald Trump has dealt a major blow to the ecosystem of nonprofits that promote woke ideology against America’s interests. It is no accident that USAID’s funding has dovetailed with the grantmaking of leftist billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations—and the foreign funding pause… -
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Here’s How Senate Republicans Respond to California’s Devastating Wildfires
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Senate Republicans are working to eliminate the environmental regulations they think contributed to the devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires last month. In response to the wildfires, which devastated more than 60 square miles of Southern California, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., joining two other senators, introduced two measures Tuesday intended to… -
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Trump Works to End California’s Man-Made Drought
California Democrats want fire victims to sue oil and gas companies. President Donald Trump wants them to have access to more water. After surveying the wildfire damage in Los Angeles, Trump issued an executive order to “ensure adequate water resources in Southern California.” He cited the problems with fire hydrants running dry and empty reservoirs…. -
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What New DNC Leadership Says About Direction of Democratic Party
After bizarre and inadvertently comical candidate forums, the Democratic National Committee elected Kenneth Martin to be its next chairman and gun control advocate David Hogg to be one of its new vice chairs. While the DNC boasted of its racial, sexual, and gender diversity (and its quota system to fill party leadership roles), DNC voters… -
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Venezuela Agrees to Take Back Its Citizens, Releases US Prisoners
THE CENTER SQUARE—Eleven days after President Donald Trump took office, the Venezuelan government agreed to take back its citizens who illegally entered the U.S., including violent members of Tren de Aragua, and released six U.S. citizens who had been held in Venezuelan prisons. Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions, went to Venezuela to collect six… -
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Trump Knows How to Win Trade Wars Before the First Shot Is Fired
Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing with tariffs. Everyone else is baffled: Why did the president announce heavy taxes on imports from Canada as well as Mexico and China? America has an obvious interest in economic decoupling from China, a great-power rival. And by first imposing and then suspending tariffs on Mexican imports, Trump… -
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By the Numbers: Sen. Ron Johnson Outlines Balanced Budget Proposal
Returning to a balanced budget is feasible if the United States would return to pre-COVID-19-era spending levels, said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a member of the Senate Budget Committee. He cited spending levels under President Bill Clinton and has said the rate of increase should be based on population and the rate of inflation, barring… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New Bill Targets Foreign Interference in Education
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., introduced a bill Tuesday to require universities to disclose any contracts they have with foreign adversaries to the federal Department of Education. The No Contracts for Foreign Adversaries Act would mandate that universities alert the Education Department of relationships with China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran in…