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EV School Bus Boondoggle: Report Calls $5B Biden-Harris Program a Gift to China
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration’s $5 billion Clean School Bus Program uses up to four times more taxpayer dollars per school bus, and it benefits the Chinese Communist Party, a House report has revealed. The 51-page report from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce found promoting electric school buses and other electric vehicles enriches the… -
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Blinken Ignores Congress, Hobnobs With Elite at UN
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was a no-show at a congressional hearing Tuesday morning, triggering House Republicans to move toward holding the nation’s top diplomat in contempt of Congress. Blinken originally was subpoenaed Sept. 3 by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, for a hearing on the committee’s investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s poorly… -
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Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Orders Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Surgery for Indiana Inmate
A federal judge ruled that the Indiana Department of Corrections must pay for an incarcerated baby murderer to turn his penis into an imitation-vagina, on the pretext that the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the one prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment, requires it. In 2001, 19-year-old Jonathan C. Richardson strangled his 11-month-old stepdaughter while her mother,… -
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Criticism of Project 2025’s Reforms of Federal Election Commission Is Ill-Informed, Dangerous
Those attacking me for my participation in Project 2025, for which I wrote the chapter on how the Federal Election Commission should be run, reveal their dangerous views approving of government overreach and abusive conduct by government law enforcement agencies. There’s no other way to interpret their criticism of me other than their disagreeing with… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Democrats Struggle to Defend Obsession With Project 2025
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Why are Democrats wasting time plotting against a policy agenda called Project 2025 when Donald Trump has his own initiative, dubbed Agenda 47? A woman raised this question in an online webinar hosted Friday by Georgia Democrats, shedding light on the problem with the Left’s obsession with Project 2025. Project 2025… -
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Will Noncitizen Vote Be Decisive in 7 Battleground States? Here Are the Numbers.
Noncitizens number in the hundreds of thousands in each of the seven most fiercely contested battleground states expected to decide the Nov. 5 presidential election, and research suggests more than 1 million of them could vote nationally if past voting patterns continue. Of the seven battleground states, Georgia has the largest number of adult noncitizens… -
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Poll: Sheehy Tops Incumbent Tester in Montana Senate Race
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A new poll shows Republican challenger Tim Sheehy taking the lead over incumbent Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, in the battle for a U.S. Senate seat in Montana that pundits say could determine what party controls the U.S. Senate. Fully 50% of those polled said they would pick Sheehy over Tester… -
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Cease-Fire in Gaza Around Corner, Biden-Harris Admin Claimed. That Hope Proves Elusive.
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Even after multiple assurances from President Joe Biden over recent weeks and months that a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war could be right around the corner, U.S. officials reportedly are privately beginning to concede that Biden won’t be able to help secure a deal before his term ends. Hamas’ terrorist attacks on… -
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Democrats’ Sham ‘Hearing’ Aims to Smear Project 2025
Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign publicly admitted two months ago that it was deliberately misleading voters about Project 2025. Now, House Democrats will join the chorus in feigning outrage. Led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the party’s Steering and Policy Committee—which isn’t an official House committee—plans to hold a fake “hearing” Tuesday about Project… -
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Majority of Democrats Vote Against Bill That Would Deport Sex Offenders
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. House passed a bill last week to deport and make inadmissible criminal foreign nationals convicted of domestic violence and sex-related offenses, including sex crimes against children. It passed with bipartisan support but with the majority of Democrats, 158, voting against it. The bill would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act “to provide that aliens who have been… -
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Bankruptcies Soaring Amid Worrisome Inflationary Economic Pressures
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Small-business bankruptcies are up 61% on the year. It is a cackle-nomics miracle. The data comes from bankruptcy analyst Epiq, which reports that commercial filings for Chapter 11 bankruptcies soared to 4,553 so far this year. Meanwhile, total… -
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9th Circuit Again Drops Ball on Title IX, Males in Women’s Sports
Women and girls seeking equal opportunity in scholastic athletics have notched a few significant wins this year against the Department of Education over its massive rewrite of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is the brief, 50-plus-year-old civil rights law that prevents sex discrimination in any publicly funded education program. The… -
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Debunking the Worst Gun Control ‘Hot Takes’ After Second Trump Assassination Attempt
Donald Trump by all accounts survived another assassination attempt earlier this month when Secret Service agents engaged a rifle-wielding man lying in wait in bushes adjoining a hole at his private golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the former president was playing. As is so often the case after high-profile incidents involving the… -
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WATCH: The Sun Belt Might Outshine the Rust Belt
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we watch the battle for the swing states of the Rust Belt—Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—take Kamala Harris’ campaign’s attention away from the swing states of the Sun Belt—specifically, Arizona and Nevada. Will that refocusing levy a massive shift in the polls—or is this more media humbug… -
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Mom of D1 Volleyball Player ‘Devastated’ Biological Male Athlete Threatening Daughter’s Safety, Opportunities
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The mother of a Division 1 women's volleyball player sent an open letter to university presidents Sunday asking them to support female players who are boycotting a volleyball team with a male player who identifies as transgender. "Safe and fair play in the Mountain West Conference women’s volleyball teams has failed,"… -
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If Elected, Harris Will Carry Biden’s Torch as ‘Most Pro-Union President’
Remember when then-candidate Joe Biden promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen”? It’s been a go-to line during his presidency. And as his term draws to a close, he claims to have delivered. True, under Biden’s leadership, the National Labor Relations Board went after some of the unions’ biggest enemies: Amazon, Starbucks, and American auto manufacturers, for example…. -
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8 Dems Vote With Republicans Against Biden-Harris Admin’s Electric Vehicle Mandate
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The House passed a bill Friday that would overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s de facto electric vehicle mandate if it becomes law. By a 215-191 vote, the House approved H.J. Res. 136, a bill that would vacate the Environmental Protection Agency’s tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty vehicles if it passes the Senate and is signed… -
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2 Women Are Dead After Abortion Drug Complications. The Left’s Bid to Blame Pro-Life Laws Is Dishonest.
Two women in Georgia, along with their unborn children, are dead. If it weren’t for abortion drugs, they might all still be alive. But the abortion industry, the Left, and some in media are blaming Georgia’s abortion law. They’re wrong. Here are the facts of the two tragic cases—and how they could have been prevented…. -
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Goya CEO: ‘No,’ Trump’s Pro-Border Security Agenda Won’t Cost Him Hispanic Vote
Hispanic voters who came to the country legally are “not for people just coming over the border” illegally, Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue says. “No,” Unanue said, when asked whether former President Donald Trump’s border policies would cost him the Hispanic vote in the 2024 presidential election. The CEO is a longtime supporter of Trump… -
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Pro-Abortion Agitators Doxxed Pro-Lifers and Asked for the Names of Their Children Amid Ballot Initiative Battle
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—South Dakota pro-lifers say they experienced physical threats, verbal abuse, doxing, and stalking from a pro-abortion group collecting signatures for its radical referendum ballot measure. Dakotans for Health “used antifa-style actions, lies, and abuse to illegally get Amendment G on the ballot,” according to Chris David, a South Dakota resident and…