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Fact-Checking Claims Made in Trump-Harris Debate
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off Tuesday night for their first, and possibly only, debate before the Nov. 5 presidential election. The matchup was hosted by ABC News and moderated by ABC News anchors David Muir and Linsey Davis. The debate took place at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia…. -
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House Probes Noncitizen Voting. Here Are 4 Big Takeaways.
Tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote and have voted, House members and testifying experts asserted Tuesday. A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday, titled “The Biden-Harris Border Crisis: Noncitizen Voting,” that examined noncitizen voting and the nation’s porous border. The hearing comes as House Republicans push to include safeguards to ensure that… -
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Why America’s Soaring Debt Is Biggest Threat to US Dollar
The United States’ federal debt has soared to $35.3 trillion. In less than a year, the federal government has increased that debt by $1.9 trillion. That occurred during years of record tax revenues and acceptable economic growth. If the current administration remains in power, the Treasury’s own estimates predict an additional $16 trillion increase in… -
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Biden-Harris Admin Ships Auto Jobs to China
A new report by America First Policy Institute concludes that 123,000 autoworkers could lose their jobs due to the Biden-Harris administration’s regulations requiring 70% of new cars sold to be electric by 2032. Banning all sales of gasoline-powered cars, as California and 15 other states have proposed, would result in almost 200,000 lost automaker jobs—primarily… -
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‘We Will Codify Roe v. Wade’ by ‘Fixing’ the Filibuster, Cruz’s Democratic Rival Says
Rep. Colin Allred, the Texas Democrat challenging Sen. Ted Cruz in November, said he would support “fixing” the filibuster in part so that a hypothetical Democratic-majority Senate could pass an abortion bill that he claims would codify the Supreme Court’s 1971 Roe v. Wade abortion decision. Tim Miller, a former Republican and podcast host for… -
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Trump, Harris Prepare to Square Off in High-Stakes Debate
Donald Trump will square off Tuesday night against Kamala Harris in Philadelphia in what could be the only debate between the two major parties’ presidential nominees. The stakes of the Harris-Trump debate couldn’t be higher. For Harris, the current vice president, it could be her best chance to put the Trump era in the rearview… -
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Attending Church Regularly Will Lengthen Your Life More Than Diet, Exercise, Longevity Expert Says
Attending church services may open the door to eternal life—but it will also extend your life on Earth more than diet or exercise, according to the foremost expert on global longevity. Dan Buettner, who won three Emmy Awards for his groundbreaking 2023 documentary “Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones,” revealed the deep benefits that faith… -
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Cuomo Should Pay—Big League—for His Trump-Hating COVID-19 Lies
No corner of hell is fiery enough to give former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo the roasting he deserves. Engineering thousands of deaths from COVID-19 was not enough. Now the disgraced Democrat deceptively blames his lethal sins on someone who offered help: President Donald J. Trump. Cuomo, who resigned in August 2021 after sexually harassing… -
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‘Potential for Abuse’: Kamala’s Debate Prep With Lead Google Attorney Sets Off Alarm Bells
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The attorney helping Vice President Kamala Harris with debate preparation is also defending Google from the antitrust lawsuit brought by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, which government transparency advocates say presents a conflict of interest. Karen Dunn, who is helping Harris prepare for today’s debate against former President Donald Trump, gave the opening statement Monday during Google’s… -
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What to Watch for During Trump-Harris Debate Showdown
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will confront one another in person for the first time Tuesday evening as they face off during the presidential debate on ABC. Though the second presidential debate of the season for Trump, this will be Harris’ first time going toe-to-toe with Trump after President Joe Biden… -
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Hey, Kamala: Leave Them Kids Alone
As summer ends, students across the country are making their way back to school and into classrooms. Some parents and students find this time of year to be an exciting prospect. For many others, however, it has become concerning. And rightfully so. During COVID-19, many people witnessed firsthand what students were being exposed to in… -
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These 2 Freedom Caucus Lawmakers Say They Won’t Support Spending Package Without SAVE Act
Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Chip Roy, R-Texas, said they will only vote for the continuing resolution to fund the federal government beyond the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 if it includes the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voting. “It’s not enough to say it’s illegal,” Roy told… -
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FACT CHECK: Kamala Harris Campaign Platform Makes Promises Based on False Assumptions
Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats’ nominee for president, finally released her policy platform Monday, a day before her first debate with former President Donald Trump. The Harris platform makes various claims about the root causes of issues faced by America and the way Harris plans to address those issues. The claims underlying her policy promises are… -
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TRIGGER WARNING: YouTube Slaps Suicide-Risk Warning on Daily Signal Video
At 3:40 a.m. Monday morning, The Daily Signal received an email from YouTube alerting it that the trailer for a mini-documentary on a victim of gender ideology in California was flagged for mentioning “suicide or self-harm topics.” The video, “California Stole My Rights,” now displays a warning screen that would-be viewers must manually bypass to… -
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When These Battleground States Are Mailing Out Ballots and How That Could Affect Election Results
Just one battleground state was set to mail out absentee ballots before the presidential debate on Tuesday—but that timeline has been pushed back because of litigation surrounding Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ballot status. In North Carolina, ballots can be mailed up to 60 days before the election. It was the lone state where voting was… -
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‘Optics Over Security’: House Committee Faults Biden-Harris Admin for Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal in New Report
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The House Foreign Affairs Committee released a report on Sunday detailing the Biden-Harris administration’s failures that led to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal in August 2021. The Biden-Harris administration failed to properly coordinate and adhere to recommendations from NATO and senior military officials regarding the withdrawal, endangering American troops and resulting in the Abbey… -
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Kamala Harris’ Banana Republic on Free Speech
In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that social media companies “are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop.” Does it? Every two-bit authoritarian in history has justified censoring its citizens as a way of protecting them from the… -
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TAKEN: California Took Away a Widow’s Teenage Daughter to Transition Her
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A mother in California lost her daughter to the foster care system in 2016 after she wouldn’t support the then-14-year-old girl identifying as a boy. “I lost my husband, but this was worse than losing my husband, because I had my rights taken away,” the mother told The Daily Signal. Years… -
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The House GOP’s Barrage Against Harris, Walz
As Congress prepares to come back from August recess with less than two months before the Nov. 5 presidential election, House Republicans are taking aim at the Democratic ticket through a flurry of investigations and hearings. With only three weeks of the congressional session left before Vice President Kamala Harris squares off against former President… -
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Why Have Europe’s Economies Flatlined Since 2008?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. New numbers say the European Union has joined Japan in the “lost decades” brigade, with per-person gross domestic product in dollar terms nearly flat since 2008. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, while disposable household…