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Legal Settlement Exonerates Sailors Kicked Out Over COVID-19 Vaccine
A recent settlement protecting about 4,300 Navy sailors from being negatively affected by COVID-19 policies in the future is the latest example of how the consequences of the pandemic are still unfolding—specifically in terms of how the military dealt with it. An estimated “80,000 to 100,000 service members—both active-duty and reservists … were impacted by the… -
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Is Kamala Harris Working With Servile Journalists to Polish the Spin on Their Stories?
It’s funny how journalists admit Vice President Kamala Harris is getting a media honeymoon, and then deny it means anything. Ben Smith at Semafor sent an email noting “Republican fury” at the gushy pro-Kamala bias and claiming, “But who are we, and Republicans, kidding? I wish we had that kind of power. The news media can’t make… -
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Japan’s Population Implosion Is an Economic Time Bomb
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Japan is running out of people. It will get worse—and we’re next. Last week, Japan’s government announced the country lost 861,000 people last year as the country’s fertility rate—the average number of babies a woman is expected to… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Organization Fighting Radical Gender Ideology in California Sues School District for Withholding Public Records
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The nonprofit that has been exposing radical gender ideology in California filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the public school district in Burbank, California, for failing to comply with state law by providing requested documents. Burbank Unified School District, in Los Angeles County, hasn’t responded to the Center for American Liberty’s repeated… -
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Bias Lurks in Study Linking Bronchitis in Children With Poor Air Quality
A new study by a team of University of Southern California researchers claims that children exposed to poor air quality are at greater risk of (self-reported) bronchitis symptoms than are adults. But this health claim is tenuous. Published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the study uses data sets from a… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Parents Petition Denver Schools to Stop ‘Seal of Diversity’ Program
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Denver high school allows students to take classes such as Queer Literature and Gender Studies to earn a “Seal of Diversity” award. Students can submit a short, five-minute application to be part of the program, then take “diversity, equity, and inclusion”-related classes and engage with a DEI-related club or organization… -
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Why ‘the Right Side of History’ Is Often Wrong
We are living in unprecedented times. That statement is always true, but as events around us continue to unfold, it’s difficult to awaken each morning without wondering what development of the day will become history in the making. Unanticipated incidents, be they acts of God or assassination attempts, define themselves. Others, from proposed legislation to… -
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Far-Left Donors Aim to Buy the Evangelical Vote, Author Megan Basham Says
Left-wing groups donate to organizations considered Christian in an attempt to control the evangelical vote, says Megan Basham, author of the new book “Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda.” “We have to look at the fact that this is rightly called America’s most powerful voting bloc, and they… -
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Olympics Opening Ceremony Was Far More Serious Than ‘Offensive’
I am a Jew, not a Christian. Yet I found loathsome the mockery of the Last Supper—one of the holiest scenes in the New Testament—during the opening of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In fact, it is actually troubling to constantly read the words, “Many Christians are offended”—as if only Christians are offended by France’s… -
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WATCH: ‘US Leaderless as World Burns’
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we examine a few key details about the escalation of conflict in the Middle East as missiles fly from Iraq and jets are seen flying north to Lebanon from Israel in apparent retaliation for the Hezbollah attack that killed 12 Israeli children. Young Voices state beat… -
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Acting Secret Service Chief Said to Have Played Key Role in Limiting Resources for Trump
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including countersnipers, to former President Donald Trump’s rallies and events—despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making…. -
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The Ineffectiveness of Proposed New Gun Controls After Attempt to Kill Trump
Almost immediately after a gunman tried to kill Donald Trump as he spoke July 13 at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, gun control zealots twisted the assassination attempt into an opportunity to blame the Second Amendment and lawful gun owners. They, as they so often do in the aftermath of any national news story… -
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6 Takeaways From Senate Hearing on Trump Assassination Attempt
Top FBI and Secret Service officials testified Tuesday about security failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump 17 days earlier. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a rare joint hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee that featured testimony from the Secret Service’s acting director, Ronald L. Rowe…. -
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Anti-Israel Activist Laments That Overseas Palestinian Groups Are ‘Criminalized’
An organizer for a prominent anti-Israel group complains that some “Palestinian political organizations” that he considers allies have been “criminalized.” His group doesn’t say which ones, though. Mohammed Nabulsi, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, appeared to refer to organizations internationally recognized as foreign terrorist groups during an interview with the International Journal of… -
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Pete Buttigieg: Abortion Makes Men ‘More Free’
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg argued Monday evening that abortion makes men “more free,” prompting quick criticism from pro-life commentators on the right. Buttigieg spoke during an online #WhiteDudesForKamala event where he praised Vice President Kamala Harris for focusing on freedom in her presidential campaign. President Joe Biden endorsed Harris as the next Democratic… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Woke Caucus Says White House Must Clarify Stance on Trans Surgeries for Kids
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to clarify the stance of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ administration regarding irreversible gender-transition surgeries for kids. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., the chairman of the Anti-Woke Caucus, sent a letter to Becerra on Tuesday co-signed by GOP… -
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Beyond Taiwan: Decoding China’s Unprecedented Military Posturing
As Americans focus on the presidential election campaign and domestic political uncertainty, China’s large-scale military exercises loom on the horizon after an unusually provocative summer of such activity. Tensions across the Taiwan Strait simmer and a standoff with the Philippines persists in the South China Sea, and China is becoming more direct with America and… -
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House Bill Would Codify Sex as Male and Female, Not Gender Identity or Expression
A Republican congresswoman from Illinois has introduced a bill to clearly define sex based on biology, rather than ideology. “As a mother and grandmother, I am deeply concerned by the Biden administration’s illegal rewrite of Title IX, endangering our daughters and granddaughters in sports and locker rooms,” Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., told The Daily Signal…. -
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There Is No Substance in Kamala Harris’ Campaign
Is Kamala Harris running for president or prom queen? Superficiality is nothing new in American politics, and Donald Trump certainly knows how to use playground tactics—like tagging opponents with childish, yet effectively humiliating, nicknames. Trump is about much more than taunts, however. From immigration to foreign policy and everywhere in between, he’s staked out clear… -
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Young Adults Still Living at Home With Parents at Highest Rate in Nearly 85 Years
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. The share of young adults still living with their parents just hit its highest level since 1940. Of course, in 1940, they lived at home because they were saving themselves for a good [husband or wife]. Today, they…