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Thousands of Unaccompanied Minors Now Victims of ‘Taxpayer-Funded Child Slavery’
THE WASHINGTON STAND—Data collected between February of 2021 and January of 2024 revealed “464,922 [unaccompanied] children have been encountered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection police nationwide.” Some experts, such as those from the child immigrant aid organization Kids in Need of Defense, have explained this surplus of unaccompanied minors was “expected” and likely due to “U.S. measures implemented… -
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Some ‘Affirmative’ Conservative Solutions to Big Tech Dangers
Machines can’t have the “divine spark” of humans, but Americans can make machines “with our values,” a Heritage Foundation technology expert said last week at the National Conservatism Conference in the nation’s capital. “Conservatives must offer our own affirmative vision for AI,” said Kara Frederick, director of Heritage’s Tech Policy Center, referring to artificial intelligence… -
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Project 2025 Represents ‘Forgotten Americans,’ Reduces Washington’s Influence, Roberts Says
The real purpose of The Heritage Foundation’s policy and personnel plan for the next conservative president is to speak on behalf of forgotten Americans, Heritage President Kevin Roberts said Monday at the leading think tank’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “You might say that the real purpose of this huge, broad-scale effort,… -
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BREAKING: Trump Picks JD Vance as His Running Mate
MILWAUKEE—Former President Donald Trump selected Sen. JD Vance, an Ohio Republican, as his running mate in the Nov. 5 presidential election. Trump made the announcement Monday on Truth Social. “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of… -
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‘MANIPULATION’: Sen. Mike Lee Dismisses Biden’s Calls for Unity After Trump Shot
President Joe Biden’s “unity” rhetoric after the attempted assassination Saturday of former President Donald Trump is “manipulation,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said Monday. Biden had a “missed opportunity” Sunday night to truly unite the country, Lee said during a panel discussion at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Lee’s… -
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Ramaswamy Says US Could Have Had ‘Civil War’ If Trump Killed, Seriously Wounded
MILWAUKEE—Vivek Ramaswamy believes the United States may have fallen into a “civil war” if former President Donald Trump had been more seriously wounded or died. Speaking to the press after his speech at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention on Monday, the former Republican presidential candidate discussed the Saturday shooting at… -
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‘REVIVAL OF 1776’: Dismantling Administrative State Will Be ‘Modern Declaration of Independence,’ Ramaswamy Says
The next president needs to eliminate the federal government’s administrative state, entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Monday at The Heritage Foundation’s Policy Fest at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “We don’t want to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state,” Ramaswamy said. “We want to dismantle that… -
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UPDATED: Trump Documents Case Dismissed
UPDATED 7 p.m. Eastern—A federal judge in Florida on Monday dismissed the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, saying the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith as a prosecutor for the case violated the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution. Smith’s office announced it would appeal the ruling. Trump faced charges of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Parents Outraged by School District’s Plan to Conceal Students’ Gender Identity
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Southern California school district trains counselors to help students hide their transgender identity from their concerned parents, according to documents obtained by The Daily Signal. Capistrano Unified School District in southern Orange County, California, allows students to change their name and gender in school records without parental permission. The Individual… -
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2 Components Necessary for a Prosperous Society
The success of America is, at least in part, dependent upon its citizens’ ability to “self-govern,” John Stonestreet says. “Faith and family are the most obvious” ingredients required for people to be able to govern themselves, says Stonestreet, president of the nonprofit Colson Center and host of the “Breakpoint” podcast. The Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Colson… -
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Biden Compares Trump Assassination Attempt to Jan. 6
President Joe Biden likened the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband in his public address to the nation Sunday night. “We cannot, we must not, go down this road in America,” Biden said from the Oval Office. He continued: We’ve… -
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Garland, Wray Vow Dogged Investigation in Attempted Assassination of Trump
Leaders of the Biden administration’s Justice Department and FBI, both agencies that have pursued Donald Trump relentlessly for various alleged misdeeds, vowed Sunday that they would aggressively investigate the attempted assassination of the 45th president. The Justice Department “has no tolerance” for political violence, Attorney General Merrick Garland, who heads the agency, said in his… -
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What a Trump Rally Attendee Saw During and After Shooting
The Daily Caller News Foundation—A special guest invited by former President Donald Trump’s team to his Pennsylvania rally provided the Daily Caller News Foundation videos he took as gunfire erupted in a failed assassination attempt against the GOP’s presumptive nominee. Benjamin Shrader, who is an event coordinator and CEO of Shrader Promotions LLC, was invited… -
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GoFundMe for Trump Rally Shooting Victims Raises More Than $3 Million
Editor’s note: As of Sunday evening, the total raised is more than $3.1 million. The Daily Caller News Foundation—The GoFundMe campaign raising money for victims of the shooting at former President Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally raised more than $2 million in 14 hours, according to the fundraising website. The fundraiser titled “Support For Butler PA… -
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Dem Staffer Said Shooter Shouldn’t ‘Miss Next Time.’ Her Boss Wanted to Strip Trump’s Secret Service Protection
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, filed a bill to revoke Secret Service protection from convicted felons sentenced to prison as former President Donald Trump faced numerous felony prosecutions. Although Thompson condemned the assassination attempt Saturday evening on Trump, he didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on whether he still supports the bill…. -
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What Biden Posted on X Hours Before Trump Shooting
Twenty-four hours before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, the 2024 presidential election was in full swing. Here’s some of what President Joe Biden was posting on X in the hours before Trump was shot. Biden seemingly likened Trump to a dictator in a post on his personal account… -
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Trump May Have ‘Staged’ Own Shooting, Dem Adviser Tells Reporters
Dmitri Mehlhorn, the top political adviser to tech entrepreneur and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, pushed reporters to consider Saturday’s attempted assassination on Donald Trump as “encouraged and maybe even staged,” according to a leaked email, Semafor reports. In an email sent to journalists at 7:34 p.m. Saturday, just over an hour after Trump was shot… -
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Eerie Parallels: Trump’s Shooting Echoes Teddy Roosevelt’s in 1912
The former president with a larger-than-life personality—out of office for four years and with a long list of enemies—campaigns for another term and has a close call with a would-be assassin. The former president, despite visible bleeding, not only survives the attempt on his life, but exhibits a strong show of strength, rallying his supporters…. -
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Secret Service Director Put Focus on Diversity
Kimberly Cheatle director of the U.S. Secret Service, has some explaining to do after a gunman nearly completed an assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally Saturday evening in Pennsylvania. As The Daily Signal’s executive editor Rob Bluey wrote, eyewitnesses said they attempted to warn authorities about the shooter on a nearby… -
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Sniper Victim at Trump Rally Identified, Died Shielding His Family
The man who was shot and killed during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump has been identified as former fire chief Corey Comperatore. The Associated Press reports former fire chief’s wife told Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro that Comperatore “dove on his family to protect them.” “Corey was a girl dad. Corey was a firefighter. Corey…