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Maryland Sheriff Blames Biden Border Policies for Local Mother’s Murder
The Biden administration’s open-border policies allowed an illegal alien to rape and kill Maryland resident Rachel Morin, a mother of five, Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler told The Daily Signal. “The vast majority of people who are trying to get into this country, or who are flowing into this country, are not criminals but good… -
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Bush-Appointed Judge Blocks Biden’s New Title IX Rule in 6 More States
A Kentucky federal judge blocked the Biden administration Monday from implementing its Title IX expansion for LGBTQ+ students in six states. Bush-appointed U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves sided with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman’s lawsuit against the United States Department of Education in blocking the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and West… -
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Global Pushback Against the Greens
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has proclaimed fossil-fuel companies “godfathers of climate chaos,” but many Europeans, Africans, and Americans clearly disagree. They’ve shown recently what they think of the green agenda of costly renewables and instead support politicians who will let them keep their cars. In elections for the European Parliament, a good number of Europeans… -
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Texas Doctor Faces Prison for Whistleblowing on Secret Child Gender Procedures
The Department of Justice is targeting a Texas whistleblower who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital secretly performing attempted gender-transition procedures on children. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced Monday that it had indicted 34-year-old Eithan Haim for “obtaining protected individual health information for patients that were not under his care and… -
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Why Connections Are Good for the Brain and the Soul
“I cannot even imagine where I would be today, were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.” So says well-known pastor and author Chuck Swindoll. That quote came to mind as I thought about a good… -
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Illegal Alien Arrested in Rape, Murder of Maryland Mother
An illegal alien from El Salvador has been arrested on charges of raping and murdering a Maryland mother of five. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, 23, crossed the U.S. southern border illegally in February 2023, according to Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler. Six months later, in August 2023, Hernandez is suspected of attacking, raping, and killing Rachel… -
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Fact Check: Is Climate Change Really Causing More Frequent or More Severe Hurricanes?
Every year at this time, when hurricane season rolls around, corporate media start pumping out headlines linking the severity of hurricanes to climate change. But is there causation or correlation? And if changes in the climate do affect hurricanes, is it in the way climate activists claim? Climatologist David Legates says, “[If] we have colder… -
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Use This Calculator to See How Little Cutting Carbon Emissions Would Budge Temperatures
Ever since the start of Joe Biden’s presidency, curbing climate change has been a fundamental component of his energy policy agenda. During the spring, for example, the Biden administration issued a power plant rule, imposing strict emissions reductions regarding the use of fossil-fuel power plants. There have been many other rules proposed as well, including… -
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DC Cracks Down on Illegal Mopeds
Washington, D.C., police are cracking down on unregistered motorcycles and motor-driven cycles following The Daily Signal’s reporting on the uptick of unlicensed motorized bikes across the city. D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith “has heard the concerns from the community about traffic safety and is working to strengthen [Metropolitan Police Department’s] traffic enforcement,” a MPD spokesperson… -
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Americans Must Criticize Our Corrupt Courts
Editor’s Note: The group quota regime is a revolutionary threat which aims to overthrow the political order of the United States and the Constitution that underlies it. In its maneuvers for political power, this revolutionary enemy already operates on a set of legal and constitutional principles entirely different from those on which our country was… -
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German Study: Vast Majority of People Will Grow Out of Transgenderism Within 5 Years
A massive, yearslong study shows the overwhelming majority of young people who identify as transgender will grow out of the diagnosis within five years. A similar supermajority of trans-identifying people suffered from at least one other psychological condition, found researchers, who tracked all children and young adults diagnosed with gender dysphoria over a nine-year period. The Central… -
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‘Bunch of BS’: Attendee at Trump’s CEO Meeting Refutes Media Reports
Former President Donald Trump delivered a “focused” pitch to America’s top CEOs and received a loud ovation at the conclusion of his Business Roundtable remarks Thursday, an attendee at the meeting told The Daily Signal. That’s a stark contrast to reporting from New York Times columnist and CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin, who told “Squawk… -
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In Bump Stock Case, Court’s Rebuke of ATF Is a Win for More Than Just 2A Advocates
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has a bad habit of forgetting it isn’t part of the legislative branch of government, and trying to accomplish through unelected bureaucrats and administrative rules what gun control activists in Congress could not. Fortunately for the rule of law and the separation of powers, the ATF is… -
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New EPA Rule Is a Death Sentence for American Energy
The Environmental Protection Agency plays judge, jury, and executioner—and its newest-issued rule is a death sentence to American energy and energy-producing states. Meanwhile, states like Pennsylvania, which will be disproportionately harmed by the rule because of our abundant natural gas production, hold the key to America’s increasing energy needs, generating immense economic development and reducing… -
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Justices Rule Plaintiffs Lack Standing to Challenge FDA’s Promotion of Dangerous Abortion Drug
The Supreme Court, in its decision on Thursday in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, ordered the lower court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s regulation of the abortion drug mifepristone because the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to sue. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the unanimous opinion. The ruling neither… -
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Illegal Immigration Crisis Drives European Voters to Conservatives: The BorderLine
The recent elections for the European Union Parliament showed significant wins for conservative parties in several countries—as some of us had predicted. One thing those parties have in common is their opposition to mass illegal migration, and experts believe this is a sign that voters throughout Europe are beginning to reject the open-borders mindset—and many… -
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House Passes Massive Defense Bill With Provision Blocking Pentagon From Funding Abortions
The House of Representatives on Friday approved a massive National Defense Authorization Act, complete with an amendment blocking the Pentagon from funding abortions with taxpayer dollars. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, had introduced an amendment to the $883.7 billion act blocking President Joe Biden’s administration from using taxpayer funds to reimburse abortion-related expenses. Van Duyne… -
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Biden Rule Extending Title IX to Trans Students Blocked in More GOP States
A federal judge in Louisiana has temporarily blocked four more states from expanding the Biden administration’s new Title IX policy to protect LGBTQ+ students. The Biden administration’s new Title IX policy outlined federal protections for LGBTQ+ students and victims of sexual assault while expanding the definition of sexual harassment for schools and universities. The new… -
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The West Is Sick of the New Woke Jihadism
What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting? What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about? Occupations? They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stations 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting… -
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If You Don’t Want to Be Killed, Don’t Take Hostages
The reaction to the rescue of four Israeli hostages from Gaza is a microcosm of the past 70 years of this conflict. Every time Palestinians pay the price for acting out in some horrific, irrational, self-destructive, violent way, their defenders want to rewind history to a more convenient moment—this time to Oct. 6, 2023. Sorry,…