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In California, Newsom’s Energy Experiment Goes Awry
This Earth Day, which falls on Monday, California residents must be glad that their state accounts for less than 1% of the greenhouse gas emissions of the top 50 countries. Yet Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, still wants to achieve 100% net-zero carbon electricity by 2045. With the highest effective poverty rate in America and some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, Newsom’s top priority… -
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On Earth Day, EPA Pushes Truck Rule That Will Hurt Workers and Businesses, Not Help Planet
On this Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating its new emissions standard for heavy-duty trucks as a triumph for the environment. The irony is, this policy will do nothing for our planet, but it will inflict severe economic damage on hardworking Americans. The EPA’s latest rule, while not explicitly mandating production of electric-powered… -
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Former British PM Liz Truss Warns About Global Threat of the Left
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss spoke Monday at The Heritage Foundation about how the United States and the United Kingdom are facing very challenging forces in the global Left, not just in terms of their extremist activists, but also in the power they hold in our institutions. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.)… -
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Supreme Court Takes Up Case Challenging Biden Admin’s ‘Ghost Guns’ Rule
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up a case challenging the Biden administration’s “ghost guns” rule, which enables gun parts kits to be regulated as traditional firearms. In response to emergency applications, the justices have already stepped in twice to keep the rule in place throughout the litigation process after it was blocked by lower… -
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After Judge Blocks Law Protecting Kids From Transgender Surgeries, Ohio Calls on State Supreme Court to Intervene
The attorney general of Ohio has asked the state’s Supreme Court to intervene in a matter involving an Ohio judge who temporarily blocked a law protecting children from “transgender” surgeries and procedures. Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael Holbrook had issued a temporary restraining order for House Bill 68, the Saving Ohio Adolescents… -
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This Passover, as Tensions Rise in Middle East, Jews Remember ‘God Saves Us’
During the first night of Passover, Jewish homes gather around a Seder meal and remember how God delivered the Jewish people from Egypt, and that God has always rescued His people, author and lecturer Rabbi Pinchas Taylor explains. “We say that we recognize that in every generation, there are nations that have come against us,… -
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Republican Opposition to Ukraine Funding Doubles in 2 Years
Nearly two years ago, mere months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the House of Representatives approved its second package of economic, humanitarian, and military funding for Ukraine. The $40 billion measure passed May 10, 2022, by an overwhelming margin of 368-57. At the time, those 57 lawmakers voting against the bill represented a cohort of… -
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EXCLUSIVE: She Survived a Death Camp. Facing Biden DOJ Charges, She Is Prepared to Die in Prison
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Eva Edl turned 10 years old in a World War II-era death camp. She believes she may die in a United States prison. Charged by President Joe Biden’s Justice Department with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, Edl faces up to 11 years in prison and $350,000… -
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The Left’s Long War on Using ‘Illegal Aliens’
We’re now apparently in the era where using the term “birthing person” makes you a thoughtful speaker and saying “illegal alien” gets you suspended—at least if you’re one North Carolina high schooler. Last week, “in Davidson County, North Carolina, 16-year-old student Christian McGhee was suspended for three days for using the term ‘illegal alien’ in… -
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‘That Is Not a Religion’: DeSantis Bars Satanists From Florida School Chaplaincy Program
The Sunshine State is now welcoming chaplains into public schools, but Satanists need not apply. On Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill into law allowing chaplains to volunteer to offer counseling at public and charter schools. However, the Catholic governor warned that Satanists would not be accepted into the program, as some Christian and conservative… -
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Republicans Rebel Against $60 Billion Ukraine Aid Bill as House Passes Controversial Foreign Aid Package
With the support of 210 Democrats, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted Saturday to approve President Joe Biden’s request for another $60 billion to aid Ukraine. After months of uncertainty, the bill now heads to the Senate for final approval. More Republicans opposed the Ukraine funding bill than supported it, racking up 112 votes against… -
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Scotland Presses ‘Pause’ on Puberty Blockers, Hormone Drugs for Children
Following publication of a damning report on the dangers of gender transition procedures for children, Scotland officially is halting the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone drugs to minors. Scotland’s sole gender clinic for minors, Glasgow-based Sandyford Sexual Health Service, announced Thursday that it no longer would refer children under 18 to pediatric endocrinology to be prescribed… -
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Dirty Deeds Done in the Dark: Leftist Lawyers Caught Engaging in Attorney Misconduct
A scathing report by three federal judges on the “misconduct” of plaintiff lawyers in a challenge to Alabama’s ban on gender-transition medicine for minors illustrates something we learned a long time ago: Many on the far Left, including radical lawyers employed by self-proclaimed civil rights organizations, believe the ends always justify the means and that rules of… -
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Biden’s Precarious Parole Programs for Illegal Immigrants: The BorderLine
In a Home Depot parking lot near San Diego, California, last month, five Haitian men were waiting for under-the-table work at six in the morning. Three hours later, the group numbered about 25. Migrant men hanging around a Home Depot is a common sight, but why would these guys from Haiti—from thousands of miles away… -
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Medical Groups Mum on UK Pediatrician’s Verdict on Puberty Blockers for Kids
Major medical associations remain silent after the results of a four-year review commissioned by the National Health Service England undermined their recommendations for giving puberty blockers to children with gender dysphoria. The Cass Report, conducted by Dr. Hilary Cass, a pediatrician and former president of the U.K.’s Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, found only… -
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In Congress, US Border Security Takes Back Seat to Foreign Bailouts
Even to those of us living in the Washington swamp, the process of making laws is confusing. Worst of all is the appropriations process, where the trees are so dense you forget what a forest is. But as the now-deceased Notre Dame fundraiser James Frick said, “Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me… -
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Majority of Catholic Women’s Colleges Enroll Men Who Identify As Trans Women
A majority of the Catholic women’s colleges in the United States allow men who identify as transgender women to enroll, according to a new report—despite church teaching on gender and sex. The National Catholic Register reported on Friday that of the three dozen women’s colleges throughout the country, most are now admitting men. The publication… -
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Record-Breaking Flood of Comments Condemns Biden’s Latest Student Loan Scheme
A national grassroots petition in protest of President Joe Biden’s latest student debt “forgiveness” stunt garnered over 5,000 online comments in a single night. Biden’s newest student loan cancellation plan would shift almost $150 billion in debt from those with outstanding college loans to American taxpayers—including those who already paid off their own college loans,… -
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Missouri, Nebraska Advance Education Freedom
After three consecutive years of massive progress expanding education freedom and choice, 2024 is shaping up to be another banner year. This week, Missouri expanded its education choice policy and Nebraska adopted a new school choice policy. So far this year, five states have enacted new education choice policies or expanded existing ones, and several… -
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Why Fatal Police Shootings Aren’t Declining: Some Uncomfortable Facts
When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was quickly grafted onto a narrative that began in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri—namely, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who do not believe black lives matter. “Killing of Dexter…