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Teacher Who Criticized ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Put on Leave by School District
An elementary school teacher who questioned a California school’s spending $250,000 on a teacher training program called “Woke Kindergarten” was placed on leave Thursday by his school district, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Glassbrook Elementary School used $250,000 in federal funds for underperforming schools to pay for training for teachers on how to be “anti-racist” and… -
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With Bipartisan Measure, Congress Could Expand Successful ‘One Door’ Policy on Welfare, Workforce
The federal government has more than 90 welfare and workforce programs spread across dozens of federal agencies, with funding flowing to thousands of state and local agencies and programs. Navigating the web of welfare and workforce assistance can be a nightmare. And, too often, Americans end up trapped in the welfare web instead of being assisted… -
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The Pitfalls of Government-Mandated Car Kill Switches
Should your car decide whether you’re able to drive? That’s not some hypothetical question. In the 2,700-plus pages of the 2021 infrastructure law—a clever misnomer for a trillion-dollar package which added leftist priorities to building bridges—a provision placed a surprising requirement on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency was tasked with developing a… -
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Pulling Dead Bodies From the Rio Grande: The Daily Life of Fire and Rescue on the US-Mexico Border
EAGLE PASS, TEXAS—Pulling “three or four bodies out” of the Rio Grande in one day is not unheard of for Harish Garcia or his colleagues at the Eagle Pass fire station near the border of Mexico, he says. “Before all the immigration started with people crossing and everything, we would still get [dead bodies in… -
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‘Kevin McCarthy Is Plotting His Revenge’: Rep. Eli Crane on ‘The Kevin Roberts Show’
Republican Rep. Eli Crane joined “The Kevin Roberts Show” Wednesday to discuss the southern border, challenging the Republican leadership in the House, and how he feels out of place in Washington, D.C. The congressman told host and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts that the voters of Arizona’s 2nd District picked an uncommon person to represent… -
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Notre Dame’s Silence on Abortion Doula ‘Displays the Rot,’ Catholic Critic Says
The Catholic University of America and the University of Notre Dame both hosted an “abortion doula” on campus, but the two Roman Catholic schools responded to the backlash in starkly different manners. Catholic University fired the host professor within 24 hours of The Daily Signal’s report on an abortion doula’s lecture to one of the… -
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Virginia Bill Abetting ‘Profit-Driven Industry’ of Death, Critics Warn
Critics raised the alarm as the Virginia Senate passed a bill Friday that would legalize assisted suicide, otherwise known as “medical aid in dying.” Based on the bill’s language, it would permit doctors to give their terminally ill patients a “self-administered controlled substance” to end their lives. The bill passed the Senate 21-19. While supporters… -
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How Can Americans Rid Themselves of a Potentially Senile President? Looking at 4 Options
An “elderly man with a poor memory.” That line and many others from special counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents released on Thursday now hang over his presidency. From not remembering when he was vice president to forgetting when his term ended to failing to come up with the… -
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Why Biden Is Threatening to Veto Aid to Israel
President Joe Biden promised to veto any stand-alone aid bill for Israel, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and most House Democrats voted against one. The administration maintains that Israel’s security is so “sacred,” it must be tied to a doomed legislative package containing entirely unrelated issues that deal with border security and Ukrainian aid…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: DC Medical Examiner Confirms It Will Not Immediately Destroy Baby Bodies
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The D.C. Medical Examiner will not immediately destroy the bodies of “The Five” aborted babies recovered from an abortion clinic in the nation’s capital, The Daily Signal has learned. The Daily Signal has viewed emails between the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the American Center for Law &… -
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Beware Civics Education’s ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’
Everyone agrees that American students need better civics education. Civic knowledge in America is abysmal. Fewer than half of American adults can name the three branches of government—and a quarter can’t name any branch at all. Likewise, a quarter of Americans couldn’t name any of the five freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment. That’s why… -
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WATCH: GOP Senator Rips Into White House Blackmail on Deportations
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Signal on Thursday, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., called the White House’s threat to “reduce” deportations of illegal aliens if Republicans didn’t vote for the recent Senate border and foreign aid bill “ridiculous”: I guess we shouldn’t be all that surprised that this White House would do something like… -
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Human Trafficking Connects Super Bowl, Southern Border
A city becomes a prime location for human trafficking when it hosts the Super Bowl, a busy and heavily attended event. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit for the National Football League’s big game. This makes it easier for traffickers to hide the movement and sale of their human wares. Super Bowl LVII, set for… -
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Climate Models Exaggerate Effects of Global Warming
Policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to minimize the effects of climate change should be guided by the best available science. A new research paper from The Heritage Foundation provides compelling evidence—as indicated in the chart below—that warming in the past 50 years or so has been overestimated by most computer models when compared to… -
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The Absurd Democrat Border Con
In 2021, President Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration. When he overturned former President Donald Trump’s efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S. Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates—but with massive needs for free… -
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Transgender Series Part 3: Detransitioner Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Will Yield $10M Judgments, Lawyer Says
Editor’s note: This is the third podcast interview in a series on transgender phenomena, science, and the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits. Check out the first interview on rapid-onset gender dysphoria and the second interview on how mental health professionals divide parents and kids. Medical malpractice lawsuits on behalf of detransitioners harmed by experimental treatments… -
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What Surprised Tucker Carlson Most About His Putin Interview
Vladimir Putin said Russia’s war with Ukraine could be “over within a few weeks” if the United States stopped supplying weapons. Until that happens, however, the Russian leader vowed to continue fighting, bluntly telling Tucker Carlson, “We haven’t achieved our aims yet.” The war, which began in 2014 and escalated with Russia’s invasion in 2022,… -
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Americans Getting Nailed by Through-the-Roof Rents
Over the past three years, rent costs have risen dramatically for Americans as inflation and housing constraints push expenses up, according to data from Harvard’s “America’s Rental Housing 2024″ report. Renting unaffordability has reached an all-time high, with 22.4 million households spending more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities, up by 2… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Cruz Introduces Bill to Block Biden Administration From Closing Ports of Entry
Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill Thursday intended to prevent the Department of Homeland Security from closing critical international land ports of entry at the southern border. “[President] Joe Biden is harming American farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, truckers and consumers by prioritizing welcoming illegal aliens over facilitating lawful commerce,” Cruz, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DC Will Pay If Authorities Dispose of Aborted Baby Remains, Cruz Warns
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz is accusing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith, and Chief Medical Examiner Francisco Diaz of demonstrating a “candid willingness to obstruct justice” in their refusal to investigate the deaths of five aborted, preemie-sized babies. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, the Texas…