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Pornhub Admits ‘Girls Do Porn’ Videos Aid Sex Trafficking
One of the world’s largest pornography websites admits that it profits from sex trafficking. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Pornhub’s parent company admitted in federal court that it profits from sex trafficking and agreed to pay a fine of over $1.8 million and submit to a three-year monitor as part of a deferred prosecution agreement…. -
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Illegal Immigrant Arrested at Capitol Carrying Machete Had Been Previously Held, Released
A man who authorities arrested at the U.S. Capitol in connection with carrying a machete and a knife is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who federal border authorities previously released from custody, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday. Capitol Police first nabbed Jose Leonardo Marquez, 23, after noticing a machete under his clothes, and ICE took… -
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Trump Slams Ohio Governor for Caving on Gender Ideology
Former President Donald Trump condemned Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for vetoing a bill that would have protected children from experimental transgender surgeries and hormonal interventions. “DeWine has fallen to the Radical Left,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Saturday, vowing that he would no longer promote the Republican governor. “No wonder he… -
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Biden Admin’s Overtime Regulations Could Cost Millions of Workers Lost Flexibility, Benefits, Wages, and Jobs
The Biden administration is trying to hike the threshold under which hourly-wage work regulations apply by about $25,000 per year. The proposed overtime rule threatens to throw millions of workers out of their salaried jobs and into hourly work, leading to lost flexibility and autonomy, benefit and wage cuts, and job losses. The Fair Labor… -
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Native Land Whiners Should Match Words With Deeds
Over the last several years, an odd ritual known as a “land acknowledgment” has become the fashionable way to begin academic, arts, and other elite events. Like a woke version of the Pledge of Allegiance, these land acknowledgments involve the public recitation of a prepared script. But rather than declaring loyalty to the United… -
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Feds Add George Mason University to List of Schools Under Scrutiny Over Antisemitic Incidents
George Mason University—located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.—has been added to a list of dozens of institutions of higher education under federal investigation for antisemitism on campus since the Hamas massacre in Israel occurred in early October. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced on Dec. 22 that it… -
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The High Cost of Unlimited Illegal Immigration
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has had a change of heart over the immigration crisis on her state’s southern border with Mexico. Hobbs, a Democrat, recently reversed a decision not to deploy the National Guard. She sent over 200 troops from the Tucson sector and committed up to $5 million in Arizona taxpayers’ money to deploy… -
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Harvard President Claudine Gay to Resign. Here’s the Hearing That Led to Her Downfall.
Editor’s update: The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, reported Tuesday that Claudine Gay would be stepping down as president of Harvard University, “bringing an end to the shortest presidency in the University’s history, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.” The Crimson additionally reported, “Gay’s resignation — just six months and two days… -
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Will Elections Finally Be Secure and Honest in 2024?
Looking back on what happened in the election field in 2023 can give us a better sense of what to expect in this year’s presidential election. Legislators in many states improved procedures for ensuring secure and honest elections. But other states either failed to act or made things worse by failing to implement effective practices for accurately administering voter… -
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December Border Encounters Set Record, Could Fill Largest US Football Stadium Nearly 3 Times
U.S. border agents encountered a record monthly number of illegal aliens on the southern border in December, News Nation reported Monday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered more than 302,000 illegal immigrants at or between ports of entry during the last month of 2023, enough to fill Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor almost three times…. -
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3 Cases Where US Is on Razor’s Edge
As the new year begins, we are on the razor’s edge of many things that soon may blow up. Americans are far beyond President Joe Biden’s serial untruths of some eight years that he never discussed son Hunter Biden’s various get-rich-quick schemes. All were predicated on the perception of foreign interests purchasing from the Biden… -
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Stop Funding ‘Rights for Migrants’ Legal Scam
As a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, even the right to… -
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New House Freedom Caucus Chief Reveals Group’s Priorities for 2024
The House will be back in session on Jan. 9, and the new leader of the House Freedom Caucus says border security will be a top priority when they return. “Of the many crises that this president and these Democrats have created that the country is suffering under now,” says Rep. Bob Good, the newly… -
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Heritage Foundation Experts Share Reading Recommendations for the New Year
Here at The Daily Signal, we have the tremendous fortune of working alongside the world-renowned experts of The Heritage Foundation, our parent organization. I always find it interesting to hear what my brilliant colleagues read and are influenced by. This year, I polled Heritage staff as to what books, old and new, they would recommend… -
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‘Election Interference of the Worst Kind’: Maine Secretary of State Strikes Trump From Ballot Amid Colorado Case
Two Democratic officials moved to boot former President Donald Trump off the ballot in their states Thursday, even as one of them acknowledged that voters would be able to select the 2024 Republican front-runner until further notice. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced that Trump would remain on the ballot until the U.S. Supreme… -
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FBI Has Massive 15-Month Backlog on DNA Testing for Migrants, Unearthed Emails Show
The FBI has a 15-month backlog on DNA testing for migrants and is running out of money to sustain the program, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security email chain reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Customs and Border Protection uses tests from the FBI, which then analyzes and stores them for federal… -
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Rules of the Road: Governing Big Tech
“Why expect our children to wear seat belts when we can ask everyone to drive responsibly?” Americans are smart enough to recognize that as crazy talk, so much so that we’ve implemented law enforcement nationwide to protect our families from dangerous behavior on the road. On the digital highway, however, commonsense precautions are nowhere to… -
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Gov. Mike DeWine Vetoes Bill Protecting Kids From ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill to protect minors from experimental transgender medical interventions that are euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.” DeWine, a Republican, framed his veto of House Bill 68 on Friday as an effort to bring consensus on a divisive issue and to avoid having the government decide what medical decisions… -
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Feds Threaten to Sue Texas Over State Law Enabling Arrest of Illegal Immigrants
The Justice Department threatened to sue Texas if the state enforces a new law empowering local officials to arrest migrants who enter illegally, according to the Houston Chronicle. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton told Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that the law is unconstitutional because the federal government is responsible for controlling international… -
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SPLC Steps in to Protect ‘Patently Unlawful Racial Discrimination’ at Progressive
The Southern Poverty Law Center is stepping in to defend a grant program for black-owned small businesses after a white business owner sued Progressive Insurance, alleging racial discrimination. Left-wing groups, including the SPLC, filed an amicus brief supporting Hello Alice, a platform delivering grants to black entrepreneurs, and Progressive. Progressive and Hello Alice jointly awarded…