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Attendance by Singer Swift, Actress Gomez at Gaza Fundraiser Draws Pushback From Some Fans
After a record-breaking year for Taylor Swift, the pop star attended a Gaza fundraiser with celebrity friend Selena Gomez in December. The event was hosted by Ramy Youssef on his tour “Ramy Youssef: More Feelings.” While the comedian traveled to several major cities such as Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia during the standup tour, Swift’s and Gomez’s presence… -
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Biden Admin Takes Dispute Over Barbed Wire at Texas Border to Supreme Court
The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow the Border Patrol to remove barbed wire installed along the Texas-Mexico border by state authorities. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month issued an order blocking the Biden administration from removing the wire while it considers the appeal from Texas. The Department of Homeland… -
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California’s Ban on Guns in Public Places Takes Effect Despite Ongoing Legal Challenges
California’s new law banning firearms in most public places took effect Monday while legal challenges continue. Last month, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney, a George W. Bush appointee, blocked the law from taking effect in a Dec. 20 decision that found it to be “sweeping, repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court.”… -
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What to Know About History of Climate Change
Climate change has strayed from being a scientific conversation to a hot-button political debate. But what are the facts surrounding climate change? Is climate change real? And if it is, what is causing the climate to change? Do we need to live in fear of climate change? In a three-part “Daily Signal Podcast” series, experts… -
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Government Bans Prayers Talking About an LGBTQ Person’s ‘Need to Repent’
Imagine the government told you what you can and cannot pray for, inside your own head. Such an idea seems better suited to “thoughtcrime” dystopias—such as George Orwell’s “1984” or Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where the government attempts to control your every thought—rather than to the modern, free English-speaking world. Yet a government in… -
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EXPOSING DEI: Inside the Pressure Campaign That Finally Ousted Claudine Gay as Harvard’s President
Claudine Gay ended her tenure Tuesday as the shortest president in the history of Harvard University, yet her resignation statement didn’t acknowledge the scandals that led to her ouster—instead suggesting that racism was to blame. The incident arguably illustrates the effectiveness of conservative critics in drawing attention to Gay’s many scandals, and the fecklessness of… -
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Missouri Governor Bans Chinese Purchase of Farmland Near Military Sites
Missouri is banning individuals and groups tied to China from purchasing agricultural land near military installations. Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed an executive order on Tuesday prohibiting any entity tied to the Chinese Communist Party from buying up land within 10 miles of any “critical military facilities,” according to a statement from Parson’s office. There are several firms with… -
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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…