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Lawmakers Are Checking on School Libraries. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.
In a nationally televised face-off, Govs. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., on Thursday night debated, among other things, whether school libraries should carry explicit content on their shelves. When two high-profile state officials spar over an issue on prime-time TV, policies related to that issue are likely to be a topic for other… -
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‘Special Protection for Billionaires’? SCOTUS to Consider Settlement That Shields Sackler Family From Opioid Lawsuits
The Supreme Court on Monday will consider the legality of OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement, which shields the Sackler family—who built a multibillion-dollar fortune from their ownership of the company—from facing lawsuits over their role in the opioid crisis. Their settlement, which the government called “exceptional and unprecedented” in its breadth, would have the Sacklers provide up to… -
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EXCLUSIVE: School Assigned Girl to Sleep With Boy Who Identifies as Trans Without Parental Notification
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: An 11-year-old girl was assigned to share a bed with a male student who identifies as a transgender girl while on a cross-country school trip, according to a demand letter sent Monday. That girl’s parents are now calling upon the public school system to provide answers and clarification of its… -
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Who Are the Hostages Still Being Held Captive in Gaza?
Israeli citizens and foreigners remain hostages to Hamas and other radical Islamic terrorist organizations in Gaza. It is believed that there are just over 120 hostages still in Gaza. Eleven of the hostages are foreigners and the rest are Israeli, according to Israeli officials. Those waiting to be freed range in age from 10-month-old baby… -
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‘MAGIC BEHIND THE MAGIC’: Florida Government Reveals Massive Disney Corruption Scheme
The Walt Disney Co. effectively controlled the local government around the site of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, for decades in what an extensive review by the state government calls "the most egregious exhibition of corporate cronyism in modern American history." After Disney bought the land that would become its massive amusement park and… -
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Nun Hails Legal Victory for Life, Privacy in Pro-Abortion State
After filing a lawsuit, a Catholic community of sisters in New York has won a victory for life and for privacy. In June 2022, New York passed a law allowing state officials to access pro-life pregnancy resource centers' sensitive information. The state Department of Health was granted permission to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers via demanding… -
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How Reagan Chose O’Connor for Supreme Court
The following is an excerpt from presidential historian Craig Shirley's forthcoming book "The Search for Reagan: The Appealing Intellectual Conservatism of Ronald Reagan," to be published in February. It recounts the thinking that went into President Reagan's 1981 selection of Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court. O'Connor, who… -
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Sandra Day O’Connor Shattered Glass Ceilings. And She Inspired Lawyers Like Me.
For me, and for generations of female lawyers like me, Sandra Day O’Connor inspired our entrance into the legal field. The service of O’Connor, the first female justice ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, made possible the subsequent appointment of the five female Supreme Court justices to serve after her. I mourn her… -
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A Rumsfeld Acolyte Remembers Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger died Wednesday at the age of 100. While there will be many assessments of the nature of Kissinger’s foreign policy legacy, there can be no question that he was among the most consequential Americans on the world stage during the second half of the twentieth century. My understanding of Kissinger comes in… -
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America’s Indo-Pacific Allies Willing to Be Force Multipliers for US to Help Deter China
America is not the only country with an interest in countering the threat of an aggressive Communist China that’s intent on world domination. Its allies in the Indo-Pacific are keenly interested in preserving a free and open region as well. In a meeting last week between Australia and India, Australia’s defense minister said that for… -
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Big Tech, Big Government Jackboots Trample Free Speech Rights
Our own government has waged “psychological operations” and other attacks on the free speech rights of the American people. That’s according to witnesses at a Thursday hearing of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The hearing was part of a series following up on last year’s disturbing revelations of… -
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Hamas Leader Threatens Israel: Oct. 7 ‘Was Just a Rehearsal’
The architect of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel sent a threat to the Jewish state this week, claiming the massacre “was just a rehearsal.” Yahya Sinwar made the threat in his first public statement since the terrorist attack, Israeli media network Arutz Sheva reported. “The leaders of the occupation should know,” Sinwar said,… -
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Nicaraguan Regime Continues to Imprison Catholic Bishop
Nicaragua has been in a state of turmoil since 2018. The leadership and actions of President Daniel Ortega’s regime have created an eruption of violence, civil unrest, and mass protests against the government. Defenders of human rights across the globe have strongly condemned the repressive actions of the regime. Amid this human rights crisis, the… -
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Some Christian Nonprofits Support Abortion, Charity Watchlist Finds
Christian organizations are among nonprofits that support the abortion industry, especially since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, according to a “watchlist” that monitors such connections. “Unfortunately, our research showed that many of these organizations responded to Dobbs by funding abortion,” Hugh Brown, executive vice president of the American Life League, told The… -
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Why Anything Short of Total Eradication of Hamas Isn’t Enough
For a week now, the world has watched a high-stakes, emotionally draining, and dangerous game being played out in Gaza. What began as a mediated four-day “truce” and swap of 50 Israeli civilians held hostage by Hamas in exchange for 150 convicted Palestinian-Arab terrorists has now been dragged out much further. Hamas, unusually self-aware for… -
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House Panel Moves to Stop Noncitizen Voting, Foreign Funding of US Referendums
House Republicans have advanced measures to prevent noncitizen voting and curb foreign influence in American elections, with some even gaining bipartisan backing. The House Administration Committee on Thursday sent eight election-related bills to the full House for consideration, most of which still face an uncertain future. The measures now move to the House floor, but… -
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Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on Supreme Court, Dies at 93
Sandra Day O’Connor, who served over 24 years on the Supreme Court as its first female justice, died Friday morning in Phoenix. She was 93. O’Connor, who retired from the high court in 2006, died of “complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness,” the Supreme Court announced. “A daughter of the American… -
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The Unhinged Among Us
Oct. 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas gunmen murdered, tortured, mass-raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly. The cowardly murderers proudly filmed their atrocities and then fled back to Gaza—to cheers from the Gaza… -
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House GOP Bill Would Overturn Biden’s Secretive Election Activism Executive Order
A House committee advanced a measure to repeal President Joe Biden’s executive order involving federal agencies in election administration and to require more transparency. The House Administration Committee on Thursday passed several election-related measures, including the Safeguarding Electoral Integrity Act of 2023, to stop Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which called for federal agencies to partner… -
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Zelenskyy Says Summer Counteroffensive Did Not Achieve Its Aims
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy characterized the Ukrainian military’s summer counteroffensive against Russia as a disappointment, failing to achieve its expansive goal of pushing Russian forces back to pre-2014 lines, in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. Ukraine’s forces have made incremental advances against Russian lines and crippled Moscow’s Black Sea naval fleet, Zelenskyy…