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Authorities in DC Preparing to Ensure Safety, Security at ‘March for Israel’
The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Capitol Police said they are taking proactive security measures to protect the March for Israel, a massive pro-Israel demonstration planned for Tuesday, The Daily Signal has learned. Both departments stressed, however, that they could not disclose specifics. The Metropolitan Police Department is working closely with… -
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Iowa Leads Way on Education Freedom
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, families bear the twin burdens of inflation and indoctrination. Parents continue to witness their children being taught divisive, radical ideologies that portray their country as intrinsically racist, place social justice above fundamental subjects such as reading and math, and even divide children by race. All this while academic proficiency drops off a cliff…. -
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Amid Massive Overpayments by Feds, FOIA Documents Show They ‘Only Deal in Billions’
You know there’s a problem when the rounding unit for a federal program’s improper payments equals the annual incomes of 13,408 U.S. households. Emails obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed a Department of Labor official stating that, when measuring improper federal government payments, “We only deal… -
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Secret Service Agent Protecting Biden Granddaughter Fires at Car Thieves as DC Crime Wave Surges
A Secret Service agent protecting one of President Joe Biden’s five granddaughters shot at three unidentified individuals who were trying to break into a government-owned car in Washington, D.C., just before midnight. The Secret Service agent was part of a detail assigned to Naomi Biden Neal, 29, who is presidential son Hunter Biden’s oldest daughter… -
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Let’s Stop Paying Beijing to Steal Our Gene Code
The House of Representatives’ annual defense bill currently under consideration includes an amendment from Rep. Mike Gallagher that would ban federal agencies from giving taxpayer dollars to China’s largest genomics company, the Beijing Genomics Institute, also known as BGI. Gallagher, R-Wis., is chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United… -
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3 Changes to School Choice Bill Could Skyrocket Texas From No. 30 to No. 4 in the Nation
Gov. Greg Abbott called the Texas Legislature into a fourth special session on Tuesday with the aim of expanding K-12 options for families. Over the past few years, lawmakers from across the country have empowered families to find the best school for their children. Abbott, a Republican, seems resolved to create similar opportunities for Texas… -
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Florida Again Earns Top Spot on Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card
Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. “They have universal education choice in that state. Any child who wants it can exercise school choice,” says Lindsey Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s… -
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Examining 7 Accusations of Harassment Against Moms for Liberty
Even before the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited far-left smear factory, put the parental rights group Moms for Liberty on its "hate map" alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, left-leaning outlets had repeated claims that the parental rights group's leaders had harassed school board members or other moms who disagreed with them. The… -
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Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order
The Biden administration continues to shield from the public its plans for federal agencies to turn out the vote, citing “presidential communications and deliberative process privilege.” Newly released emails, however, demonstrate the focus of the White House and various government departments on registering voters and getting them out. In a response to a request by… -
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Trans Anomaly: Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Suggests an Inconvenient Aspect of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
The vast majority of mass shooters are male, and male biochemistry helps to explain why. Yet the person who opened fire at Nashville’s Covenant School was biologically female. Higher amounts of the hormone testosterone give men larger muscles, more significant skeletal muscle, and a higher percentage of red blood cells. Testosterone also tends to give… -
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How a Rifle Unlocked the Stories of America’s WWII Veterans
Andrew Biggio was excited to show his neighbor, a WWII veteran, the M1 Garand rifle he had recently purchased. The weapon was the most common rifle used in WWII, and Biggio thought his elderly neighbor would appreciate holding the gun. “When I put that rifle into his hands and he raised it into his shoulder… -
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The BorderLine: Senate Hearing Shows—Again—Why Mayorkas Should Be Impeached
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- At a recent Senate hearing on threats to the homeland,… -
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Here’s Where AP, Reuters, NYT, and CNN Got Their Oct. 7 Hamas Photos and What It Says About Palestinian ‘Civilians’
How did The Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN obtain their photos of Hamas terrorists carrying out their horrific attack on Israel on Oct. 7? What does it reveal about the Gazan “civilians” that Hamas uses as human shields as Israel responded with military force? On Wednesday, a media watchdog called HonestReporting… -
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‘Off-the-Wall Abortion Policies’ Are Actually Common Sense, Widely Supported
Pro-choice Republicans in Congress are back. What had become a dying breed in the past couple of years, Republicans who consistently vote against basic pro-life protections have taken the House appropriations process hostage. This group of about eight to 10 Republicans have now helped to sink two appropriations bills over policies that are commonsense solutions… -
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Arrests ‘Part of the Deal’: Climate Activists Who Struck Degas Exhibit to Return to DC
An extremist climate group that defaced an exhibit on French impressionist Edgar Degas last spring at the National Gallery of Art plans to lead another series of protests in the metropolitan Washington area beginning Friday. And more illegal actions are in the works, the group says. The organization, called Declare Emergency, threatened to continue such… -
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Oregon Training Teachers to Dismantle Racial ‘Systemic Inequities’ in Math Classes
The Oregon Department of Education is instructing teachers on the keys to dismantling “systemic inequities” in the math classroom. High school math teachers should “support equitable discourse and foster positive mathematical identities,” according to a series of teacher training slideshows from the Department of Education reviewed by The Daily Signal. The Department of Education’s Math… -
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Tuberville’s Effort to End Pentagon Abortion Policy Backed by Veterans on Heritage Foundation National Security Team
To mark Veterans Day, six national security analysts at The Heritage Foundation who served in the military released a statement Thursday supporting Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s stand against the Pentagon’s abortion policy. President Joe Biden “is the one playing politics with the military,” longtime Heritage national security expert James Jay Carafano, who signed the statement, told… -
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‘A Man in a Dress’: Glamour Magazine Ridiculed for Trans Model Among Its ‘Women of Year’
Glamour magazine has named a transgender model to its 2023 Women of the Year list, forgoing the requirement of having to be an actual female to receive the award. Geena Rocero is an author and activist. Glamour named six women along with Rocero, including actresses, models, and an abortion-activist doctor, in its Nov. 1 announcement. View… -
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‘Evidence Is Concrete’ in Biden Probe, Rep. Andrew Clyde Says
The Left's evolving defense of President Joe Biden and his family’s business activities speaks volumes about where the congressional investigation that is now an impeachment inquiry is going, says Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga. “If the evidence wasn’t legitimate evidence, they would still be at their very first position,” Clyde, a member of the House Freedom… -
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Mass Pro-Israel Rally to Take Place in Washington
Major Jewish organizations in the United States are organizing a pro-Israel rally to take place in Washington, D.C., next week to condemn the Hamas terror attacks on Israel and to call for the release of the hostages. Organized by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,…