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Pro-Palestine Protesters Clash in Chicago With Radical Black ‘Israelite’ Group
An extremist group that believes black Americans and other people of color are the real descendants of the ancient Israelites clashed Saturday with pro-Palestine protesters in Chicago while police attempted to calm the two groups. The sometimes violent exchanges between pro-Palestine protesters and members or supporters of Black Hebrew Israelites followed a march around the Chicago… -
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Today’s Public Health Emergency: Restoring Trust in 7 Steps
The public health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic ended long ago, but America faces a new emergency. Faith in health agencies has plummeted more rapidly since 2019 than any other government institution, with almost two-thirds now rating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as “only fair or… -
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Cease-Fire Isn’t a Real Option for Israel, This Activist Says
The U.N. General Assembly called Friday for a “humanitarian truce” between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers, but a cease-fire isn’t an option for the Jewish nation, activist Boris Zilberman says. If the Israel-Hamas war is put on pause, Zilberman says, Hamas terrorists will use the time “to retool.” Zilberman, director of public policy and strategy… -
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Unassimilated, Warring Tribes a Prescription for Collective Suicide
Few Romans in the late decades of their fifth-century A.D. empire celebrated their newfound “diversity” of marauding Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Huns, and Vandals. These tribes en masse had crossed the unsecured Rhine and Danube borders to harvest Roman bounty without a care about what had created it. Their agendas were focused on destroying the civilization… -
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California Taxpayers Paying to Fund LGBTQ Group Fighting Parental Notification
Over the summer, when a Southern California school board opposed a new state-determined social studies curriculum that included a bio of slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a threatening tweet calling out the school board president by name. “This isn’t Texas or Florida. In the Golden State, our kids have the… -
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GOP Lawmakers Call for Repeal of Biden Natural Gas Tax
Numerous Republican lawmakers have written to the newly elected speaker of the House asking him to repeal an emissions-reduction program from the Inflation Reduction Act, according to a copy of the letter obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, wrote the letter, which urges House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader… -
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Follow the Numbers: China Steps Up Military Activity Near Taiwan
China's recent military activity around Taiwan reached new heights after Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting in April with then-U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. This increase in China's military activity and long-term trends point to troubling times ahead, and our military and political leaders need to be ready. With wars in Ukraine and Israel grabbing so… -
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Italy Joins Hungary as European Leader in Pro-Life, Pro-Family Policies
Italy is announcing a new initiative to raise the nation’s flagging birthrate. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government approved a new budget last week, setting aside 1 billion euros (nearly $1.1 billion) in funding to support mothers and families, in an effort to boost the national birthrate. Some of those measures include increased financial aid to working mothers with two… -
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DC Freshens Up ‘Black Lives Matter’ Street Art Despite Hamas Endorsements
The District of Columbia is freshening up its massive "Black Lives Matter" street mural even as the Black Lives Matter organization faces intense backlash for social media posts aligning with the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel earlier this month. BLM affiliates have expressed solidarity with the "resistance" against Israel, compared attacks on Israel to racial… -
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Leftists Try, and Fail, to Smear Speaker Johnson as ‘Christian Nationalist’
Democrats are trying to make Halloween extra spooky this year by exhuming the boogieman of Christian nationalism. The news hook is the election of a conservative Christian as speaker of the House. Rep. Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, won the election last week. In the left-wing media’s lexicon, Christian nationalism doesn’t refer to the handful… -
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New Speaker Spurs Spike in House GOP Fundraising
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the House GOP’s campaign arm, raised its largest amount in a single day since February 2022 on Friday after Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana won the speakership. The NRCC raised $175,000 two days after Johnson secured the gavel, and brought in more than $475,000 over the three-day weekend, the Daily Caller News… -
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Biden Poised to Bail Out Wind Energy Industry, Experts Predict
A bailout package for the struggling offshore wind industry may be imminent if the industry’s struggles do not abate soon, energy industry and policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Biden administration has heavily subsidized the industry as part of its wider climate agenda, but inflation, supply chain backups, high interest rates, and logistical difficulties have severely… -
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Newsom Signs Bill Mandating Diversity Reporting in Venture Capital, Vetoes Similar Bill Aimed at His Office
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Oct. 8 requiring the governor’s office to report the ethnic breakdown of its appointees the same day he signed a bill requiring that venture capital firms report the racial and sexual diversity of companies they invest in, according to statements released by the governor. Newsom said that California… -
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‘We Are Vulnerable to Global Terrorism,’ Because Biden ‘Has Thrown Open Border,’ Ted Cruz Says
Is President Joe Biden trying to get us killed? His Nagasaki-like destruction of the southern “border” is like a mating call that lures terrorists to have their way with us. Customs and Border Protection reports that 269,735 illegal aliens invaded America in September alone, a one-month record. Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,912,663 illegal aliens during President Donald… -
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School Board Member Sues for Right to Recite Bible Verses
Since she began serving on her local school board in Arizona in January, Heather Rooks has made it a practice to begin her meeting comments by reading a Scripture verse she found encouraging. Rooks says citing Scriptures such as Isaiah 41:10—“Do not fear for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for… -
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The Insidious Way the Biden Admin Forces Staff to Preach DEI
Promoting the gospel of diversity, equity, and inclusion isn't an extracurricular activity at the Department of Commerce—it's an essential part of every employee's job, according to a new memo obtained by The Daily Signal. If the hard-nosed economists at Commerce don't preach about institutional racism or display their preferred personal pronouns in their bios, they… -
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South Carolina Teachers Union Out to Deprive Students of Learning Options
Barely six months after South Carolina lawmakers approved legislation allowing K-12 students to customize their education, the state affiliate of the National Education Association is attempting to force children to remain in assigned public schools. The South Carolina Education Association is the latest in a long line of education special-interest groups that oppose parental rights… -
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Federal Judge Blocks Colorado’s Abortion Drug Reversal Ban
A federal judge has blocked implementation of Colorado’s ban on abortion drug reversals, citing constitutional grounds. District Court Judge Daniel Domenico issued an order last Saturday halting Colorado’s ban on performing abortion drug reversal procedures, citing concerns about religious freedom. Domenico wrote: “The law at issue here runs afoul of these First Amendment principles. And because it… -
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IRS Can Enter ‘Anyone’s House at Any Time’: Abuse Detailed in New Weaponization Report
An IRS agent showed up at the door of a Marion County, Ohio, woman and lied about his reason for being there. Once inside, the Internal Revnue Service agent, purporting to be named Bill Haus, began to harass and intimidate the taxpayer, according to a congressional report released Friday. The woman called a lawyer, who… -
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Cruz Recounts ‘Horrifying’ Scene at Southern Border During Midnight Patrol With Agents
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was at the southern border late Thursday night and into Friday and encountered a situation he calls “horrifying.” While on a midnight patrol with Border Patrol agents, Cruz encountered a group of about 20 illegal aliens in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. They had turned themselves in to Border Patrol, and the…