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Fox News Founder Rupert Murdoch Stepping Down at Fox Corp. and News Corp. at 92
Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced on Thursday he is stepping down as chair of Fox Corp. and executive chairman of News Corp., Fox News has reported. Murdoch’s son, Lachlan Murdoch, will become chairman of both companies as the elder Murdoch transitions out of the roles in November. “I am truly proud of what… -
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Biden’s Worsening Border Crisis Is an Attack on Self-Government
The Biden administration apparently wants to transform the United States into a poorly managed economic zone. It’s hard to conclude otherwise amid the latest mayhem at the southern border. When border-crossing numbers briefly dipped during the summer, legacy media outlets were eager to declare the crisis overblown. One opinion writer in The New York Times… -
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Senators Seek to Secure Border and End Biden’s Arson of America
Calls for Congress to defund the Biden administration’s open-border operations and to enact real border security measures gained steam this week. With a week of funding left in the federal fiscal year, the House is considering attaching most of the Secure the Border Act to a continuing resolution package to fund the government. After the bill… -
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Documents Reveal New Hampshire Review of Trump’s Ballot Access Came After Outside Legal Analysis
The top election official in New Hampshire, which traditionally holds the nation’s first presidential primary, announced that he would consider banning former President Donald Trump from the ballot one day after a George Washington University law professor suggested that he call a special panel to make the determination. The same official kept lawmakers in suspense… -
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House Budget Panel Republicans Deliver Plan to Tackle $33T Debt
The federal government reached an ominous milestone Sept. 15 as the gross national debt exceeded $33 trillion—or more than $57,000 per household. The debt increased by $1.5 trillion in just 15 weeks due to rising spending and declining revenue. That’s understandably concerning, especially at a time of rising interest rates and elevated inflation. Higher interest… -
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Garland Won’t Say If Youngkin Right to Pardon Father Charged After Protesting Daughter’s Sexual Assault
Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to say Wednesday whether Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, should have pardoned a father who was arrested in 2021 when he tried to defend his daughter during a local school board meeting. Youngkin pardoned Scott Smith, who was arrested during a meeting of the Loudoun County School Board on June 22, 2021, where he… -
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Pentagon Reverses Gender-Neutral Pronoun Policy for Awards After Heritage Takes It to Task
A rare thing happened Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Sanity prevailed. On Sept. 19, very quietly, the Pentagon reversed its asinine gender-neutral pronoun rule for certain award citations that my colleague Dakota Wood and I exposed on Sept. 1. Without any fanfare—no doubt in an attempt to put this entire sordid affair behind it—the Pentagon simply… -
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Of Course, I Think About the Roman Empire Daily. You Don’t?
Last week, my wife asked me, “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” Her question didn’t come out of nowhere. TikTok might be a minefield of Chinese cyberthreats, but it has birthed a trend in which women ask men how often they contemplate the glory that was Rome. The trend took off because… -
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Rising Cost of Living Is an Underreported Story Affecting Everyday Americans
As the cost of living continues to rise in America, many families are struggling to make ends meet. Inflation and wage stagnation have made it increasingly difficult for everyday Americans to keep up with the rising costs of necessities, such as housing, gas, health care, and food. The severity of this issue is affecting millions… -
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Confirmed: Man Who Raped His 10-Year-Old Daughter Housed With Female Prison Inmates
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is housing a man who raped his own daughter in a women's prison because he said he identifies as a woman himself—and the DOC is refusing to offer any kind of insight or explanation on the matter. Mark Campbell is currently incarcerated in Taycheedah Correctional Institution, a women's prison in… -
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4 Ways Washington’s Spending Spree Caused Inflation With Trillions in Waste, Fraud
Americans are justifiably unhappy with the state of the economy. The inflation figures for August took a turn for the worse—meaning families have now lost $5,100 in purchasing power since President Joe Biden entered the White House. In addition to the burden of inflation, rising interest rates are making home mortgages unaffordable, pushing the American… -
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JD Vance Blames Biden for ‘Politicized’ Military, Supports Tuberville’s Stand
Sen. JD Vance, a Marine veteran, accused the Biden administration of politicizing the U.S. military, creating a recruiting crisis that is jeopardizing its readiness and warfighting capabilities. “There’s a reason why we have, frankly, a crisis in recruitment in the all-volunteer military—the first time we’ve had a recruitment crisis, really, since the end of the… -
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Here’s Where to Take Your Kids When Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts Go Woke
As an Eagle Scout, I feel a debt to the Boy Scouts of America, but I also think the BSA abandoned its defining values by embracing transgender ideology. Both the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the USA have embraced far-left social agendas that alienate many of the young families who form their natural constituencies…. -
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WARNING: ‘Don’t Let Your Child Fall Prey to a Manufactured Identity Crisis’
Virginia mom Merianne Jensen became a voice for parental rights and common sense when she asked a simple question during a local school board meeting in 2022. “If masks work, why don’t they?” Jensen asked the school board in Prince William County, Virginia. A video of the incident went viral, launching Jensen into the position… -
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New Feature: The BorderLine / This Week, We Look Inside Biden’s Bogus Illegal Immigrant ‘Visa’ Program
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. ———————————————————- As the Biden Border Crisis rages on,… -
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America’s Drift Toward ‘a Country I Do Not Recognize’
If there is one overriding theme of the Biden years, it is the systematic degradation of American freedom, pushing the lives and freedom of private citizens aside as government expands and takes over. This is done under the rubric of the Left that “government knows best.” Day by day, we are becoming what the late… -
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25 Governors Demand Transparency From Biden on Impacts of Border Crisis
Twenty-five Republican governors, led by Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., condemned President Joe Biden Tuesday for his persistent inaction at the southern border and his incentivizing of illegal immigration. The governors are demanding transparency on the impacts of the border crisis, including where the government is relocating illegal aliens within the U.S. and how the federal government… -
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NYC Leaders Ignore Illegal Alien Crisis, Continue to Push Maoist Cultural Revolution
The revolution continues in New York. As illegal immigrants flood New York City, the City Council remains hard at work ensuring that every once-venerated symbol of America is stripped from public places. On Tuesday, the New York City Council’s Committee on Civil and Human Rights held a hearing to discuss the removal of historical statues… -
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The Right Should Not Fund Its Own Demise
The American Right needs to revitalize itself after a generation of decay where the Left took control over most of the corporate sector, the military, and the press, according to a Claremont Institute expert on American political thought. That decay has resulted in corporations pushing racial division and leftist ideology after the Right gave corporate… -
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7 Takeaways From Merrick Garland’s Testimony to House Panel
Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to answer questions on a wide range of matters Wednesday in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. Garland testified that he couldn’t remember whether he talked to FBI personnel about the investigation of first son Hunter Biden and didn’t know how many confidential informants entered the Capitol during the riot…