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China’s Belt and Road Initiative Is Far From Benign, House Panel Is Told
“China’s malign influence is growing exponentially, and its encroachment into the Western Hemisphere poses a clear and present danger,” Rep. Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said at a hearing Wednesday. “Now is the time to act and address this with the seriousness it deserves,” McCaul, R-Texas, said at the hearing,… -
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CRICKETS: Biden White House Silent When Asked if it Conspired With Leftist Group to Target Parents Again
The Justice Department backtracked on its 2021 memo urging the investigation of concerned parents, but the Left and the Biden administration seem to be gearing up for another round. President Joe Biden’s White House did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about the ties between the administration and the Southern Poverty Law… -
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21 Federal Agencies Promote Pride Month With Taxpayer Dollars
While a number of companies have faced public criticism for promoting LGBTQ Pride Month in June, federal organizations promoting “pride” activities have mostly flown under the radar. One of the few times a federal entity came close to being scrutinized occurred when the Navy deleted a pride post on its Instagram account. Even after that… -
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CNN Can’t Find a Biden Scandal? It’s Not Looking
The networks that have obsessed 24/7 for years about how to “close the walls in” on Donald Trump and ruin him profess some fatigue with conservatives who ask about the Biden scandals. On “CNN This Morning” on Monday, guest host Phil Mattingly complained about the cover of the New York Post. He said: “It will… -
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With Order Making Maryland a Gender Transition Sanctuary, Governor Aids Sex Traffickers
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, issued an executive order Monday that makes the state a sanctuary for gender transition procedures on minors. Under the order, “all state agencies shall, to the fullest extent within their authority, take whatever action is necessary” to “protect people or entities in Maryland providing, receiving, assisting in providing or receiving, seeking,… -
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California Lawyer: Bill Would Make Parents Who Don’t ‘Affirm’ Trans Child’s New Gender Abusive
This is a lightly edited transcript of remarks Erin Friday made Tuesday during a hearing before the California Senate Judiciary Committee. Read below, or watch the video above. I am Erin Friday, lead of Our Duty, an attorney and a mother of a girl who used to believe that she was a boy. AB 957… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Senate Candidate Makes Major Parental Rights Pledge After SPLC Attack
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Republican candidate for the Virginia Senate has responded to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attack on parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty by pledging to introduce a Parental Bill of Rights Act in the Legislature should she win election in November. The SPLC last week added parental rights… -
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In Canada, the West’s Suicide Is Becoming Literal
The suicide of the West is becoming reality. According to the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Canada saw a sharp increase in government-assisted suicides last year, with an estimated 13,500 taking place in 2022. This is a 35% increase from 2021, when 10,064 took their lives through the program. The number represented 3.3% of all deaths in… -
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Pat Robertson Changed My Life With a Job, but Impacted Millions Through His Faith in God
This past January, I found myself once again running after Pat Robertson on a visit to CBN, the Christian Broadcasting Network, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I simply wanted to say hello to the Christian leader, who had so beautifully influenced my life. Now in a wheelchair and accompanied by attendants, he managed to give… -
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‘Dereliction of Duty’: Republicans Build Case Against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been “derelict in his duty,” according to Republicans and border experts. “The mountain of evidence this committee has gathered proves that Alejandro Mayorkas has been derelict in his duty as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,” Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., said during a hearing Wednesday. “Secretary Mayorkas… -
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Americans Skeptical About FBI Access to Private Data, Poll Finds
A majority of voters think there should be a higher bar for the FBI to clear before being allowed to access the private information of Americans, a recent Scott Rasmussen national survey finds. The poll, which queried 1,000 registered voters June 6 and 7, discerned their attitudes toward FBI access to personal information, such as… -
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For ‘Lactation Consultants,’ Georgia Now a Land of (Breast) Milk and Honey
In his 2018 book “51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law,” Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, begins by observing that throughout the 20th century, “the States and their constituent parts—legislatures, governors, courts, local governments—have been the policy villains in this or that… -
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Roberts Leads Supreme Court in Slapping Down Local Governments That Trample Property Rights
Chief Justice John Roberts has taken some lumps for certain decisions he has issued during his tenure on the Supreme Court, but he has again led the way in protecting the rights of property owners from a government often all too eager to take them away. Roberts wrote the unanimous opinion in Tyler v. Hennepin County, holding… -
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CAUGHT: Top Education Publisher Deletes ‘Woke’ Evidence After Release of Heritage Foundation Report
After Heritage Foundation scholar Jonathan Butcher began looking into the racially and sexually charged practices of publishing and education behemoth Pearson, links and videos started to disappear from the corporation's website and YouTube channel. Butcher’s new report for Heritage, released Wednesday, shows that the largest education corporation on the planet has made a considerable commitment… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Introduce Pro-Life Budget as 1-Year Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Reversal Approaches
The Republican Study Committee has introduced “the most pro-life congressional budget ever produced, with dozens of policies that support our fight to protect and uphold the sanctity of life,” Rep. Ben Cline, R-Va., told The Daily Signal. The budget’s release on Wednesday comes just 10 days before the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in… -
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California Mom Speaks Out Against Bill: ‘My Daughter Was Murdered by Gender Ideology’
Watch Abigail Martinez’s testimony at a California Judiciary Senate hearing Tuesday, above, or read the lightly edited transcript below: [My] name is Abigail Martinez. It has been three years and 164 days since I lost my daughter Yaeli. I miss her every single day. Let me tell you how she died. My daughter was murdered… -
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Archdiocese of Washington Tiptoes Around ‘Pride Mass’ at Biden’s Parish
An LGBTQ+ "Pride Mass" scheduled to take place Wednesday evening at President Joe Biden's preferred parish appears to have the support of the Archdiocese of Washington. Asked if the archdiocese supports the Mass, Paula Gwynn Grant, secretary of communications for the Archdiocese of Washington, pointed The Daily Signal to "our Holy Trinity parish website." She… -
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An Rx for the Persistent Problem of Prescription Drug Shortages
“FDA seeks to ease cancer drug shortage with China-made imports” was the headline on a USA Today article on June 5. Other media outlets covered the same story with similar headlines about the Food and Drug Administration’s move. While the China angle and the cancer angle were the most attention-grabbing elements, the bigger story is… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New Cruz Bill Takes Aim at ‘Useless’ Federal Agency
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill Wednesday aiming to abolish a federal agency that arguably duplicates work that other agencies already do and that does not rely on Congress for its funding. Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., filed the bill to abolish the Office of Financial Research, an agency… -
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‘Make Hope Visible’: Massive UK Monument Aims to Celebrate 1 Million Answered Prayers
ORLANDO, Fla.—A giant infinity loop, constructed using 1 million white bricks, will serve as a monument to answered prayer in the United Kingdom. “Every single brick represents a story of answered prayer,” Richard Gamble, founder of the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, told The Daily Signal in an interview last month at the National Religious…