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Biden DOJ ‘Actively’ Tried to ‘Dissuade’ Marshals From Enforcing the Law to Protect Supreme Court Justices, Senators Say
Republicans are accusing the Department of Justice of "actively" seeking to "dissuade" the U.S. Marshals Service from enforcing 18 USC 1507 to protect the Supreme Court justices. In a May 3 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Sens. Katie Britt of Alabama, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Mike Lee of Utah… -
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Republicans and Democrats Agree That Nike, Adidas, and Temu May Have a Serious Legal Problem
The chairman and ranking member of the China Select Committee have sent four letters to the heads of Nike, Adidas, Temu, and Shein demanding answers about the companies' apparent continued use of Uyghur forced labor in their supply chains despite the 2021 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The China Select Committee, formally known as the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: 16 Attorneys General Back Florida Transgender Medicaid Rule
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sixteen state attorneys general weighed in on Florida's rule blocking Medicaid funds from transgender medical interventions on the grounds that they are experimental. "From the Founding, states have exercised their authority to enact health and safety measures—regulating the medical profession, restricting access to potentially dangerous medicines, banning unsafe or unproven treatments,"… -
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‘He’s Wrong,’ Expert Says as Education Secretary Implies Book Banning Responsible for Falling Civics, History Scores
The test results are in, and America’s children are failing history and civics. According to the “Nation’s Report Card,” just 13% of eighth graders are proficient in U.S. history, and only 22% are proficient in civics. Every four years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress captures how well America’s students are performing in major subjects…. -
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Are Labor Markets Really Improving? Pulling Back Curtain on ‘Magic of Government Statistics’
As America enters the thick of this year’s second quarter, the repercussions of the Biden administration’s economic policies become more apparent. New numbers from the government’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, released Tuesday, revealed that the number of job openings dropped to the lowest level since May 2021. The drop in job openings from… -
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Faith Leaders Share Words of Hope, Challenge on National Day of Prayer
“I don’t pray enough for the country, and I should,” Tucker Carlson recently said during a speech at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Gala. Carlson said he had concluded that “it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will.”… -
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House Oversight Panel Subpoenas FBI for Document Alleging Biden ‘Bribery Scheme’
A key House committee issued a subpoena to the FBI on Wednesday for a document that Republican lawmakers say potentially implicates President Joe Biden in a bribery scheme while he served as vice president. House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., signed on to a letter with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking member… -
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Kavanaugh Wasn’t the Only Justice Endangered by the Dobbs Leak
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wasn't the only justice whose safety was threatened following the leak of the draft opinion showing Roe v. Wade would likely be overturned. Authorities arrested 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske near Kavanaugh's home in the middle of the night on June 8, 2022, after the opinion leaked in May. Roske had… -
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Red States Ban Destructive Transgender Treatments as K-12 Schools Funnel Children to Dangerous Path
Citing “very serious side effects” and a “lack of reliable scientific evidence for their efficacy and safety,” Missouri is clamping down on chemical and surgical gender transition interventions for both children and adults. The move comes as public schools across the nation push children toward transgenderism with organized efforts and intentional tactics that leave children’s… -
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‘We Have 2 Different Latin Americas, Moochers and Looters’
There’s a socialist wave in Latin America. Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil recently elected leftists. These politicians at least distance themselves from thugs like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, but all propose socialism-lite policies giving government more control over more people. Why don’t people in Latin America learn from the mistakes of the past?… -
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Left’s Scheme to Bludgeon Supreme Court Exposed at Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on “Supreme Court Ethics Reform.” The title implies that Supreme Court ethics need reform and that Congress can do the reforming. The hearing failed to make that case. Everyone agrees on the critical importance of public confidence in the judiciary’s impartiality and integrity, and that that confidence… -
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Time for Biden and Schumer to Stop Demagoguing and Take Debt, Spending Talks Seriously
As Americans deal with an economic hangover of high inflation and rising interest rates caused in large part by Washington’s irresponsible spending spree, House Republicans have delivered a legislative package to address these problems. Troublingly, leading Democrats are making patently false claims that will make it more difficult for the two sides to find common… -
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Massive Tourism, Oil Pipeline Projects to Boost Jordanian Economy
Jordan’s tourism sector is booming. In the first quarter of 2023, tourism increased by 90.7%, surpassing tourism numbers in the first quarter of pre-COVID 2019. Petra, Wadi Rum, Karak Castle, Aqaba, and the Dead Sea are just a few of the sites that have put the Western-friendly Hashemite kingdom of Jordan on the map. Tourism,… -
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Congress Must End This Multibillion-dollar Government Slush Fund
A little-known slush fund at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has become a go-to funding source for billions of dollars of abusive spending in the last few administrations, Democrat and Republican alike. Currently, the Biden administration is improperly using it to help carry out its climate agenda. The 90-year-old program, called the Commodity Credit Corporation,… -
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Heritage Scholar Gives a Master Class in Responding to Sheldon Whitehouse’s Attacks
A Heritage Foundation economist called out Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., for his membership in a whites-only club in response to the senator’s attack on the conservative think tank. Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center For Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, also made clear fossil fuels played a larger role in Whitehouse’s personal… -
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Dishonest New York Times Series Does Not Deserve a Pulitzer
Following an 18-part investigative series in The New York Times alleging various forms of maleducation and malfeasance in New York City yeshivas, the New York Board of Regents began implementing regulations targeting these Hasidic Jewish day schools. These included requiring certain classes (currently not taught at yeshivas) to be taught for a specified length, allowing… -
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Chief Diversity Officer Won’t Roll Over for the Left
Virginia state official Martin Brown is the latest reminder that DEI—“diversity, equity, and inclusion”—is a sham, a strategy to force systemic change and not to encourage equality, participation by all, or ideological diversity. “DEI is dead,” Brown said last week, and the keepers of the orthodoxy started calling for his head. Brown, chief diversity, opportunity,… -
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House Republicans ‘Did What They Had to Do’ on Debt Ceiling, CEO Says
The U.S. may “potentially” default on its debt “as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before that time,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a letter Monday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Alfredo Ortiz, president and chief executive officer of the nonpartisan Job Creators Network, says… -
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What If 1 Day the Federal Workforce Just Disappeared? Turns Out, It Has
As of Wednesday, it’s been 1,143 days since workers across the country were sent home in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. It’s been 692 days since the Biden administration issued a plan for “an effective, orderly, and safe increased return of Federal employees and contractors to the physical workplace” and… -
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Congress Failed to Hold DOJ, FBI, ATF Accountable for 1993 Waco Disaster. Something Like It Could Happen Again.
Thirty years ago last month, on April 19, 1993, a 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a conflagration that claimed the lives of 76, including 25 children. Other accounts put those numbers at 82 and 28, respectively. Three decades later, the federal agencies and officials responsible for that tragedy…