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Democrats Champion Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show, Attack Turning Point USA Alternative
While President Donald Trump criticized Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, Democrats celebrated it and ridiculed Turning Point USA’s alternative performance. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, whose stage name is Bad Bunny, made headlines at Sunday’s show by performing mostly in Spanish, celebrating his Puerto Rican heritage, and using songs with sexually explicit lyrics. President Donald… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Action Makes SAVE America Act ‘Key Vote’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots 501(c)(4) organization, will key vote the SAVE America Act on its legislative scorecard. The SAVE America Act, recently introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would institute national requirements of proof of citizenship to register to vote, as well as photo identification to vote in federal elections…. -
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What Lawyer for Jailed Epstein Ally Told Congress About Trump, Clinton
Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced to 20 years in prison for assisting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, didn’t answer questions from a House panel Monday, as her lawyer attested to the innocence of both President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton in the Epstein matter. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating the close ties Epstein had with… -
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Lessons From Portugal for European Conservatives
When an election produces results not seen in decades, it is a shock to the system. Andre Ventura’s second-place finish in the first round of the Portuguese presidential election was just such a shock. The leader of the national populist Chega party broke through the previous duopoly of the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist… -
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Cuba Announces No More Fuel for International Airlines
Cuba’s government says international airlines can’t refuel on the island nation starting Monday. Cuban authorities issued an official Notice to Airmen over the weekend, warning that kerosene shortages are affecting all of Cuba’s international airports, the Spanish news agency EFE reports. The notice is good for one month, meaning international planes won’t be able to… -
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Trump Slams Anti-ICE Super Bowl Singer for ‘Slap in the Face’ to US
President Donald Trump slammed artist Bad Bunny for performing “one of the worst” Super Bowl halftime shows in history. “The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of… -
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Modern Science Is Smart Public Policy for a Healthy Nation and Economy
The news two weeks ago from the National Institutes of Health could be downplayed as a tidbit of politics by the Trump administration around the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court abortion decision. But that would be missing the larger import of the statement by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya about the agency’s decision to end… -
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EXCLUSIVE: New Media Network Combats Anti-American Spin by Featuring Veterans, Law Enforcement
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Proud American Studios, a new media network, aims to counter the Left’s pervasive bias by highlighting the voices of patriotic Americans who served in the military and law enforcement—a particularly resonant mission amid the recent demonization of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. “The recent media coverage out of Minneapolis is a textbook… -
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Super Bowl LX Program Features Heritage Foundation Ad
This year’s Super Bowl program features stories about the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, ads for major brands, and—thanks to The Heritage Foundation—a tribute to America’s founding. For the first time in its 53-year history, Heritage is advertising in the official Super Bowl LX program. The policy organization purchased an ad marking the 250th… -
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Conservative Media at a Crossroads
The media landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation that will reshape how Americans consume news over the next decade—and conservative outlets are leading the way. That’s the view of Rob Bluey, president and executive editor of The Daily Signal. In an appearance on PragerU’s “Real Talk” show with host Marissa Streit, Bluey outlined the challenges… -
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‘Melania’ Shows First Lady Living With Purpose and Style
‘Melania’ sets the stage for the golden age of political storytelling. If “the medium is the message,” the documentary giving audiences an inside look at the first lady’s life in the 20 days leading up to the 47th presidential inauguration hits the mark on both. The film grossed over $7 million in it’s opening weekend, making it the highest grossing, non-music, documentary in a… -
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Trump Shreds Olympic Skier Hess Over Comments About Repping the US
Feb 8 (Reuters)—U.S. President Donald Trump criticized American Olympic skier Hunter Hess on Sunday, days after the athlete expressed mixed feelings about representing the U.S. at the Winter Olympics in northern Italy. “If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it,” Trump wrote in a… -
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Has Gen Z’s Relationship With Religion Really Shifted? A New Chapter in Belief
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that on May 17, in conjunction with America’s 250 birthday celebration, a prayer event will be held on the National Mall to “rededicate America as one nation under God.” But who’s going to show up? For much of the modern era, religious identification in the United States and other Western… -
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Even CNN Is Questioning Hakeem Jeffries Shutdown Strategy
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—CNN’s Dana Bash pointed out to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday that a partial government shutdown over Democrats’ demands for restrictions on enforcement by federal agents would primarily affect agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Transportation Security Administration, and the Federal Aviation Administration. Despite Democrats’ new list… -
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4 House Primaries You Need to Watch
2026 will be a decisive year for the balance of power in the House of Representatives, as voters go to the polls and decide whether Republicans hold on to their slim majority. But before November, voters will have an opportunity in primaries to decide who their party’s nominee will be. In some cases, the primary… -
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Pollsters Don’t Ask If Anti-ICE Activists Have ‘Gone Too Far’
The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration enforcement officers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. It has rarely acted to “hold government accountable” when the governing comes from Democrats, like Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob… -
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‘NOT ACCEPTABLE’: Trump Admin ‘Clamping Down’ on Foreigners Taking American Jobs
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas is seeking to prevent Americans losing their jobs to foreign workers. “Most people understand that you can’t discriminate against a foreign worker, but they don’t understand that American workers could constitute a national origin,” said Lucas, who oversees the federal government’s employment discrimination agency. “It’s one of those… -
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Is This the End of Transgender Hysteria?
A few years ago, things looked pretty bleak for skeptics of transgenderism—those of us who have great compassion for those afflicted by what the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” long referred to as the “disorder” of gender dysphoria, but who refuse to accept the lie that a man can become a woman or… -
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The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Eviscerate Climate Lawfare
Climate alarmism has lost at the ballot box time and time again, and last year, even Bill Gates significantly dialed down his support for it. However, enterprising lawyers on the Left are still trying to smuggle in an effective carbon tax through the courts—and the Supreme Court should put an end to it. It works… -
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Mike Lee Says ‘Zombie Filibuster’ Is Stalling Voter ID Bill—Here’s What That Means
Conservatives are calling on Senate Republicans to end the “zombie filibuster” to overcome Democrat opposition to the SAVE America Act, legislation that would mandate voter ID and proof of citizenship. President Donald Trump threw his full support behind the bill in recent days, arguing that America’s elections are “rigged, stolen, and a laughingstock.” “The SAVE…