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Swimmer Riley Gaines Tied With Lia Thomas, but Only 1 Person Received a Trophy
OXON HILL, Md.—Swimmer Riley Gaines wants to know, “Where are the feminists” in the fight to protect women’s sports? “I think it's extremely ironic that the people advocating for this are the same party, the same people who were once advocating for the empowerment of women,” Gaines said. Gaines, a 12-time All-American and three-time Southeastern… -
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Trump Pledges to ‘Totally Obliterate the Deep State’: ‘I Am Your Retribution’
OXON HILL, Md.—Former President Donald Trump spoke about his accomplishments in the White House and his future plans in a speech Saturday to conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, just outside the nation’s capital. “We are going to complete the mission,” Trump said in the closing speech at CPAC. “We are… -
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China’s Xi Set to Consolidate Control as Legislature Convenes
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to increase his already unassailable power after his country’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress, convenes Sunday. The gathering represents the most important political event in Beijing since October’s National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held every five years, which saw Xi consolidate his control over the party… -
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Nikki Haley ‘Primes’ CPAC Audience With Jabs at Don Lemon, Hunter Biden as Well as Joe Biden
OXON HILL, Md.—Nikki Haley made her pitch for a new generation of leadership in remarks Friday to conservatives gathered just outside the nation’s capital. This change is imperative for standing up to China and other enemies abroad, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said. “China thinks the American era has passed. So do… -
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Red Tape Strangles Charities
A recent Gallup poll shows Americans see the government as the top problem facing the nation. For the most vulnerable Americans this may be especially true as new research shows that excessive government burden is having a negative impact on the organizations that struggling individuals and families rely on: charities. For the first time, a new study… -
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Merrick Garland’s Unsatisfactory Answers to Senate Judiciary Committee’s Legitimate Questions
After what seemed like an eternity getting him there, Attorney General Merrick Garland finally went face-to-face on Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican members of which were looking to get answers on a number of contentious issues. Those included an unfortunate FBI memo that has since been withdrawn, as well as complaints surrounding the Department of… -
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Amid Big Tech Layoffs, Demand Still High for Foreign Workers With H-1B Visas. Something Doesn’t Add Up.
Economist Milton Friedman’s maxim that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” applies to work visas that are supposed to be temporary. Every week brings a new headline about layoffs in the tech sector amid falling share prices, rising inflation, and the end of cheap money. Still, the decreasing demand for labor doesn’t… -
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ADL Attacks Crowdfunding Platform That’s Helping People in East Palestine
OXON HILL, Md.—Heather Wilson, co-founder of the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, told The Daily Signal that the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish legal advocacy group, smeared her organization. “The Anti-Defamation League defamed us [without] having any facts behind it,” Wilson said, emphasizing the word in an interview Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference. She said… -
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‘We’re Going to Tackle It Head-On,’ GOP Lawmaker Says of America’s Spiraling National Debt, Spending
OXON HILL, Md.—The clock is ticking on America’s debt. “You cannot spend yourself into oblivion like this country’s been doing,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., says, adding that Republicans are “going to tackle it head-on.” America has reached its current debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion, and Treasury’s extraordinary measures will likely be able to extend current… -
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Woke Education Hurts America on World Stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville Warns
OXON HILL, Md.—Wokeness is harming education and making America less competitive on the world stage, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., says. “I want them to have the opportunity that we had,” Tuberville, a retired college football coach, said Thursday during a forum at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside the nation’s capital. During the CPAC forum,… -
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Monumental Disappointments in Our Public Spaces
Monuments and memorials by nature long have stood, quite literally, in the public square. But within a few short years, radicalized Americans have turned on these taciturn forebears like Moses on the golden calf. The year 2020 witnessed great anguish on this subject among part of the U.S. population. Realizing that our nation was dotted… -
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Public Libraries Screw Up Black History Month
Another year, another Black History Month that ignored black American heroes in favor of stirring up racial division. Public libraries in Indianapolis; Chicago; New York City; Los Angeles; Seattle; Cincinnati; Washington, D.C.; Miami-Dade County; Memphis, and hundreds of other places around the country use February’s Black History Month as a progressive political soapbox rather than… -
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Google Tries to Discredit Study Showing Google News’ Left-Wing Bias
Google News heavily skewed in favor of left-leaning media outlets—both in the news articles featured on its homepage and in the search results for specific topics—in five of the days leading up to the 2022 midterm elections, according to an AllSides study Google criticized as "deeply flawed" in comments to The Daily Signal. "Imbalanced or… -
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Schools Are Pushing Gender Pronouns and Hiding It From Parents
A new report reveals students in the nation’s largest school districts are encouraged to change their names and pronouns without parental knowledge, even though those same schools require parental approval for over-the-counter medicine. The report, released by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies, found that “eight of the nation’s 20 largest school districts allow students… -
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Lawmakers Are Considering Competing Parents’ Rights Bills in North Carolina, but Only 1 Really Empowers Families
No one can say “parents’ rights” aren’t popular in North Carolina, with state lawmakers introducing more than one proposal this year to advance them. But there are stark contrasts between the competing pitches to empower parents. One bill reinforces the idea that children belong to parents first. The other is declaring open season on the… -
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From Vaccines to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ to Slavery, the Left Brazenly Lies About DeSantis
The Left’s outright lies about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggest that they fear him and aim to sandbag him through their usual methods—rampant deceit and racial division. First, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” concocted an elaborate fiction in which DeSantis, a Republican, supposedly arranged for Palm Beach County seniors to receive COVID-19 vaccines through Publix, as a payoff for the grocery chain’s $100,000 donation to his reelection campaign. This pay-to-play… -
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Toll of Border Crisis on States: Texas
As the border crisis rages, each state feels its own financial and human toll from the influx of illegal aliens who get help from the Biden administration to make their way into the interior of the United States and into every congressional district in the country. This is Part 2 in a series about the… -
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What Pro-Abortion Activists Got Wrong About Jessa Duggar’s D&C After Miscarriage
Jessa Duggar Seewald, known for her role on the popular TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” is receiving some backlash after sharing about a recent miscarriage. Around Christmas, Seewald miscarried what would have been her fifth child. “At that moment, I was just in complete shock,” she said in a recent YouTube video. “I… -
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‘Canceling Student Loan Debt Is Not Legal,’ Iowa Attorney General Says After Supreme Court Arguments
Iowa is one of six states suing the Biden administration over the president’s plan to forgive billions in student loan debt. “Canceling student loan debt is not legal,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. “In order for that to happen, something would have to pass the House, the Senate, [and] be signed by the president…. -
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Biden Is Confused About Who Can Get Pregnant, Women’s History Month Proclamation Shows
President Joe Biden claims women need abortion to be successful in his 2023 Women’s History Month Proclamation. “[D]espite significant progress, women and girls continue to face systemic barriers to full and equal participation in our economy and society,” Biden’s proclamation, released Feb. 28, reads. “Last year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping away a constitutional…