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EXCLUSIVE: Claudia Tenney Demands Transparency on Planned Parenthood’s Massive COVID-19 Loans
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is calling on the Small Business Administration to explain why it forgave $67 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans to Planned Parenthood affiliates—loans that these abortion clinics should never have gotten in the first place. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, Tenney and her Republican colleagues told Inspector… -
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Elon Musk Bought Twitter for $44 Billion. Now What?
It finally happened. After months of “maybe, maybe not,” Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. Now the question is, what happens next? In the past, Musk said he thought Twitter should follow the same free speech guidelines that exist within America’s public square, says Jake Denton, a research associate with The Heritage Foundation’s Tech… -
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6 Heavily Hispanic Battleground House Districts to Watch
America’s election landscape is changing, and Latino voters may be one of the central reasons. Since the most recent midterm elections in 2018, Hispanic Americans have become the fastest-growing ethnic group among the country’s electorate, according to the Pew Research Center. There are estimated to be 34.5 million eligible Latino voters in America this year. … -
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Martha’s Vineyard, While Touting ‘Humanitarian’ Response, Quickly Decided to Ship Illegal Aliens to Mainland
Immediately after the arrival of about 50 illegal immigrants from Venezuela, Martha’s Vineyard officials pushed a public image of a humanitarian response from the affluent island resort off the coast of Massachusetts. However, internal emails reveal officials’ intent to ship the migrants off the island to a military base on the mainland shortly as soon… -
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‘Extreme’ California Proposition Allows for Unlimited Abortions, Pro-Life Opponents Warn
A proposition put forward by California Democrats would allow abortions at any time and for any reason, pro-life advocates are warning, emphasizing that the media and Democrats are downplaying such concerns because Californians do not support late-term abortion. Proposition 1, titled the “Constitutional Right To Reproductive Freedom,” is a legislative constitutional amendment that would change… -
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DC Council ‘Beginning to Recognize Irrationality’ of Kicking Kids Out of School Over Vaccine Mandate, Ted Cruz Says
The District of Columbia Council voted Tuesday to push the city’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students ages 12 and older to next year. The district currently mandates that eligible students must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 3, or else be barred from attending school. D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson, an independent, joined by Chairman… -
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Biden Administration’s Electric Vehicle Gambit Is Enormously Expensive—and Illegal
Congress has repeatedly rejected radical climate change policies that would increase the price of energy. Now, President Joe Biden is circumventing the legislative branch by moving to force people into using electric vehicles. This plan would impose the costliest regulatory burden ever inflicted on the public. The vast majority of people don’t support phasing out and eventually banning… -
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Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act Is About Protecting Minors, Experts Say
The battle over “gender transitions” for minors is playing out in dozens of American states. Some states are seeking to ban cross-sex hormones and transgender surgeries. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, hopes to make his state a “magnet” for minors seeking those interventions. Arkansas state Rep. Robin Lundstrum, a Republican, introduced the Save Adolescents From… -
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Author Explains Why ‘Race Does Not Exist’
“Strictly speaking, race does not exist,” Fe Bencosme says. Bencosme, author of the new book “You Are Not Your Race: Embracing Our Shared Humanity in a Chaotic Age,” says she knows her writings on race will offend people, but the reality is “there’s no black race, there’s no white race, there’s no yellow or red… -
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China’s Growing Political Autocracy Limits Its Economic Prospects
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attempt to build a more socialist economy with excessive Communist Party control contradicts more market-oriented reforms China has tried to implement since the late 1970s. On October 16, the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party reaffirmed Xi’s control over the country and his party for a third term and,… -
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The Left’s Need to Control All Information
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is taking over Twitter and the Left is melting down. On Thursday, Musk officially completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant. He immediately began to shake up the company and fired four key members of upper management. The firings included Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Chief Legal Officer Vijaya… -
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Jewish Leaders Condemn ‘Antisemitic’ New York Times Article for ‘Whitewashing’ a ‘Pogrom’
Jewish leaders, speaking to The Daily Signal, condemned a New York Times article for having “whitewashed” a “pogrom.” As Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin met with rabbis in New York City’s Orthodox community, promising support for yeshivas (Jewish schools) and racking up endorsements, America’s newspaper of record published an article explaining “How the Hasidic Jewish… -
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The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court
“Can a court be blind to what must be necessarily known to every intelligent person in the state?” So wrote Judge Lorenzo Sawyer 136 years ago in a case challenging a San Francisco licensing ordinance regulating laundry businesses. The ordinance made no mention of race. Instead, it purported to be about safety, but everyone knew… -
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Doctor Compares Crisis Pregnancy Centers to ‘Terrorists’ During Democrat-Led Hearing
A University of Pennsylvania doctor appeared to compare crisis pregnancy centers to “terrorists” during a Friday hearing, accusing these pro-life centers of harming and targeting mothers. Courtney Schreiber, chief of the Division of Family Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine, spoke Friday… -
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Entertainment Industry, Social Media Normalize Transgender Content That Could Harm Kids
Editor’s note: This article has been corrected and updated. An earlier version of this article misidentified some YouTubers as transgender who are not. This article has also been updated to clarify the timing of the Taylor Swift video. Our society loves to consume entertainment in all its forms. Whether it’s streaming films and TV shows… -
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How Many Minors Who Take Puberty Blockers Pursue Further Treatment? What a New Study Shows
As a study from the Netherlands revealed that the vast majority of minors who took puberty-blocking drugs continued taking treatments to advance gender transition, another highly publicized study purporting to show improved mental health outcomes for minors who undergo transition treatments now has been “appended.” A study out of a gender clinic in Amsterdam, published in October,… -
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Twitter Bans Conservatives, Including Heritage Foundation Expert, One Week Before Midterm Elections
Twitter suspended conservative accounts just over one week before the midterm elections, including the account of a Heritage Foundation scholar and the leader of a conservative nonprofit. Jake Denton, a research associate at Heritage's Tech Policy Center, found himself suspended on Twitter at 11:10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29, 10 days before the 2022 midterm… -
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2 States That Should Be Able to Sue Over Biden’s Student Loan Bailout
President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout is illegal. That’s not a hard call, but before a court can consider the merits of Biden’s scheme, a plaintiff must have what the law refers to as “standing.” Standing is a doctrine that says that a court doesn’t have jurisdiction to hear a case unless the plaintiff has… -
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Marxists’ ‘Race Struggle’ May Be About to Implode
Sometime about half a century ago, the Marxist Left, determined to force a revolution, came up with what it thought was a fail-proof strategy: Get minorities to believe they are victims, a people oppressed by U.S. society, and they will gladly enlist in the campaign to transform society’s culture completely. This followed the failure of Marxists… -
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A Disturbing Movement Picks Up Steam on Left
Voting has long been one of the privileges of American citizenship, but perhaps not for much longer. Left-wing activists are going all-in with their demands to let noncitizens vote, and Washington, D.C., just took up the charge. The D.C. City Council advanced a bill to let anyone vote in local elections, regardless of citizenship and…