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‘Nobody Stepped Up’: Spencer Pratt Runs for LA Mayor After Fire Destroys His Home
Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt is running for mayor of Los Angeles after losing his home last year in the devastating Palisades fire. In an interview Wednesday with “Fox & Friends,” Pratt said, “I was driving away from my home and watching on the security cameras … watching my son’s bed engulfed in flames.” This tragedy is what led Pratt to run… -
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Your Tax Dollars Went to a Group Training ‘Constitutional Observers’ in Minneapolis
Protests over two immigration enforcement-involved shootings have highlighted the agitators organizing against federal agents on the ground in Minnesota, and the organization Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accíon Latina, or COPAL Education Fund, is a major player. COPAL describes itself as a group that works “to improve the quality of life of Latine families.”… -
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Is the Government About to Shut Down Over ICE Funding?
Congress is likely about to trigger a shutdown as Democrat leaders, responding to pressure from their base, demand restraints on immigration law enforcement in exchange for funding the Department of Homeland Security. On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., laid his demands out on the table. The House has sent the Senate the final… -
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How Conservatives Are Winning the War on Transgenderism
The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 29. For the first time in my lifetime, conservatives are dominating a battle… -
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Senator Warns Democrat Shutdown Could Endanger Americans Facing Winter Storm
An impending government shutdown would “stall funding” for the Federal Emergency Management Agency shortly after a “crippling” winter storm, Sen. Marsha Blackburn told The Daily Signal. “Most of the Democrats do not want a shutdown,” Blackburn said. “I think also it’s important to realize we have had a massive storm. It has crippled much of… -
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Trump Finds California Illegally Hid Gender Identity From Parents
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education found that California violated federal parental rights law by pressuring schools to hide children’s so-called transgender identity from their parents. A U.S. Department of Education investigation found that the California Department of Education violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, known as FERPA. The state’s policies “have created… -
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Rubio Debunks ‘Torture’ Claim During Senate Testimony
At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that “innocent people” were tortured and deported because of President Donald Trump’s use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act. Duckworth asked Rubio if he would “encourage” the president to “rescind” the invocation of a presidential authority… -
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Dem Won’t Drop Out of Ohio AG Race After Plan to ‘Kill Trump’
Elliot Forhan, a Democrat running for attorney general in Ohio, has told The Daily Signal he’s still “running to be Ohio’s next attorney general,” after saying he’s “going to kill [President] Donald Trump.” Forhan explained in a Facebook video on Tuesday that he will get Trump convicted of a capital crime if he becomes the… -
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Rubio: Venezuela Regime Now Aiding U.S. Counter-Narcotics for First Time in 20 Years
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told senators this morning that, after the capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan government is cooperating with the U.S. on confronting narco-terrorism. “For the first time in 20 years, we are having serious counter-narcotic talks with Venezuelan authorities,” Rubio said in his opening remarks. Rubio appeared as a witness to a Senate Foreign Relations… -
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Trump Admin Places Agents in Alex Pretti Shooting on Administrative Leave
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Homeland Security has taken two federal immigration agents involved in a deadly shooting off field duty as an investigation into the incident moves forward. Two Customs and Border Protection officers involved in a deadly Minnesota shooting on Saturday have been placed on administrative leave, a spokesperson for the agency confirmed to… -
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HHS Scraps Biden-Era Abortion Pill Mandate for Pharmacies
The Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday reversed a Biden-era mandate that pharmacies carry abortion drugs. The agency, under President Joe Biden, sent a notice to about 60,000 retail pharmacies in 2022 stipulating that they had to provide drugs as a condition of serving patients with Medicare, Medicaid, or other federally funded coverage…. -
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Trump Accuses Frey of ‘Playing With Fire’
Two days after President Donald Trump spoke with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on the phone after a Border Patrol-involved shooting, Trump accused Frey of ignoring U.S. law. Frey is “PLAYING WITH FIRE,” according to Trump. “Surprisingly, Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, ‘Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws.’ This is after having had a very good conversation with… -
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Education Budget Reversal Ignores Decades of Failure
Rep. Rosa DeLauro criticized House Republicans last fall for passing a downsized education budget, accusing them of attempting to “eliminate public education” and “decimate support for children in K-12 schools.” The charge was overdramatized and incorrect. Federal education funding accounts for roughly 10% of total K-12 spending nationwide. Despite decades of increasing federal investment, student… -
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Can President Remove Fed Official for Pre-Office Conduct? Court Weighs In.
Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Cook. This case came to the court on an expedited basis because in August of last year, President Donald Trump posted on social media a letter addressed to Lisa Cook, telling her, “Pursuant to my authority under Article II of the Constitution of the… -
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What Girls Stand to Lose in the Supreme Court’s Title IX Case
The Supreme Court heard oral argument recently on multiple state statutes addressing the participation of transgender-identified male athletes in girls sports. What was once settled policy has become a national reckoning on identity, privacy, fairness, civil rights, and what it means to be a girl. In the pair of cases from West Virginia and Idaho,… -
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Alex Pretti Reportedly Had Previous Run-in With Federal Agents
Alex Pretti reportedly had at least one previous encounter with federal immigration officials before he was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents on Saturday. About a week before his death, federal officers tackled Pretti, breaking one of his ribs as he was shouting and blowing a whistle while agents were attempting to make arrests in Minneapolis, CNN first reported. Anti-Immigration and… -
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Trump Threatens Iran: ‘Next Attack Will Be Far Worse’
President Donald Trump issued a warning to the Iranian regime, reminding the leaders of past U.S. strikes on Iran and threatening that the “next attack will be far worse” if the regime refuses negotiations over its nuclear program. Trump reiterated his desire to strike a deal with Iran in a Truth Social post Wednesday, calling on the regime to ‘quickly ‘Come… -
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What Trump Says Really Happened at Omar Town Hall
President Donald Trump said that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., “probably had herself sprayed” after the congresswoman was attacked by a man with a syringe at a town hall. The firebrand member of the House who has been the subject of a federal fraud probe was sprayed by an unknown substance during a town hall meeting… -
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Canada Should Warm to Trump’s Arctic Plans
President Donald Trump’s Arctic strategy has been 500 years in the making. When Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic in 1492, he intended to find a direct path from Europe to Asia. He didn’t, of course—but the first transatlantic explorer to sail under an English flag, John Cabot, tried again a few years later… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservatives Mobilize to Overturn Obergefell
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of 47 conservative organizations is launching a campaign to challenge the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which the groups claim redefined marriage to emphasize the desires of adults over the needs of children. The “Greater Than” campaign focuses on one message, which a handful of conservative…