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5 Takeaways From Congressional Hearing on Baby Formula Shortage
Lawmakers pressed Food and Drug Administration officials and a baby formula manufacturer Wednesday at a tense congressional hearing on the massive formula supply shortages that are leaving infants hungry across the nation. The hearing, held by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, was the first to focus specifically on the topic since the formula shortage… -
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Calling Us Terrorists Wasn’t Enough: NSBA Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents
Parental rights in education is not domestic terrorism. Any organization that says otherwise should have no influence over public policy whatsoever. And yet, in a first draft of a letter to President Joe Biden, the National School Boards Association requested the Army National Guard and military police to monitor parents in school board meetings. Why?… -
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The Elitists Who Want to Rule the World
Klaus Schwab is the head of the World Economic Forum; he founded the organization in 1971. Each year, the World Economic Forum hosts a massive conference in Davos, Switzerland, with thousands of world leaders, diplomats, and experts on various topics gathering to trade ideas about how best to cooperatively run the world. Lest this characterization… -
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Biden’s Gushy Lunch With Thomas Friedman
President Joe Biden’s minders have kept their man away from granting interviews—with reporters who overwhelmingly voted for him. Republicans went on Twitter to mock Biden when he reached 100 days since his last interview on Feb. 10. This is a pattern. Biden sat for just 28 interviews during his first year in office, compared with… -
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4 Steps Every School Can Take to Help Prevent Shootings
There are four steps schools can take to prevent tragedies like the one in Uvalde, Texas, Steven Bucci, a Heritage Foundation visiting fellow, says. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) “[I]t doesn’t have to be like this,” Bucci says. “We can mitigate the risk of these kind of things happening. I… -
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US Army May Be ‘Equitable,’ but Not Ready for Combat
Americans are used to picturing Army combat soldiers as incredibly tough individuals, able to run faster and do more pushups than most people. In today’s Army, though, that notion is officially passé. At a recent Senate hearing, we learned that Army physical fitness has been sacrificed on the altar of gender equity, a move that… -
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State Farm Ends Support for Supplying LGBTQ Books for Kids Amid Public Outcry
Following public outcry, State Farm Insurance said it has ended support for a project designed to place gender ideology books in children’s schools and in libraries. A leaked State Farm email from January, addressed to the insurer’s agents in Florida, asked for volunteers to donate leftist gender ideology children’s books to local schools, community centers, and libraries to… -
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What Should Congress Do About Bitcoin? Ted Cruz Has Some Ideas
Sen. Ted Cruz is “bullish” about bitcoin. “When it comes to bitcoin and cryptocurrency generally, I am incredibly bullish,” the Texas Republican said, before adding that bitcoin is going through a process that “will change the world.” Cruz spoke Monday at an event at The Heritage Foundation that revealed the boundless potential of digital currencies like bitcoin,… -
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Why Democrats’ Domestic Terrorism Bill Actually Goes After Political Opponents
Democrats are calling for a crackdown on domestic terrorism, but Republicans say their colleagues want to pass legislation that endangers the privacy of all Americans. Democrats’ proposed legislation is “nothing more than empowering the federal government to police thought and speech in the United States of America,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says. The House last… -
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School Shooting Leaves at Least 18 Students and Teacher Dead in ‘Horrific Tragedy,’ Texas Governor Says
A shooter killed at least 18 students and a teacher Tuesday morning at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Authorities said the gunman may have been carrying multiple weapons when he entered the school, located about 83 miles west of San Antonio. “It is believed that he abandoned his vehicle, then entered into the… -
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Biden to Highlight Police Accountability 2 Years After George Floyd’s Death
President Joe Biden is expected to issue an executive order Wednesday to limit the use of chokeholds and no-knock warrants by police as a way to mark the two-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Biden’s executive order also will restrict the Defense Department from providing surplus military equipment… -
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Pennsylvania’s Drawn-Out Senate Primary Underlines Need to Reform Mail-In Voting, House Republican Says
Pennsylvania’s second prolonged election in two years demonstrates a need to reform both the mail-in voting process and ballot counting, the co-chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Election Integrity Caucus says. “This mail-in-ballot voting is really an issue,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Tuesday. “And it’s an… -
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Indiana Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto of Ban on Biological Males in Girls Sports
Indiana on Tuesday became the 17th state to bar transgender females—biological males—from competing in girls K-12 sports when the Legislature overrode Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto of the ban. Lawmakers in the Indiana General Assembly needed only simple majorities to override Holcomb’s March 21 veto, but the House voted to override it 67-28, and the state Senate did likewise 32-15. The… -
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Summer Flights Will Be Delayed, Thanks to Government
Planning to fly this summer? Good luck. Delays are up. Cancellations, too. Why? Because of the pilot shortage. A pilot shortage? How can this be? Flying is a popular job. Some people fly small planes just for fun. Why aren’t there enough commercial pilots? Because the government passed another dumb law. In 2009, after a… -
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‘Pools of Blood’: Authorities Shut Down Abortion Clinic for Endangering Patients
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration shut down an abortion clinic Friday with an emergency order for allegedly failing to follow safety protocols after two women were hospitalized following their second-trimester abortions. The Agency for Health Care Administration shut down the American Family Planning Abortion Clinic following an investigation triggered by complaints from anti-abortion… -
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Biden’s Buffalo Speech Was Speech of Indecent Man
If an American president has ever given as mendacious, anti-American, and hate-filled a speech as President Joe Biden did in Buffalo, New York, last week, I am not familiar with it. Nor are you. Biden used the terrible mass shooting of black people in a Buffalo grocery store to smear America, divide Americans, and foment… -
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Why Are Nominally Christian Politicians Supporting Abortion?
The archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, has announced he will no longer allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her refusal to adhere to Catholic doctrine on unborn human life. This continues a battle between Catholic politicians who claim fealty to their church—but not to one of its central tenets—and some… -
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Arizona Sends Kids as Young as 10 to Gender and Sexuality Chatrooms
The Arizona Department of Education directs students to LGBT-themed chatrooms for children as young as 10 to discuss gender and sexuality as part of its student resources. The chatrooms are part of the department’s effort to support LGBT youths, and they were put together with the help of “members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community,” according to the… -
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Record Voter Turnout in Georgia Primary Elections Debunks ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Nonsense
What the left calls “voter suppression” apparently leads to record-high voter turnout. According to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, as of May 20, 857,401 Georgians had voted during the state’s three-week early voting period for the Georgia primary elections. This number is up substantially from just a few years ago. It’s the first election… -
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One Woman’s Journey to Pro-Life: Surviving Abortion Attempt, Having 2 Abortions Herself
Priscilla Hurley was first exposed to abortion while she was still in her mother's womb. She survived an abortion when her mother was four months pregnant. As a young woman, Hurley had two abortions herself before she began working at an abortion clinic. “[I]n a really twisted way, I was trying to help women,” Hurley…