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‘Invest in Joe’: How Hunter Biden’s Financial Deals Extend Beyond Ukraine
When Hunter Biden was on the board of the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma, he was included on an official government email in 2016 to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, regarding a phone call with Ukraine’s leader at the time, according to a recent discovery reported in the New York Post. But as… -
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Besides Lost Jobs, 3 More Ways Minimum Wage Laws Hurt Workers They’re Meant to Help
Many studies have documented the effect of minimum wage laws on lost jobs, including the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that a $15-an-hour minimum wage would cost 1.4 million jobs. That’s because mandating higher wages for some workers means no wages for others. But it wouldn’t just be workers who lost their jobs that would be… -
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Texas Governor Enlists National Guard to Catch Illegal Immigrants at Border
The Texas National Guard will be deployed to assist law enforcement officials in arresting illegal migrants on state criminal charges at the southern border, Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced. Illegal migrants who are apprehended and found to have committed state offenses such as criminal trespassing, human trafficking, and narcotics smuggling are subject to arrest… -
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Illegal Aliens Convicted of Homicide Return to America
In June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona charged six individuals who had previously been convicted of homicide in the U.S. with illegally reentering the country. This statistic—published in the U.S. attorney’s monthly report on immigration and border crimes—shines a revelatory light on our justice system and our border security. Each of… -
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Do Student Suspensions Really Cause a ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’?
The Biden administration is picking up where the Obama administration left off in trying to dictate to local school districts how they should best discipline students. Its justification for acting as national school principal is based on the claim that suspending students harms them by excluding them from the learning environment and by stigmatizing them… -
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De Blasio Warns ‘Voluntary Phase Over’ for COVID-19 Shots
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told MSNBC that the “voluntary phase is over” for COVID-19 vaccinations. “We’ve got to shake people at this point and say, ‘Come on now.’ We tried voluntary. We could not have been more kind and compassionate,” de Blasio said on MSNBC. “Free testing, everywhere you turn, incentives, friendly,… -
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2 House Conservatives Demand IRS Transparency in ‘Partisan’ Leak of Tax Records
Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent letters to Treasury Department officials Tuesday demanding answers about the Internal Revenue Service’s ongoing investigation into the leak of wealthy individuals’ tax information. The letters, first obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, were sent to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and Inspector General for Tax Administration J…. -
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How America’s Authoritarians Use Empathy to Rule
America has a crisis of empathy. That crisis isn’t expressed as lack of charitable giving: Americans give approximately seven times what Europeans do to charity per capita. And it isn’t expressed as an unwillingness to spend on a governmental level: The United States currently spends more money than any nation in the history of the… -
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My Professors Thought Calling Conservatives ‘Crazy’ and ‘Hicks’ Would Sway Me to the Left. They Were Wrong.
When I was looking at colleges during my senior year of high school, I knew that I wanted to attend an institution that focused on education rather than indoctrination. My impression was that my professor’s role was facilitating students’ ability to think critically, not indoctrinating them to a point where they thoughtlessly repeat their teachers’… -
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California Governor Takes Kids Out of Summer Camp That Doesn’t Require Masks
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s son was photographed maskless indoors at a summer camp, prompting the Democratic governor to pull his children out of the camp, Fox News reported. “The Newsoms were concerned to see unvaccinated children unmasked indoors at a camp their children began attending yesterday,” the governor’s communications director, Erin Mellon, told Fox News when asked… -
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Biden Touts Stronger ‘Buy American’ Rules for Taxpayer-Financed Purchases
President Joe Biden announced proposed changes to the Buy American Act on Wednesday that would increase the requirement for U.S.-produced components in products bought by the federal government. The proposed rule would mandate all products bought with taxpayer dollars to have at least 60% of their components manufactured in the U.S., the Biden administration announced… -
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President Pursues Rapid Deportations for Some Illegal Immigrants
The Biden administration reinstated rapid deportations for migrant families not expelled under the current Trump-era public health order Title 42, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. Border officials would be able to deport migrant families who illegally enter the U.S. and aren’t expelled under Title 42 under the “expedited removal” proceedings without court hearings, according to the Department… -
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France Warned US in 2015 About China’s Wuhan Lab, Investigator Says
The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration. In 2015, French intelligence officials warned… -
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What You Need to Know About Boondoggles in Senate Infrastructure Bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to extend a subway from San Francisco, not far from her congressional district, to Silicon Valley, with funding in the Senate’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com, and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, are calling this Pelosi’s Bay Area Boondoggle. Why? Andrzejewski joins a bonus… -
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Kayleigh McEnany’s ‘Faith Journey’ From White House Intern to Trump’s Press Secretary
What would it be like to go from being an intern at the White House to being White House press secretary? Kayleigh McEnany, the fourth and final press secretary to President Donald Trump, experienced that unlikely journey. She joins me today on “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss that passage as well as her forthcoming… -
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6 Takeaways From First Hearing by House Select Panel on Capitol Riot
Four police officers testified Tuesday about their experiences during the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, as the House select committee investigating the incident held its first hearing Federal law enforcement has charged at least 543 defendants in the attack on the Capitol, CBS News reported. Of those charged, 200 have been indicted, 17 have… -
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Chicago Mayor ‘Absolutely’ Would Deny Interviews Again to White Reporters
Judicial Watch announced Tuesday that it has amended its lawsuit against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat who claims to be “unapologetic” about her previous policy of granting interviews only to journalists of color. Lightfoot told The New York Times for a podcast released Monday that she “would absolutely” implement the interview policy again. “I’m… -
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Before Fauci, Here Are 8 Others Accused of Lying to Congress
Prosecutions for lying to Congress are rare, much less convictions, but some cases have been high profile. The issue is in the news because Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, misrepresented facts to Congress. Fauci, responding angrily… -
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Big Tech’s Task Force on Terrorism Tracks Far-Right Militias as Extremists
The tech industry’s alliance against terrorism has announced it will begin tracking content from far-right organizations in a shared counterterrorism database used by major tech companies. The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a nonprofit organization founded by Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, will add manifestos, posts, and links from far-right militias flagged by U.N…. -
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Ben & Jerry’s Takes Liberal Distortions Global
Ben & Jerry’s, noted for its ice cream made from “contented cows,” has produced not such contented consumers in many circles following its announcement to stop selling its ice cream in Israel’s West Bank and in East Jerusalem. Although the announcement calls these areas “occupied territories,” more accurate would be to describe their status as…