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Louisiana Congressman Gets COVID-19 for Second Time
Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., said Sunday that he, his wife, and his son all tested positive for COVID-19. “I have COVID, Becca has COVID, my son has COVID,” Higgins wrote on Facebook, adding that he and his wife had already tested positive for the virus early in 2020. “Becca and I have had COVID before, early… -
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As Ortega Looks to Extend Dictatorship in Nicaragua, US and Allies Must Ratchet Up Sanctions
In 1979, socialist guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega led his Sandinista National Liberation Front in overthrowing the authoritarian regime of Anastasio Somoza, whose family had held power in Nicaragua for more than four decades. Ortega has held power there now for 26 of the past 42 years, wielded significant political influence in his years out of… -
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Senate Rushes to Finish Infrastructure Package Before Recess
Senators are sprinting to finalize their bipartisan infrastructure deal with their scheduled August recess just over a week away. Those involved in the negotiations spent the weekend trying to reach a deal as soon as Monday, but hit roadblocks over public transit funding and spending levels for highways, broadband, and some other areas. “We’re about… -
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Mom Files Lawsuit After Teacher Tells Third Grader She Can’t Wear ‘Jesus Loves Me’ Mask
Mississippi mother Jennifer Booth was surprised when her 9-year-old daughter, Lydia, came home from school and told her that she was not allowed to wear her “Jesus Loves Me” face mask anymore. Thinking her daughter’s teacher might simply have been having a bad day, Booth sent Lydia back to school with her mask. Again, the… -
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What to Know About How Those ‘Fugitive’ Texas Democrats Will Pay for Stay in DC
Special interest donors are covering much of the cost for Texas Democratic lawmakers to stay in pricey Washington, D.C., hotel rooms, but Texas taxpayers are still losing close to $500,000 on expenses for a legislative session that isn’t happening. Texas lawmakers who fled the legislative session in Austin for the nation’s capital ultimately will have to… -
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We Hear You: Nothing Nice About Peddling ‘Nice Racism,’ Critical Race Theory
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience is passionate in responding to our coverage of the left's attempts to divide America by race. See for yourself in this sampling of the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I am a black woman who is old enough to see that Robin DiAngelo’s mumbo-jumbo is just repackaged 1960s… -
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Education Department Backs Off Promotion of Group Espousing Critical Race Theory
The Biden administration called it an “error” to promote a guide by a group espousing critical race theory in an Education Department handbook meant for use in over 13,000 public school districts on recommendations and policies for school reopenings, Fox News reported. The activist group, Abolitionist Teaching Network, has connections to at least two high-ranking officials in… -
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Mississippi Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch has called on the Supreme Court to defend the right of states to pass laws protecting “life and women’s health,” urging the high court to overturn the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. The Mississippi attorney general filed a brief Thursday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which the court will… -
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Senate Democrats, Slamming FBI, Seek to Revive Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Allegations
Senate Democrats demanded this week that the FBI hand over additional information related to its 2018 investigation into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Chris Coons, D-Del., raised a series of questions about the FBI’s handling of its sexual misconduct probe into Kavanaugh… -
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Protecting Life on College Campuses
The physical and psychological traumas associated with the chemical abortion regimen evince the unique horrors of the procedure—even beyond what we are used to in the abortion context. Tammi, one victim of the abortion industry’s embrace of this practice, reflected on her chemical abortion as “savage” and “horrific.” She recalled extreme physical pain and fear throughout the… -
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Nikki Haley Says Nations That Attend Beijing Olympics Will Give China ‘Propaganda Victory’
As the U.S. begins to compete at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is making it clear that America needs to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. Haley supports a boycott of the games as a response to the Communist Chinese government’s human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities… -
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Critical Race Theory in Classrooms Isn’t Just About Teaching ‘Honest History’
The media spin and outright gaslighting to cover up the reality of the teaching of critical race theory in our schools and institutions has shifted into overdrive. First, we were told it wasn’t happening at all. Then, we were informed that trying to stop it was authoritarian fascism or something. Now left-wing media and politicians… -
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Biological Male May Join Middle School Girls Cross Country Team, Judge Rules
A middle school student who is a biological male may run on a girls cross country team this fall in spite of West Virginia’s new law banning biological males from women’s sports, a federal judge has ruled. Lawyers from the ACLU-West Virginia had argued to U.S. Circuit Judge Joseph R. Goodwin that HB 3293 would unfairly prevent the 11-year-old… -
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Can National Solidarity Solve Our Race Problems?
On Oct. 16, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House. As Edmund Morris relates in “Theodore Rex,” many Americans were pleased with this precedent-shattering dinner. But not all. Definitely not all. In the South, disgust and vitriol shook the rafters. A sample of headlines: “Roosevelt Dines a Darkey”… -
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As Predicted, Court-Packing Looms Large in Supreme Court Commission’s Second Public Meeting
The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court met Tuesday for its second public meeting, hearing from 27 witnesses about everything from the court’s so-called shadow docket to court-packing and time limits for the confirmation process. The commission’s report for President Joe Biden is due by mid-November, but if this and its May 19 meeting are… -
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‘Dystopian Cruelty’: Congressman Slams Pelosi Staffers’ Treatment of Kids on House Floor
Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., called out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over an incident in which her staff kicked his 5-year-old daughter off the House floor along with children of other lawmakers. “The inability to show kindness to children, which aren’t a problem, gives you almost a poster of what’s becoming wrong with this leadership,” Schweikert… -
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Democrats’ Bill Would Hold Facebook, Other Social Media Liable for ‘Health Misinformation’
Senate Democrats introduced legislation Thursday removing liability protections from online platforms that promote content deemed health misinformation. The bill, proposed by Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Ben Ray Lujan, seeks to carve out an exception from Section 230 liability shields enjoyed by online platforms, such as Facebook or YouTube, if those platforms boost content classified as health… -
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Can the Left Get Anything Right? From Immigration to Energy, Answer Is ‘No’
From immigration to crime, energy, and beyond, Democrats have the Midas touch in reverse: Everything they handle turns to manure. Can the left get anything right? Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly has claimed that “the border is closed.” Regarding the illegal alien surge through Mexico, “we have seen extreme progress over these last few… -
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Pelosi’s Archbishop Rebukes Her for Saying She Supports Abortion as ‘Devout Catholic’
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone rebuked Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Thursday for calling herself a “devout Catholic” in her defense of taxpayer-funded abortion. “Let me repeat,” the San Francisco archbishop said in a statement. “No one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have… -
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Declining US Birthrate Another Reason to Rein in Federal Spending
Initially, COVID-19 lockdowns were projected to produce a baby boom, but what ensued instead was a baby bust. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020 marked a record-low fertility rate of 1.64 children per woman and the sixth straight year with an outright decline in the number of births. A fertility rate…