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A Hidden Camera, a Catholic Pitcher, and a Baseball Team Now Under Scrutiny
The Washington Nationals made news for something other than their play on the baseball field this week. Sean Hudson, the team’s director of community relations, was caught on a hidden camera by James O’Keefe making disparaging comments about pitcher Trevor Williams, who is Catholic. O’Keefe posted footage Tuesday on X of Hudson alleging the team… -
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Biden Sues Trump DOJ Over Audio Recording Release
The saga surrounding Joe Biden’s audio recordings continues, as lawyers for the former president on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the release of conversations that were part of an investigation into classified documents. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to block the Department… -
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New Texas Clinic Flips the Left’s Gender Narrative on Its Head
People who have been hoodwinked by transgender ideology and the medical establishment telling them to physically damage their own bodies in pursuit of a false identity may have a strong new remedy. The Department of Justice and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced last week a seismic shift in medicine. For the first time, a… -
Lawsuit Alleging Mississippi Billionaires Defrauded PPP Loan Program Withdrawn From Federal Court
The U.S. Court of the Southern District of Mississippi has signed off on a motion to drop a lawsuit alleging two Mississippi billionaires defrauded a pandemic-era program. The judge’s dismissal on Thursday came after plaintiffs entered a voluntary dismissal with prejudice on May 15. As reported by Mississippi Today, Judge Kristi H. Johnson signed off… -
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Mike Howell Eyes DOJ Seat on Weaponization Panel
Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, made a bid on Wednesday to serve on the Justice Department panel that will oversee more than $1.7 billion in payments to individuals who claim to be victimized by the “weaponization” of the federal government. “My candidacy has been met with great enthusiasm,” Howell told the Daily Signal…. -
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Cooke on Newsmax: SPLC Controversy Raises New Questions About Fraud and Accountability
The Daily Signal’s Senior Political and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke said on Newsmax Wednesday that congressional scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center over fraud concerns is long overdue, arguing that Americans deserve answers about whether the organization engaged in political targeting and how it used donor funds. A federal grand jury in April charged… -
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Communist Cuba Mouth Piece Dismembered by US Lawmakers
After Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez claimed that “despite the [U.S.] embargo, sanctions and threats of the use of force, Cuba continues on a path of sovereignty toward its socialist development,” several Republican lawmakers dismissed his remarks as disconnected from reality. “Ha, ha, ha,” Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., said sarcastically in response. “Ha, ha,… -
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‘Justice Has No Expiration Date’: Raúl Castro Indicted in US
The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced murder charges against former Cuban President and longtime Defense Minister Raúl Castro, 94. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated during a press conference in Miami on Wednesday that a federal grand jury charged Castro and five co-defendants with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, destruction of aircraft, and four counts of… -
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Raúl Castro’s Indictment and Cuba’s Future
Cubans are no different from anyone else on this earth; God has endowed them with rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. For the past 67 years, a pitiless regime, run mostly by one family, has deprived them of these rights, and when they have raised their voices, the regime’s henchmen have thrown… -
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Ohio Secretary LaRose Continues to Fend Off Dems on Voter Data
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose continues to defend his decision to send voter data to the federal government despite increased Democrat opposition. LaRose has been complying with a directive from the Trump administration’s Department of Justice to hand over statewide voter registration lists to identify and remove ineligible voters from the rolls. The data… -
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The Daily Signal’s Own Tyler O’Neil Is Set to Testify Before Congress on the SPLC-Manufactured Hate
Congress has called on The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil to testify Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee as lawmakers investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center following a Department of Justice indictment. “I’m honored to testify before the full House Judiciary Committee tomorrow, and I look forward to exposing the SPLC’s corruption to Congress,” O’Neil told… -
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DOJ’s CVS Lawsuit Looks Tough. It Won’t Fix the System.
A yearslong series of federal lawsuits against Walmart, CVS, and other pharmacies centers on opioids, insulin, prescription refills, federal reimbursements, and patient safety. With national companies involved and Department of Justice press releases proclaiming accountability for the opioid epidemic, they are the kinds of cases that naturally attract public attention. There’s only one problem: Pharmacies… -
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Iranian Pleads Guilty to Aiding Illegal Alien With Ties to Terrorism
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Iranian national Sharon Gohari pleaded guilty on Tuesday to unlawfully smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States—including one with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—and intentionally receiving child pornography, The Daily Signal has learned. Gohari, a naturalized U.S. citizen who resided alternately in Iran and Nassau County, New York, asked… -
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The Deep State Strikes Back
Last month, the Justice Department targeted a central hub of the Left’s cancel culture machine that weaponized the federal government under President Joe Biden. Just over a week later, Democrats received a “whistleblower” report claiming that the DOJ rushed the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. To my eyes, this looks like a deep… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Comey’s Bizarre Beach Post Exposes FBI Hypocrisy
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. James Comey, the former director of the FBI, was again indicted recently, this time for putting a picture of seashells on his social media that were arranged… -
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2 Major Companies Bankrolling SPLC Will Cut Off Grants After DOJ Indictment
The federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which accuses the SPLC of wire fraud and bank fraud for funding members of the very white supremacist groups it claims to dismantle, has led some financial institutions to block grants to the group. After Fidelity Investments and Vanguard Financial announced they would stop issuing grants… -
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The Biden Admin’s Anti-Christian Bias Was Even Worse Than You Think
Joe Biden’s presidency was even worse for Christians than you think, according to an exhaustive report from the Justice Department’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, published Thursday. The anti-Christian bias seeped into official policy across the federal government, from personnel matters—where Christians’ requests for time off around Easter Sunday were met with suspicion in… -
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Southern Poverty Law Center Gets Taste of Its Own Debanking Medicine
After years of the Southern Poverty Law Center demanding that charitable foundations blacklist conservative and Christian nonprofits, the shoe is finally on the other foot: Fidelity Charitable has denied contributions to the SPLC. Fidelity hasn’t targeted the SPLC for ideological reasons in the same way the SPLC targets conservatives, however—America’s largest sponsor of donor-advised funds… -
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‘LUDICROUS’: Rabbi Slams Latest Attempt to Defend SPLC Paying Klan Members
Jewish groups have used paid informants to protect synagogues from antisemitic violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has claimed that it was funding KKK members for similar reasons, but a group that represents 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is crying foul. Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud,… -
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Ohio SOS LaRose Defends Sending Voter Data to DOJ
As the Trump administration continues to insist that states beef up election security, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is defending his role in sending voter data along to the federal government. In May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice began requesting that states hand over statewide voter registration lists. The lists contain information such…