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    Biden State Department Spending Millions on Foreign LGBTQ Events as ‘Pride Month’ Approaches

    The State Department is funding an array of LGBTQ pride events across the globe ahead of June, some of which include events focused on children, federal grant records show. President Joe Biden’s State Department is bankrolling a gay film festival, an LGBTQ community conference, and other pride events in Australia, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria…
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    Biden’s Regulations Cost American Households Tens of Thousands, Report Says

    The Biden administration has set in motion a wave of new regulations that already have cost more than $1 trillion, which equates to thousands of dollars per family, according to a new report from the Job Creators Network. About $1.6 trillion in costs have been imposed by a total of 923 new regulations finalized under…
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    24 GOP Governors Warn Biden Against ‘Unconstitutional’ WHO Pandemic Agreement

    As President Joe Biden considers adopting a global health agreement that would turn the power of the federal government over to leaders of a world government, dozens of governors have put him on notice that they “stand united in opposition” to handing over America’s national sovereignty. Nearly every Republican governor in the country has signed…
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    Cruz Asks Biden Judge Nominee: Why Did You Order Male Trans ‘Serial Child Rapist’ to Be Housed in Women’s Prison?

    Sen. Ted Cruz grilled U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn on Wednesday about a case centering on a serial child rapist during a judicial confirmation hearing. Netburn, who was nominated for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, was one of five judges testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing….
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    Bungling Biden’s Commencement Whoppers

    President Joe Biden made a well-publicized commencement address on May 19 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, a historically black college. The networks touted the speech but didn’t put any “fact-checkers” on it. It contained at least four fibs. In an echo of his 1987 lies that crumbled in his first presidential campaign, Biden claimed, “I…
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    Consumer Sentiment Continues to Slump Amid Inflation, Gas Prices Under Biden

    With the November presidential election 24 weeks away, an index measuring consumer sentiment on the economy dropped to a six-month low after its largest decline since 2021. The plummeting confidence comes as President Joe Biden recently shrugged off the concerns while falsely claiming for the second time in less than a week that inflation was at 9%…
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    Biden DOJ Ramps Up War on Pro-Lifers With Lawsuit

    Following the announcement of prison sentences for pro-life activists last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Monday against seven pro-life activists and two pro-life organizations. The DOJ’s lawsuit alleges that the pro-life organizations, Citizens for a Pro Life Society and Red Rose Rescue, as well as activists Laura Gies, Lauren Handy, Clara…
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    EXCLUSIVE: HHS Chief Routinely Checked Progress of Biden Election-Meddling Directive, Records Show

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Aides to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra routinely inquired about how at least one agency under his control was putting President Joe Biden’s executive order on elections into action.  At least one message suggested that Becerra’s office and the agency within HHS wanted to know whether private organizations that…
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    Biden Education Department Shared Activists’ Memo on Mobilizing Dem-Leaning Voters

    Biden administration officials circulated and discussed a memo authored by a coalition of liberal groups aimed at getting more college students to participate in elections as part of the Education Department’s presidentially ordered voter-registration efforts, newly surfaced emails show. Groups that donated millions to elect Democrats and are funded by major liberal donors submitted a…
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    Biden’s Tariffs Are Bad. Biden’s Tariffs Coupled With EV Mandates Are Even Worse.

    Not long ago, President Joe Biden promised to transform the American auto industry—”first with carrots, now with sticks,” is the analogy The Washington Post used. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure I’d trust the president to drive my car much less dictate the future of industrial policy. Yet, Biden implemented draconian…
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    Federal Judge Blocks Biden ATF Rule Expanding Gun Background Checks

    A federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration from fully enforcing a gun background check rule Sunday night. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the rule covering background checks for firearms purchases April 10, claiming it was based on bipartisan legislation passed in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. United States District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk…
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    Biden Lied, Your Wallet Died

    President Joe Biden’s retelling of economic history could win a fiction award. He recently claimed in an interview that inflation “was 9% when I came into office,” even though it was 1.4% at that time. Not only is Biden lying about the historical record, but it was his policies that fueled the inflation fire. The facts are…
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    Biden Invokes Privilege, a Taxpayer-Funded ‘Catch and Kill’ Operation, to Block Release of Special Counsel Interview

    President Joe Biden’s invoking of executive privilege to shield the audio recording of his interview with a special prosecutor about his retention of classified documents amounts to a taxpayer-backed “catch and kill” operation, contends one litigant seeking to obtain the audio.  Biden’s position against releasing the audio of his exchanges with special counsel Robert Hur…
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    Inspector General: Biden DOJ Broke Law on FBI Whistleblower Protection

    The Department of Justice under President Joe Biden failed to comply with federal protections when suspending whistleblowers’ security clearances, according to a memo released Tuesday by the Office of the Inspector General. The inspector general found that the Justice Department doesn’t give employees a way to appeal suspended security clearances, which does not align with…
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    At WNBA Ceremony, Biden Urges America to Support the Women’s Sports He’s Destroying

    In previous years, people might have missed the irony. But not now—not after the meteoric rise of women’s basketball. When the WNBA champs visited the White House last week, reporters didn’t cover it out of obligation. They covered it because it was a real story. And President Joe Biden’s betrayal of girls sports only made…
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    Mike Lee: Biden DOJ ‘Unjustly’ Persecuting Pro-Lifers, ‘Turning a Blind Eye’ to Leftist Crime

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee accused President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice on Tuesday of “unjustly” persecuting pro-life activists exposing the “horrors of abortion.” “The Biden administration is using the FACE Act to give pro-life activists and senior citizens lengthy prison terms for non-violent offenses and protests—all while turning a…
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    Pro-Life Activist Charged by Biden DOJ Gets Almost 5 Years in Prison for Trying to Stop Abortions

    Pro-life activist Lauren Handy has been sentenced on Justice Department charges to almost five years in prison for attempting to stop abortions of unborn babies from taking place at a Washington, D.C., abortion clinic. Handy will spend 57 months in prison and is the first person sentenced for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic…
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    NPR Reporter Assigned to Cover Posters Urging Illegals to Vote for Biden Won’t Answer Whether Aliens Voting Bothers Her

    Are your own tax dollars funding an effort to discredit news about flyers encouraging illegal aliens to vote for President Joe Biden in U.S. elections? National Public Radio’s recent efforts to “cover” the story suggest an attempt to delegitimize it. NPR assigned a reporter with ties to left-wing groups funded by billionaire financier George Soros…
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    House Oversight Committee Probing Biden Voter Mobilization Order

    The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is probing a controversial Biden administration executive order tasking the federal government with mobilizing voting groups it says are underrepresented. In a letter obtained by RealClearPolitics, Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has requested that Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young produce a slew of documents and information concerning the development…
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    Biden Education Secretary Refuses to Say If He Would Let Boys Fight His Daughter and Undress in Front of Her

    Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona declined to answer questions about whether he would let boys fight his daughter in sports or undress in front of her in bathrooms at a Tuesday hearing. President Joe Biden’s administration released a finalized rule in April that extends Title IX protection to encompass “sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” but it does…
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