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DOJ Internal Watchdog Expands Telework as Concerns Mount That Biden Is Weaponizing Justice Against Conservatives
As the House of Representatives investigates the Justice Department for alleged politicization, the agency’s internal watchdog has expanded its telework policy. The Office of Inspector General is just one division of the Department of Justice. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz oversees more than 500 special agents, auditors, inspectors, attorneys, and support staff nationally, according… -
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Biden Admin Reports Over 3 Million Illegal Aliens on America’s Borders in Single Year
For the first time ever, U.S. border agents encountered over 3.2 million illegal aliens on America’s borders in a single fiscal year, a number that is greater than the combined population of Hawaii, Alaska, and Vermont. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CPB, reported Saturday that agents encountered 3,201,144 illegal immigrants at or between ports… -
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Joe Biden: The Ayatollahs’ Best Friend Forever
President Joe Biden showed leadership and courage last week by flying into an active war zone to personify solidarity with America’s embattled friends and allies in Israel. Too bad Biden’s appeasement of Iran made the trip necessary. Perhaps Biden went to Tel Aviv to atone for his years of financial assistance to the ayatollahs. Biden’s… -
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Biden Admin Wants Explicit Content to Stay in School Libraries, House Panel’s Chairman Says
What’s been labeled an epidemic of “book banning” is actually an epidemic of sexually explicit materials getting into American school libraries, witnesses at a House hearing say. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a subcommittee hearing on Thursday morning discussing the prevalence of explicit content in school libraries. Early Childhood, Elementary, and… -
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‘THAT’S SICK’: Republicans Grill Biden’s NIH Nominee on Transgender Study in Which 2 Kids Committed Suicide
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health testified before the Senate’s health committee Wednesday, responding to questions from Republicans who pressured her on transparency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and NIH’s research on transgender medical interventions. Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, director of the National Cancer Institute, spoke before the Senate Committee on Health,… -
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With US Distracted, Biden Admin Quietly Funds Open Borders Allies
Amid the prospect of a possible government shutdown over the fiscal 2024 budget, the Biden administration’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently announced $22 million in grants for organizations to “help prepare lawful permanent residents for naturalization.” The announcement drew little attention. After all, helping legal immigrants become citizens hardly seems scandalous, compared with the… -
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House’s Impeachment Inquiry Looks Into Classified Documents Held by Biden
The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden may converge with the Justice Department investigation into Biden's alleged mishandling of classified information before becoming president. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee—one of three committees looking into whether Biden used his power as vice president to assist his family’s influence peddling—this week is seeking information from special… -
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As Biden Admin Advances War on Fossil Fuels, Here’s How You Can Fight Back
The Biden administration is advancing its war on fossil fuels, and you’re going to pay for it. In July, President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation released a Corporate Average Fuel Economy rule that will dramatically shape the auto industry. The new rule, created quietly by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, mandates absurdly high fuel… -
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The BorderLine: No, President Biden, Walls Do Work. We Just Saw One More Reason We Need One.
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ———————————————————- Columbus Day weekend 2023 will forever be seared… -
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LGBT Groups Endorse Biden’s Reelection, Citing Pro-Trans Presidency
LGBT organizations are coalescing to endorse President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Major LGBT groups the Human Rights Campaign, the National Center for Transgender Equality, and the Equality PAC announced their joint endorsement of Biden for president in 2024 on Tuesday, marking the first time the groups agreed on a presidential candidate. The three groups praised the Biden… -
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New Data Reveals Number of Illegal Aliens Who Entered US Under Biden Exceeds Population of These 22 States
The number of illegal aliens who have entered the interior of the U.S. under the Biden administration now is greater than the population of at least 22 states as well as the District of Columbia. Data released Monday by the House Judiciary Committee reveals that at least 3.8 million illegal aliens either have been released into… -
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Biden Administration Defends Building of Border Wall, Indicates It Was Forced
The Biden administration is defending its plan to construct 17 miles of border wall in South Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced in the U.S. Federal Register that a wall in Starr County, Texas, will be constructed to “deter illegal crossings in areas of ‘high illegal entry’ into the United States.” President Joe… -
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Critics Assail Biden’s ‘War on American Energy’ on National Energy Appreciation Day
Sen. Cynthia Lummis sponsored a resolution establishing the first-ever National Energy Appreciation Day, and the Wyoming Republican had much to say about American energy at a panel discussion marking the occasion Wednesday. “As [the Biden] administration continues to put our domestic energy producers on the back burner with its war on American energy, it is… -
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Biden Administration Now Wants to Ban Furnaces
In an attempt to force Americans to conserve energy, the Department of Energy is banning a whole class of popular furnaces, eventually raising heating costs and reducing product choices for families and businesses alike. And it is using an outdated law to give itself the authority to do so. While the DOE did recognize many… -
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The Biden Administration’s Very Selective ‘National Emergency’ to Free Americans Wrongfully Detained Abroad
The Biden administration has been praising itself in a Department of State press release for successfully bringing home American citizens who had spent years in Iran “imprisoned as part of the Iranian regime’s cruel practice of wrongful detention.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken even touted the administration’s commitment to ensuring it has “brought home every wrongfully… -
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Biden Admin Teams With Conservative Critic as Maine Defends Blocking Access to Voter Data
Maine heads to court Thursday to defend its policy of shielding voter registration records from public disclosure against unlikely allies—a conservative election integrity watchdog and the Biden administration’s Justice Department. The case could have far-reaching consequences for government transparency, press freedom, the First Amendment, and clean elections well beyond Maine, said J. Christian Adams, president… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Nominee to Protect Son Hunter From Whistleblowers, Oversight Chair Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Joe Biden has nominated a former colleague of his son Hunter Biden—they worked together at a law firm representing Ukrainian energy company Burisma—to run an internal watchdog agency in his administration. Biden tapped lawyer Hampton Dellinger on Tuesday to lead the Office of the Special Counsel, an agency that primarily… -
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Hunter Biden May Have 2nd Amendment Defense on Gun Charge, but Not for Lying, Legal Expert Says
Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to drug-related gun charges in federal court in Delaware. Special counsel David Weiss, who is investigating the younger Biden on tax-related matters, last month secured a grand jury indictment on three gun charges related to his purchase of a Colt Cobra 38SPL… -
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Biden Admin Tries to Force Its Religion on Employers. Here’s How You Can Fight Back.
In President Joe Biden’s America, if you disagree with transgender orthodoxy, you might not be able to run a business. Federal law prohibits harassment on the basis of sex in the workplace, and under Biden, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission aims to weaponize that law against employers who believe that biological sex can’t be altered… -
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Financial Angles to Past Impeachments Could Guide House’s Biden Inquiry
During Rep. Jim Jordan’s opening remarks during the first hearing of House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry targeting President Joe Biden, he expressed a long-understood formula for political shenanigans. “This is a tale as old as time,” said Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which held the hearing, as well as chairman…