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    Biden to Sign Multiple Climate Change Orders, Reversing Trump Policies
    President Joe Biden is expected to sign multiple executive orders aimed at combating climate change on his first day in office. The orders—which block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, rejoin the Paris climate accords, and temporarily halt oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—would directly reverse policies implemented by former President…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Trump Made Foster Children a Priority. That Shouldn’t Change Under Biden.
    “Every child deserves a family,” begins President Donald Trump’s executive order last June on “Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.”  The Trump administration made foster children a priority, working with state and local groups to place children in loving homes more quickly and to ensure that fewer children are entering the system to…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Challenge for Conservatives in a Post-Trump World
    We often hear calls for national unity when presidents are inaugurated. And we’re sure to hear them again, despite the fact that we are still divided, red and blue, liberal and conservative, coastal city and heartland town. But we should not despair. We’ve been divided since the birth of the republic, when the Federalists and…
    Lee Edwards
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    4 Key Points About Trump and ‘Incitement’ Law
    If and when the Senate holds its second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, this time after he no longer is president, one argument in his defense may well be based on a legal precedent that has guided incitement cases since 1969.  The House of Representatives impeached the president Wednesday for “incitement to insurrection” because of…
    Fred Lucas
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    Is This Moment When GOP Will Stand Up to Trump?
    The Daily Signal publishes a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Heritage Foundation. On Jan. 6, I saw with my own eyes the breakdown of our society and our democracy. It was sickening, outrageous, 100% unacceptable, illegal, immoral, and unpatriotic. And it will be the…
    Armstrong Williams
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    YouTube Suspends Trump Account for at Least 7 Days
    YouTube became the latest social media platform to ban President Donald Trump, announcing late Tuesday that he wouldn’t be able to post new content for seven days. YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, said it took the action against Trump because of the potential for violence to be sparked from his content. The massive video-sharing platform…
    Thomas Catenacci
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    9 Takeaways as 10 Republicans Join Democrats to Impeach Trump Again
    With seven days left in President Donald Trump’s term, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted for a second time to impeach him—this time gaining some Republican support.  The vote was 232-197, with 10 House Republicans joining all House Democrats.  The House impeached Trump on a charge of “incitement to insurrection” based on his speech to…
    Fred Lucas
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    What You Need to Know About Big Tech’s Crackdown on Trump, Parler
    Following the mob violence at the U.S. Capitol last week, Facebook suspended President Donald Trump from its platform, and Twitter followed suit shortly thereafter. Over the weekend, Google and Apple removed Parler, a social media platform widely used by conservatives, from its app stores. Then, Amazon suspended Parler from its web services Sunday evening. Now,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Over Half of Americans Want Trump Gone Before Inauguration Day
    Fifty-six percent of Americans want President Donald Trump out of office before Inauguration Day after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. Additionally, two-thirds of those surveyed said that Trump deserved “a great deal or a good amount” of blame for the riots, the poll showed. But while the majority…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    6 Key Points on Efforts to Oust Trump in Final Days
    After the riot at the Capitol, congressional Democrats increasingly are calling for the removal of President Donald Trump before his term expires Jan. 20, either through a second impeachment or by invoking the 25th Amendment.  Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., an assistant House speaker, said  lawmakers could vote on impeachment within a week.  After vowing never…
    Fred Lucas
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    Biden Says Trump Not Attending His Inauguration Is ‘a Good Thing’
    President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that President Donald Trump not attending his inauguration is “a good thing.” “I was told that, on the way up here, way over here, that he indicated he wasn’t going to show up at the inauguration. One of the few things he and I have ever agreed on. It’s a…
    Mary Rose Corkery
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    A Day of Chaos Clouds Trump’s Legacy of Judges, Tax Cuts, Peace Deals
    The president promised he would be there every step of the way. It was a pledge President Donald Trump made to thousands of supporters who had gathered Wednesday morning to protest Congress’ certification of the Electoral College vote. Behind bulletproof glass on a stage at the Ellipse, only a quarter-mile from the U.S. Capitol, Trump…
    Philip Wegmann | Susan Crabtree
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    Sen. Sasse Hints of Backing Bid to Impeach Trump Again
    Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said Friday morning that he would be open to considering articles of impeachment from the House. “If they come together and have a process, I will definitely consider what articles they might move, because as I told you, I believe the president has disregarded his oath of office,” Sasse said on “CBS This…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Barr Accuses Trump of ‘Orchestrating a Mob’ and ‘Betrayal of His Office and Supporters’
    Former Attorney General William Barr accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of “orchestrating a mob” of his supporters to pressure Congress to overturn the presidential election. In a statement to the Associated Press, Barr asserted that Trump’s actions to overturn the election were a “betrayal of his office and supporters.” He further said that “orchestrating a…
    Chuck Ross
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    Trump Pledges ‘Orderly Transition’ of Power to Biden
    President Donald Trump assured the nation early Thursday that “an orderly transition” will occur now that Congress has certified the Electoral College vote in which Joe Biden defeated Trump to become the 46th president of the United States. “Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out,…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Trump to Capitol Protesters: ‘Go Home.’ Biden Calls It ‘Insurrection’
    President Donald Trump asked supporters who gathered in Washington to “go home” late Wednesday afternoon after a large group broke into the Capitol building and overwhelmed Capitol Police.  “This was a fraudulent election, but we can’t play into the hands of these people,” Trump said in a prerecorded video, recorded outside the White House and…
    Ken McIntyre | Fred Lucas
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    Capitol in Lockdown as Pro-Trump Protesters Breach Building
    Hundreds of protesters loyal to President Donald Trump made their way into the Capitol building Wednesday afternoon, interrupting lawmakers’ debate of the presidential election results and forcing the evacuation of Vice President Mike Pence as Capitol Police struggled to contain the situation. Police had moved to block thousands of pro-Trump protesters from getting too close…
    Ken McIntyre
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    Why These 2 Floridians Are Traveling to DC to March for Trump
    Supporters of President Donald Trump from around the country will gather Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to hold a March for Trump near the White House to “demand transparency and election integrity.”  Stephanie Maxey and Teri Regnier traveled on a bus up from Florida to join the event, and they join “The Daily Signal Podcast” live…
    Rachel del Guidice
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    Preserving America’s Past Through Trump’s 1776 Commission
    The future of America rests largely upon the rising generation, a generation that is being taught to embrace far-left progressive ideology about America and its founding. To combat the rising anti-American sentiment taught in classrooms across the country, President Donald Trump appointed 18 political and thought leaders to the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission. Carol M….
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Honors Catholic Martyr St. Thomas Becket for Defense of Religious Liberty
    President Donald Trump declared Dec. 29 the anniversary of the Roman Catholic martyr St. Thomas Becket, honoring the 12th-century English bishop as “a lion of religious liberty.” “Thomas Becket’s death serves as a powerful and timeless reminder to every American that our freedom from religious persecution is not a mere luxury or accident of history,…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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