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    Diplomats Ponder if Trump Is Reviving Founding-Era Foreign Policy

    Is President Donald Trump’s foreign policy doctrine a return to how America’s Founding Fathers thought about foreign policy? Last week, 300 diplomats gathered at a dinner in Washington, D.C. to ponder the question. The Ben Franklin Fellowship’s Honoring America’s First Diplomat dinner brought together foreign policy experts to compare the Trump doctrine to foreign policy…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    • Opinion

    Trump’s Outrageous Threats Get Real Results

    Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the international press would have no difficulty finding…
    Michael Barone
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    • Opinion

    In Real Life, There’s No New ‘CBS Newsmax’ Under Bari Weiss

    The leftists on social media have hilariously caricatured CBS News under new Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss as “CBS Newsmax,” like it’s lurched dramatically to the right. But if you’re monitoring CBS in real life, there’s plenty of evidence that “classic CBS” is still operating. In recent days, CBS has proven to be worse than ABC and…
    Tim Graham
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    • Opinion

    Who’s Afraid of the Ten Commandments?

    On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial case that is all but guaranteed to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The predictable controversy surrounding the litigation, which involves similar but distinct mandatory Ten Commandments display laws arising out of Texas and…
    Josh Hammer
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    • Opinion

    The Left’s Search for a New Cause

    Monday marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans to judge one another by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. It is a legacy rooted in a specific historical struggle—one that culminated in the Civil Rights Act after years of…
    Ben Shapiro
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    • Opinion

    Why ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ Is the Greatest Book of the 20th Century

    On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” David J. Mahoney explains to co-host Jack Fowler why he believes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” is the greatest book of the 20th century. Mahoney, professor emeritus at Assumption University and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, also unpacks Thomas Sowell’s theory that…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    • News

    Top 25 Signs at the March for Life 2026

    Tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators filled Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 53rd annual March for Life, an event that once again drew national attention as participants rallied around the 2026 theme, “Life Is a Gift.” The march proceeded from the National Mall toward the U.S. Supreme Court, with crowds composed of families, school…
    Katherine Matt
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    • Opinion

    Murder Rates Plummeted Last Year, Yet Media Refuse to Give Trump Credit

    Violent crime plummeted around the country this year, but the legacy media refuse to acknowledge that it has anything to do with the return of President Donald Trump. According to a report by the Council on Criminal Justice, over the past year, the murder rate dropped to its lowest level since 1900. Other crimes dropped…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    • Opinion

    Why America’s Founding Principles Still Matter 250 Years Later

    The following remarks were delivered by Matthew Spalding at the Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event in Summerfield, North Carolina, on Jan. 21. It is great to be with you on this wonderful occasion.  But I must point out that we wouldn’t be here today, were it not for those remarkable Americans who gave us a…
    Matthew Spalding
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    • News

    Freedom 250 Mobile Museum Launches National Tour for America’s Semiquincentennial 

    The Freedom 250 Mobile Museum kickoff event this week launched a nationwide tour of interactive museum trucks designed to bring American history to communities across the country.  This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the Mobile Museum truck revealed Wednesday is one of six that will tour the United States in celebration of the semiquincentennial.  Matthew Spalding, vice president for…
    Reagan Campbell
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    Biological Male Under Pressure From Colleagues After Stunt at Women-Only Event

    Conservative members of Congress pushed back on biological male Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., at a women-only press conference on legislation that would allow victims to sue the creators of nonconsensual sexually explicit artificial intelligence content on Thursday. McBride, who now goes by the name Sarah, began identifying as a woman 10 years before being elected…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    • News

    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Moves to Claw Back Taxpayer Funds for Immigrant Children’s Abortions

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services is officially moving to roll back a Biden-era policy of taxpayer-funded abortion travel for unaccompanied illegal alien children in the U.S., The Daily Signal can first report. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, within the HHS Administration for Children and Families division, is making regulatory…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    • News

    Trump Disinvites Nation From Board of Peace

    President Donald Trump has revoked his invitation to Canada to join his new Board of Peace overseeing Gaza. “Dear Prime Minister Carney,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday, “Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever…
    Virginia Allen
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    • News

    What Jack Smith Didn’t Say About Paid Confidential Informants

    Former special counsel Jack Smith couldn’t answer how much in tax dollars went to confidential sources in his nearly two-year investigation of President Donald Trump.  House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pushed Smith on the topic during the committee hearing on Thursday. Jordan noted that at least $20,000 went to a single source to review…
    Fred Lucas
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    • News

    ‘All Signs Point’ to End of Communist Cuba, GOP Officials Say

    Republican officials believe President Donald Trump is close to “freeing the people of Cuba,” as whistleblowers claimed the Trump administration eyes regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026. The administration has allegedly been in search of Cuban insiders who can help execute a regime change on the island, The Wall Street Journal recently…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    • News

    Jack Smith Forced to Explain ‘Enemies List’ of Congressional Phone Records

    Lawmakers grilled former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday for scooping up phone records of members of Congress while concealing his targets from a judge. Smith testified publicly before the House Judiciary Committee after giving a private deposition last month regarding his nearly two-year probe of then-former President Donald Trump. Smith’s investigation focused on alleged…
    Fred Lucas
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    • News

    Trump Sues JPMorgan Chase, Bank Says

    REUTERS—U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on accusations of debanking, the largest U.S. lender said in a statement on Thursday. Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, filed the $5 billion lawsuit Thursday morning in Florida state court in Miami on behalf of the president and several of his hospitality companies, a Fox…
    Manya Saini
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    • News

    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Scrutinizes Vast Sum of COVID-19 Funding for Planned Parenthood

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Small Business Administration is reviewing whether Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally received $88 million in loans during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Daily Signal can first report. “At the height of the pandemic, affiliates of Planned Parenthood took $88 million in taxpayer dollars to fund their abortion-on-demand agenda—and the Biden…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    • News

    America Just Hit a New Record, But Not a Good One

    The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Jan. 22. America has hit another record, but it’s not a good one. Last year, the median age…
    Bradley Devlin
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    • News

    Trump: Outline for Deal Reached Over Greenland

    President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he had a “framework” of a deal with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over the future of Greenland. “Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to…
    Daily Signal Staff
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