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    Congress Should Prioritize American Graduates, Not Foreigners Who Promised to Go Home
    Young American college graduates are getting a raw deal. The unemployment rate for recent college graduates, aged 20 to 24 years, reached 9.3% in August 2025, according to Forbes. For comparison, older college graduates, aged 25 to 34, had an unemployment rate of 3.6%, and high school graduates had a rate of 4.3%. Why? Business…
    Lora Ries
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    Peter Navarro’s Book Is a Raw Retelling of His Experience in Prison
    Peter Navarro, who spent four months in federal prison for a contempt of Congress order over the Jan. 6 investigations and now serves as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, said in an interview about his newest book “I Went to Prison So You Won’t Have To: A Love and Lawfare Story in Trump Land”…
    Salena Zito
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    Trump Announces Major Victory in Venezuelan Drug War
    President Donald Trump celebrated the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, explaining how U.S. forces extradited the dictator and brought him to the U.S. to face narcoterrorism charges. “All Venezuelan military capacities were rendered powerless,” as U.S. forces “successfully captured Maduro in the dead of night,” he announced. Trump said both Maduro and his wife,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Autopsy on America: 2025’s HUGE Wins and Loses  
    The world changed forever in 2025. President Donald Trump returned to the White House and immediately began implementing his “America First” agenda, including closing the southern border and removing woke policies from every corner of the government.   On the international stage, Trump took an active role in ending multiple wars and conflicts, including bombing three…
    Virginia Allen | Elise McCue
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    World Leaders Who Were Winners and Losers in 2025
    It would be an understatement to say President Donald Trump was active on the world stage in 2025.  Trump’s national security strategy is reshaping geopolitics in real time. Meanwhile, his trade policies are remaking the global economy. While the Trump administration boasts the fact that it has brokered nearly 10 peace agreements and ceasefires in…
    Bradley Devlin
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    4 Things to Expect From the Trump Administration in 2026
    After the Trump administration wrapped up its first news-packed year of the president’s second term, the White House will gear up for a year of addressing health care costs and other affordability concerns, saving the Republican majority in Congress, and more. Here are four things to expect from year two of Trump 47: 1. Saving…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Will America Collapse?
    While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, “We’re a nation in decline.” Now that he’s president, the left agrees. “We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American empire,” says Cornel West. Are the predictors of doom correct? Will America collapse like so many civilizations before us? If we don’t learn from history, says historian…
    John Stossel
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    Trump Says He’s Pulling National Guard From Chicago, LA, and Portland
    WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his administration was removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, but he added in his social media post that federal forces will “come back” if crime rates go up. Local leaders in those cities and Democrats have said the deployments, which have faced legal challenges,…
    Kanishka Singh
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    Assisted Suicide Comes to the American Heartland
    A cold winter is well underway in the American Midwest, and the ice is taking many forms. The weather has been dark and forbidding, but the other frozen form is in the shape of assisted suicide. On Dec. 12, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed into law a bill that makes his state the…
    Chuck Donovan
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    Watchdog: 4 Biggest Ethics Violators of 2025
    An indicted member of Congress topped one watchdog’s list of top ethics violators of 2025 that also includes nonprofits and the mayor of the nation’s capital.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a conservative-leaning watchdog group, is closing out the year with a short list based on numerous ethics complaints against individuals and groups. …
    Fred Lucas
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    New Report Confirms Trump Kicked Epstein Out of Mar-A-Lago After He Pressured Young Employee for Sex
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A new report confirmed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump cut ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he pressured a young employee at Mar-a-Lago for sex in 2003. Trump said in July that he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in the early 2000s because he “stole” spa staffers, while other reports suggested that Epstein…
    Nicole Silverio
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    Trump Should Seize This Opportunity to Correct His Unforced Error
    I voted for Donald Trump for president three times, and would again, but his social media post about Rob Reiner after the recent killing of the leftist Hollywood actor-director was unpresidential and, to say the least, uncharitable. But it was an unforced error that Trump will have the opportunity next week to make amends for. The…
    Peter Parisi
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    The West Isn’t Finished, as Long as Assimilation Starts Now
    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. This content was recorded by Victor Davis Hanson prior to his Dec. 30 medical operation. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Everybody…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump DOJ Sues State Giving Illegal Immigrants Massive In-State Tuition Breaks
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit accusing Virginia of unlawfully granting illegal aliens in-state resident discounts on college tuition. The state’s education code classifies illegal immigrants as Virginia residents, qualifying them for reduced in-state tuition costs, the lawsuit claims. This policy, therefore, allows illegal immigrants to access benefits not available to most…
    Jaryn Crouson
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    Court Halts Termination of Deportation Protections for South Sudanese Nationals
    REUTERS—A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South Sudanese nationals living in the United States. U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston granted an emergency request by several South Sudanese nationals and an immigrant rights group to prevent the…
    Nate Raymond
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    What Spanberger Vetoes in 2026 Will Tell Us a Lot About 2028
    Shortly after the 2025 election victories of Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, Douglas MacKinnon penned an op-ed for The Hill titled “Forget Crockett and AOC: Spanberger, Sherrill are Democrats’ faces for 2028.”   Now I’m beginning to hear from Richmond insiders that the bellwether will be if the governor’s veto pen gets a break this summer or not.  Over…
    Joe Thomas
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    Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ
    At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history. James Hankins, a specialist in Renaissance thought, was one of the last holdouts. Now Hankins, who has just published a hefty book that teaches what Harvard doesn’t—“The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition. Vol. 1”—has decamped for the University of Florida’s Hamilton School of…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    8 Political Winners and Losers of 2025
    To call 2025 a tumultuous year would be an understatement. It already feels like January was about five years ago, and I expect the rest of President Donald Trump’s second term will move at a similarly breakneck pace. That said, it helps to take a breather and reflect on what actually happened and what it…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Making New Year’s Resolutions That Matter
    Somewhere between 30%-50% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, reports from last year show. A study from YouGov revealed some of the more common resolutions made and whether people think they’ll keep their resolutions. More than a quarter of participants chose “saving more money,” while the second most popular resolution was “improving physical health.” However,…
    Thomas Griffin
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    Trump Warns Iran of Possible Strike, Urges Hamas to Disarm After Meeting Netanyahu
    PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 29 (Reuters)—U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday the United States could support another major strike on Iran, were it to resume rebuilding its ballistic missile or nuclear weapons programs, and warned Hamas of severe consequences if it does not disarm. Speaking beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a meeting at his…
    Andrea Shalal | Maayan Lubell | Gram Slattery
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