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    Epstein Files Release Highlights Clinton, Makes Scant Reference to Trump
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (Reuters)—The U.S. Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday that made scant reference to President Donald Trump but extensively featured Democratic former President Bill Clinton. The release was intended to comply with a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress…
    Joseph Ax | Andy Sullivan
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Overturns Biden-Era ‘Rocks in Shoes’ Regulation
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a new rule removing the Biden-era requirement that government-funded preschool programs have a policy to mitigate COVID-19. The direct final rule proposed by the Administration for Children and Families on Friday removes the requirement that Head Start programs have a…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Dumbest Assumption in All of Politics
    One of the most persistent mistakes in modern politics is the insistence on flattening all ideologies—pretending that all human beings think the same way, want the same things, and are motivated by the same forces. Every time policymakers fall into this trap, the result is not compassion or clarity but some of the worst public…
    Ben Shapiro
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    War With Venezuela Could Break Trump’s MAGA Base
    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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There are war drums beating about the United States and the Trump administration’s interdiction of narco-trafficking,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Oversight Project Demands DOJ to Act on Trump Reversal of Biden Autopen Clemency
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Oversight Project is calling for the Justice Department to keep incarcerated prisoners whose Biden autopen clemencies were voided by President Donald Trump.  The watchdog group shared a video with The Daily Signal that focused on two individuals whose sentences former President Joe Biden had commuted.  The Oversight Project was the…
    Fred Lucas
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    SCOOP: ICE Agents Are Becoming Burned Out as Trump Administration Pushes for More Deportations
    Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are becoming burned out, according to multiple sources.   ICE agents are “maxed out,” a senior Trump administration official told The Daily Signal, and yet there is “frustration” within the administration that deportation numbers aren’t higher.   “I think it is just an enormous challenge to get 20 million people out of this country,” the official said, referring to an estimation of the number of illegal aliens…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Makes Blunt Remarks on Conservative Opposition to Weed
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday classifying marijuana as a less dangerous substance, despite concerns from GOP lawmakers that the move will “send the wrong message to America’s children.” Trump signed an order changing the classification of marijuana from a Schedule I drug, which includes the most dangerous substances, such as heroin,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EEOC Urges White Males to Report Discrimination—And Promptly
    White males who have faced discrimination should file a federal complaint, the head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says. In a video posted on social media Thursday, EEOC Acting Chairwoman Andrea Lucas advised potential victims of discrimination to file complaints in a timely manner.  “Are you a white male who has experienced discrimination at…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Announces How America Will Celebrate 250th Birthday
    President Donald Trump revealed how the nation’s capital will celebrate America’s 250th birthday next summer. “2026 will be a celebration of America like no other, honoring our nation and all of its glory,” he said. Trump’s plans will be carried out through a public, private partnership called Freedom 250. “We will renew the patriotism, pride…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s Executive Order on AI Might Be a Bridge Too Far
    President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Dec. 11, titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence.” Its broadly stated goal is “to sustain and enhance the United States’ global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework.” With more details to come, we hope Trump’s approach properly respects federalism established in…
    Thomas Jipping | John G. Malcolm
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    ‘Stronger Than Ever Before’: 4 Highlights From Trump’s Speech Showcasing 2025 Accomplishments
    President Donald Trump touted his 2025 accomplishments in a national address Wednesday night. “Tonight, after 11 months, our border is secure, inflation is stopped, wages are up, prices are down, our nation is strong, America is respected, and our country is back,” he said, “Stronger than ever before. We’re poised for an economic boom the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: How Transportation Secretary Will Help Trump Defund Woke Universities
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is expected to revamp the agency’s university grant program after axing requirements that the schools fund diversity, equity, and inclusion and environmental initiatives, The Daily Signal can first report. Duffy plans to announce $33 million in grants to universities to “unleash American innovation.” This comes after the Department…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump’s Inflation Trap
    What can Donald Trump do to stop morphing into Joe Biden? The two presidents could hardly be more different in most ways—but in the one that counts most with voters, Trump is in danger of resembling his predecessor. Americans rejected Biden and the Democrats last year because they were incensed at the lousy state of…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Erasing Masculinity Has Created a Generation in Crisis
    America is waking up.  After years of being told that gender is fluid, that chromosomes are incidental, and that masculinity is toxic or obsolete, America is rediscovering a truth our culture worked hard to bury: The Y matters.  The crisis began the moment the “Y” was dismissed. Influential voices turned identity into a DIY project, erased the Y chromosome…
    Mark Hancock
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    ‘FAKE NEWS’: Trump, Leavitt React to Susie Wiles Profile
    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Vanity Fair’s profile on chief of staff Susie Wiles as “fake news.” “This was, unfortunately, another attempt at fake news by a reporter who was acting disingenuously and really did take the chief’s words out of context,” Leavitt told Fox News Channel’s “America Reports.” “But I think, most…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Jimmy Lai’s Family Looks to Trump, World Leaders
    Family members and friends of Jimmy Lai, a businessman and a pro-democracy newspaper owner in Hong Kong, are holding out hope that he can still be released after his guilty verdict on national security and sedition charges, if President Donald Trump and other world leaders put pressure on Chinese leader Xi Jinping to free him….
    Susan Crabtree
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    Make America Affordable Again: Trump, GOP Look to Lower Costs as Midterm Year Approaches
    Republicans are entering midterm campaign mode with an emphasis on messaging about affordability. As President Donald Trump recently kicked off a speaking tour on affordability in Pennsylvania, Republicans on the Hill are attempting to do their part to make America more affordable. The Trump Factor Last Tuesday, Trump made his first stop in a new…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Declares Lethal Drug a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’  
    President Donald Trump has declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.   “With this historic executive order I will sign today, we’re formerly classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is,” the president said at the White House Monday. “No bomb does what this is doing,” Trump added.   Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid,…
    Virginia Allen
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    The Inconvenient Truths Within Trump’s New National Security Strategy
    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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Recently, the Trump administration, as most administrations do at the beginning of their four-year term, issued…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    EXCLUSIVE: How Trump’s ‘Convicted Felon’ Label Could Soon Vanish
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Almost two years after a Democrat-elected prosecutor secured a conviction against then-candidate Donald Trump, a New York appeals court could decide soon on the appeal of the Manhattan felony conviction. “There is no upside for the courts to string this along. So, we could see a ruling soon,” said Dan Backer,…
    Fred Lucas
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