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    ‘MEDIEVAL’: Justices Thomas, Alito Argue ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Ruling Reverses the Declaration of Independence on Its 250th Anniversary
    Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito tore into the court’s majority for imposing a “medieval” rule on “birthright citizenship” that negates the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, days before the 250th anniversary of America’s founding document. Both justices issued dissenting opinions in Trump v. Barbara (2026), in which the court’s 6-3 majority…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Reacts to Birthright Citizenship Ruling
    President Donald Trump said the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship is “too bad for our country” and called on Congress to end the practice. “The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court Cooked Trump’s Efforts to Remove Fed Board Member Lisa Cook From Office
    In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s challenge to lower federal court orders blocking his efforts to fire Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook. Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, accused Cook of untruthfully designating two properties as her…
    Zack Smith
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    Clearing Up the Confusion on Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding With Iran
    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’s been a lot of confusion about this memorandum of understanding, and that’s the 60-day hiatus in the quote-unquote “war” with Iran…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump v. Slaughter: Supreme Court Says Constitution Allows the President to Be President
    In a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court said that the Constitution grants the president—any president—the power to remove individuals who exercise executive authority. In doing so, it overruled its long-discredited 91-year-old New Deal-era decision of Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. Here’s what happened: Democrat operative Rebecca Slaughter was appointed…
    Zack Smith
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    Trump Calls for SAVE America Act Passage After SCOTUS Ruling
    President Donald Trump has called for the SAVE America Act to be passed after the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s policy to count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. Conservative Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three Democrat appointees on the court in drafting the majority opinion. The case of…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    America Is ‘LOSING the Ability to Feed Itself’: Senator Proposes Tariff Bill to Save US Agriculture
    Amid domestic economic struggles, Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Thursday that he will introduce a bill to raise tariff quotas on food and agricultural products. The Louisiana Republican’s Home Market Restoration Act of 2026 would raise tariff rates to protect products from his home state such as shrimp, rice, honey, and beef—tariff rates that Congress has…
    Joseph Buff
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  • Supreme Court Rebuffs Trump’s Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Case
    WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her. The justices turned away Trump’s appeal…
    Andrew Chung
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    A Meritocracy, if You Can Keep It
    The structure of a nation’s economy touches each citizen. It influences how citizens make life-altering decisions, from college commitments to career choices. In America, our economic order has long been undergirded by the assumption of meritocracy. Meritocracy is a simple concept: Those who work hard and excel will be rewarded, and the fruits of one’s…
    Allen Mendenhall | Christopher Lynch
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    Religious Freedom Report Reveals How Secularism Forces Some Americans Out of Public Life
    President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a 224-page report on Friday on the threats to religious freedom, recommending policy changes. The Religious Liberty Commission, established by executive order last May, interviewed more than 100 witnesses across seven hearings. The hearings produced a common theme: “Far too often in our national life, religion is treated…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Terminates Grants to Planned Parenthood for Pushing ‘Sexually Explicit’ Content on Kids
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday notified more than 50 organizations, including Planned Parenthood affiliates, that they will no longer receive teen pregnancy prevention grants after pushing “sexually explicit” content on kids. The agency sent letters to several Planned Parenthood affiliates, state and local health departments, university systems,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The SAVE America Act Stands a Chance After All
    Thanks to action from President Donald Trump this week, the Senate may be forced to try harder to pass the SAVE America Act. On Wednesday, just as he was about to sign a housing bill, the president canceled the ceremony, delaying it until the SAVE America Act came to his desk to sign. Trump called…
    Rebecca Downs
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  • Generational Defense Investment Offers America an Opportunity
    Often, headlines that resonate in the Washington, D.C., beltway leave everyday Americans scratching their heads or even frustrated. They feel politicians elevate the priorities of special interests over delivering wins for the American people. It caught many folks in the District of Columbia off guard when President Donald Trump requested Congress tie the SAVE America…
    Daniel West
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    House Foreign Affairs Chair: Iran’s Proxies Must Be Tied to Agreement
    House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast told the Daily Signal that while the current memorandum of understanding with the Iranian regime delivers a win for President Donald Trump’s administration, Iran’s terror proxies—Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthi rebels in Yemen—must be tied to the final peace agreement. The Florida Republican’s remarks come after Hezbollah, a…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Why Is President Trump So Committed to Passing the SAVE America Act? 
    Just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to sign a bipartisan housing bill Wednesday, he refused to act on it until Congress sent the SAVE America Act to his desk, raising the question of why the president would take such a risk on legislation that appears unlikely to pass the Senate.  Last week, the…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Thousands Feared Dead After 2 Major Earthquakes Strike Venezuela
    CARACAS, June 25 (Reuters)—Thousands of Venezuelans were feared dead on Thursday after two powerful earthquakes wreaked havoc in and around the capital Caracas, trapping people beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings and setting off powerful aftershocks. A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit about 160 km (100 miles) west of Caracas on Wednesday afternoon, followed less than…
    Vivian Sequera |  Mayela Armas
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    GOP Congresswoman Tells Naturalized Terrorists to GTFO of America
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—In America, as a naturalized citizen, you can commit and be convicted of terrorist offenses and be allowed to stay in the country, only to later commit another attack. This GOP congresswoman wants to put an end to this, telling them to GTFO. In response to two major terrorist attacks by…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    The GOP’s Last-Ditch Effort Behind Closed Doors of Reconciliation 3.0 Meeting
    Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Wednesday called the House Budget Committee to his office for an impromptu closed-door meeting to plan the must-pass “Reconciliation 3.0.” With their deadline approaching, this could be the GOP’s last chance to eliminate fraud and wasteful spending, permanently defund Planned Parenthood, and pass the SAVE America Act. Rep….
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Here’s What Trump Demanded From Republican Senators Behind Closed Doors
    President Donald Trump made a rare visit to the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, where he demanded Republican senators unite to pass the SAVE America Act and harshly reprimanded Republicans who have opposed him on the Iran war. “The president wants the SAVE Act, and that was the theme of pretty much the entire luncheon,” Sen. John…
    George Caldwell | Pedro Rodriguez
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  • opinion

    Military Service Ends, but Purpose Does Not: Why Patriot Pipeline Matters
    For most Americans, changing jobs means updating a resume and learning a new office culture. For a veteran, leaving the military often means leaving behind a mission, a community, and an identity that shaped every aspect of daily life. The challenge of transition is often less about finding a paycheck than it is about finding…
    Neely Grantham | Wilson Beaver
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