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    Trump to Sign Executive Order to Slash Prescription Drug Prices
    President Donald Trump says he will announce a new prescription drug initiative he promises will dramatically—and immediately—reduce the price of pharmaceuticals. “I am pleased to announce that Tomorrow morning, in the White House, at 9:00 A.M., I will be signing one of the most consequential Executive Orders in our Country’s history,” Trump said in a…
    Keith Koffler
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    WAS SOROS INVOLVED? Trump Finally Reverses Biden’s Travel Ban on Prominent Soros Critic
    An outspoken opponent of Hungarian American megadonor George Soros can finally visit the United States after the Biden administration banned him in 2021, accusing him of corruption. Sali Berisha, former prime minister of Albania and head of the Albanian opposition party in an election Sunday, accused Soros and current Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Signs Order Preventing Americans From Getting Prosecuted for Crimes They Didn’t Know Existed
    Editor’s note: President Donald Trump signed the executive order Friday after publication of this article. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday discouraging criminal enforcement against those who violate regulations they don’t know exist, the White House confirmed to The Daily Signal. The order prioritizes prosecutions only for those who knowingly violate…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    At Tribute to Another First Lady, Melania Trump Calls Families ‘Foundation of a Healthy Society’
    First lady Melania Trump elevated the important role that families and the home play within society at the unveiling of former first lady Barbara Bush’s U.S. postage stamp on Thursday.   “Strong American families are the foundation of a healthy society and served as a steppingstone towards building a better world,” the first lady told…
    Virginia Allen
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    COLUMBIA CHAOS: Radicals Disrupt Campus, Invite Trump Crackdown
    Columbia University’s pro-Hamas radicals couldn’t have handed the Trump administration an easier opening in its war on college campus radicalism. On Wednesday afternoon, pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the Columbia campus and took over Butler Library during the school’s finals week. Calling them protesters is imprecise. They were a mob. The videos are all over social media….
    Jarrett Stepman
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    First American-Born Pope Draws Praise From Trump, Across Political Lines
    President Donald Trump and other political leaders from both sides congratulated the first American-born pope Thursday after the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who will lead under the name Pope Leo XIV. “Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope,” President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social. “It is such an…
    Fred Lucas
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    President Trump Announces Trade Deal With Britain to ‘Fast-Track American Goods’
    President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom Thursday along with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “This will be a great deal for both countries,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It’s going to fast-track American goods.” The president said U.S. products will “receive new market access for American industrial products that…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Pollsters Rig the Numbers Against Trump
    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. We’ve touched on polls before, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite as egregious in…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Administration Asks for Help in Uncovering Big Tech Censorship
    The Trump administration has vowed to root out Big Tech censorship that was openly practiced under former President Joe Biden. In 2021, Biden administration press secretary Jen Psaki—now a host for MSNBC—admitted that the government coordinated with Big Tech to weed out “misinformation” on social media platforms. “We are in regular touch with these social media platforms,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump’s Rumble on Sesame Street
    President Donald Trump has fought plenty of political heavyweights, but now he’s up against a foe far tougher than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris: Big Bird. The president is ordering federal agencies and the taxpayer-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop supporting National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. His May 1 executive order…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Trump Says He’s Directing DOJ to Work on Release of Tina Peters
    THE CENTER SQUARE—President Donald Trump says he’s directing the U.S. Department of Justice “to help secure the release” of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who’s in a Colorado prison for her role in tampering with election equipment. Peters, who was the Republican clerk of the western Colorado county during the 2020 election, was found guilty by…
    Derek Draplin
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Upgrades Social Security Telephone Services
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Under President Donald Trump, the Social Security Administration is upgrading its telephone services using a modern telephone platform available at all offices nationwide, The Daily Signal has learned. “President Trump is leading the charge to modernize the federal government and make it more efficient,” White House spokeswoman Liz Huston told The…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Trans Military Ban
    The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service to move forward on Tuesday. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, asserting they would have allowed the pause to stay in place. The high court struck down a nationwide injunction from a district judge, but it will likely…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Restricts Gain-of-Function Research to Prevent Future Pandemics
    President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday restricting gain-of-function research, which involves deliberately altering viruses and pathogens to enhance capabilities like transmissibility or harmfulness.  While the goal of such research is to understand potential threats and develop countermeasures, the administration says it is concerned with its potential to cause another pandemic. “Dangerous gain-of-function research on…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    How Trump Could Send the Perfect Message on Alcatraz
    It’s time to restore justice in America. That’s what President Donald Trump essentially said on social media on Sunday when he announced that he’d be reopening Alcatraz prison, which has been closed for over half a century. “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday. “Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    ‘A Lot of People Want the Job’: Trump Says He’ll Choose Waltz’s NSA Replacement in Next 6 Months
    President Donald Trump will pick Mike Waltz’s replacement as national security adviser in the next six months, he told The Daily Signal. “We have a lot of people that want the job, I can tell you,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. “I mean, a lot of people say it really works in with what…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Plans to Reopen Alcatraz, Irking Pelosi
    President Donald Trump’s Sunday announcement of plans to reopen San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island as a prison has irked San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” said Trump on Truth Social. “Today, I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Will Start Nominating Federal Judges ‘Rapidly,’ He Says
    President Donald Trump will nominate federal judges “rapidly,” he told The Daily Signal on Sunday night. “We’re putting them in rapidly and trying to get very good ones, but we need judges that are not going to be demanding trials for every single illegal immigrant,” Trump said on Air Force One. “We have millions of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Federal Judges Ruling Against Deportations is ‘Big’ Emergency, Trump Tells ‘Meet the Press’
    President Donald Trump said he doesn’t plan to lift the state of emergency he declared at the southern border on his first day in office because “we have a massive emergency overall.” “It’s an overall emergency on immigration,” the president said in an interview with “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” on NBC News. “If…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Defender of Girls and Women’s Sports’: Meet the First Federal Judge Nominated in Trump Second Term
    President Donald Trump nominated the first federal judge of his second administration. Whitney Hermandorfer is Trump’s choice to serve on the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio. She currently leads Tennessee’s Strategic Litigation Unit in the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General. Trump praised her as as a staunch defender of girls…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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