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The Daily Signal’s Olivia Pero and Lorenzo Prieto traveled to the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday celebration in Washington, D.C., to ask attendees what the parade meant to them, does President Donald Trump really deserve to be called a “King,” and whether California Gov. Gavin Newsom is correct in saying that only authoritarian regimes, like North…

The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents may have to get used to meetings where accountability is expected. At this week’s much-anticipated one, members yielded to President Donald Trump’s demand for an audit of politicized content. Alas, they also circled the wagons around Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to a document that…

It took the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals only a few hours to block a lower court’s ruling against President Donald Trump’s federalization of the California National Guard in the Los Angeles riots. The appeals court acted expeditiously because Trump was so clearly in the right, according to Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow…

Despite Democrat efforts to condemn the Trump administration’s arrests of illegal immigrants, voter approval of deportation efforts continues to rise.   A recent poll from Napolitan News Service found that 56% of respondents either strongly or somewhat approve of the deportations of illegal immigrants throughout the U.S.  The country’s eyes remain glued to the Los Angeles…

Tech titan Elon Musk appears ready to mend fences with President Donald Trump, expressing regret over some of his social media activity attacking the president last week. “I regret some of my posts about President @DonaldTrump last week,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X on Wednesday. “They went too far,” the tech mogul…

President Donald Trump recommends that young left-wing activist Greta Thunberg “go to an anger management class.”   “Well, she’s a strange person. She’s a young, angry person,” Trump told reporters when asked about the Israel Defense Forces’ interception of a boat carrying Thunberg about 100 miles off the coast of Gaza. “I don’t know if…

Harvard University remains embroiled in controversy more than a year after violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations began on its campus in April 2024. Recently, the Trump administration asked Harvard to disclose information about foreign students seeking to enroll, after the administration alleged that the university was guilty of civil rights abuses and antisemitism from its failure to…

Sens. Mike Lee and Josh Hawley are introducing a resolution condemning former FBI Director James Comey for an Instagram post that may have encouraged violent action against President Donald Trump. “This message promotes violence against the sitting president of the United States, Donald J. Trump,” reads the resolution, obtained by The Daily Signal. “It is…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—New polling reveals that more than half of U.S. voters support President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles.   RMG Research polling conducted among 1,000 registered voters on Monday found that 52% of respondents either “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of Trump’s decision to send National Guard troops…

Riot season has started with a bang in California. Actually, many bangs, hurled rocks, torched cars, and a lot a flag waving—but not the Toby Keith variety. The mayhem began in and around Los Angeles over the weekend after increasingly fiery and certainly not peaceful protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids morphed into large-scale violence. It…

A former top deputy to Lois Lerner, the former director of the IRS Exempt Organizations division and a central figure in the 2013 IRS targeting scandal, now runs one of the primary operating divisions of the IRS, according to a report from the American Accountability Foundation.  The report alleges that Holly Paz “seems to have…

It’s ironic, isn’t it? The modern feminist movement began as a cry for liberation—yet in recent years, it seems to have circled right back to restriction. The script has flipped, and instead of championing real choice, mainstream feminism is now dictating which choices are acceptable, rewarding women not for excellence but for optics.  Many women…

When Dr. Eithan Haim blew the whistle on illegal sex-change procedures for minors at the Texas Children’s Hospital, the Biden administration weaponized the Justice Department to silence him, plunging Haim and his wife into than $1 million in debt.  By contrast, had Haim shed light on the gender transitions that violated Texas law under the…

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. The Trump budget is making its way through the Senate. And people on both sides of the issue of fiscal sobriety are arguing because the Biden…

A federal judge who has ruled twice to halt executive actions by President Donald Trump previously gave about $500,000 in campaign contributions to Democrats The judge, U.S. District Judge John McConnell of the District of Rhode Island, will also preside over yet another case involving Trump. All three cases involve federal funding.   In one case,…

President Donald Trump on Friday moved to ensure American airspace dominance and protect the U.S. from foreign threats from above. “Summing up all three of today’s drones and aviation executive orders, our message is simple: American innovation belongs in American aerospace,” said Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Trump…

President Donald Trump’s feud with Elon Musk showed no sign of reconciliation Friday. Recent reports revealed that the president considered giving away his Tesla in response to Elon’s public attacks on Trump’s spending bill and accusing him of being in the Epstein files.  Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy reported that in the face…

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans approve of the job President Donald Trump is doing. A majority of respondents (51%) said they "strongly approve" (30%) or "somewhat approve" (21%) of the job Trump is doing, according to the Napolitan News Service. Meanwhile, 35% said they “strongly disapprove,” while another 11% said they…