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    Trump Rescinds Biden-Era Guidance Requiring Emergency Room Doctors to Perform Abortions

    The Trump administration rescinded the guidance issued by the Biden administration to require emergency room doctors to perform abortions. In 1986, Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, to address the problem of hospitals that refuse to treat indigent patients in emergency rooms. The law requires hospital emergency departments that accept Medicaid funds…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Here’s Who Appointed the Judges Striking Down Trump Policies

    Of the lower court judges who have blocked President Donald Trump’s executive orders and other administration actions since he returned to office in January, Democrat appointees have outnumbered Republican appointees by about 3-1. The ratio is evidence of a common practice called “forum shopping” that is done with highly politicized litigation. Forum shopping is where…
    Fred Lucas
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    Thune Battles Schumer on Holding Up Trump Nominees

    One of the Senate’s biggest fights is happening right now, but it is not getting much attention. President Donald Trump still has around 100 nominees on the Senate executive calendar who have yet to be confirmed, and Democrats are pulling all stops to delay the process. To be sure, Republican senators under Majority Leader John…
    George Caldwell
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    Murder Rates Plummet Under President Trump

    President Donald Trump’s law and order agenda is to thank for the murder rate dropping by 20% this year so far, the White House said Tuesday. Crime data analyst Jeff Asher reviewed the most homicide-prone cities nationwide and found a more than 20% decrease from 2024. “Since President Trump took office, murder rates have plummeted…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Effect? Poland Elects National Conservative as President

    Poland’s national conservative leader, Karol Nawrocki, has won the presidency of Poland, according to election results on Monday. In a narrow race, Nawrocki defeated Rafal Trzaskowski of the left-wing Civic Platform Party to become the country’s new head of state.  The president-elect had been endorsed by President Donald Trump. In Poland’s parliamentary system, the president…
    Jacob Adams
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    What Does Trump Want in the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’?

    As the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill moves to the Senate, one major question remains: What exactly does President Donald Trump want in it? Trump has consistently pushed for the bill’s passage, despite saying he doesn’t view it as perfect. “It’s an unbelievable bill,” Trump said in an Oval Office event with Elon Musk on…
    George Caldwell
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    Harvard vs. Trump: All the President Wants Is for the University to Obey the Law

    “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” America’s philosopher laureate Yogi Berra once said. Wise counsel, but it’s difficult to see how Harvard wins its war of wills with President Donald Trump.  The oldest and most hallowed university in the country decided to fight Trump after he made a series of demands in April, most…
    Mike Gonzalez
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    CBS Is Tortured by Trump, Puts Rage Into ‘60 Minutes’

    CBS News thinks the crown jewel of its news division is “60 Minutes,” the alleged gold standard of investigative journalism on television. But when it comes to politics, their coverage isn’t just slanted. It’s more like a wrecked bus laying on its side, wheels spinning in the air. Their stilted editing of a Kamala Harris…
    Tim Graham
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    Trump and the Case of the Second Amendment Sheriff

    “Trump really blew it with this one!” That is one example of the many reactions I have received in the days after President Donald Trump followed through on issuing a pardon for former Culpeper County, Virginia, Sheriff Scott Jenkins. The Daily Signal previously reported on Jenkins’ conviction on federal bribery charges brought by the Biden…
    Joe Thomas
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    ‘TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE’: Trump Explains Why He Fired Head of the National Portrait Gallery

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump has fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery because of her history of pushing woke ideology, donating to Democrats, and denigrating Republicans, a White House official told The Daily Signal. Kim Sajet has donated $3,982.40 to Democrats, including Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the DCCC,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Musk and Trump Part Ways, but Vow to Continue Work of DOGE

    President Donald Trump bade farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Friday, telling reporters that the Department of Government Efficiency’s work would continue even after the end of Musk’s service as a special government employee. “Elon has worked tirelessly, helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations,” Trump said….
    George Caldwell
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    SCOTUS Allows Trump Administration to Revoke Legal Status for 500K Illegal Aliens

    The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary protected status for 500,000 illegal aliens living in the U.S.   In a 7-2 ruling on Friday, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that barred the Trump administration from deporting illegal aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who entered the U.S. under…
    Virginia Allen
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    Leavitt Goes Scorched Earth on Judge Tribunal’s Ruling Against Trump Tariffs

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt went ballistic over a ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade that struck down President Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to place tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and other countries. Leavitt, addressing reporters from the White House briefing room on Thursday, opened…
    Bradley Devlin
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    How President Trump Stopped Democrats’ Plan for Permanent Power

    It was not very long ago that liberal writers would rhapsodize about how America’s changing demographics would spell Republicans’ doom. A 2012 headline from The New York Times read, “Demographic Shift Brings New Worry for Republicans.” By 2014, the corporate media was already writing the GOP’s obituary: “Republicans have a major demographic problem. And it’s…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump Commutes Sentence of ‘Gangster Disciples’ Founder

    In one of his most unorthodox moves to date, President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentences of ex-convict Larry Hoover, 74, who was a founding member of the “Gangster Disciples” street gang in the 1960s. It is unclear why Trump commuted Hoover’s sentences, but his liberation has been championed by prominent rappers Kanye West…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Makes the Deal of a Lifetime for US Steel

    WEST MIFFLIN, Pennsylvania—Local steelworkers, community leaders, and economic experts said President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that a deal was struck between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel will go down in American history as the most enduring economic “big, beautiful deal” the 47th president has made. It is a deal robustly supported by the rank-and-file steelworkers…
    Salena Zito
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    Trump, Harvard, and the Brain-Drain Myth

    Has President Donald Trump declared war on Albert Einstein? “America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain,” The Economist warns. As soon as the Department of Homeland Security announced Harvard University would no longer be allowed to enroll foreign students, the Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer—a political scientist well-connected in Washington—declared the move “fantastic…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    ‘Truth Teller’ Bruce Springsteen Slimes Trump as Treasonous

    When Donald Trump is president, it’s considered dangerously authoritarian if he accuses someone of treason—and it’s considered heroic “truth-telling” when you accuse Trump of being a treasonous authoritarian. The latest exhibit is leftist rock star/first-rate tax evader Bruce Springsteen. On a concert stage in Manchester, England, Bruce went full Dixie Chicks by attacking the president…
    Tim Graham
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    EXCLUSIVE: Internal DHS Memo Details Trump Admin’s Moves Against Harvard

    An internal Department of Homeland Security memo details why the Trump administration is taking its forceful actions against Harvard University.   Harvard is “failing its students and America,” according to the memo, which was shared with The Daily Signal on Tuesday.   The Trump administration has taken a number of actions against Harvard University in…
    Virginia Allen
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    NPR Lawsuit Alleges Trump Funding Cuts Violate First Amendment

    Taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio, along with three Colorado affiliates, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday morning to stop President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at cutting its funding. Colorado Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio, and KSUT joined NPR as litigants in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to challenge Trump’s order. Trump’s executive order…
    Fred Lucas
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