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    Trump Admin Sanctions Mexican Cartel Members

    The Trump administration is targeting two high-level Mexican cartel members with sanctions, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday, in a move angel mom Anne Fundner calls a “very strong message.”  “These criminal organizations are, let’s make no mistake about it, they are foreign terrorist organizations,” Fundner says of the criminal drug cartels. “They’re involved in human trafficking, arms trafficking, [and]…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Shows South African President Receipts of Genocide

    President Donald Trump showed South Africa’s president a damning video montage of threats against white people in his country after Cyril Ramaphosa asserted that there was no genocide against white farmers there. During Ramaphosa’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, a reporter asked what it would take for Trump to believe there…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Now Says Biden Was ‘Not for Open Borders,’ Blames ‘Thugs’ in His Administration

    For years, President Donald Trump has bashed his successor and predecessor, President Joe Biden, for his handling of the southern border, but on Tuesday, Trump said Biden “was not for open borders.”   Biden “never talked about open borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes can flow into our country at will,” Trump…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Announces ‘Golden Dome’ Missile-Defense System

    The U.S. will build a “Golden Dome” to guard against missile attacks, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.   “In the campaign, I promised the American people I would build a cutting-edge missile-defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “That is what we are…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Reins in Bureaucrats’ Criminal Code

    In 2020, boat crewmen John Moore and Tanner Mansell found what they thought was an illegal fishing line off the Florida coast. Believing it the work of poachers, they cut the line, freed several entangled sharks, and called the authorities. In response, the authorities charged and convicted them of felony theft of government property. Moore…
    GianCarlo Canaparo
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    Here’s What Trump Told House Republicans Behind Closed Doors

    President Donald Trump met with the entire House Republican Conference on Tuesday and delivered a strong message—namely, that the time for negotiations on the budget reconciliation bill is over. A number of House Republicans leaving the meeting said that Trump cautioned fiscal hawks against pushing for major reductions in Medicaid and cautioned blue state Republicans…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump’s Tariff Strategy Can Work but America Still Needs Deeper Economic Reform

    President Donald Trump’s tariff diplomacy has been a shock treatment to the global economic order, intended as a kind of radiation and chemotherapy to kill the cancer that created the Rust Belt. But overdoing the treatment can kill the patient instead, without removing the carcinogens in the economy. Fortunately, the administration’s negotiators have called a truce, and…
    EJ Antoni
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    What Trump Should Do With Qatar Plane

    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 this controversy about the 747 airplane that Qatar gave to President Donald Trump. And there’s…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    ‘Revenge Porn’: Trump Signs Bill Criminalizing Online Sexual Exploitation

    President Donald Trump signed legislation backed by his wife aimed at protecting young people from “revenge porn.” “Big thing, very important, so horrible it takes place,” the president said at the Monday bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden. “This would be the first-ever federal law to combat the distribution of explicit, imagery posted without subjects’…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Supreme Court Allows Trump to Proceed With Plans to Remove Deportation Protections for Venezuelan Illegal Aliens

    The Supreme Court will allow, for now, the Trump administration to proceed with plans to strip temporary legal protected status from thousands of illegal aliens from Venezuela living in the U.S.  The court’s decision allows the Trump administration to move forward with plans to cancel Temporary Protected Status for illegal aliens who entered the U.S….
    Virginia Allen
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    Here’s Why House Conservatives Want to Meet With Trump to Hash Out ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

    Fiscal conservatives hope to meet with President Donald Trump before Wednesday to continue negotiations on the “big, beautiful bill,” Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., told The Daily Signal. Reps. Norman, Chip Roy, Andrew Clyde, and Josh Brecheen voted “no” on the reconciliation package Friday, but they changed their votes to “present” on Sunday night. The Daily…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    EXCLUSIVE: Republican Lawmakers Look to Codify Trump Policy to End Leftist Lawfare

    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—When courts issue wrongful injunctions, taxpayers are often left paying for the damage done to their own government. But Reps. Derek Schmidt, R-Kan., and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., are introducing a bill on Monday that aims to shift that burden from taxpayers to the plaintiffs seeking these injunctions, forcing the courts to…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Trump Names Bishop Who Banned Pelosi From Communion to Commission

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump on Thursday named San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to serve on the advisory board of the newly-created Religious Liberty Commission. Cordileone made headlines in 2022 after denying then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Holy Communion due to her public support and promotion of abortion. The commission was created via executive order on May 1 in order to…
    Jaryn Crouson
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    Trump Bashes Supreme Court Following Order Further Blocking Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Illegal Gang Members

    The Supreme Court has extended its block on the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien gang members from Venezuela.   “The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our country illegally, are not…
    Virginia Allen
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    Comey Calls for Hit on Trump. Hit With Derision and a Secret Service Investigation.  

    The Secret Service will be visiting James Comey after the former FBI director posted a picture of shells laid out on the beach reading “86 47” … which translates to “Murder Trump.” “86” is a slang term for “murder,” while 47 refers to the 47th president.  Comey captioned his Instagram post, “Cool shell formation on…
    Al Perrotta
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    EXCLUSIVE: Emails Reveal Anti-Trump Lawyer, Pundit Briefed Democrat Governors on Resistance

    A former counsel for the first Donald Trump impeachment—who vowed to file 100 lawsuits this year against the second Trump administration—was scheduled to advise the staffs of Democrat governors from across the country on how to defy federal policy, according to emails.  On Jan. 21, a day after Trump’s second inauguration, Governors Safeguarding Democracy scheduled…
    Fred Lucas
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    Border Patrol Applications Highest in US History Under Trump

    THE CENTER SQUARE—Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. Border Patrol has seen an unprecedented surge in applications from men and women who want to serve at the U.S. borders. From January to April 2025, Border Patrol received 34,650 applications, representing a 44% increase over the same four-month period in 2024, U.S. Customs and…
    Bethany Blankley
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    Qatar’s Offer of Gift of Presidential Jet to Trump Encounters Turbulence in Senate

    Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday promised Senate “scrutiny” of the proposed gift from the government of Qatar of a Boeing 747-8 valued at $400 million to be used as an Air Force One by President Donald Trump for the remainder of his term.  “I don’t think there’s anything official out there. This is…
    Jacob Adams
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    ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ as Viewed From Abroad

    And then it all made sense. “You don’t have to kill the guy, just make him look bad,” said comedian Kurt Metzger on Joe Rogan’s podcast last month, discussing how elites try to destroy political threats they can’t defeat at the ballot box. That one line explains it all: the hysteria, the lies, the Hollywood…
    George Harizanov
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    Harvard Bargains With Trump Administration and Loses Another $450 Million in Federal Grants

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Harvard University President Alan Garber sent a letter to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Monday asking for the ability to address issues on campus, such as antisemitism and discrimination, without federal oversight, prompting the Trump administration to revoke additional grants from the school Tuesday. Garber’s letter highlighted Harvard’s shared interest in tackling discrimination but…
    Jaryn Crouson
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