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    Illinois Parents Consider Lawsuit After School District Defends Housing Boys With Girls on Overnight Trips
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Illinois parents are considering a lawsuit after their kids’ school district stood by its policy of placing males with female high school students on overnight trips while withholding information from parents. “In light of the district failing to recognize their legal obligations to D128 families and educators, Liberty Justice Center is…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    DOJ Sues Alaska to Block Senate Election Certification, Citing ‘Voter Confusion’
    The Justice Department is suing Alaska to block certification of the state’s U.S. Senate race, alleging that the presence of a second Daniel Sullivan on the state’s ballot causes confusion.  Daniel J. Sullivan is running as an independent in the closely contested Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan and former Democrat Rep….
    Fred Lucas
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    Don’t Hire the Arsonists to Fight the Affordability Fire
    Voters are angry about the cost of living, and they have every right to be. With Republicans in full control of Washington, they expect a fast reversal of the Biden years. But voters’ anger should not be mistaken for amnesia. Americans clearly remember who started the affordability fire burning through families’ wallets. My new League…
    Steve Cortes
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Ukraine Is Becoming Another Verdun
    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.   The war in Ukraine has gone on for four years—4.7 years. Feb. 24 of next year,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Sen. Louise Lucas Indicted on Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering Charges
    State Sen. L. Louise Lucas and six other people were charged Thursday with federal crimes involving an alleged conspiracy to sell marijuana and launder the resulting profits. Lucas, the president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate, was indicted by a grand jury on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana, and conspiracy…
    Rich Tucker
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    Meet the Worst Criminal Aliens Arrested in Iowa Ahead of Trump’s Midterm Rally
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As President Donald Trump prepares to campaign for GOP candidates in Iowa, the White House is highlighting the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens who have been removed from the streets under his administration. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security arrested illegal immigrants convicted of crimes including child prostitution, assault of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    As Iowa Senate Race Tightens, Outside Groups Pour Millions Into Attack Campaigns
    Over a hundred million dollars have flooded the Iowa Senate race from outside spenders. Instead of supporting the candidate they want to win, they are throwing money at opposing the one they want to lose. Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson is going head-to-head with Democrat state Rep. Josh Turek to take retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst’s…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Tim Scott Makes Confident Pitch in Final Weeks Before Midterms
    With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, Tony Kinnett had Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C. on Tuesday’s episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast” to discuss how Scott is feeling about the state of the race. Scott, who also heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee this cycle, said he is “thankful to be healthy, happy, and excited about…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Scott Bessent, Jon Husted Champion Education Freedom Tax Credit
    Ohio received a shoutout from the federal government on Friday in Columbus as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared with Sen. Jon Husted to give remarks promoting the Education Freedom Tax Credit. The tax credit, also known as the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, was a provision of the Working Families Tax Cuts, with Husted playing a…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Why Didn’t Fauci Want Young Men and Pregnant Women to Know the Risks?
    On Nov. 15, 2021, Anthony Fauci wrote a decision about COVID-19 booster shots in his private diary. Push the booster on every adult in America. Do it, he wrote, “no matter what the ACIP says”—that is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the independent panel of outside experts that votes on who should get which…
    Peter Navarro
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    Money Talks When Money Walks
    This November, California voters will decide whether a fraction of the state’s population should pay a 5% wealth tax to help fund public programs. Proposition 40 would make roughly 200 of the richest Californians bail out the state’s deficits and save the budget for another year of easy spending. California is not the only blue…
    Nicole Huyer | Mary Maleski
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Europe Lost 2 World Wars—and America Inherited Its Self-Hatred
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: “It seems to me that postmodernism or French philosophy instilled in my sons the notion of oppressed-oppressor. Rationality is…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    What Does a Test Say About Your Child? There’s More Than Meets the Eye
    Elementary and secondary schools are approaching the middle of the first semester. Do you know how your child is doing? The answer is not as simple as it sounds. State and federal lawmakers can help parents and schools by approving new methods for educators to measure students and by maintaining the Nation’s Report Card, a…
    Jonathan Butcher
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    Georgia Election Vendors Seek to Win Over Committee Members: Take 2
    ATLANTA–Several election equipment vendors made their pitch to committee members Thursday morning at the State Capitol as to why they are the best fit to guide the Peach State’s next voting system. The committee consists of two co-chairs, state Sen. Max Burns, R-Sylvania, and state Rep. Victor Anderson, R-Cornelia, and other members as well. Voting…
    Rebecca Buis
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    Inside Biden’s DOJ: How LGBTQ Activist Groups Helped Set the Agenda for the Civil Rights Division
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Newly released documents reveal the extent to which LGBTQ activist groups helped set the agenda for the Justice Department under President Joe Biden. The DOJ Civil Rights Division’s LGBTQI+ Working Group convened quarterly stakeholder meetings with organizations including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, the Southern…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Faith Makes for Stronger, More Lasting Marriages
    The Institute for Family Studies released the findings of a new study on marriage in September 2026. “The Devout Difference: Religion, Marital Quality and Sex Among Americans” examines whether faith leads to happier and more stable marriages.  The study focused on “marital quality, measured by self-reported marital happiness, and perceived marital stability, measured by respondents’…
    Thomas Griffin
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    The Perils of Believing the Pollsters Every October
    Everyone absorbing the elitist media spin on the midterm elections cannot avoid the swirling symphony of doom for the Republicans. Conventional wisdom suggests a good night for Democrats, and that’s before you look at the president’s dreadful approval rating. Polls can be tricky: one can disapprove of Trump and still vote the Republican party line….
    Tim Graham
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    Victor Davis Hanson: What Might Have Saved Gaza? 
    Could the destruction of Gaza after October 7 have been avoided? The answer is yes—had Hamas so wished.  First, if the Hamas leadership had simply complied with Israeli demands to (a) return the 251 hostages and (b) surrender the architects and perpetrators of the massacre of some 1,200 Israelis, the Israelis would not have had…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    How the Toxic Relationship Between Cartels and Chinese Money Launderers Costs American Investors 
    The king of cocaine wrote off an estimated $2.1 billion each year due to chunks of cash being eaten by rats (whether those “rats” were animals or people, the record is unclear). According to Pablo Escobar’s brother and accountant, Roberto, the cartel accumulated so much cash that it could hardly keep track of it. That…
    Esther Bouquet
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    Does AI Deserve Human Rights? 
    You can’t be cruel to a toaster; inanimate objects don’t feel pain.  You can’t be cruel to a computer program, either, even if programs like Microsoft Word often seem pretty cruel to us.  Yet the artificial intelligence company Anthropic insists its product is different:  Starting next month, users will be prohibited from “sustained and needless…
    Daniel McCarthy
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