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Hakeem Jeffries Pushes for Maryland Redistricting
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries fired another volley in the nationwide congressional redistricting battle Wednesday with an attempt to persuade Maryland lawmakers to draw out the state’s sole Republican member of Congress. “I had a wonderful meeting with Gov. Wes Moore, with Speaker [Joseline] Peña-Melnyk, and with the Democrats in the Maryland House of Delegates… -
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Employment Up and Inflation Down, New BLS Report Shows
Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its January 2026 Current Employment Statistics and consumer price index reports. Here’s what you need to know: These reports suggest stabilization within the American economy, contrary to economists on the left and the right who have been quick to express labor and broad market pessimism. Total nonfarm… -
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God Is Worth Everything: Why Ashes Matter
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” What are the things and people that we would make the ultimate sacrifice for? What or who resides at the center of our lives? On Feb. 18, Catholics across the globe will… -
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Investigators Look for DNA Match, Claim the Search for Nancy Guthrie Is ‘Not Cold’
Eighteen days into the search for Nancy Guthrie, and hundreds of investigators are pursuing leads based off of tens of thousands of tips and are adamant that the case has not gone cold. “As long as we have the ability to chase a lead, it’s not cold,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News Tuesday. Nancy Guthrie, 84-year-old mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie,… -
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Texas AG Contest Includes Cruz-Backed Candidate vs. Paxton-Endorsed Contender
Two former chiefs of staff for Sen. Ted Cruz, who also had senior roles under Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, sparred Tuesday evening over who would be the Lone Star State’s next top law enforcement official. Paxton is currently competing in a high-profile GOP Senate primary against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Wesley Hunt…. -
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Mamdani’s Homelessness Crisis: Urgent Course Correction Needed
Allowing the homeless to languish on the streets is bad policy. Allowing the homeless to languish on the streets in severe winter weather can be a deadly policy. It took a tragic loss of life among New York City’s homeless during weeks of brutal cold for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to figure that… -
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FTC Probes American Academy of Pediatrics, WPATH Over Gender-Transition Procedures for Minors
The Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection arm has launched official probes into the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health over their continued support for gender transition procedures for minors. “The @AmerAcadPeds and @WPATH have driven the biggest medical scandal of our time, pushing irreversible interventions on children without the evidence to… -
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Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders?
Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades. They’re demanding ID from drivers. In short, they’re setting up their own borders—against America’s laws and law enforcement. It’s not the first time “protesters” have done this. Activists inspired by Black Lives Matter seized control over a portion of Seattle six years ago and… -
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Vance Rejects Fox Poll, Says America Still Recovering From Biden
Vice President JD Vance took issue with a Fox News poll showing a majority of voters preferring Democrats to Republicans in the upcoming November 2026 midterms. “As much as we love Fox News, we always think Fox News has the worst polling, me and the president agree on that,” Vance told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum… -
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Illegal Alien Flees ICE, Kills Teacher in Crash
A Georgia teacher is dead after an illegal alien ran a red light while fleeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and crashed his car into her vehicle. The fatal crash occured in Savannah, Georgia. The Chatham County Police Department has charged Oscar Vasquez Lopez, an illegal alien from Guatemala, with first-degree homicide by vehicle, reckless… -
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AOC Exposes the Left’s Attack on Western Culture
This weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed her contempt for the rich heritage of Western culture, and why the Right is correct to oppose her Marxist politics. Speaking at the Technical University of Berlin on Sunday, AOC responded to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, and she chided him for attempting… -
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Iranian Foreign Minister Says Progress Made in Nuclear Talks With US
GENEVA, Feb. 17 (Reuters)—Iran and the United States reached an understanding on Tuesday on main “guiding principles” in talks aimed at resolving their longstanding nuclear dispute, but that does not mean a deal is imminent, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said. Oil futures fell and the benchmark Brent crude contract tumbled more than 1% after Araghchi’s comments,… -
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Wisconsin Residents Reject ‘Minnesota Nice’ on Immigration
Brand new polling numbers from the key battleground state of Wisconsin reveal that Midwestern patriots demand law and order and a return to national sovereignty for our country. These results expose the constant media lies—with the expressed views of Wisconsin citizens who carefully watch the radicalism unfold right next door in Minnesota … and demand… -
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Why Children Need Both a Mother and Father, According to Research
While Valentine’s Day is now in the rearview mirror, there is never a bad time for Americans to be reminded that strong families thrive when men and women commit to one another in holy matrimony before bringing children into the world. It is no secret to conservatives that children raised by their married mother and… -
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TRANS FAMILY DISPUTE: Rhode Island Ice Rink Shooter’s Troubled Legal History
The man who opened fire at a Rhode Island ice rink during a high school hockey game Monday night, killing two family members and injuring three others before turning the gun on himself, identified as transgender and had multiple family disputes regarding his gender identity. Robert Dorgan, 56, also went by the name Roberta, Pawtucket… -
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Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 84
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and twice ran for the Democrat presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his family said in a statement on Tuesday. “Our father was a servant leader—not only to our family, but… -
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Plummeting Public Trust, Mass Layoffs: Is Legacy Media Becoming Irrelevant?
The American people’s confidence in mass media appears to be continuing its spiral downward, according to the results of a new Pew Research Center survey. The poll found that 57% of the public has little or no confidence “in journalists to act in the best interests of the public.” Some conservatives are pointing to dwindling… -
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Lefty Radicals Concoct Strategy to Let Anti-ICE Agitators Get Off Scot-Free
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Minnesota activist group encouraging protests against immigration enforcement will host a training to teach attendees to let guilty criminals walk. Defend the 612 will instruct viewers of the Feb. 23 virtual “Jury Nullification Training” on how to use false jury verdicts to fight “unjust laws and political persecution,” according to… -
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180 Feet Up: The Daring Story Behind the Capitol’s Most Famous Painting
It is an unlikely union. America’s Cincinnatus—George Washington—and America’s Michelangelo—the Italian painter Constantino Brumidi—never met. Washington was born in 1732, a third-generation Virginian. Brumidi was born in Rome in 1805 and emigrated to the United States in 1849, becoming a naturalized citizen soon after. Yet both left indelible marks on the American republic. Washington shaped… -
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What We as Americans Can Learn From Historic Sites
Where will you go to celebrate America’s birthday? This summer marks 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, 250 years of demonstrating that human beings are capable of self-government and that a nation conceived in liberty can indeed endure. It seems almost providential, given the state of civic education, political divisions, and…