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    Putin Testing ‘American Resolve’ With Oil Tanker in Caribbean 
    A Russian oil tanker moving toward Cuba during a U.S. oil blockade is an act of Russian President Vladimir Putin testing “American resolve,” according to one foreign affairs expert. Russia’s Anatoly Kolodkin tanker, carrying an estimated 730,000 barrels of crude oil, has reportedly sailed toward Cuba’s port of Matanzas but, according to United Press International,…
    Virginia Allen
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    Building Medical Preparedness for Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific
    Events in the Middle East have reverberated across the world, including the Indo-Pacific, where people live with the continuous threat of armed conflict with China. In Dr. Mike Cruz’s commentary “The Deluge, the Paper Cup, and Washington’s Lack of Urgency on Guam,” published in War on the Rocks, the author highlights the need for hardening…
    Eileen Natuzzi
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    Oklahoma Governor Reveals Markwayne Mullin Senate Replacement
    Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt has announced that Alan Armstrong, an energy executive, will fill the vacant Senate seat left by Markwayne Mullin until the end of the year. Armstrong, 63, has never held public office and is the executive chairman of Williams Companies, an energy firm that specializes in natural gas. Mullin’s seat was left open…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Paul Ehrlich’s Failed Doomsday Predictions Expose the Media’s Climate Alarmism Double Standard
    When Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich appeared on “60 Minutes” in 2023, he warned that humanity was on an unsustainable path and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re used to.” He explicitly linked overpopulation and consumption to climate disruption, claiming it was already killing people.  Ehrlich recently…
    Frank Lasee
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    How the Upcoming Moon Mission Transcends Anti-Scientific Climate Activism  
    The U.S. is poised to return to the moon this coming April as part of a reenergized manned space program that is emboldened rather than deterred by the risks and challenges irrevocably attached to the mission.   By pressing ahead, NASA and its many public and private sector partners are allowing scientific evidence rather than speculation to guide their decisions. They are also making a clean break with a concept known as the “precautionary principle” that has…
    Kevin Mooney
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    EXCLUSIVE: Bill to Dismantle Taxpayer-Funded Democrat ‘Talent Pipeline’ Expected to Pass House Committee
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A House committee will likely pass a bill to reform a taxpayer-funded scholarship that critics call a “talent pipeline for the Democratic Party and liberal activist organizations,” a committee spokesperson told The Daily Signal. The spokesperson for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce predicted that the bill will pass…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    AGs Demand Probe Into Taxpayer-Funded Climate Training for Judges
    Two dozen Republican state attorneys general called on the Trump administration to investigate what they say is the use of tax dollars to influence judges in climate cases. The state attorneys general, in a letter to Trump Cabinet officials, point to federal grants issued by the National Science Foundation to the National Academies of Sciences,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Dire Straits for Midterms? Gas Price Surge Troubles Senators
    Amid uncertainty in a vital global shipping lane brought on by the conflict with Iran, gas pump prices are way up. Some in Congress think that could be a problem for their constituents and for Republicans’ chances in the midterms. “Naturally, we’re all really concerned,” Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., told The Daily Signal of the…
    George Caldwell
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    What’s Next for DHS?
    Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, to be replaced by Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. Noem’s tenure as the leader of the expansive Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been characterized by numerous problems, ranging from personality clashes and communication breakdowns to policy disputes and operational failures. Arguably, Noem’s greatest success over the past year has…
    S.A. McCarthy
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    ‘A Disruption on the Way to a Much Better Place’: Energy Secretary Dismisses ‘Fiction’ About Energy Shortages
    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Secretary of Energy Chris Wright called the American conflict with Iran “a disruption” on the path to lower energy costs on “Fox News Sunday.” Tankers stopped transiting the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway which separates the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, after Iran launched missile and drone strikes in retaliation for those…
    Harold Hutchison
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    All-Hands-on-Deck Energy Policy
    Power demand is increasing for the first time in decades, and there is no sign of slowing down. Whether it’s artificial intelligence, a growing economy, or traditional industrial power users, American families and businesses need more power. The problem is that through regulation, policy mandates, and subsidies, policymakers have made expanding our electricity grid in…
    Jack Spencer | Joseph Baranoski
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    US Will Take Action to Mitigate Oil Price Spike for Americans, Rubio Says
    REUTERS—The United States will take action to mitigate rising energy prices due to a spike in the price of oil caused by the Iran conflict, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Rubio said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Energy Secretary Chris Wright would announce the plans on Tuesday. “Starting tomorrow,…
    Jasper Ward
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    Vicious Attacks Look to Turn the Tide in Texas Primaries
    New attack ads from candidates in the race for Texas’ Senate seat, along with recent polling, have brought the race to a boiling point. Republican Candidates Get Vicious On Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, released an ad against his primary opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, for “cheating on his wife” and “now sleeping around…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Cuba Says It Killed 4, Wounded 6 Others Aboard Speedboat, Including Wanted Cubans Who Came From US
    REUTERS–Cuban forces killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-registered speedboat that entered Cuban waters on Wednesday and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the Cuban government said at a time of heightened tensions with the United States. Cuba’s Interior Ministry said the group was comprised of anti-government Cubans, some of whom were previously wanted in Cuba. It said the group…
    Daniel Trotta
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    The Climate Fox in the Judicial Henhouse
    For decades, judicial education has served a narrow but vital purpose: helping judges understand complex technical issues without telling them how to rule. That boundary matters. Once judicial education becomes advocacy, courts stop acting as neutral arbiters and begin functioning as instruments of policy enforcement. The Federal Judicial Center crossed that line. In endorsing the…
    Jason Isaac
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    Elias-Backed Coalition Sues Trump Over Ouster of LGBTQ, Climate Exhibits at Federal Parks, Museums
    A coalition is suing over President Donald Trump’s executive order to remove language and exhibits at federal parks and museums that “disparage” America.  The 60-page complaint in the case, filed by Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias’s group Democracy Forward, asserts, “Telling a more complete and accurate history, including that of African Americans, women, Indigenous people,…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Trump Removes Barriers to Building Infrastructure in States
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Interior on Thursday oversaw agreements with Republican governors to speed up the permitting process for building infrastructure. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed memorandums of understanding with Permitting Council Executive Director Emily Domenech at the Department of the Interior, hosted by Secretary Doug Burgum….
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Jeremy Carl Joins ‘The Signal Sitdown’ Following Tense Senate Hearing
    The following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the State Department, on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. Eastern on Feb. 18. Last…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Pro-Corn Congressmen Fight to Put E15 Fuel on Market
    A congressional task force soon plans to release a compromise between corn farmer and oil refinery interests that could reshape the American energy industry. “They’re going great,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal on Wednesday of talks to secure nationwide authorization for the year-round sale of E15, a gasoline whose composition is…
    George Caldwell
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    MONUMENTAL: Trump Admin Unleashes American Energy With Key Regulatory Move
    It’s hard to wrap your head around the massive news President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday. Trump and Zeldin estimated that the EPA will save taxpayers over $1.3 trillion by eliminating the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, which served as the bedrock for a host of greenhouse gas emissions…
    Tyler O’Neil
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