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House Passes Trump-Backed Military Bill
The National Defense Authorization Act, which includes legislation requiring voter identification in federal elections, is now headed to the Senate after passing the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday in a 219-to-206 vote. Five Democrats voted for the bill: Reps. Don Davis, D-N.C.; Jared Golden, D-Maine; Adam Gray, D-Calif.; Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez,… -
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Trump Threatens Iranian Infrastructure After Houthis Block Red Sea Artery
DUBAI/MANILA, July 22 (Reuters)—U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant every time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, raising the stakes after Iranian-allied Houthis in Yemen threatened a second vital energy route. Seven tankers have changed course in the Red Sea to avoid… -
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Hegseth Says American Troops Need $67 Billion to Recover from Iran War
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday defended America’s need for a $67 billion supplemental funding request, revealing that the conflict in Iran has cost $37.5 billion already. “The inability to properly fund this department, the Department of War, is probably the single greatest threat this country faces,” Hegseth said during a hearing with members of the Senate Appropriations… -
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Johnson Needs SAVE Before Congress Leaves Town. He Plans to Get It.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans are gearing up to vote on four major funding bills left undone until the last minute. The lawmakers are considering multiple road maps for election security ahead of their monthlong recess that begins Friday. Aiming to pass everything under one rule, the bills will address a ban on… -
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Islamic Terrorism and Socialism Ramp Up Democrat Infighting, Dem Reps Say
A longtime Democrat congressman sounded the alarm on the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, adding that his party’s leadership is only making room for the extreme wing of Democrats. “I just found it to be not the same caucus I joined in 2007,” Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., told CNN regarding the House Progressive Caucus…. -
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US Renews Strikes on Iran After 2 Military Personnel Killed by Iranian Attack
DUBAI—The U.S. said it had completed an eighth straight night of attacks against Iran after earlier announcing that two U.S. military personnel were killed in Jordan, while U.S. allies in the region reported more Iranian attacks on Sunday. The U.S. and Iran have intensified attacks as an interim ceasefire deal signed a month ago has… -
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Iran Expands Its Attacks as Middle East Braces for What Comes Next
The U.S. military said on Saturday two of its personnel were killed in Jordan and another was missing after an attack by Iran, while Iran’s supreme leader said Washington would pay for “seeking to escalate the conflict” after a seventh straight night of U.S. strikes. The U.S. and Iran have intensified attacks since an interim… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Has Just Weeks Left to Finish the Iran Conflict
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. We’re approaching 140 days since we first attacked Iran on Feb. 28 of this year. And we only really had… -
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Muslim Dem Claims She’s Being Silenced by Party Over LGBTQ Issues
Melissa Chaudhry, a Washington State Democrat running for the state’s 9th Congressional District, told the Daily Signal that the Democratic Party has silenced the candidate for not embracing the LGBTQ+ community. The controversy comes after Chaudhry, who has already been endorsed by local advocacy groups in her race to unseat longtime incumbent Rep. Adam Smith,… -
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Dem Party Lashes Out at Muslim Candidate for Not Embracing LGBTQ Community
Melissa Chaudhry, a Muslim Democrat running for Congress in Olympia, Washington, has reportedly threatened to switch parties if elected after fellow Democrats and LGBTQ+ activists pitted her Muslim beliefs against supporting LGBTQ+ rights. Andrew Ashiofu, chair of the Stonewall Democrats, the official LGBTQ+ caucus in the Washington State Democratic Party, recently told Jerusalem News Syndicate… -
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US Launches New Round of Strikes Against Iran as Escalation Threatens Shipping
CAIRO/DUBAI, July 15 (Reuters)—The U.S. said it had begun a new wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday after reimposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran threatened to shut off more regional energy exports. The strikes mark the latest escalation of attacks and counterattacks launched by the two sides as they vie for… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The World Is Becoming More Pro-American Than It Has Been in Years
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 world that we’re looking at today is radically different than that of just five years ago, radically different in the… -
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Trump Predicts How Iran Escalation Will Affect Economy
President Donald Trump expects inflation to remain low, even though renewed strikes on Iran could result in higher energy costs. The Tuesday consumer price index showed that inflation dropped to 3.5% in June, but it is unclear if the trend will continue in July, as Trump notified Congress that “limited” military action against Iran has resumed. He has… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Was George W. Bush Treated Unfairly?
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. Victor Davis Hanson: If you look at George W. Bush, people—his reputation has gone up a little bit because he broke with [Donald] Trump, the next Republican. I’m not… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The US Needs to Hit Iran Harder to End the War
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. We’re now in the 134th day of, quote-unquote, “the war with Iran.” I’m speaking on July 12. But we got to remember that we… -
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Trump-Endorsed Alfonso Leads Newest Poll by Huge Margin
New polling in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District shows that 26-year-old Michael Alfonso has a 21 point lead among voters in the Republican primary race for the U.S. House of Representatives according to exclusive polling obtained by the Daily Signal. TIPP Insights conducted a poll for the League of American Workers between July 2 and July… -
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Trump: Iran Blockade Reinstated, US to Charge 20% on Strait of Hormuz Cargo
REUTERS—President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States was reinstating a naval blockade on Iran and would be reimbursed 20% on all cargo shipped through the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran claimed it had closed the vital waterway. “The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating… -
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Lindsey Graham Remembered for His ‘Sparkling Humor,’ Devotion to Serving America
“We have lost a gentleman from an older era of civility and selflessness.” So wrote Harmeet K. Dhillon, deputy attorney general for Civil Rights on the surprise death of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham. Graham, a Republican, died Saturday evening at the age of 71 after what his office called a “brief and sudden illness.”… -
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I Visited Wartime Israel. Here’s What the Headlines Aren’t Telling You.
From May 30 to June 9 this year, I traveled to Israel with a group, seeing holy sites and hearing from survivors of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks. When Iran and Israel began exchanging fire, my phone buzzed. Rockets. I ran to the stairwell of my Jerusalem hotel. Another guest shared a video showing… -
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Trump v. Pope Leo XIV? Where Do Washington and Rome Go From Here?
The following is an excerpt of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Paul Kengor, editor of The American Spectator and author of the new book “American Pontiff,” for the “Signal Sitdown,” which premieres on the Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 8. This transcript has been edited for clarity….