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‘Takes Two to Tango’: Trump to Forgo Talks of Annexing Canada Unless It’s Interested
While President Donald Trump still thinks Canada should become the 51st state, he said he won’t be discussing it unless our neighbor to the north is interested. “It takes two to tango,” the president said in his bilateral meeting Tuesday with Canada’s newly elected prime minister, Mark Carney. “I do feel it’s much better for…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Border Czar Homan Is ‘Shocked’ Mexico Won’t ‘Consider US Help’ to Combat Cartels
The president of Mexico has turned down an offer from President Donald Trump to send U.S. troops to Mexico to aid in combating the criminal cartels, a move that border czar Tom Homan says “shocked” him. “Taking out these cartels would make Mexico much safer for their citizens and tourists,” Homan told The Daily Signal….Virginia Allen -
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‘Every Cop Death Is a Victory’: Antifa Rioters Torch University Building, Attack Police Over Gaza
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Police arrested dozens of protesters at the University of Washington on Monday night after an Antifa-style mob lit fires and took over a building to protest Israel. “About 30 individuals who occupied” an engineering studies building were arrested and will be referred for prosecution, a university spokesperson said in a Tuesday statement. Videos posted on…Hudson Crozier -
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The Trump-Iran Deal, Explained
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. Just recently, the Houthis, that is the terrorist organization that controls half of Yemen and has…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Israel Approves Plan to Assume Control of Gaza After Trump’s Middle East Trip
Hamas has “a window of opportunity” to agree to a hostage deal with Israel before the end of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East next week, according to a top Israeli defense official. If no deal is reached, Israel will launch an aggressive campaign inside Gaza aimed at the elimination of Hamas, according…Virginia Allen -
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What Does Russia Want?
Russia’s war to conquer Ukraine has been raging since February 2022. At first, the Russian offensive seemed fated for success: Russian troops came within a few kilometers of Kyiv, and Western powers offered President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exit from the country. Zelenskyy refused; Ukrainian forces proceeded to hold off and reverse the Russian offensive. Within a…Ben Shapiro -
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Analyst Explains Why a Two-State Solution Between Israel and Palestine Won’t Work
JERUSALEM—For decades, many political leaders on the Left and Right alike have advocated for a two-state solution to solve the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, but such a plan is not a viable solution, says Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Eugene Kontorovich. “The best thing about the two-state solution is its name because it…Virginia Allen -
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The Art of a Second Iran Deal
President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, which he celebrated this week with a characteristically electric campaign-style rally in Michigan, were the fastest and most frenzied 100 days in modern presidential history. And if Thursday’s presidential personnel drama is any indication, the next 100 days could offer more of the same. On Thursday, embattled Trump administration…Josh Hammer -
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Trump’s Bold Strategy to Get a Ukraine War Peace Deal
Two days after inking a deal to share future revenues from Ukrainian mineral deposits, the United States is pressuring Ukraine and Russia to come to the negotiating table with more realistic demands of their own to bring an end to the war. At a Friday press conference, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said American diplomats…Bradley Devlin -
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Safeguarding Students: Stopping China’s Infiltration of US Universities
America’s students deserve better than to be treated as pawns in the Chinese Communist Party’s long game to undermine our country. We can all agree that China does not have the best interests of American students in mind. Yet, thanks to lax enforcement and misplaced priorities from the Biden-Harris administration, billions of dollars have flowed…Rep. Mark Harris -
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WARNING: Middle East ‘Hangs in the Balance,’ Former Israeli Ambassador to US Says
JERUSALEM—Israel’s war with Hamas goes beyond land and borders; it’s a battle for “our common civilization, for our values,” a former Israeli envoy to the United States warns. “The enemy we’re fighting against is an enemy that detests everything that you stand for, everything that we stand for,” Michael Oren, who served as Israeli…Virginia Allen -
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Don’t Make Ukraine Another Vietnam
Fifty years ago on April 30, Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese, and the defeat was America’s, too. South Vietnam was our ally, whose forces we trained, armed, and supported with our own troops, ultimately at the cost of more than 58,000 of our service members’ lives. The grim anniversary is a reminder that those…Daniel McCarthy -
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Who Is Mark Carney, the Newly Elected Liberal Prime Minister of Canada?
The Liberal Party of Canada won a narrow victory on Monday night, catapulting its leader, Prime Minister Mark Carney, to his first general election win. The win is a fourth consecutive term for the party, and a remarkable reversal of fortune for Carney, who had originally faced a nearly 30-point deficit in polling to Conservative…Jacob Adams -
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Canadian Election Results Portend America, Canada Likely to Remain at Odds
After a topsy-turvy election cycle in which the Conservatives started up 25 points before trade tensions with the United States and a Liberal leadership change, Canadian voters have given the Liberal Party another mandate in Ottawa. This is a big win for Mark Carney, the newly installed Canadian prime minister who had spent a career…Jordan Embree -
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Envoy to Israel Huckabee Says Deal Can Be Reached If Iran Gives Up Ambitions of ‘Nuclear Weaponry’
JERUSALEM, Israel—Iran could see a breakthrough in its nuclear nonproliferation negotiations with the United States, but “it’s up to them,” according to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Iran has “never ever been anything but clear in that their goal is the annihilation of Israel, and ultimately the annihilation of every free-thinking, free-living person…Virginia Allen -
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar Bail Out War-Ravaged Syria
The Middle East was the source of some rare positive news on Sunday when Qatar and Saudi Arabia announced that they would be paying back the some $15 million that Syria owes to the World Bank. The payment will help enable the bank to assist in the rebuilding of Syria after nearly 14 years of…Jacob Adams -
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Who Will Rule Gaza After the War? Ex-IDF Spokesman Sees Just One Option
JERUSALEM, Israel—If Hamas is dismantled and the war between Israel and the terrorist group comes to an end, Israel will need to step in and “rule Gaza” for a time, a former international spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces says. “I think in [an] interim period, Israel will apply a military occupation of it…Virginia Allen -
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Biden vs. Trump: What Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu Says About Working With Each President
JERUSALEM, Israel—When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers were discussing the plan to detonate explosives located inside pagers used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, some close to the Israeli leader encouraged him to give the Biden administration advance warning. Netanyahu refused. “I said, ‘no,’ and we didn’t,” Netanyahu said, adding, “I didn’t read…Virginia Allen -
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New Secure Messaging Platform Offers Quantum-Resistant Defense Against Chinese Cyber Threats
A communications platform called Titanium Secure is positioning itself as a quantum-resistant defense against growing cyber threats from China and data harvesting by Big Tech companies. “We saw a need for conservatives to have their own platform where they could do several different things, and part of those was to secure communication and secure data,”…Rob Bluey -
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Anton to Lead Trump Team Negotiating With Iran
President Donald Trump has chosen Michael Anton, the State Department's director of policy planning, to lead the next round of nuclear negotiations with Iran, Politico reported Thursday. This weekend, Anton will lead a dozen U.S. officials in talks with members of the Iranian government on the subject of constraining the Islamic fundamentalist state’s nuclear program…George Caldwell