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opinion
500 Days in Captivity: The Plight of the Hamas Hostages
Editor’s note: Feb. 17, 2025, marked 500 days in captivity for the remaining 76 of the 250 hostages taken when Hamas terrorists struck southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and killed over 1,200 people. The Heritage Foundation hosted an event marking those 500 days on Tuesday, hearing from family members of those still held hostage… -
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Legacy Media Goes All in on Europe’s Censorship Regimes
It says a lot about America’s fast fading legacy media establishment leaders that they’ve decided to use up the last shreds of their credibility to glorify censorship. This dynamic is exactly what’s been playing out following Vice President JD Vance’s speech in Munich, Germany, on Friday. In that speech, he excoriated European governments for, among other things, retreating… -
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JD Vance’s Message to European Leaders: Listen to Your People, Don’t Go Hard Left
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. There has been a maelstrom of controversy about Vice President JD Vance. Last week he spoke… -
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright Implores Europeans to ‘Return to Sobriety’ on Climate, Energy
On the heels of Vice President JD Vance challenging Europe’s regulatory, energy, and security environments in Paris and Munich, President Donald Trump’s newly minted energy secretary, Chris Wright, piled on in a virtual address at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London. Wright particularly called out Net Zero 2050 in his conversation with… -
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Ukraine, It’s Time to Make a Deal
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. I’d like to talk about Ukraine. It’s been in the news lately. There’s the scent of… -
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‘Pure Fake News’: Vance, Staffers Rip Wall Street Journal for Misrepresenting Russia Remarks
Vice President JD Vance criticized The Wall Street Journal on Friday over an article it published misinterpreting remarks that Vance gave the newspaper in an interview. “Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal,” blared the headline of the news report, which was accompanied on X with the caption: “Exclusive: Vance… -
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In Munich Speech, Vance Excoriates European Leaders on Censorship, Mass Migration Policies
Vice President JD Vance called out European leaders in a speech Friday at the Munich Security Conference, arguing that Europeans must commit to free speech and fair elections if they are to have societies worth fighting for. “The crisis this Continent is facing, the one I believe we all face together, is one of our… -
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Trojan Horse of Gender Ideology Threatens African Treaty on Protecting Women, Girls From Violence
Member states at an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are poised to adopt an "African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls." Its goal is laudable, but as the African Bar Association has revealed, a number of the provisions of the draft treaty reflect an entirely different purpose: radical gender ideology…. -
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Trump Administration ‘Committed to a Peace Deal’ in Ukraine, Says Leavitt
Following groundbreaking developments regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, a Wednesday briefing from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered more details about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed the Trump administration is “wholeheartedly committed to a peace deal.” Leavitt began the briefing with the latest updates from the Trump administration’s… -
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Netanyahu Puts Hamas on Notice: Release the Hostages or ‘Ceasefire Will End’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued an ultimatum to Hamas on Tuesday: Release the remaining hostages who are alive by noon Saturday or the ceasefire agreement will end. “If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end, and the [Israel Defense Forces] will resume intense fighting until the final defeat… -
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Why Chinese AI DeepSeek Won’t (and Can’t) Work
The world is abuzz with the news about DeepSeek, the new open source AI platform that changed the paradigm regarding how much time, money, and processing power is required to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems. Its origin in Communist China only adds to its mystery—and concern for those of us in the West. Big Chinese… -
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Trump’s Gaza Gambit and the Art of the Ultimate Deal
Days after shocking the world with his upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump espoused his hope of negotiating the “ultimate deal” between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs to resolve the “war that never ends.” As Trump told The Wall Street Journal at the time: “As a deal maker, I’d like to do… -
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Mexico Is Our Enemy and We Should Act Accordingly
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. I’d like to talk today about the status of Mexican-American, not as a Mexican-American citizen, but Mexico’s relationship with the United States. What is the Mexican-American… -
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Canada’s Migrant Crisis Spills Over to US, Raising Concerns: The BorderLine
President Donald Trump’s first week in office saw a flurry of executive orders to secure the southern border and turn off the giant magnet attracting the world to enter the U.S. illegally. At the same time, he’s taken the gloves off interior immigration enforcement, including deportations. But while there is a lot to worry about… -
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Expert: US Also Protected by Its Investment in Israel
The relationship between Israel and the U.S. is not one of charity, according to national security expert Victoria Coates. Over the years, the “material assistance” the U.S. has provided Israel has shifted from largely being economic to “become security assistance,” Coates, vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage… -
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Speaker Johnson Backs Trump’s Gaza Plan
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., expressed support for President Donald Trump’s ambitious foreign policy goals at a news conference Wednesday, praising the president’s talk of redeveloping Gaza and downsizing the U.S. Agency for International Development. Johnson’s backing came the day after Trump stunned the world with his remarks at a joint press conference… -
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Netanyahu and Trump Discuss Fate of Middle East
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday for the first time since Trump’s return to the White House to discuss national security issues in the Middle East, including Israel’s war with Hamas. At two separate press conferences Tuesday, Trump struck a friendly tone with his Israeli counterpart. “We have the… -
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Trump: US Will ‘Take Over the Gaza Strip’
The U.S. will “take over the Gaza Strip,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday night while speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. “We’ll own it,” Trump said of the Gaza Strip, adding that the U.S. will “be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on… -
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Venezuela Agrees to Take Back Its Citizens, Releases US Prisoners
THE CENTER SQUARE—Eleven days after President Donald Trump took office, the Venezuelan government agreed to take back its citizens who illegally entered the U.S., including violent members of Tren de Aragua, and released six U.S. citizens who had been held in Venezuelan prisons. Richard Grenell, Trump’s envoy for special missions, went to Venezuela to collect six… -
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How Trump’s Novel Legal Theory Made Mexico and Canada Cave Under Pressure
By using the threat of tariffs to pressure Canada and Mexico to pledge to stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States, President Donald Trump pursued a novel legal theory. He declared an emergency then used his emergency authority to threaten to impose tariffs to get our neighbors to comply with his border enforcement…