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    As a New York Resident, Here Is My Biggest Worry About Mamdani’s Socialism
    New York’s socialist mayoral candidate’s ideas threaten to bring back the post-George Floyd riots surge in crime. Of all the terrible policies 33-year-old New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has embraced over the last five years, none threaten New York City more than his ideas about the police and law and order. To a certain extent,…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Why Trump’s Trip to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Could Boost ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
    President Donald Trump is visiting a detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday, which the White House contends backs up the need to pass the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” A reporter on Monday asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt why Trump would travel to the detention center about 50 miles west of Miami while…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump’s Iran Strikes Were Masterful. Now His Dealmaking Skills Are Critical.
    President Donald Trump is not like his predecessors. Confronting a hostile regime in Tehran that has played American presidents for more than 35 years, the commander in chief took decisive action on June 21 to keep his promise that he would never allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Operation Midnight Hammer was a success—America’s fine men and…
    Kevin Roberts
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    ‘NO MORE MONEY!!!’: Trump Announces Support for ‘No Tax Dollars for Riots’ Legislation
    President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he fully supported a California Republican congressman’s “No Tax Dollars for Riots” legislation. The president wrote on Truth Social that Rep. Kevin Kiley’s proposal “should be passed immediately,” calling for his administration not to pay “ANY money to these radicalized groups.” The president added, “They get paid to incite…
    Lorenzo Prieto
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    2 Lawmakers Nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
    Rep. Claudia Tenney announced that she has “twice nominated” President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, writing, “No modern leader has done more for World Peace than President Trump, and it’s long past time he receives recognition.” Tenney, R-N.Y., wrote on social media platform X that Trump was able to broker the Abraham Accords, “the…
    Lorenzo Prieto
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    Trump’s Iran Strike a Lesson in Executive Leadership Versus Autopen Presidency
    “This wasn’t a Pentagon operation. This was a Donald Trump operation. He came up with the PR. He chose the plans. He chose the day.” That’s a quote from news site Axios of a reportedly senior administration official about President Donald Trump’s role in conducting the operation to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities on Sunday. Lost in debates…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Were Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites Successful? National Security Expert Explains
    Preliminary after-action reports following U.S. military operations are standard, but “almost always wrong,” according to President Donald Trump’s former deputy national security adviser. The effectiveness of U.S. strikes Saturday on Iran’s three primary nuclear facilities was called into question in reporting from CNN and The New York Times that was based on a leaked initial…
    Virginia Allen
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    Leavitt Slams ‘Fake News’ Story Claiming Administration Targets Migrant Foster Kids
    Press secretary Karoline Leavitt sharply criticized the Miami Herald for publishing an article claiming the Trump administration is targeting migrant foster children. Leavitt said she was “aghast” at the headline: “Trump administration targets Florida foster kids, migrant youth for deportations.” “It’s egregious to accuse this administration of trying to target foster children,” Leavitt told The…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    10 Ways To Improve Visa Security
    Today, America’s visa system is filled with loopholes and vulnerabilities. But fortunately, there are several simple ways to address those—a fact I emphasized in my Wednesday testimony in the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on “Restoring Integrity and Security to the Visa Process.” But what is a visa? Let’s imagine America is a castle surrounded by…
    Simon Hankinson
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    Hegseth Scolds Media Over Reporting of US Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites
    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth bashed the corporate media for “searching for scandals” following the U.S. attack on three Iranian nuclear sites.   “But searching for scandals, you miss historic moments,” Hegseth said Thursday morning during a press conference at the Pentagon, during which Hegseth praised President Donald Trump for his leadership at the NATO…
    Virginia Allen
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    Historic US Child Rescue: 60 Missing, Trafficked Children Saved in Florida Operation
    Florida’s “Operation Dragon Eye” was successful in rescuing 60 children who were missing, endangered, or victims of human trafficking, state officials announced Monday. Republican Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said in a press briefing: “We are here to announce the most successful completion of the largest child rescue operation, not just in Florida history, but in the…
    Sarah Holliday
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    Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One
    The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn’t just about nuclear weapons—it’s also an urgent reminder that border security is national security. Tehran’s terrorist agents are a weapon with a much longer reach than any of the mullahs’ missiles. They’ve been a threat to Salman Rushdie’s life in the United States and Europe for…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    ‘Used and Abused for Decades’: Texas Lawmaker Seeks Overhaul of Temporary Protected Status 
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Texas congressman is aiming to reform the Temporary Protected Status program for migrants and to end the abuses of the program.   Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, on Thursday will introduce a bill that, if passed and signed into law, would grant Congress, not the president, authority to designate a foreign country…
    Virginia Allen
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    Top Trump Administration Official Discusses Rescissions Package
    Trump administration Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought testified before a Senate panel on Wednesday about defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal government programs totaling $9.4 billion in reduced spending. “A vote for rescissions is a vote to show that the United States Senate is serious about getting our fiscal…
    Jacob Adams
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    ‘Rotten to the Core’: Kari Lake Details Federal Media Agency’s Problems
    The parent agency of Voice of America and other taxpayer-funded media are “incompetent and mismanaged, deeply corrupt,” Kari Lake, senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, told a House panel Wednesday.  “This place is rotten. It’s rotten to the core,” said Lake during testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  “President [Donald] Trump…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: New Video Showcases Human Impact of Biden’s Border Crisis on Texas Rancher
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—When Martin Wall and his wife bought a ranch in Eagle Pass, Texas, in 2021, they had no idea they’d spend the next four years defending their property from the Biden administration’s illegal immigration crisis. Wall achieved his dream of purchasing a ranch and raising his children there. But the day…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Administration Sets Record Straight on Iranian Nuclear Site Attack
    Following reporting that the U.S. strikes on Iran’s three major nuclear sites only set Iran’s nuclear program back months, Trump administration officials are blaming a “leaker” for circulating such reports.   “The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social late Tuesday night while bashing CNN and The New York…
    Virginia Allen
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    ICE Arrests 11 Iranian Nationals, Including One Who ‘Reportedly Served as Iranian Army Sniper’ 
    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 11 Iranian nationals over two days, the Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday. Among those in custody is Ribvar Karimi, who “reportedly served as an Iranian army sniper from 2018 to 2021,” according to the DHS.  An Islamic Republic of Iran Army identification card was in Karimi’s possession when…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘This Isn’t Just Crime. It’s Terror,’ Senate Panel’s Hearing on Mexican Cartels Is Told
    A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday on international drug cartels emphasized that the organizations are effectively engaged in sophisticated terrorism.  The hearing, “The Thin Blue Line Protecting America from the Cartels,” featured three witnesses from law enforcement: Matthew Allen, special agent in charge of the Los Angeles Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration in…
    Jacob Adams
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    Republicans Press for ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense Shield
    In the wake of Israel’s and the United States’ successful interception of Iranian missile strikes, Senate Republicans are renewing their push for a “Golden Dome” that would shield the United States from ballistic missiles. The Golden Dome Act, inspired by Israel’s “Iron Dome” system, would authorize more than $23 billion “to begin developing a modernized,…
    George Caldwell
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