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    Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Has Left Iran With 3 Options
    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 about 60 days into the Iran war, and we’re getting a lot of mixed signals from the media, from the administration,…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    America at 250: Still Dominating the World—and Here’s Why the Left Won’t Admit It
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel to watch past episodes.  Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.   This year, on July Fourth, will be the…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Senate Advances Massive Border Funding Plan. Will It Survive?
    The Senate is rapidly pursuing a plan to inject funds into Department of Homeland Security immigration agencies that Democrats have denied funding. Congressional leaders will have the potentially difficult task of uniting their slim majorities around the plan and settling disagreements on how ambitious it should be ahead of midterms that could strip Republicans of…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Isn’t Negotiating—He’s Crushing Iran’s Regime
    ditor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson.  Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.  JACK FOWLER: Well, you mentioned the war, Victor. So the Straits of Hormuz are—the Iranians say they’re in control. This is from…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Winning the War, Fighting the Swamp: Trump’s Toughest Battle Isn’t Iran
    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 are now entering the 50th or 52nd day, somewhere in that period of the ongoing war…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The LAX Arrest That Proves Iran’s Threat Is Already Inside America
    While Americans are told to think of Iran as a distant threat measured by uranium enrichment, diplomatic statements, and maps half a world away, the arrest of Iranian national Shamim Mafi at Los Angeles International Airport shattered that fiction on April 18. According to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Mafi, a lawful permanent resident living in Woodland…
    Mehek Cooke
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    22-Term Democrat in Danger of Losing Seat in Ohio
    Of all the House races to watch in the Buckeye State for the midterms, Ohio’s 9th Congressional District tops the list. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, has held the seat since 1983, but newly redrawn maps in Ohio make this the year she could lose it. The prospect of a GOP flip in an election cycle…
    Rebecca Downs
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    Iran Crumbles, Critics Scramble: Trump’s Long Game Leaves the Media Exposed
    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 think we should take another look at the Iranian war, and I would call it a…
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    Witness: Arson Suspect Compared Himself to Luigi Mangione
    A warehouse employee in California reportedly burned his place of work to the ground, then compared himself to Luigi Mangione, saying, “Should have paid us enough to f— live.” This is what Chamel Abdulkarim, 29, allegedly said last week as he recorded himself lighting the 1.2 million-square-foot Kimberly-Clark warehouse on fire in Ontario, California, resulting…
    Angelina Delfin
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    Trump Vows to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After Iran Peace Talks Stumble
    WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, April 12 (Reuters) — President Donald Trump said on Sunday the U.S. Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of Hormuz, raising the stakes after marathon talks with Iran failed to reach a deal to end the war, jeopardizing a fragile two-week ceasefire. Trump also said in a post on Truth Social that the…
    Asif Shahzad
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    Ben Carson: There’s a Solution to Having Democrats Undermine the TSA
    The Transportation Security Administration has been in the news a lot lately. The TSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security, and today it is responsible for securing the nation’s transportation systems. The most visible part of this is screening passengers and baggage at airports. Democrats in Congress, upset about how a different part…
    Dr. Ben Carson
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    EXCLUSIVE: Vance Takes Major Step Toward Cracking Down on Fraud
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Vice President JD Vance will swear in Colin McDonald on Wednesday morning to lead the Department of Justice’s anti-fraud division. “This is a huge step towards achieving the administration’s whole of government approach to rooting out fraud and finding the criminals and fraudsters who have taken advantage of American taxpayers for…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    DHS Shutdown Grinds on With Capitol Empty
    After the House rejected the Senate’s attempt to partially fund the Department of Homeland Security, Congress is at a loss for how to resolve the ongoing shutdown. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday pushed Congress to work expeditiously to fund the department. “It is the job of Congress to fund these agencies,” said…
    George Caldwell
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    Jonathan Karl Confronts Chris Van Hollen Over ‘Holding Up’ DHS Funding
    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl pressed Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday over his party’s role in the ongoing partial government shutdown leaving the Department of Homeland Security largely without funding. Democrats have voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of their opposition to Immigration…
    Jason Cohen
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    Shutdown Drags On: House Votes to Fully Fund DHS After ‘Inappropriate’ Senate Deal
    The House of Representatives on Friday rejected the Senate’s deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security without funding border security, instead voting to fully fund the department until May 22.  The House passed a continuing resolution to fully fund DHS for 60 days on a mostly party-line vote with three Democrats defecting to join…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    DHS Orders Payment of 50,000 US Airport Workers in Emergency Action
    REUTERS—The Homeland Security Department said on Friday it was taking emergency action to pay 50,000 airport security officers who have gone unpaid since mid-February, after work absences brought chaos and long security lines to U.S. airports. “[The Transportation Security Administration] has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce. TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks…
    David Shepardson
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    ‘ABSURD’: House GOP Leaders Dismiss Senate DHS Bill
    House Republican leadership and the party’s hardline conservative faction rejected the Senate’s homeland security funding deal, which omits funding for border security. “The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., said Friday afternoon as he…
    George Caldwell
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    The Air Force Is Finally Restoring Honor to the Faithful It Wrongly Punished
    The Department of the Air Force’s March 19 decision to correct the records of airmen and guardsmen discharged over the COVID-19 mandate deserves real praise. At Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s directive to conduct a review, the Air Force Review Boards Agency examined and upgraded the records of nearly 600 airmen, changing them to “Honorable”…
    Christopher Motz
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    House Passes Legislation to Combat Mexican Government’s Seizure of American-Owned Port
    The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to grant the president authority to limit U.S. port access for countries that have seized American property abroad. As Congress remains bitterly divided on the SAVE America Act and funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the Defending American Property Abroad Act of 2026 passed with bipartisan support. The bill, introduced…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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  • news

    Senate Jams House With DHS Funding Bill in Dead of Night
    In the early hours of Friday morning, the Senate voted to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security while excluding funding for immigration law enforcement agencies.  The deal, which passed by unanimous consent at around 2:30 a.m., could put an end to chaos at airports across the nation but may upset hardliners in both…
    George Caldwell
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