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Stefanik Nomination Pulled to Protect Passage of Reconciliation, White House Official Says
President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be United Nations ambassador because Republicans in the House will likely need the New York congresswoman’s vote to help ensure passage of the budget reconciliation bill, a senior White House official told The Daily Signal. Passing the debt ceiling and reconciliation packages are going to…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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Jasmine Crockett Misrepresented Me in NPR Hearing. I’m Setting the Record Straight.
Wednesday’s House DOGE Subcommittee hearing on bias at NPR and PBS got heated at times, especially for NPR CEO Katherine Maher, whom Republican members repeatedly put on the spot for far leftist comments she has made. But at one point, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, turned her fire on me. As is usually the case with…Mike Gonzalez -
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The Real Oligarchs Who’ve Been Running Our Country
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. Have you heard this word lately that’s been bandied about, “oligarchs,” “autocrats,” “dictators,” but mostly, “aristocrats”?…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Inside Vance’s Upcoming Trip to Greenland
On his trip to Greenland, Vice President JD Vance on Friday will visit key American military sites to evaluate U.S. interests there. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the United States to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory closer to North America than to Europe, in order to help ensure national security. “A…George Caldwell -
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Domestic Violence Offender Charged in Tesla Vandalism Spree
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A Texas man who previously pleaded guilty to domestic violence is suspected of attacking three Tesla vehicles in a 4-wheeler ramming spree to protest Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Texarkana, Texas, police charged 33-year-old Demarqeyun Marquize Cox on Wednesday with allegedly ramming an ATV-style vehicle into a Tesla car and believe he did the…Hudson Crozier -
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FBI Finally Releases Long-Sought Documents About 2017 Congressional Baseball Game Shootings
Nearly eight years after a deranged gunman opened fire on members of Congress and others at a practice session for the annual charity Congressional Baseball Game in June 2017, seriously injuring Rep. Steve Scalise, the FBI on Wednesday released all its files on the matter requested by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Scalise,…Jacob Adams -
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Report: Medicaid Misspent $4.3 Billion in Duplicate Payments
Taxpayers spent at least $4.3 billion over a three-year period covering the same Medicaid patients twice, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Medicaid paid health insurance companies for hundreds of thousands of patients who signed up for the program in two or more separate states. This happened when a patient moved to a different state…Fred Lucas -
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Top MS-13 Gang Member Arrested in Virginia
Authorities have arrested a top MS-13 gang member, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday morning. “This is a massive victory for a safer America,” Patel wrote on X, adding, “Justice is coming.” The man’s name has not been released, but Fox News Digital reports that authorities arrested the 24-year-old suspect, who is reportedly the gang’s…Virginia Allen -
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Maternal Mortality Rate Dropped After Roe Overturned but Still Too High
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals a striking 17% decline in maternal mortality after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, defying alarmist predictions. The decline tells us two things. First, it proves that protecting preborn children does not trigger a maternal health catastrophe, as critics often warned. The evidence is now clear:…Clare Ath -
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The 5 Biggest Threats to America’s Principles and Way of Life
These remarks were presented at the Philadelphia Society meeting in Plano, Texas, on March 22, 2025. In thinking about the practical and philosophical threats to America’s principles and way of life, I thought it might be useful to look back to a notable American’s description of such threats in an earlier era. And since I come…Jeffrey H. Anderson -
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DHS Chief Issues Warning to Illegal Aliens During Visit to Prison Holding Deported Criminals
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday and met with the Central American nation's president, Nayib Bukele, to discuss deportation flights and removals of criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. Noem’s visit follows the recent deportation of about 250 criminal illegal aliens from the U.S. to the detention facility…Virginia Allen -
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Course Correction: How Conservatives Are Reclaiming Pop Culture
Conservatives struggled to engage the culture for years, and in some cases, willingly left the space to the radical Left. Because of that, Adrienne Gray says, she “always felt like sort of the black swan here in the conservative movement.” Many conservatives “condemn pop culture, we suppress it a lot, because we don’t, again, align…Virginia Allen -
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EXCLUSIVE: Conservative Group Seeks DOJ, FEC Probes of Jasmine Crockett
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative organization filed requests for federal investigations into Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, regarding ActBlue campaign contributions, as well as alleged voter intimidation. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation wants the Justice Department, the Federal Election Commission, and the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Crockett’s actions. The letter to the Justice Department’s…Fred Lucas -
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4 Takeaways as House DOGE Panel Grills NPR, PBS Chiefs
The heads of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service testified about content and fielded questions about bias in a hearing Wednesday, as House Republicans called for defunding. NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger answered questions from the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or the DOGE…Fred Lucas -
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NPR CEO’s Disastrous Congressional Testimony Shows Why We Need to Defund NPR
It’s now obvious why NPR’s CEO didn’t show up to defend her taxpayer-funded network at a congressional hearing last year. On Wednesday, National Public Radio’s Katherine Maher testified before the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency and demonstrated why sometimes it’s better to plead the Fifth. If you watch nothing else from the hearing,…Jarrett Stepman -
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The Commission to ‘Make America Healthy Again’: Opening a New Conversation on Health
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has a herculean task: “Make America Healthy Again.” As Politico recently reported, Kennedy’s ambitious agenda could even dwarf the efforts of Elon Musk, the genius entrepreneur attempting to streamline federal bureaucracies and save taxpayers the hundreds of billions of dollars…Robert Moffit -
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Activist Judges Are Pulling a Reverse Marbury v Madison
Are we to be a nation ruled by one man? I’m not talking about President Donald Trump, I’m talking about district court judges who increasingly abuse their position to thwart the president’s actions on a nationwide level. The Trump administration has racked up victory after victory as Democrats fail to mount an effective counter. Right…Jarrett Stepman -
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Gabbard Rejects Claims of Classified Info Leak on Signal Chat
Three of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members defended the administration’s conduct at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, shortly after a follow-up report from The Atlantic showing messages related to a military attack on Houthis in Yemen that were inadvertently sent to its editor-in-chief. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John…George Caldwell -
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Chris LaCivita Sues Daily Beast for Defamation
Chris LaCivita, senior adviser for President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, sued The Daily Beast Monday, alleging defamation for an article claiming that he personally profited from the campaign. "Defendant's false statements created the false impression that Mr. LaCivita was charging exorbitant rates for his services and personally enriching himself at the expense of the campaign, thereby…Tyler O’Neil -
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Democrats’ Circular Firing Squad: Infighting and Purity Tests Are Handing Republicans 2026
In November 2008, during the peak of the Great Recession, incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel uttered one of the most politically savvy statements of the 21st century: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” While Emanuel was specifically referring to the opportunity for congressional Democrats to pass sweeping social…Cooper Rummell