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SHAKE UP CRONYISM: Ted Cruz Weighs in on RFK Vote
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Ted Cruz offered a full-throated endorsement to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. “I am going to vote for Bobby Kennedy, because I think he’s a change agent who has the courage to take on some of the corruption…Tyler O’Neil -
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California Congressman Slams Newsom Appointee for Dismantling Volunteer Fire Unit
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., has sharply criticized a high-ranking appointee of California Gov. Gavin Newsom for dismantling the state’s emergency response volunteer firefighting units. Shortly after Newsom appointed Matthew Beevers as adjutant general of the California Military Department in May 2023, Beevers decommissioned the Emergency Response Command, a highly trained joint command consisting of two volunteer…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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DOGE Committee Considers Defunding NPR and PBS Over ‘Systematically Biased Content’
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency has been aggressively identifying and eliminating a wide swath of federal spending since President Donald Trump took office. Now, a new subcommittee in the House bearing a similar name, Delivering on Government Efficiency, is taking a look at National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, both…Casey Harper -
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Role of Religious NGOs in Facilitating Mass Unlawful Migration Draws Fresh Scrutiny
Vice President JD Vance has sparked discussion about the role of the Catholic Church and religious nongovernmental organizations in facilitating massive illegal immigration to the United States by bringing up Christian social teachings in a recent interview on Fox News. As the Trump administration attempts to enforce the nation’s border laws, the vice president articulated…Jacob Adams -
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Trump’s Foreign Policy: What to Expect From MAGA 2.0
After the disastrous foreign affairs failures of the Biden administration, many Americans were left wondering how a Trump administration could possibly correct course. Well, it’s finally Trump time, so here’s what one should expect. In many ways, today’s Donald Trump resembles the one we saw in 2016. Now, as then, Trump is neither an isolationist nor an imperialist; rather, he pursues an America-first policy tempered by realism and the understanding that sometimes one…James Carafano -
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Silicon Valley Is Sick and Tired of Its Woke Employees
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. Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders in his first week in office. One of them outlawed DEI—diversity, equity, inclusion—quotas, or reverse racial…Victor Davis Hanson -
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The Chainsaw President!
Finally, a real libertarian is president. That’s in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surprised pundits by winning the election by a landslide. Now that he’s had a chance to govern, my new video covers the results and explains why Milei is now even more popular. Argentina was once one of the richest countries in…John Stossel -
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If Prosecutors ‘Followed the Science’ as They Claim, We’d Have Less Crime, Not More
“Follow the science” is a common chorus among progressives. But often they, not those they moralize against, are the real science deniers. Take progressive prosecutors. Many, like George Gascon in Los Angeles, tout their soft-on-crime policies as “data driven” or “scientifically backed.” Yet this is a complete hoax. These prosecutors cite studies that are misleading, non-replicable,…Cully Stimson -
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‘The Medical System Is Failing’: Why America’s Health Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control
Health care costs are soaring while Americans’ health deteriorates, says former food and pharmaceutical consultant Calley Means, who points to rising rates of autism, childhood prediabetes, and other conditions. “We are 4% of the world population but produce 75% of pharmaceutical profits, and are 60th in life expectancy,” Means said during an interview on “The…R.E. Wermus -
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AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE: Trump’s Brilliant Plan to Defang the Deep State
President Donald Trump has offered federal employees who don’t want to return to work a deal too good to refuse, and it may also weed out some of the deep state activists who otherwise would have planned to oppose Trump’s agenda from within the federal government. A new White House memo offers a hefty paycheck…Tyler O’Neil -
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Federal Bureaucrats Ordered to Remove Pronouns From Email Signatures
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Federal employees at multiple agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by close of business Friday, according to ABC News. Office of Personnel Management acting Director Charles Ezell sent a memo to department heads Wednesday offering “initial guidance” for complying with President Donald Trump’s executive order, which mandated the federal recognition of…Thomas English -
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Trump’s Funding Freeze May Be on Hold, but Overall Goal Remains Popular, Poll Finds
President Donald Trump aims to prevent the government from wasting taxpayer funds promoting leftist causes often described as “woke,” such as Marxist equity, gender ideology, and climate alarmism. The Trump White House issued a memo ordering a pause in all federal grants and loans until the administration can align funds accordingly, but it rescinded the…Tyler O’Neil -
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‘Everything Will Be Revealed’: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Trump’s Release of JFK Assassination Files
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Seven in 10 Americans support President Donald Trump‘s decision to release classified documents about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., according to a Napolitan News Service survey. A majority of Americans, 57%, believe the documents will reveal significant new information about the assassinations….R.E. Wermus -
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Gov. Youngkin and Grassroots Score Massive Victory for Homeschooling
Homeschool families in Virginia celebrated a victory Thursday after the Virginia state Senate backed away from a bill that threatened religious exemptions for homeschoolers. SB 1031 sought to get rid of an exemption that permits families in the state to homeschool their children because of their religious convictions. After initially voting to pass the bill, the Senate Finance…Moira Gleason -
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Daniel Ortega Expels Nuns, Seizes Seminaries as Religious Persecution Intensifies in Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s government has expelled approximately 30 Poor Clare nuns from their convents in Managua and Chinandega, marking the latest crackdown from Daniel Ortega’s regime. The nuns were only allowed to take some of their belongings before they were forced to leave, according to a local report by Mosaico CSI. The government’s crackdown comes after Ortega’s…R.E. Wermus -
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Here’s How We Find Out Who Killed JFK
“The most transparent president in history is back,” a Jan. 20 post on X from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt read. Never was that more clear than on Jan. 23, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that the “continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of…Craig Iffland -
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Death Threats Come With the Job of a Public Figure
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. In this first two weeks of the Trump new tenure, there’s just been a flurry of news and disinformation. We’ve heard about all of these…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Here’s Where California Democrats Are Pointing the Finger of Blame for Wildfires
You knew this was coming. California’s Democrat legislators presented a bill Monday to allow insurers and homeowners impacted by the Los Angeles fires to sue oil companies for their losses. Senate Bill 222 aims to blame the fires on climate change caused by fossil fuels and make the oil companies bankroll the state’s underfunded insurance…James Breslo -
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Gabbard Vows ‘to End the Weaponization, Politicization of Intelligence Community’
Tulsi Gabbard faced hard questions on Thursday during her Senate committee confirmation hearing to be director of national intelligence. In his opening remarks, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., chairman of the Intelligence Committee, issued a strong statement of support for Gabbard, who formerly served as a Democrat congresswoman representing Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. He highlighted how,…Jacob Adams -
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2 US Service Academies End Minor in Diversity and Inclusion
THE CENTER SQUARE—West Point Military Academy and the Air Force Academy have both ended their “Diversity and Inclusion Studies” minors. As late as Jan. 8, West Point, based in New York, offered its diversity, equity, and inclusion minor, while as of Jan. 9 the Air Force Academy, based in Colorado, still offered its DEI minor,…Tate Miller