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‘Worse and More Violent’: LA Riots Escalate
UPDATE: Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said in a Sunday evening press conference that the violence was “getting increasingly worse and more violent.” “This violence that I’ve seen, it’s disgusting,” McDonnell said, according to Fox News. “It’s escalated now, since the beginning of this incident. What we saw the first night was bad. What…Tyler O’Neil -
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Human Rights Campaign Causes ‘Great Harm’
Why does Uber make videos where people say, “I’m non-binary or genderqueer”? And why does Lockheed Martin fund floats at pride parades? Because companies want to raise their score on the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index.” Equality is a good thing. I support human rights. But the Human Rights Campaign? That’s something else. “They…John Stossel -
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Meet the Companies Helping to Trans Kids and Hide It From Parents
It’s been a while since Americans could actually sit back and enjoy June. Now, instead of bumping into rainbows in every aisle and choking on the colored logos of every conceivable brand, there’s some freedom from the suffocating fumes of Pride Month. In these last two years, the march to pull companies back to neutral…Suzanne Bowdey -
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Friends With Benefits: Stacey Abrams Funneled $20 Million to Her Lawyer
A nonprofit founded by Georgia Democratic politician Stacey Abrams to protect voting rights paid more than $20 million to a lawyer who is a close friend and helped set up two of her private businesses, according to tax and state incorporation filings and other records obtained by RealClearInvestigations. Abrams’ Fair Fight Action redirected the tax-exempt donations…Paul Sperry -
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Texas Is First State to Authorize Statue on Capitol Grounds Honoring Pregnant Mother and Child
Texas will erect the Texas Life Monument, a statue honoring mothers and the sanctity of life, after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a resolution Tuesday authorizing the monument be built. The legislation passed with a large majority of support in the Texas Legislature. According Tim Van Dohlen, co-founder of the St. John Paul II Life…Quinn Delamater -
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Harvard Is the Enemy
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump correctly assailed elite universities like Harvard as controlled by “Marxist maniacs and lunatics.” He received a popular mandate to take them down. They deserve it. The bill of indictment against Harvard is long. It is teaching students to hate America, to become modern-day Benedict Arnolds. It is teaching…Armstrong Williams -
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How Democrats Can Stop Alienating Young Men: Some Unsolicited Advice
Last November, Donald Trump soundly defeated Kamala Harris among young men 18 to 29 years old, racking up about 56% of their votes according to the Associated Press. That represents a huge decline from 2008, the climax of the Barack Obama coalition, when the Democrat candidate won 62% of the young male vote against GOP…Josh Hammer -
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Religion Without Faith Will Never Bring Fulfillment
In the introduction of his 1984 book, “The Naked Public Square,” then-Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus wrote about the relationship between religion and politics in society, Politics and religion are different enterprises, and it is understandable that many people would like to keep them as separate as possible. But they are constantly coupling and getting quite mixed up…Timothy Goeglein -
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The New Politics of Metropole vs. Heartland
You see the same pattern over much of the world. In three consecutive presidential elections in the United States. In the latest polls in Britain, where the 2016 Brexit referendum was the first notable outbreak. In France’s most recent national election and in Germany’s. In Canada’’ election last month. And maybe in Poland and South…Michael Barone -
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Italian Referendum Would Speed Up Path to Citizenship
Italians are heading to the polls Sunday for a two-day referendum on whether to accelerate the citizenship process and change labor laws—proposals opposed by the country’s conservative prime minister. As immigration concerns mount across Europe, the citizenship question would usher in a sweeping change in Italy by cutting in half the required period of residence…Lorenzo Prieto -
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The Partisan Media Hate Any Praise of Trump’s Broad Media Access
Jack Blanchard at Politico’s Playbook newsletter made the leftists angry by praising President Donald Trump’s energetic availability to the press. While CBS star Scott Pelley wailed at a college commencement that they are “the fierce defenders of democracy,” “the seekers of truth” and “the vanguard against ignorance,” Trump grants them access. Blanchard wrote on May…Tim Graham -
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CBS Errs as It Airs Radical Professor on ‘Misinformation’
The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods. In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and…Tim Graham -
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Artificial Intelligence Regulation Hotly Debated on Hill
An unexpected issue has emerged as the House-passed “big, beautiful bill” is debated in the Senate—whether or not states will lose the ability to regulate artificial intelligence in the future. Since Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., called out a provision in the House’s “big, beautiful bill” that blocks states from regulating AI, the Senate is…George Caldwell -
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WATCH: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Returns to Be Democrats’ Albatross
Salvadoran MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States after the Department of Justice demanded he be tried on criminal charges, including human trafficking. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., humiliates his party. Democrat members of Congress have taken their biggest opportunity to look good in months and…Tony Kinnett -
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Illegal Alien Deported to Salvadoran Prison Brought Back to US to Face Human Trafficking Charges
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien removed from the U.S. to his native El Salvador earlier this year, has been brought back to the U.S. following legal challenges to his deportation. But the Trump administration is welcoming Abrego Garcia back from a Salvadoran prison to the U.S. with an indictment from the Justice…Virginia Allen -
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NYT Study Finds Widespread GOP Gains, Sounding Alarm for Dems
Republicans are surging, and Democrats are in deep trouble. That’s what a new report from The New York Times concluded after assessing polling data from the past four presidential elections. The new study concluded that the GOP was gaining ground in working-class counties, while Democrats were earning support increasingly in the best-educated enclaves of the…Jacob Adams -
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These Eight Leftist Icons Haven’t Posted About Pride Month Yet
In past years, Pride Month has taken on an almost religious significance for the Left. But a week into June, many of its heroes have yet to post about it on X. Eight superstars of the Left, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Ma. and former President Barack Obama, have not posted about Pride Month on X….Lucy Spence -
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Democrat Leader Jeffries Weighs Closer Relationship with Musk
Just one day after the fallout between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk went nuclear on social media, Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was already trying to leverage it to his advantage. To be sure, Jeffries, D-N.Y., is not mourning Musk’s departure from the Washington scene. Asked by The Daily Signal if he thought…George Caldwell -
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House Committee ‘Keeping a Watchful Eye’ on Labor Department’s Funding of Pro-Union Group Amid ‘Conflict of Interest’ Concerns
The House Committee on Education & the Workforce is monitoring the relationship between an agency within the Labor Department and the pro-union group the Solidarity Center following a recent Daily Signal report on a potential conflict of interest. "This report is deeply concerning and calls into question whether there was a significant conflict of interest,"…Tyler O’Neil -
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Remembering D-Day and FDR’s Prayer
It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his radio broadcast to an anxious nation. Earlier that day, he had held a press conference for 180 reporters about the D-Day invasion. About its scale and seriousness. Special editions of newspapers across the…Lee Habeeb