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McKinney Recall Fight Intensifies as Petitioners Allege Intimidation
A recall effort targeting four McKinney elected officials faces opposition from former officials and residents as petitioners allege intimidation and harassment. -
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House Ed Committee Investigates How AI Affects College Admissions
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The House Education and the Workforce Committee is sending a letter to the Government Accountability Office in order to assess how AI is affecting college admissions. “As artificial intelligence tools continue to improve, some institutions of higher education have begun to use these tools in their admissions and institutional scholarship selection… -
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Vance Warns What He Thinks Will Happen If Democrats Win Midterms
Vice President JD Vance warned of what Senate Democrats could do if they win the majority in the November 2026 midterms. “They’re going to try to raise your taxes,” he said. “They’re going to try to stop us from preventing money going to fraudsters. They’re going to try to investigate and investigate and investigate rather… -
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Woke on Display: Inside the ‘American Democracy’ Exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American History
The Daily Signal takes you on an eye-opening tour of the Smithsonian Institution‘s National Museum of American History and its “American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith” exhibit, fact-checking claims from the White House and congressional investigations that Smithsonian leadership is on a taxpayer-funded mission to radicalize the once-venerable museum. -
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Years Later, Will Vance Get to the Bottom of East Palestine Derailment Concerns?
Vice President JD Vance and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin are looking to get to the bottom of health and environmental concerns resulting from the Norfolk Southern freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, now more than three and a half years ago. It’s an effort that Jami Wallace, a resident of East Palestine,… -
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‘Delete From the Deleted File’: Fauci Tried to Destroy Gain-of-Function Research Email, New Docs Reveal
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Eight years before COVID-19 emerged, a journalist issued a prophetic warning that risky viral research could usher in “doomsday” and damage the reputation of the National Institutes of Health. Anthony Fauci groused in an email to an aide about that warning, then instructed the aide to permanently delete the exchange, documents obtained… -
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Watchdog Sounds Alarm on the Left’s Massive Foreign Money Pipeline
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A government watchdog group is urging lawmakers to crack down on foreign money flowing into U.S. nonprofits that influence American politics and public policy, according to letters exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Americans for Public Trust is sending letters to all 50 governors and officials on six congressional committees directing them… -
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State Policy Network Hosts Annual Meeting, Former Attorney General Jason Miyares Speaks on Federal Overreach
ORLANDO, Fla.—This week, State Policy Network is hosting its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, gathering leaders and experts in state policy, nonprofits, and industries to share ideas and consider answers to problems that American citizens face. With over 100 sessions and more than 350 organizations represented at the conference, the meeting seeks to create opportunities… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Radical Left Wants to Destroy America and Rebuild It
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 often associate leftist movements, anarchists of the 19th century, Jacobins of the 18th century, Marxists,… -
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Minnesota Man Once Praised as ‘Outstanding Refugee’ Now Faces Charges in Alleged Medicaid Fraud Case
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A man previously recognized as an “outstanding refugee” by the Minnesota Department of Human Services has been charged over an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme, according to news coverage. Democrat Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Monday that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had charged two men for allegedly stealing more than $1.5… -
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Democrats Refused to Look Into Fauci, Now the DOJ Can
Dr. Anthony Fauci could now be charged by the Department of Justice for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding claims that he knowingly funded the lab that created the COVID-19 virus, lied about the origin of COVID-19, and contributed to the spread. Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee successfully held Fauci in contempt of… -
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Fauci’s Lawyer Fires Back at Aaron Rodgers
A week ago, attorney David Schertler found himself being escorted out of a Senate hearing after disrupting proceedings in defense of his client, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Now, Fauci’s attorney is once again speaking out in defense of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—this time in response to criticism from… -
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Fetterman Does the Unthinkable in Washington: Show Contrition
During Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, we witnessed one of the most astonishing things we’ve seen recently in Washington, D.C.—perhaps in decades. No, it was not the smug and cowardly Fauci pleading the Fifth 111 times. Washington does smug and cowardly the way Ocean City… -
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Fauci’s Downfall Reveals the Danger of Rule by ‘Experts’
The rise and fall of Fauci is one of the great political lessons of our time about the folly and destructiveness of rule by so-called expertise. On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in his appearance before… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Fauci’s Private Diary Contradicts His Public Claims
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. This video was recorded before Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination rather than answer questions from the Senate Oversight and Homeland Security committees…. -
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‘Keep Forgetting’: Recordings Suggest Biden Memory Lapses Years Ahead of Presidency
Almost four years before he was sworn in as president, Joe Biden showed numerous instances of apparent memory loss, recently released recordings show. Recordings of Biden’s conversations with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer became available through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Oversight Project, a watchdog group. The conversations took place on several occasions from… -
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AP Report on ‘LGBT’ USAID Workers in Nepal Reveals True Agenda of the Shuttered Program
Remember how the Left said that eliminating USAID would lead to “devastating” consequences? It certainly did, but for their global cultural aspirations, not for our country. The Associated Press published a lengthy report on Thursday—and I can’t believe this is real—highlighting how shutting down USAID in Nepal led to “around 100 LGBTQ+” now-unemployed workers to… -
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Banks, Cloud Lead House GOP Members In Charge to Urge White House to Enact Grant Transparency Rule to Block Woke Activism Funding
Citing the “network” of liberal activists funded by President Joe Biden’s administration, 34 Republican lawmakers are urging the Office of Management and Budget to finalize a proposed rule they say would bring greater transparency to the federal grant-making process and give taxpayers more insight into how government funds are spent. The lawmakers—including Reps. August Pfluger… -
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OMB’s Grant Proposal Is a Win for Taxpayers
The Office of Management and Budget is considering new regulations to crack down on wasteful spending and reassert the people’s control over spending decisions for federal grant-making. OMB coordinates policy implementation across the executive branch. As such, it wields great power over the administrative state, including the disbursement of federal funds. Under the Biden administration, OMB undercut taxpayers with wasteful spending that hurt America’s research capacity. The… -
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Gravy Train Ends: National Science Foundation Grants to DEI-Related Projects Plunge Under Trump
The Trump administration continues to quietly unwind the noxious and, in many cases, illegal DEI-centric policies of the Great Awokening. A recently released report unveiled by The Washington Free Beacon found that National Science Foundation grants containing “DEI language” have not only dipped from the highs of the previous administration, but they’ve also plummeted to…