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The Daily Signal Announces New Host and Video Format for ‘Top News in 10’ Show
The Daily Signal is relaunching its popular “Top News in 10” daily news program, featuring a new host and the introduction of a video format for the first time in the show’s history. Beginning today, the program also moves to a morning release schedule, providing you with essential news updates to start your day. Tony…Robert B. Bluey -
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Dumb Things Socialists Promise
Socialism is popular! A Pew study reports that more than a third of American adults view it positively. How is this possible? Little has brought more misery—first in the Soviet Union, then in China, Cuba, Nicaragua, now Venezuela … One reason young people support socialism is because their social media feeds show videos made…John Stossel -
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Big Tech’s Reckoning: 5 Ways Trump Admin Can Level Playing Field for Pro-Life Movement
Big Tech’s unchecked influence over public discourse has long been a cause for concern, especially for those of us in the pro-life movement. For years, we’ve watched as social media giants and search engines subtly—and, sometimes, blatantly—silenced our message. Pregnancy help centers have had their ads rejected. Pro-life news stories have been buried by algorithms….Nelly Roach -
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Babies Must Not Be Sex-Selected, Frozen, or Discarded
The number of human beings living in freezers in the United States now outnumbers the population of Dallas, Texas. “Estimates place the number of frozen embryos at greater than 1.5 million,” reported the March 2022 edition of Fertility and Sterility, a journal published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. According to the latest Census…Terence Jeffrey -
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Poll Finds Pause in the Decline of Christianity among US Adults
There have been several polls in recent years all pointing to a decline in Christianity among U.S. adults. Research released in April of 2023 from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found millennials, in particular, seemed to wrestle with purpose as those who had religious affiliations steadily dropped. A few months later, the Pew Research…Sarah Holliday -
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When Good Intentions Go Wrong: America’s ‘Crisis of Dependency’
About 25 years ago, James Whitford and his wife founded a ministry to the poor and homeless in Missouri. Not long after starting the ministry, Whitford felt led by the Lord to see for himself what it was like to be homeless. After several conversations with his wife, the couple agreed that Whitford would take…Virginia Allen -
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10 Takeaways From the Zelenskyy Blowup
This column was lightly edited and reprinted with permission from Victor Davis Hanson’s X account. 1) Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: Those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Cohabitation Is Not Just an Urban Problem Anymore
When we think about rural communities, we tend to conjure up images of faith, large families, friendly neighbors, and conservative values—the exact opposite of the trends that mark our nation’s urban centers these days. Unfortunately, as Bob Dylan once famously sang, “The times they are a-changin … ” And just as the times changed in…Timothy Goeglein -
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Getting to Denmark
Sooner or later, The New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news it has caught up with is that mass immigration, legal and illegal, from less-developed countries is politically toxic. That news was relayed in a Feb. 24 article and thread on X by reporter David Leonhardt,…Michael Barone -
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We Need a Book on the Scandal of Biden’s Decline
CNN host Jake Tapper announced that he and Axios reporter (and CNN analyst) Alex Thompson have a book coming out in May titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.” They promise “an unflinching and explosive reckoning.” Conservative reaction was fierce. CNN was part of the cover-up. You…Tim Graham -
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Left Wing DA Declined to Charge Sex Offender Who Exposed Himself to Children in Women’s Locker Room
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano allegedly declined to prosecute a registered sex offender because the man’s transgender identity and a county policy shielded him from any wrongdoing. Richard Cox was arrested in December of 2024 in Arlington County after several parents claimed a man had exposed himself to young girls in the Arlington…Jaryn Crouson -
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Modern Feminism Makes Women Miserable
The best thing modern feminists could do for women is tell them to reject feminism. The Institute for Family Studies recently analyzed findings from the annual American Family Survey. It found 37% of conservative women ages 18-40 said they were completely satisfied with life. But only 12% of liberal women that age were. That’s a…Victor Joecks -
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Is Allowing Faux Females to Invade Girls and Women’s Sports a Hill Democrats Are Willing to Die On?
“We’ll see you in court,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills told President Donald Trump at a Feb. 21 gathering of the National Governors Association at the White House. But Mills, a Democrat, should be careful what she wishes for, because Trump wasn’t bluffing when he said Mills and Maine would be the big losers if she refused to…Peter Parisi -
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JD Vance’s Message to Catholics
Editor’s Note: These are the lightly edited remarks by Vice President JD Vance made Feb. 28 at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. I will say that even though I, in my private-sector days, was a technology investor in Silicon Valley, I haven’t quite figured out…JD Vance -
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Trump’s Righteous Criticism of Zelenskyy
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. President Donald Trump is incurring a lot of criticism lately on the Ukrainian war. He’s trying…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Mom Tries to Get Pornographic Content Out of Daughters’ High School Curriculum
A New Mexico mom is speaking out against pornographic content in her two daughters’ high school curriculum. One of Monika Bialostocka’s twin daughters brought home a book assigned as part of her English curriculum that graphically depicted pedophilia between a 64-year-old woman and a 10-year-old boy, according to an original report last week in Independent…Moira Gleason -
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‘AMERICA FIRST’: Trump Allies Blast Zelenskyy, While European Leaders Take Zelenskyy’s Side After ‘Disaster’ Meeting
The argument between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday in the Oval Office sent a sonic boom around Washington, D.C. Talks between Trump and Zelenskyy came to an abrupt end after the leaders raised their voices at one another over finding a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy’s premature departure…Bradley Devlin -
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Lawmakers Look to Work With Musk to Codify Into Law DOGE’s Efforts to Rein in Bureaucracy
Legislation in the U.S. House and Senate to rein in the federal bureaucracy and allow poor performers to be fired or disciplined would “codify” the efforts of the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative, said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. Loudermilk, along with Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., in the Senate, proposed similar versions of…Fred Lucas -
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Activists Bypass Voters, Sue to Impose Climate Agenda
Having failed to convince the voting public about the merits of its campaign against fossil fuels, the climate movement is now turning to the courts to enforce its agenda. And to support this effort, millions of dollars are now flowing through liberal charities and nonprofit groups to pay lawyers to prosecute these cases. States, cities,…Kevin Stocklin -
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Trump’s Plan to Prevent Government Shutdown
President Donald Trump has an 11th-hour plan to avoid a federal government shutdown—a continuing resolution that would renew government funding until the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30. The stakes are high, as a shutdown could imperil the fulfillment of his campaign promises. “As usual, Sleepy Joe Biden left us a total…George Caldwell