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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 -
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Trump, Vance Drop Hammer on Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy Leaves White House Unexpectedly
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy parachuted into the White House, wearing his fatigues, to meet with President Donald Trump Friday. Zelenskyy, however, quickly wore out his welcome. A tense exchange between Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office before a private meeting ended in Zelenskyy’s premature departure. Zelenskyy’s departure meant the mineral…Bradley Devlin -
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Trump Pick for Defense Post Wins Endorsement of Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation gave a resounding endorsement Thursday to Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be undersecretary of defense for policy. In a post on X, the conservative think tank released an advertisement praising the foreign-policy expert. A spokeswoman for Heritage told The Daily Signal: Elbridge Colby is a fantastic choice for undersecretary of…Jacob Adams -
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Trump’s VOA Pick Kari Lake Also Named Adviser to Global Media Agency
Kari Lake, who is President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Voice of America, will become a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the VOA. The acting U.S. Agency for Global Media chief, Roman Napoli, announced Lake’s arrival in an email to the staff, VOA reported Friday, that read, “As…Fred Lucas -
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Restoring Trust in Public Health: Next Time, Don’t Close Schools Needlessly in a Pandemic
This is the third in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional oversight reports, including the final report of the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic,…Robert Moffit -
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Yes, Every Noncitizen in the US Should Register: The BorderLine
President Donald Trump has lost no time keeping his promises to secure the border, curtail illegal immigration, and enforce our immigration laws. He has signed a series of executive orders, appointed an experienced Cabinet and White House team for immigration policy, and undone former President Joe Biden’s open border policies like mass release, mass parole,…Simon Hankinson -
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3 Reasons Why the Creative Destruction of DOGE Is Just What DC Needs
It seems that the Department of Government Efficiency is evil and bad for America. Elon Musk, the godfather of DOGE, has celebrated cutting the federal government with a chainsaw. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., has described DOGE as “the Elon Musk chainsaw massacre.” As DOGE moves through the federal government, workers have lost their jobs, federal…Tyler O’Neil -
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Barnard College’s Jihadist Problem Is a Trump Opportunity
As Israel buried a mother and her two babies—Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas—who had been kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian jihadists, students at the Barnard College in New York City rallied on Wednesday in support of the jihadists. Keffiyeh-clad campus radicals violently stormed into university buildings while chanting Nazi-inspired Hamas slogans calling for the ethnic…Jason Bedrick -
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‘It’s Just Common Sense,’ Virginia AG Says of Governor’s Order Requiring Law Enforcement to Cooperate With ICE
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed an executive order requiring all cities and counties in the commonwealth to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It's just common sense that our law enforcement, our state and local law enforcement, are working with—instead of against—our federal authorities,” Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares told The Daily Signal…Virginia Allen -
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EXCLUSIVE: ADF Investigates Free Speech Violations by US Science Agency
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A religious liberty law firm has launched an investigation into censorship of Americans’ free speech within the government’s science agency. Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Free Speech filed two public records requests shared with The Daily Signal to federal government agencies seeking information related to possible free speech violations within the…Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell -
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‘Either Joe or Hunter’: Trump Says He Wants to Find Real Story Behind White House Cocaine
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump said in an interview published Friday that he suspects a member of the Biden family was responsible for leaving a bag of cocaine in the White House in July 2023. The discovery of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House quickly became a national scandal, with speculation running rampant as to…Nick Pope -
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House vs. Senate: GOP’s Budgetary Tug-of-War Begins in Earnest
After the passage of the House of Representatives’ budget resolution on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers face a major challenge: getting Senate Republicans to sign off on the plan without making too many changes so as to make it impossible to pass when it comes back to the House. This complicated game of legislative sudoku will require…George Caldwell -
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At Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Vance Praises Pope, Suggests Avoiding Media Controversies
Vice President JD Vance on Friday addressed his relationship with the Catholic faith and Pope Francis at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Vance also discussed the elephant in the room about his relationship with the head of the Catholic Church, who nearly died this week. “We are not called as Christians to obsess over every…Jacob Adams -
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Jeff Bezos Launches Intervention at Washington Post
WASHINGTON—Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sent a wake-up call to Big Media Wednesday when he announced on X “a change coming to our opinion pages.” “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” Bezos explained. “We’ll cover other topics too of course, but…Debra Saunders -
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The Censors Are Coming
If you think that regimes trying to control their people through suppressing expression the government doesn’t like only happens in “those” parts of the world, think again. From the U.K. and Canada to Australia, the powers that be are steadily promoting their agenda by censoring and punishing contrary views. And the censors are heading our…Thomas Jipping -
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How the Biden Admin Interfered in Poland’s Elections to Shift Our Ally Leftward
When JD Vance was still a senator, in January 2024, he lamented on X: “Until recently, Poland had a conservative government. Using a lot of diplomatic and economic pressure, the Biden administration (and many European nations) attacked that government as anti-democracy. … In the name of protecting democracy, they are using your tax dollars to…Filip Styczynski -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Who Caused the Counterrevolution?
At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing. To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year. Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars…Victor Davis Hanson