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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… -
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Education Savings Accounts Would Give Military Families Freedom They Deserve
Military families exemplify the best of America—sacrifice, service, and dedication to our nation’s security. Yet, too often, their children are shortchanged by an education system that fails to meet their needs. As President Donald Trump begins his second term, we have an unprecedented opportunity to fix that. It’s time to empower military families with true education freedom… -
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Scott Walker Reflects on 4 Years With YAF, Lessons From Reagan Era, and Conservative Agenda Under Trump
Young Americans despondent about the direction of the country can take solace in the path President Ronald Reagan blazed following the policy failures of the 1970s, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says. The high inflation and international chaos bedeviling America under now former President Joe Biden are reminiscent of the similar circumstances that prevailed… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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…. -
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American Israeli Hostage on List to Be Released
After 16 months in captivity, Israeli American hostage Keith Siegel is slated to be released Saturday. Siegel is 65 and from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but moved to Israel decades ago. On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas took Siegel and his wife Aviva Siegel from their home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza and drove them in their own vehicle… -
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FAA’s Obama-Era ‘Biographical Questionnaire’ for DEI Faces New Scrutiny After DC Crash
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Federal Aviation Administration to assess safety standards, including evaluating hiring practices, in the wake of the midair collision over Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night. The presidential memorandum comes after Trump suggested the military helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines regional jet may have been… -
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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… -
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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… -
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‘Unacceptable’: Trump Spokeswoman Reaffirms War on DEI at FAA After Fatal Midair Collision
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday pledged that the Trump administration will eliminate DEI practices at the Federal Aviation Administration in the wake of a midair collision Wednesday night that killed 67. Much of the briefing served to back up President Donald Trump’s implication the day before that diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives… -
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Higher Education Must Reform—or Else
A day of reckoning has come for higher education. In the past four years, acolytes from America’s most prestigious universities not only continued their project of indoctrination on their own campuses, they also attempted to transform the whole country into a grander version of the higher education insane asylum. From tearing down history to defunding the… -
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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… -
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Trump Reverses the Biden Pentagon’s Abortion Travel Reimbursement Policy
The Trump administration has reversed the policy implemented by the Biden administration that reimbursed service members and their authorized dependents in the Department of Defense for expenses incurred in traveling across state lines to get abortions. The new Trump policy, announced Wednesday, comes less than a week after Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee as… -
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Detransitioners Feel ‘Relief’ After Trump Executive Order Provides Legal Recourse for Child Sex-Change Victims
Young adults deceived by the transgender medicine industry into irreversibly altering their bodies to change sexes have the opportunity for legal remedy due to a presidential executive order this week. Claire Abernathy started identifying as a transgender male at the age of 12. She started taking testosterone shortly after she turned 14, two months after her… -
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Trump Proves ‘Yes We Can’ Reduce Illegal Migration: The BorderLine
“Alonso said he arrived Jan. 15 in California after crossing over from Tijuana, Mexico, and turned himself over to Customs and Border Protection agents, hoping he could apply for asylum and begin working in the U.S. while his case was decided. He was quickly detained.”—The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 29. Every so often, a parable… -
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‘There Were 503 Lapses’: Kris Kobach Breaks Down Consequences of Hiring DEI in Aviation
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach appeared Thursday on Fox Business to discuss concerns regarding the diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring practices in the aviation industry. An American Airlines passenger plane collided with a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening, resulting in fatalities for everyone involved. During… -
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Donald Trump Is Emphatically Correct About Birthright Citizenship
Less than two weeks into this second Trump presidency, the fearmongering has already reached fever pitch. “He can’t do it!” the critics have invariably howled in decrying President Donald Trump’s landmark Day-One executive order upending the status quo on birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”… -
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Senator Asks Rubio to Investigate Biden Forcing Radical Abortion Law on Black-Majority Country
Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking him to investigate reports that a foreign aid agency pushed abortion on a black-majority country under the Biden administration. The letter cites The Daily Signal’s Dec. 16 report that the Biden administration was pressuring Sierra Leone to pass an unpopular pro-abortion… -
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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…