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Key Endorsements for Rick Scott Shake Up Senate Leadership Race
As the race to become the new Republican Senate leader goes down to the wire, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is gaining momentum. A slew of endorsements came in for Scott over Veterans Day weekend as the Senate GOP conference prepared to choose a new leader for the first time in 18 years. Scott is pitted… -
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China, Anti-DEI, Ukraine: What You Need to Know About Trump’s Pick for National Security Adviser
President Donald Trump’s choice of national security adviser is a combat veteran who has been a strong opponent of DEI in the military and advocated U.S. sanctions on China. Trump announced Tuesday that he chose Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., to be national security adviser in his second term, a Cabinet-level position that doesn’t require Senate… -
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What Pollsters Missed on Trump and How It Applies to Government Spending and Taxes
Donald Trump last week won every battleground state and cruised to an electoral victory. “Top” data experts and pollsters didn’t see it coming. Trump’s big win should serve as a lesson for those who blindly trust the “experts,” whether pollsters or government bureaucrats who wield control over the budget and the economy. The worst 2024… -
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Biden-Harris Admin’s HHS Lavishing Hundreds of Millions on DEI Personnel, Programs
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Health and Human Services spends tens of millions of dollars annually on diversity-related expenses, according to a new report from the watchdog group Open the Books. American taxpayers foot a bill of roughly $38.7 million every year to employ 297 staffers conducting diversity, equity, and inclusion work at HHS,… -
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Trump Picks One-Time Rival Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he is nominating former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel. Huckabee, who was in the field of Republican primary candidates who each lost to Trump in 2016, is a supporter of Israel, currently at war with the Hamas terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip adjacent the… -
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The Democrats’ 2020 Victory Was a Blessing in Disguise
I never imagined I would think, let alone write, that the Democratic Party’s victory in 2020 was a blessing. But for those of us—meaning, it is now clear, a majority of us—who regard the Left as an entirely destructive force in America, as it is everywhere else in the world, 2020 may well have turned… -
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Iran Reportedly More Interested in Talking to Trump
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Officials in Iran are considering negotiating and reconciling with incoming President Donald Trump instead of acting adversarially as in the past, The New York Times reports. Iran long has held disdain for Trump, having conducted cyberwarfare operations against his presidential campaign and working through various individuals to try to assassinate the former… -
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Republicans Probing FEMA for Denying Hurricane Relief to Trump Backers
Federal officials are facing increased scrutiny after a whistleblower alleged that disaster-relief efforts were intentionally denied to supporters of now-President-elect Donald Trump. According to a report from The Daily Wire, Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor Marn’i Washington told employees under her authority to “avoid homes advertising Trump” while administering disaster relief in Lake Placid, Florida, following the… -
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Democrats Are at a Dead End, Unless They Learn From Trump
Shocked by Donald Trump’s sweeping victory, Democrats are playing the blame game, and Joe Biden is the scapegoat. Democrats who knew Biden was well past his prime in 2020, and who concealed his frailty all the way until June, now say he was “selfish” to run for reelection. Yet Biden was the only Democrat capable… -
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Cultural Curators Face Reckoning for Mocking Middle America
PITTSBURGH—Walking out of the Allegheny County Republican election night event at a local luxury hotel, the young men waiting to valet my car got into a discussion with me about the just-announced election results. All four men were in their 30s. Two were white, one was black, and the other Hispanic. As I traditionally do,… -
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Harris Gambled and Lost in Making Abortion Her Campaign’s Top Issue, Poll Finds
Many assumed Vice President Kamala Harris, as a woman, would have secured the vote among young women in the 2024 presidential election. However, according to an exit poll from The Associated Press, that was not the case. It turns out at least 40% of Gen Z women who are under the age of 30 chose to vote… -
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Protests Break Out Across US in Response to Trump Winning the Election
Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, most people believed there would be postelection violence. Outlet upon outlet reported on polls revealing just how concerned Americans were that no matter who became president-elect, anger, frustration, fear, and acts of protests would follow. A Scripps News/Ipsos poll found that over 60% of Americans believed this would be the… -
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Judge Pauses All Deadlines in Trump’s NY Case Based on Election Win
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Judge Juan Merchan paused all deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump’s New York case—including the sentencing date scheduled for later this month. Merchan, an acting justice on the New York state Supreme Court, granted a joint request by prosecutors and defense attorneys to pause the case until Nov. 19, pushing off his decision on Trump’s… -
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Federal Court Rejects Biden’s ‘Parole in Place’ for Illegal Aliens
Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place” for illegal aliens who are the spouses of U.S. citizens. In a 73-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a challenge by 16 states… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Corporate Executives Sit on Boards of Hospitals That Perform Child Sex Changes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Six of America's largest companies have executives on the boards of hospitals that perform child sex-change procedures. Executives of Costco, General Motors, T-Mobile, Procter and Gamble, Wells Fargo, and Kroger are board members at the 12 leading hospitals on medical watchdog Do No Harm's list of health care facilities that offer… -
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Being a Free Person Is Dangerous
The following is an excerpt from Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts' new book, “Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America," released Nov. 12. Have you ever driven through a blizzard in Wyoming? Your field of vision doesn’t extend more than twenty feet. There are only the storm and the road, except for the… -
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Virginia Professors Infantilize Students and Selves Over Trump Win
If you think university students are learning to be adults in the real world, think again. Professors at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, decided to baby their students—and themselves—in the wake of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory by canceling in-person classes due to the stress the presidential election may have wrought. That’s right, Virginia. Your… -
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Seniors Are Getting Crushed by Washington’s Recklessness
Inflation has pulverized Americans’ finances over the last four years, and a new study shows that’s especially true for the nation’s seniors, whose retirement accounts have been walloped. The losses have been so severe that would-be retirees need to work an extra six years on average before they can hang up their work boots—and they can blame… -
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Government Delivered Inflation—but No Real Aid—in North Carolina
North Carolina can’t catch a break under the Biden-Harris administration. The federal government’s appalling response to Hurricane Helene almost surely cost lives, adding insult to the injury of the inflation that has been crushing Tar Heel State residents for 3 1/2 years. In fact, prices there have risen even faster than the national average. The 40-year-high… -
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The Left’s Woke Agenda Died This Week
There were many reasons that President-elect Donald Trump won in such a resounding victory this week: inflation, the bewildering open border policy, the Afghanistan withdrawal humiliation, the world on fire, etc. But let’s not forget one of the top ones: This was a resounding defeat of wokeism. Voters have rejected wokeism—defined here as an unhealthy obsession with viewing all of…