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‘Transparently Crooked’: Biden-Harris Admin Buying Votes With Medicare Changes, Experts Say
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in September that it would be reducing certain Medicare prescription drug premiums in what experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation called a ploy to buy votes before the November election. Enrollees in the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit are slated… -
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Bogus Ballots Targeted by This New Organization
Donald J. Trump is on a roll, but his campaign could get run over. The GOP nominee is on message. He pledges to restore prosperity, retame inflation, reseal the border, refight crime, and resurrect global tranquility. America was better off when Trump’s "Peace Through Strength” policy bolstered European harmony and catalyzed the Abraham Accords. Under… -
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A Year After Hamas Terrorist Attack, 4 US Citizens Remain Hostage
Monday marks 365 days since Hamas terrorists took U.S. citizens hostage. Four American men—Edan Alexander, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Omer Neutra, and Keith Siegel—are believed to be still alive, along with nearly 100 Israelis also taken hostage by Hamas. About 1,200 Israelis were killed Oct. 7 during Hamas’ terrorist attack exactly one year ago, a rampage of… -
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How Many US Muslims Deny Hamas’ Crimes on Oct. 7?
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—One year after Hamas terrorists in Gaza invaded Israel, raping women and slaughtering more than 1,100 people, including infants, and after video evidence of the slaughter has spread across the world, a shocking percentage of American Muslims deny these facts and harbor disgusting antisemitic attitudes, a new poll shows. When asked… -
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The Biggest Cases on the Supreme Court’s New Docket
The Left might hate the Supreme Court, but it’s the Left that keeps the court in business by shoving its strange obsessions onto its docket. For this new term that begins Monday, the Left has forced the court to confront its obsessions with child “sex changes,” banning guns, and protecting pornographers from laws that keep… -
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5 Highlights From Trump Rally at Site of Attempted Assassination
Former President Donald Trump honored Corey Comperatore, the father and firefighter who was shot at his July rally, in his return to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday—one month before the 2024 presidential election. “Corey, our beautiful Corey, Corey is not with us tonight, and he should be, and we all miss him,” Trump said at his… -
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The Left’s Open Declaration of War on Free Speech
Leftists are becoming increasingly totalitarian in their antipathy for freedom of speech. It’s an obstacle to their desire for power, so it must be crushed. An exaggeration, you say? Just listen to what high-profile leftists have been openly saying about denying you your right to information on both sides of the political equation. Former presidential candidate… -
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One Year Since Oct. 7: Despite Campus Unrest, Freethinking Young Journalists Are Rising to Occasion
A full year after the devastating Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel by Hamas, the consequences for Israel have been significant, with an ongoing war of survival still raging within the Gaza Strip and northern Israel. The ramifications of the attacks were also felt across the United States in the months that followed. Many elite American… -
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The Left’s Word-Shaming Can’t Conceal ‘Third World’ Effects of Open Borders
Politically incorrect words don’t kill, but Venezuelan gangs do. On Saturday, former President Donald Trump warned rallygoers in a small Wisconsin town that if Vice President Kamala Harris “is reelected, your town and every town … will be transformed into a Third World hellhole. ” Trump repeatedly warns that Biden-Harris open borders are turning New… -
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Hurricane Helene’s North Carolina October Surprise
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on the deepest red areas of North Carolina. Hundreds are dead and missing in the region. Destroyed roads and bridges and lack of water and electricity will make voting a challenge in a region that contributed a net of 231,000 votes for Donald Trump’s 2020 margin of 74,000 votes in the state…. -
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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Gun Manufacturer May Be Liable for Cartel Crimes
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Supreme Court will hear a case to decide whether Mexico may sue American gun manufacturers and distributors for crimes committed by drug cartels with their firearms, according to court documents released Friday. The high court will rule on whether gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson and firearms distributor Interstate Arms are protected… -
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Biden-Harris Admin Raids FEMA Funds to Resettle Illegal Aliens
Editor’s note: This commentary originally was published in September 2023. Federal spending is hard enough to keep track of at the best of times, but the Biden-Harris administration is highly adept at hiding how it funds its open-borders agenda. In a cynical budget negotiation tactic, the White House is trying to push through a $40… -
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WATCH: Gobs of Federal Cash for Ukraine and Illegal Immigrants, Squat for North Carolina
North Carolina continues to suffer under the weight of the horribly run Federal Emergency Management Agency. On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we list the countless billions of dollars spent on everyone but American citizens by the very federal agencies constitutionally obligated to give them aid. The legacy media sits in awkward… -
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FEMA Whistleblowers Say Agency Wildly Mismanaged
Whistleblowers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency have come forward in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene to accuse the agency of misappropriating funds and generally mismanaging its responsibilities. This is according to a letter sent by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose department includes FEMA. FEMA has come under fire for its response… -
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‘Rings of Power’: 4 Great Sins of Season 2
Warning: This review contains spoilers for the Amazon series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” Season 2. The second season of Amazon’s “Rings of Power” somehow managed to be worse than the first season of the show, which is a rather high bar. The first season showed a disrespect for J.R.R. Tolkien’s… -
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Caveat Emptor
A few days ago, Iran launched approximately 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Some of Iran’s missiles were hypersonic missiles traveling 10,000 miles an hour. Israel, the United States, and other allies were mostly able to stop the missiles. A few days before, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Iran was within weeks of producing… -
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The Cost of a Workforce That Doesn’t Want to Work
Like millions of Americans each year, you order a package, food, or valuables. Delivery day arrives. You open the door. You discover the product was damaged. Or it was stolen. Or it is missing. Why are the mishaps growing by leaps and bounds? Food delivery apps such as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, and mail… -
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‘The BorderLine’ Anniversary Column: Revisiting Biden’s Border by the Numbers One Year Later
Welcome to the 52nd edition of “The BorderLine”! For the past year, every week, I have tried to capture the unprecedented nature of the Biden-Harris administration’s migration ideology, which mostly boils down to letting in millions more foreign nationals at the border than Congress has ever authorized while severely limiting enforcement of immigration laws inside… -
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Let’s Not Stop at Charging 5 Students From China With Conspiracy
The Chinese Communist Party has taken an interest in Michigan—particularly Camp Grayling, a military training facility about 200 miles north of Detroit. The FBI has leveled related conspiracy charges against five Chinese nationals, but the activities in question happened last year and the FBI’s court filing doesn’t disclose their whereabouts. This suggests the bureau is… -
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Pennsylvania Closes Down Voter Registration on Night of Trump’s Return to Butler
The swing state of Pennsylvania’s voter registration system will be closed on the night of former President Donald Trump’s return rally in Butler, the site of the July 13 assassination attempt against him. The Republican nominee announced Sept. 25 that he is holding another rally in Butler on Oct. 5, just three months after a…