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BREAKING: RFK Suspends His Campaign, Endorses Trump
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Republican nominee former President Donald Trump. He announced that while he will remain on the ballot in “safe” states where Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris or Trump are likely to prevail, he will remove his name from 10 “battleground” states and he urged… -
opinion
The College Graduates’ Presidential Candidate Doesn’t Know Economic History
Learning isn’t necessarily cumulative. Human experience over the centuries provides lessons, some clearer than others. But each generation has to learn lessons anew, and some do not. The lessons about economic growth taught over the long run of history are clear. Growth is not inevitable, and while riches may be accumulated, or appropriated, by the… -
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A Good Look at Canada’s Future Prime Minister: Pierre Poilievre’s ‘Political Life’
Canadian journalist Andrew Lawton’s “A Political Life” examines the life and career of Pierre Poilievre, a rising conservative star in Canada who is the odds-on favorite to become that country’s next prime minister. Focusing on a politician who is relatively new on the national scene—Poilievre just turned 45—and little known outside Canada, Lawton’s biography does… -
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Secret Service Agents Reportedly Put on Leave After Trump Assassination Attempt
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Several members of the U.S. Secret Service were placed on administrative leave after the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, Fox News reported. At least five Secret Service members, including one from Trump’s personal protective team and four from the Pittsburgh Field Office, were put… -
opinion
Back in the Air: Resumed F-35 Deliveries Help in Indo-Pacific
The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin recently announced resumed deliveries of F-35 aircraft configured with software called Technology Refresh-3, or TR-3. Although a truncated version of the TR-3 software is part of the package, this resumption is a milestone that comes after a yearlong freeze in which undelivered F-35s accumulated and collected dust. The TR-3… -
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The Facts Behind Biden-Harris Admin’s Loss of 300K Migrant Kids
In 2014, Vice President Joe Biden was dispatched to Guatemala by President Barack Obama to implore Latin American countries and their citizens to stop smuggling unaccompanied children into the United States. “These smugglers routinely engage in physical and sexual abuse and extortion of these innocent, young women and men, by and large,” Biden said in… -
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‘Politically Captured Agency’: Why a Former FBI Agent Wants to Defund the Bureau
The FBI shouldn’t be weaponized to pick winners and losers, which is exactly what it has done by targeting pro-lifers and failing to investigate pro-abortion vandals, former FBI agent Steve Friend says. “What we’re seeing is a politically captured agency that is not only interested in the results,” Friend told The Daily Signal. “They want… -
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Kamala Harris Ducks 3 Things as She Accepts Dems’ Nomination
Before Vice President Kamala Harris hit the stage to accept her party’s nomination for president Thursday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, her campaign told reporters what to expect. Harris campaign officials leaked to the press that the sitting vice president would reintroduce herself to Americans, despite being the second most powerful person… -
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10 Takeaways From Final Night of Democratic National Convention
Democrats gathered Thursday night in Chicago to hear a bevy of speakers followed by Vice President Kamala Harris’ formal acceptance of their nomination for president to close out the party’s convention. The weeklong coronation of Harris, who replaced President Joe Biden as Democrats’ presidential nominee just one month ago, commenced with a party-like atmosphere that… -
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Trump Pledges to ‘Stop the Invasion,’ Calls Harris a ‘Marxist’ at Southern Border
With completed border wall to his right and unused construction materials to his left, former President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday in Arizona that if he wins the Nov. 5 election and returns to office in January, he will impose the death penalty on sex traffickers. “We will seal the border, stop the invasion, and… -
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Biden Administration’s Latest Illegal Immigration Scam: The BorderLine
In June, I wrote about “parole in place” for alien spouses when the Biden administration first announced this latest in its series of gimmicks that I call Parole-a-Palooza. Now, it’s here. First, a little background. Prevented by pesky laws from admitting all the legal and illegal immigrants he wants, since 2021, President Joe Biden… -
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Land Acknowledgments Are Democratic Party’s New Pledge of Allegiance
The Democratic Party has fully embraced the far-left’s ideological framework of America. Democrats released their 2024 party platform this week during the Democratic National Convention. It was a sloppy mess in many places with frequent references to President Joe Biden’s “second term”—21 references by my count. Though as I’ve written previously, we are probably headed… -
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5 Massive Lies at the Democratic National Convention
As Democrats nominated Vice President Kamala Harris in Chicago this week, speakers repeated multiple blatant falsehoods. The legacy media seems unlikely to expose these lies, so The Daily Signal will break them down here. Each lie framed former President Donald Trump—the Republican nominee—and his party as more radical than they really are, or shifted responsibility… -
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Harris Had Record of Pushing Left-Wing Positions on Biggest Legal Issues as California AG
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—More than a dozen briefs signed by Vice President Kamala Harris during her time as California attorney general highlight her left-wing stances on several contentious legal issues of the past decade. Harris filed briefs with the Supreme Court in favor of affirmative action, backing buffer zones that prevent pro-life counseling outside abortion… -
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All Theater, No Class at National Conventions
The 2024 Democratic National Convention is a theatrical political gathering that spans four days and attracts the highest-ranking elected officials from across the nation. These include President Joe Biden, Vice President and presidential candidate Kamala Harris, as well as just about every major political personality you can think of. When I say that it is… -
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Report Challenges Harris’ Assertion Higher Food Prices Equal Corporate Greed
THE CENTER SQUARE—Rising grocery store prices over the last few years aren’t the fault of farmers or “greedy” corporations, a conservative North Carolina research organization concludes in a new documentary series and report. Instead, higher energy prices and more regulations are the culprit, according to the John Locke Foundation documentary series “Sowing Resilience.” It recommends a… -
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Where Is the Money Funding ActBlue Coming From?
Paging Dr. Adrienne Young, M.D. The good doctor is listed online as an “internist” in McKees Rocks, a borough in western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, known locally as “the Rocks.” Campaign finance filings report Young’s practice is located on Heckel Road in McKees and list a 412 area code phone number. But her office does not… -
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Former Trump Adviser Calls DOJ Russia Probe Targeting Him an ‘Attempt to Intimidate’ Anyone Who ‘Opposes the Deep State’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Justice launched an investigation into Americans with ties to Russian state media this month in what it says is an attempt to prevent Russia from influencing U.S. elections, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of United Nations weapons inspector… -
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In With Teacher Apprenticeships, Out With Colleges of Education
Two persistent problems beset American schools. First, teachers must leave the classroom and become administrators or counselors to earn above the standard teacher salary. Second, colleges of education can’t prepare new teachers nearly as well as an apprenticeship under a veteran teacher who has consistently demonstrated mastery of the craft. Thankfully, K-12 education can rework… -
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Wait, Can Ukraine Win the War Against Russia?
It’s been two-and-a-half years since Russia invaded Ukraine. The war has taken an unexpected turn in the past two weeks as Ukrainian troops launched a successful incursion into Russia and have now taken control of over 400 square miles in the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine in southwestern Russia. After months of gridlock in the…