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Biden Reportedly Plans To Back Measures ‘Limiting’ Supreme Court
The Daily Caller News Foundation—President Joe Biden is expected to endorse drastic changes to the U.S. Supreme Court that could result in legislation on term limits for the justices and enforceable ethics codes, according to The Washington Post. Sources familiar with the matter told the Post about the upcoming endorsement, which could additionally include a call for… -
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‘Fingers Being Pointed’: Secret Service’s Explanations for Security Failures Ahead of Trump Shooting Aren’t Adding Up
The Daily Caller News Foundation—Secret Service’s explanations for the security failures surrounding the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday aren’t adding up, according to security experts and former Secret Service agents. Emerging details highlight what seems to be a disconnect between local officials and Secret Service, while making it… -
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The New GOP Litmus Test on School Choice
Party platforms are a way of signaling to voters the policies that politicians are likely to pursue if they’re elected to office. But platforms also send a message to a party’s candidates about what policy positions the party expects them to support. If elected officials go against their own party’s platform, they might expect to… -
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Cruz Targets Biden Regs That Favor Tiny Lizard Over Oil, Gas Drilling
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a new bill to nix the Biden administration’s protections for a lizard species that critics argue will restrict oil and gas development. The Texas Republican unveiled his Congressional Review Act bill to walk back the Biden administration’s decision to protect the dunes sagebrush lizard, a species that is indigenous to… -
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‘ALL OF THIS IS INTENTIONAL’: Trump Surrogate Blames Secret Service for Enabling Assassination Attempt
MILWAUKEE—A lawyer, media consultant, and surrogate for former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign blamed the Secret Service for “intentional” decisions that she said enabled the shooter to wound Trump and kill at least one other person. “I think the intentional decision was that we didn’t have enough Secret Service,” Mehek Cooke told “The Daily Signal… -
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DEI Stands for ‘Division, Exclusion, and Indoctrination,’ DeSantis Says
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted Democrats on Tuesday night for their support of leftist “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies in schools, the military, and other institutions. “They stand for DEI, which really means ‘division, exclusion, and indoctrination,’ and it is wrong,” DeSantis said in a speech in Milwaukee at the quadrennial Republican National Convention. “They… -
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10 Takeaways From Day 2 of the Republican National Convention
MILWAUKEE—Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, surprised the National Republican Convention with appearances Tuesday, though neither of them addressed the crowd. Nikki Haley, Trump’s longest rival in the 2024 presidential primary, also made an appearance to endorse Trump. Here are 8 key takeaways from Day 2 of the Republican… -
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Rubio Pays Tribute to ‘Hero’ Slain by Sniper at Trump Rally
Sen. Marco Rubio paid tribute to the former fire chief killed Saturday afternoon in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in remarks Tuesday at the Republican National Convention. Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief in Buffalo Township in Pennsylvania, was killed at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was attending the rally… -
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Daughter-in-Law Shares Familial Impact of Attempt on Trump’s Life
Lara Trump told delegates and others in the audience at the Republican National Convention that she initially had prepared a “very different speech” than the one she delivered Tuesday night. The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump and co-chairman of the Republican National Committee shared the shock of the assassination attempt on husband Eric Trump’s… -
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Carson: Trump ‘Alive and Well’ Despite Democrat Lawfare, Assassination Attempt
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson referenced the Old Testament book of Isaiah when speaking about both Democratic lawfare and an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. “It says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper,’” Carson, a world-renowned former neurosurgeon, said Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. “Let me… -
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‘STRONG ENDORSEMENT’: Nikki Haley Touts Trump’s National Security Record
Despite finishing a distant second in the Republican presidential primaries, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told the crowd at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night: “Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period.” “I had a front row seat to his national security policies. We sure could use those again,” said Haley, also a… -
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Vivek Ramaswamy Has Pointed Message for Black Americans, Youths
MILWAUKEE—Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke directly to groups of Americans often considered liberal and Democratic: blacks, immigrants, millennials, and Gen Z. Speaking to the Republican National Convention at the Fiserve Forum in Milwaukee, he said he wanted to deliver a message the media didn’t want these Americans to hear. “Our message to black… -
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BREAKING: Nikki Haley Endorses Trump at RNC in Name of Unity
MILWAUKEE—Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump’s foremost rival in the 2024 GOP primary, appeared at the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday night with a surprise announcement. “President Trump asked me to speak to this convention in the name of unity,” she said. “It was a gracious invitation,… -
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Impending Japanese Sale of US Dollars Could Trigger Major US Economic Turmoil
Editor’s note: The following is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Japan is on the verge of a fire sale of hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. debt that could crash Treasury markets already teetering on the edge. Just another exciting day for de-dollarization as Japan’s collapse… -
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Touts Power of GOP Governors in Biden Era
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders stirred the Milwaukee audience of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, as she touted GOP governors nationally and asserted that former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by divine providence. “Not even an assassin’s bullet could stop him. God almighty intervened because America is one nation under God,… -
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House Speaker Vows ‘Thorough Investigation’ of Trump Assassination Attempt
House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged Tuesday night that the House of Representatives would conduct an “immediate and thorough investigation” into security failures by the Secret Service prior to the assassination attempt Saturday evening on former President Donald Trump. “We are united today as Americans in the wake of the assassination attempt on the life of… -
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Recalling His Own Shooting, Scalise Hails Trump’s Courage and Compassion
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise recalled his own brush with death seven years ago in remarks at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, just thee days after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. On June 14, 2017, while practicing in Alexandria, Va., for the annual congressional softball game, a gunman shot Scalise,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Dan Bongino Slams Secret Service for Ignoring Threats to Trump’s Life
MILWAUKEE—Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino tore into his former employer on Tuesday for security failures at the Pennsylvania campaign rally where an attempted assassin shot former President Donald Trump late Saturday afternoon. Bongino, now a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host, sat down with The Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in… -
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Bongino Open to Serving as FBI Director If Trump Wins and Asks Him
MILWAUKEE—Radio talk-show host and former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino isn’t keen to head back into federal government service, but if former President Donald Trump were to win a second term and asked him to, he said he would consider it. Bongino sat down with The Daily Signal on Tuesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where… -
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‘Do You Just Not Say Anything?’: Biden Blames Trump for ‘Rhetoric’ After Admitting ‘Bullseye’ Comment Was a ‘Mistake’
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden pointed to former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” after a recent assassination attempt while admitting that his “bullseye” comment was a “mistake” in an exclusive interview with NBC News Monday. Within a first clip released of Biden’s interview on “NBC Nightly News,” the president was pressed on his language around Trump and…