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Why These Women Chose to Have 5 or More Kids
Why do some women choose to have large families? As the American birth rate declines, academic Catherine Ruth Pakaluk decided to look at the 5% of American women who are outliers, and who have five or more children. With a colleague, she interviewed 55 of those women, and shares their reasons and experiences in her… -
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Recalled San Francisco DA Says Victims Don’t Have Rights Under the Constitution
BERKELEY, Calif.—Crime victims don’t have rights under the Constitution, former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who was recalled by voters in 2022 amid an escalation of crime, said during a conference here at UC Berkeley School of Law. Boudin’s surprising comment came as part of a larger debate between the Left and Right on… -
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‘NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN’: Law Professor Pours Cold Water on Letitia James’ Plans to Seize Trump’s Assets
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Friday that former President Donald Trump is “not likely” to see his properties seized by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat. James filed judgments Friday against Trump and others in Westchester County, New York, where the 45th president owns a private estate in Seven Springs and the… -
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House Votes to Stop Biden’s Green ‘Slush Fund’
By a vote of 209-204, the House passed legislation Friday to eliminate what critics call a green energy slush fund. The Daily Signal first reported last year on the bill, called the Cutting Green Corruption and Taxes Act and sponsored by Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. “This is a major… -
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Enviros Cheered NY for Shutting Down a Nuke Plant. Then Greenhouse Gas Emissions Jumped.
Environmental activists celebrated the closure of a key nuclear power facility in New York state, but the state’s power-sector emissions have increased in the years since the plant shuttered. State officials finally closed the Indian Point nuclear facility in 2021, a development that climate activist groups commended because of purported safety and environmental risks posed by it. However, about… -
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This State Lawmaker Sues to Take Down Biden’s Election-Meddling Executive Order
A federal lawsuit in one of this year’s biggest battleground states challenges President Joe Biden’s executive order aimed at driving up the vote, in what one government watchdog calls “arguably the most important election integrity lawsuit in the country.” State Rep. Dawn Keefer, a Republican who chairs the conservative Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus, is the lead… -
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I Asked Illegal Aliens If They Knew They Were Breaking Law. Here’s What They Said.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Brandon says he left Cameroon on March 15 and crossed the border from Mexico into California four days later. He knows it’s illegal to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry, as he did, Brandon told The Daily Signal. But, he said, he did so because the “situation in my home… -
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NO SURPRISE: Liberal Media Ignore House Panel’s Hunter Biden Hearing
For the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, the partisan Democrats of our “legacy media” treated the “Pelosi-Picked Panel” on Jan. 6 as a dominant story, worthy of hundreds of hours of television, both live coverage of the hearings and breathless cycles of previews and reviews. Once Republicans took over the House, would… -
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After Feds Showered Blue State With Tax Dollars to Fix Homelessness, Here’s the Result
A plethora of federal agencies have spent well over $200 million attempting to alleviate homelessness in Washington state over the past 17 years, only for the number of people living on the streets to keep rising. Federal agencies like the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of… -
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How Illegal Immigration Could Change American Leftists
Some 8 million to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying that they first needed… -
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Angry Americans Muscle $400 Million Away From Pro-Trans Planet Fitness
At Planet Fitness, you can exercise everything but your right to privacy. That’s the message customers are taking to heart after an Alaskan woman had her membership revoked for complaining about a man in the women’s locker room. The gym is a “no judgment zone,” Patricia Silva was told. Well, it’s about to become a profit-free zone,… -
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Conservatives Protest as House Passes $1.2 Trillion Spending Package
By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning, avoiding a partial government shutdown but putting House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in jeopardy of losing the speakership. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to pass because Democrats have a working… -
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Tipping the Scales of Justice to the Left? The Federal Judiciary’s New ‘Guidance’ for Assigning Cases
Federal judges have ruled against the Biden administration in several recent high-profile cases, and those on the Left are not happy about it. Instead of defending their policies on the merits in front of these judges, those on the Left have instead pressured the principal policy-making body for the federal judiciary to change how cases… -
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She Survived Terrorist Attacks to Become Voice for Democracy in UK
The threat of terrorism first touched Arlene Foster’s life when she was just a child. Her father was serving as a police officer in the United Kingdom when he was shot in his own home by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1979. The Provisional Irish Republican Army group was seeking to end British rule… -
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US Auto Industry Faces Grim Future as Biden’s EPA Sets EV Mandates
Not since Prohibition has the federal government sought to ban a product as popular as the internal combustion engine. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final emissions standards rule, requiring that 70% of new vehicle sales be pure battery-powered electric or hybrids by 2032. Prohibition was a disaster and ended 13 years after… -
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Sweet Sixteen Upset: 16 Female Athletes Sue NCAA to Bar Transgender Competitors
Sixteen female current and former athletes from across the country last week filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing males to compete in girls’ and women’s sports and to use locker rooms designated for females. Filed March 14 in U.S. District Court in… -
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Florida’s New Online Dashboard Displays Cost of Unrecompensed Hospital Care Provided to Illegal Aliens
Florida has launched a dashboard that reports the total cost of uncompensated health care for illegal immigrants, which currently tops $566 million. Announced on Wednesday, the interactive Hospital Patient Immigration Status Dashboard highlights “the cost of illegal immigration, which puts a strain on our health care system and taxpayers here in Florida,” the secretary of… -
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Videos Show Planned Parenthood Circumventing Abortion Law by Dismembering Babies, Pro-Life Journalist Alleges
Planned Parenthood officials appear to discuss mutilating the bodies of living babies to bypass federal law against partial-birth abortions in previously unseen undercover videos obtained by the pro-life Center for Medical Progress. Center founder and self-described journalist David Daleiden told The Daily Signal that the footage, revealed Tuesday at a House hearing, adds to Planned… -
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AOC’s New Version of the Green New Deal
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is reportedly planning to propose a new version of the Green New Deal, and it is loaded with provisions designed to make America’s public housing stock go green. Ocasio-Cortez, independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, and other left-wing legislators are poised to launch the Green New Deal for Public Housing… -
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You Can’t Fool All of the People All of the Time About Immigration: The BorderLine
There’s an old saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Three years into his presidency, Joe Biden has run into the last sentence of that…