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McConnell to Step Down as Senate Republican Leader
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will step down from his position in November, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. The 82-year-old senator will announce the decision on Wednesday, the publication reported. He will have been the longest-serving Senate leader in United States history. “One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to… -
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Biden Floating of 2-State Solution After Oct. 7 May Inspire Hamas-Style Terrorist Attacks in US, Knesset Member Warns
President Joe Biden’s decision to float a possible two-state solution in the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 incentivizes terrorism and may inspire radical Islamist terrorist attacks in the U.S., a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, tells “The Daily Signal Podcast.” Ohad Tal, a member of the Religious Zionist Party… -
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Democratic Congresswoman Cancels Speech to Islamic Group After Bipartisan Backlash
A Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania has canceled her scheduled Saturday address to an Islamic organization, some of whose leaders celebrated Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 rape and slaughter of more than 1,200 Israelis, after she received harsh, bipartisan criticism. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., announced her change of heart Tuesday on X, formerly known as Twitter, claiming… -
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What Is the ‘Christian Nationalism’ Fearmongering Really About?
Is America on the verge of establishing a theocracy? The Left’s recent warnings about the rise of “Christian nationalism” suggest that a powerful, conservative Christian cabal is pulling the strings behind the scenes to forcibly convert the entire nation, or something. In the past week, Politico’s Heidi Przybyla has been hammering the drum on this… -
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IVF Legislation Would Open Door to Child Abusers Creating Kids
Liberals are trying to use the controversy over a state court decision about IVF to jam through expansive legislation with massive consequences. On Feb. 16, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered persons under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. This bold, and yet legally limited, ruling sparked a national debate… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Catholic Churches Attacked 400 Times Since 2020, Tracker Finds
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Catholic churches in the United States have been attacked at least 400 times over the past four years, according to data compiled by the Catholic advocacy organization CatholicVote. The hundreds of attacks across the nation began in connection with widespread civil unrest in May 2020, CatholicVote said. Examples include church… -
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What Biden Plans to Do Thursday at Southern Border
President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet Thursday with U.S. Border Patrol officials and local leaders in Brownsville, Texas, as part of his second trip to the southern border amid what the top House Republican calls the “catastrophe” that has occurred there on Biden’s watch. Biden’s trip comes as House Republicans push the president… -
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IVF Isn’t the Pro-Life Option for Addressing Fertility Issues. Duckworth’s Senate Bill Isn’t the Solution.
The Left, and even many Republicans, have misrepresented the Alabama Supreme Court recent decision in the LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine case involving frozen embryos. The court sided with parents who pursued a wrongful-death lawsuit against a negligent in vitro fertilization clinic, where their frozen embryos were killed when a patient entered the unsecured… -
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Hey, Elon Musk, You May Have a ‘Deep State’ Problem
The New York Times raised questions about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness after the bombshell special report explaining why there would be no criminal charges against Biden for unlawful possession of documents. Special counsel Robert Hur wrote, “Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as… -
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‘Insane’: Ron Johnson Slams Wisconsin DOC for Housing Transgender Prisoners With Women
Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson reacted Tuesday to a new report from The Daily Signal on the Wisconsin Department of Corrections housing a transgender prisoner, a child rapist, with women. “Housing biological males in women’s prisons is insane,” Johnson said Tuesday. “Forcing a woman to share a cell with a biological male is even worse.”… -
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McConnell Says Full Senate Trial on Mayorkas Impeachment Is ‘Best Way to Go Forward’
Senate Democrats need only a simple majority to dismiss the House’s impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a move that appears likely. The House voted Feb. 13 to impeach Mayorkas 214 to 213, with every Democrat voting no. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., hasn’t said whether he would act to dismiss… -
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Mayorkas Had 3 Years to Secure Our Border. Americans Deserve a Real Senate Impeachment Trial.
Members of Congress have promised to “hold accountable” those in power so often that the phrase has become hollow. Exhibit A: Alejandro Mayorkas. For many months, President Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security has dodged responsibility for his direct implementation of a historic border crisis. Until now. On Feb. 13, the House successfully impeached Mayorkas for the irreparable… -
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Letitia James, Judge Engoron Wanted to Get Trump, Justice Be Damned
As a New Yorker, I wish Democratic state Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron would treat shoplifters, graffiti vandals, and armed robbers with just a puff of the volcanic rage with which they “get Trump.” Former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud indictment, trial, and $354.9 million penalty are an abortion of justice. That massive sum likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment requirement… -
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Antidepressant Prescriptions for Adolescent Girls Spiked During COVID-19, Research Shows
Antidepressant prescriptions for young girls skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published by the American Academy of Pediatrics Monday. Among young women aged 12 to 17, the rate of prescriptions jumped 129.6% per month after March 2020 and for women aged 18 to 25, it rose to 56.5% per month, the research shows. In March… -
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Is Biden’s Fitness to Stand Trial Relevant to His Ability to be President? What This Psychiatrist Has to Say
President Joe Biden’s fitness to stand trial and his fitness to serve as president are not comparable standards, the forensic psychiatrist who led the movement to oust Donald Trump from the presidency via the 25th Amendment contends. Dr. Bandy X. Lee, who edited “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts… -
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Are We Treating Gen Z’s Mental Health Crisis All Wrong?
A few months ago, a high school teacher casually mentioned to me that at his school, students with diagnosed anxiety weren’t called on in class. What struck me as insanity is apparently mainstream in America’s schools now. In her gripping new book “Bad Therapy,” journalist Abigail Shrier chronicles how young Americans are living a childhood… -
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Justices Weigh Future of Free Speech on Social Media Platforms
Can states prohibit social media companies from censoring the speech of their platforms’ users? That’s a question now before the Supreme Court. The justices heard oral arguments Monday in a pair of major First Amendment cases. The cases stem from laws passed in Texas and Florida in 2021 after a number of social media companies’… -
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To Censor or to Host? Supreme Court Hears Social Media Platforms’ Free Speech Challenge to State Laws
The Supreme Court on Monday heard hours of argument in two free-speech cases, Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton. NetChoice, an industry group representing large tech companies, argued that laws enacted by Texas and Florida restricting the companies’ ability to demote or remove user content violated the First Amendment rights of social media platforms…. -
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The Uniparty Is Only a Few Steps Away From Gutting the US Dollar
America’s political establishment has less respect for the U.S. dollar than our foreign adversaries. That was made clear when Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the Russian strongman President Vladimir Putin, who clearly articulated how the uniparty in Washington is destroying America’s greatest strategic and economic asset—her currency. Last year, led by the chairman and ranking member of the… -
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Sen. Ron Johnson, Health Experts Allege Cover-Up of COVID-19 Vaccine Dangers
Two weeks ago, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., got an email from a recently married man who learned his 36-year-old wife couldn’t have children shortly after she got her second COVID-19 shot. “She chose career, got the baby/family bug, and now she can’t have children,” the husband said in the email, which Johnson read aloud Monday…