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EXCLUSIVE: Women’s Sports Leaders Call on New York Collegiate League to Protect Fairness as Male Sets League Records
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Independent Council on Women’s Sports sent a letter to the Liberty League, an intercollegiate athletic conference in New York, demanding that the league adopt new rules to protect fairness for female athletes as a male set school records in women’s track. ICONS—a network and advocacy group that spans all levels… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Rule Would Deprive Pregnancy Resource Centers of Funds and Favor Abortion Groups, Conservatives Warn
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Former Vice President Mike Pence’s organization, Advancing American Freedom, is leading conservative groups in calling on Republicans in Congress to defund a pro-abortion rule backed by President Joe Biden’s administration that would punish pro-life centers. “We, as leaders of the pro-life movement, request that you defund the rulemaking process for the… -
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Alabama Supreme Court’s Embryo Ruling Embodies America’s Legal Heritage
Leftists have spent much of the past week up in arms about a ruling Feb. 16 from the Alabama Supreme Court. At first blush, it is curious that a state supreme court case would engender so much vitriol and bellyaching. But the groaning from the left-wing media and political class can be easily explained: The… -
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Trump’s Legal Cases 101: Where They Stand
Former President Donald Trump is still facing multiple legal cases against him, including federal charges. In Manhattan, Trump is looking at felony charges over alleged hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has accused Trump of seeking to interfere with the results of the 2020 election…. -
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Trump Condemns ‘Persecution’ of Christians Under Biden DOJ, Pledges Feds Will ‘Never Again’ Target Them
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—Former President Donald Trump compared the criminal indictments he faces to the Biden administration’s targeting of Christians as he spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention Thursday night. “For all Americans, but especially for Christians, nothing is more important than to defeat this wicked system and to return to equal and impartial justice under… -
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Too Many Corporations, Like Universities, Have Lost Their Way
Universities are not alone among our institutions that have lost their way. How about America’s corporations, which now seem to think social justice is their job, besides efficiently delivering goods and services to the American public? In a recent panel discussion at the Bipartisan Policy Institute, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Missouri AG Orders School District to End Race-Based Hiring
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey ordered a St. Louis school district Wednesday to abandon race-based hiring after The Daily Signal reported on the district’s plan to double its percentage of minority teachers. Bailey, a Republican, wrote to Webster Groves School District Superintendent John Simpson to demand that he and other administrators “cease and desist using… -
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Psychologist Punished for Questioning VA’s Gender Ideology Initiatives: ‘What Has Happened to Women’s Security?’
A psychologist employed by a federal agency is being penalized for speaking out against gender ideology. Three psychologists working in the Department of Veterans Affairs penned an op-ed late last month warning of the danger posed by allowing biological men to access women’s bathrooms and medical exam rooms. One of the authors, primary care psychologist Dr…. -
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San Francisco Put a Noncitizen in Office. This Is Part of the Left’s Plan to Demolish Our Republic.
California is once again leading the way, showing us the dark, dystopian post-America future that awaits us if the Left remains in power. The latest absurdity is that a noncitizen was appointed to office in San Francisco, the first time such a thing has happened in this country. According to the New York Post, Kelly… -
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Gender Ideologues Stack Deck on WHO Panel on Trans ‘Health’
A who’s who of transgender activists was scheduled this week to meet in Geneva at the World Health Organization to develop new guidelines on “the health of trans and gender-diverse people.” We can presume the meeting took place, even though public notice of it didn’t appear on the U.N. website listing meetings and conferences. Until… -
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The World’s Hostility Toward Conservatism Is Empowering Conservatives to Fight Back
The work of a statesman is to identify a problem that no one else has seen and courageously step forward to fix it, said the author of the book “Gateway to Statesmanship.” John Burtka is the president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, commonly known as “ISI,” an organization cofounded by William F. Buckley Jr. that… -
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These Republicans Demand a Full Senate Impeachment Trial for Mayorkas
Republicans controlled the Senate during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020. Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., allowed a full Senate trial in public view even though he would vote that Trump wasn’t guilty of the House’s charges. Today, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faces a similar choice with the House’s… -
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Blue City Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote Ruled Unconstitutional
A New York City law that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections was deemed unconstitutional by a state appeals court on Wednesday. The law would have allowed roughly 800,000 green card holders and individuals with federal work authorization living in the Big Apple to vote in the city’s elections, including in mayoral and… -
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Alabama Supreme Court Rightly Defers to State Law in Frozen Embryo Case
The Alabama Supreme Court’s recent 7-2 decision that a frozen embryo is a “child” under the state’s wrongful-death statute demonstrates once again that judges have to use the right method to make the right decisions. Keeping this in mind prevents getting distracted by the politics and hysterics that often accompany decisions on such volatile issues…. -
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Biden’s Low Marks on Economy Reflect Reality
For all the White House’s bragging about the strength of the economy, most Americans still don’t approve of President Joe Biden’s performance on this issue. That’s likely because they have been left behind, especially native-born Americans. This is perhaps most evident in figures from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. If one looks only at the… -
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Nashville Transgender Shooter Not a Left-Wing Extremist Because She Called Victims ‘Faggots,’ ADL Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Anti-Defamation League claimed that right-wing extremists committed “all” the extremist-related murders in 2023, discounting the apparent extremism of Audrey Hale, the transgender shooter who killed three adults and three students in March at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Conservative commentator Steven Crowder released three pages of the shooter’s manifesto,… -
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Why China Wants You to Drive an EV
China’s economy is struggling: Many young people can’t find jobs, the nation’s real estate market is in trouble after two major property development companies failed, and China’s stock market has seen a $7 trillion decline in just a few years. But Beijing has a plan to do something about it. When the “green energy” movement… -
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How Many More Female Athletes Will Be Injured by Trans Players Before Biden Gives Up Trying to Rewrite Title IX?
An injury on a high school girls basketball team is another reminder of why Title IX exists and why the definition of “sex” is not up for interpretation. A high school girls basketball team decided to forfeit a game earlier this month after a male athlete playing for the other team injured one of the… -
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Bipartisan Maryland Bill Would Make Gender Surgery on a Minor Without Parental Consent Illegal
Amid a national epidemic of child-focused transgender policies that leave parents out of the equation, a Maryland bill enshrining parental rights appears to be garnering bipartisan support. Maryland’s HB 722 would forbid health care providers from providing any transgender medical procedures, commonly called “gender-affirming care,” to minors without parental knowledge and consent. Under the bill,… -
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25th Amendment Push Intensifies Against Biden
Members of Congress continue to suggest that President Joe Biden should be removed under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution—even after a psychiatrist who led a national movement to oust his predecessor called cognitive decline “normal.” Special counsel Robert Hur issued a report earlier this month finding that Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,”…