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‘Not Going to Be Messed With’: US Expects Houthi Response to Airstrikes, Pentagon Says
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are likely to retaliate for U.S. and U.K. airstrikes on dozens of targets used by the rebels to launch attacks on commercial shipping and U.S. military vessels, a top Pentagon military officer said Friday. Neither the U.S. nor the Houthis yet know the extent of the damage from Thursday evening’s bombardment, Army Lt…. -
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Democrats Reveal Contempt for Democracy With ‘Any Means Necessary’ Attacks on Trump
When faced with the possible return of former President Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as “We had to destroy democracy to save it.” The effort shares a common theme: Any means necessary are justified to prevent the people from choosing their own president, given the fear that… -
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Balancing Accountability With Civil Servant Protections in the Federal Bureaucracy
The presidential election is a year away, and an unpopular President Joe Biden is visibly losing mental acuity. “Weekend at Bernie’s III” was a sequel no one made, for good reason. The response from partisans on the left is panic, crowned by Washington Post editor Robert Kagan’s unhinged commentary, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable”—complete with… -
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FBI Was on the Scene When Would-Be Assailant Went After RFK Jr.
The FBI was at the scene in Los Angeles last fall when an armed man impersonating a U.S. marshal allegedly attempted to approach independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. The documents, released by the Los Angeles Police Department after a public records request, also… -
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Undeterred by Supreme Court, Biden Makes Another Student Debt Handout Move
President Joe Biden on Friday announced the latest round of student debt cancellations in a statement issued by the White House. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 30 in Biden v. Nebraska that the administration’s plan to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for all borrowers was unlawful, the administration has sought to… -
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Terror Groups and China Thrive, US Influence Declines, Amidst African Instability
As the Middle East is again consumed by wars of terrorist aggression, Africa, too, is experiencing a rise in violence. Despite the region receiving billions in U.S. foreign aid annually, groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State have gained ground throughout the continent. As of 2023, the Sahel region—a broad sub-Saharan swathe of land… -
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Ramaswamy Exposes ‘Invisible Force That Fuels the Spread of Woke-Infused Cancel Culture’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy condemned the Biden administration Friday over reports that it reached out to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which critics call a far-left smear factory, for advice on combating the “domestic terrorism threat.” “This is the same organization that added parental rights organizations to its… -
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Democrat Challenging Biden: MSNBC Blackballing Me at Behest of President’s Campaign
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., has accused MSNBC of blackballing him due to influence from President Joe Biden’s campaign, according to Politico. Phillips has mounted a primary challenge to Biden and has also expressed frustration at state Democratic parties and the Democratic National Committee for leaving him off the ballot. Now, he is accusing the Biden campaign… -
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Security Guard Tackles Protester at DeSantis Event in Iowa
Security tackled a protester who jumped on stage Thursday at an event for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, video of the incident shows. DeSantis was in Ames, Iowa, for a campaign stop with Never Back Down PAC. The Florida governor was discussing a ban on China’s buying of land in Florida when… -
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Number of Children Living With 2 Parents Increasing, Data Shows
Newly published data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the proportion of American children living in two-parent families increased to 71.1% in 2023, continuing a slight upward trajectory since 2015. The numbers appear to contradict a popular narrative in the mainstream media that American society no longer aspires to establish households with a mother… -
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Why Is Hunter Biden Defying Congress?
Two House committees approved resolutions Wednesday recommending that Hunter Biden be held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to testify and that the matter be referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. But the question is: Why isn’t President Joe Biden’s embattled son already in jail? The younger Biden displayed his… -
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Court Lifts Injunction on Alabama’s Ban on Sex-Change Surgeries for Minors
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary order to lift an injunction preventing an Alabama law banning sex-change surgeries for minors from going into effect, according to court documents. The law was halted in 2022 for the duration of the lawsuit by a district court, which claimed that the legislation illegally… -
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CLIMATE DYSTOPIA: How Life Would Get Worse If Climate Alarmists Carry Out Their US Agenda
The global climate is always changing, but contrary to the popular narrative, the science on the exact causes is far from settled. Alarmists claim that humans burning fossil fuels for energy will catastrophically ruin the climate, and they demand a “net-zero” future to save the world. What would happen if the climate alarmists actually succeeded… -
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Can Higher Education Be Rescued From Grip of DEI?
Claudine Gay resigned Jan. 2 as Harvard’s president following outrage over antisemitism at the Ivy League school and amid claims that Gay plagiarized in her academic writings. Her resignation provides higher education institutions an opportunity to reconsider the leftist agenda-laden waters most “elite” colleges and universities swim in. As more people realize the true agenda… -
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BREAKING: US, UK Launch Retaliatory Airstrikes Against Houthis After Months of Attacks in Red Sea
The U.S. and the U.K. conducted retaliatory airstrikes Thursday evening against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen following a cascade of attacks on commercial shipping, Reuters reported, citing four U.S. officials. The Houthis had launched at least 27 drone and missile attacks against commercial vessels near the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the U.S. military said Thursday,… -
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ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE: Biden Admin Consulted Anti-Christian Group for ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Strategy
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Law-abiding Americans increasingly are convinced that their government views them as an enemy, perhaps even a “domestic terrorism threat.” A newly unearthed video may confirm those fears. Bureaucrats in numerous federal agencies apparently tag-teamed with the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that demonizes conservatives and Christians, including groups such as… -
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Trump’s Ballot Disqualification Case Reaches Supreme Court
In what may turn out to be the most pivotal election case since Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a short order on Jan. 5 granting the request by former President Donald Trump asking the court to overturn the Colorado state Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 decision disqualifying him from appearing on the state’s… -
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Ex-Harvard President Had History of Pushing DEI Long Before Promotion to Top Job
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s expansion of campus diversity bureaucracies quashed academic freedom and chilled free speech on campus, according to current and former professors. Gay resigned as president on Jan. 2 after facing multiple plagiarism allegations and pushback from failing to say whether calls for genocide violated the school’s code of conduct at a Dec. 5 congressional hearing… -
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US Improperly Tracks Nearly $2 Billion in Weapons for Ukraine, Pentagon Watchdog Finds
U.S. defense and diplomatic officials improperly tracked almost $2 billion in weapons provided to Ukraine as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s invasion, raising questions about the government’s ability to monitor foreign aid, according to an inspector general report. The investigation focused on how the Defense Department kept… -
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Biden’s Border Madness Has Cheapened What It Means to Be an American: The BorderLine
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and states throughout the land. We will also shed light on other critical border-related issues like human trafficking, drug smuggling, terrorism, and more. ——————————————————— In just three short years, President Joe Biden’s reckless policies…