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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… -
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Analysis Ties Surge in Inflation to Increased Spending, Value of Debt
The U.S. government and those of other countries could be using higher inflation to lessen the value of growing public debt resulting from increased spending during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis by a Harvard economist working with The Heritage Foundation. The study covers government spending from 2020 through 2022, the high point… -
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NCAA Board Member Reportedly Snubs Female Athlete Demanding Fairness in Women’s Sports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Female athlete Macy Petty says she hand delivered a letter from prominent women’s organizations asking for fairness in women’s sports—and NCAA Board of Governors Chair Linda Livingstone wouldn’t even look her in the eye. Petty, a member of the women’s organization Concerned Women for America, was one of a number… -
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Is the Israel-Hamas War Spreading Throughout the Middle East?
Since the day it began, the war between Israel and Hamas has resulted in almost nothing but significant tragedy. Thousands in Israel and Gaza have become victims of a violent war, and the death toll continues to rise. Additionally, the terrorist group wreaking havoc in the Middle East is not only a threat to Israel,… -
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Latinx Engineers and ‘Systemic Racism’: Government Grants Inject Race Into Science, Tech
The federal government is pouring large sums of taxpayer dollars into pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—known as DEI—on academic science, technology, engineering, and math programs, or STEM. The National Science Foundation, a government agency, is funding a slate of programs aimed at addressing alleged racism in environmental and civil engineering, making the field of… -
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Global Trade Falls as Traffic Through the Red Sea Plummets After Attacks
Global trade fell 1.3% in December month-over-month as attacks on transport ships through the Red Sea continue to cause delays and losses, according to German research institute IFW Kiel. The drop in global trade follows a decline in the number of container ships using the Red Sea in their route, falling from 500,000 containers per… -
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Guatemala’s Pleas for Help to Curb Migration Falling on Deaf Ears in Biden Admin
The last conversation the Guatemalan president had with Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss immigration was in June, and the Central American country says its calls for help with border security have largely fallen on deaf ears, Kevin Lopez Oliva, the spokesman for Guatemala’s president, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Biden administration tasked Harris with… -
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‘Breach of Trust’: Senate Republicans Demand Briefing From Pentagon on Defense Secretary’s Unknown Hospitalization
Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee demanded a formal briefing from Department of Defense officials on the circumstances surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s unexplained absence in a letter sent Wednesday. Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the panel, led 11 of his GOP colleagues in requiring a briefing from all relevant… -
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Unforgivable Sin: On the Exploitation of Innocence
Children are not property to be exploited; they are gifts from God—and what do you do with a gift? You cherish it, grow it, and protect it. Yet, in a world marred by moral decay and power imbalances, the most vulnerable among us, children, often fall prey to the darkest desires of influential figures. The… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Overnight School Program Accused of Assigning Boys to Sleep With Girls
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Joe and Serena Wailes revealed last month that their 11-year-old daughter was assigned to share a bed with a boy who identifies as a transgender girl on an overnight school trip. Their story has led to more parents coming forward with similar allegations, according to a new demand letter first obtained… -
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More Gen Z Women Embracing ‘Tradwife’ Influencers
Hannah Neeleman, a Utah-based cattle farmer and mother of eight, is perhaps the most popular Instagram “tradwife”—a growing category of social media influencers who reject the not-so-traditional 9-to-5 workforce in favor of homeschooling their children, homemaking, or running a family business. Though her content is entirely wholesome, she (and other tradwife accounts) are not without controversy. In… -
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Voter Fraud More Widespread Than Some Think
The 2020 election involved a criminal voter fraud scheme with mass absentee ballots and phony voter registrations, according to the Justice Department and the New Jersey attorney general. This verdict and indictment happened in 2023. Prosecutors in Massachusetts and New York brought election fraud charges in the closing weeks of December. The Justice Department secured… -
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Janet Yellen Wants You to Believe Bidenomics Has Been a Smashing Success. The Opposite Is True.
Few academics have fallen as far from grace as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Instead of composing lectures from her Ivy League ivory tower, she’s been reduced to penning editorials defending the indefensible: Bidenomics. Her latest screed plays a shell game with the facts, telling the American people to disbelieve their lying eyes and empty wallets. The truth… -
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‘GESTAPO’: Canadian Reporter Arrested for Questioning Deputy Prime Minister
Canadian police have arrested a reporter for asking a question. David Menzies of Rebel News approached Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday to ask her why Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is not classified as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government. Freeland was leaving a vigil honoring the memory of 55 Canadians who were killed in 2020…