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How FBI’s Wray Answers When House Republican Asks About Censoring Americans
Speaking for the first time publicly since a federal court blocked U.S. government agencies from colluding with social media companies to censor disfavored content, FBI Director Christopher Wray denied to a House panel that the bureau engages in censorship. “We are going to comply with the court’s order, the court’s preliminary injunction,” Wray said Wednesday… -
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Americans ‘Are Waking Up’ to Biden Admin’s ‘Assault on Their Retirement Accounts,’ GOP Lawmaker Says
Investors throughout the U.S. “are being held hostage by those who … don’t want to maximize retirement profits, but rather seek to push a far left social and political agenda,” according to Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. “Forcing lower returns on Americans who are trying to build a securer financial future is wrong,” Huizenga said on… -
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FBI Refuses to Disclose Documents Regarding Agency’s Targeting of Catholics
The FBI responded on Friday to a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group and claimed that the group is “not entitled” to records regarding the agency’s targeting of Catholics in a memo from January, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Catholic Vote filed a lawsuit in April against the agency after it failed… -
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TRANS TAKEOVER? Biden EEOC Pick Will Force Gender Ideology on Employers, Critics Warn
The Senate will vote Wednesday on Kalpana Kotagal, whom President Joe Biden appointed to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a move critics claim will force transgender ideology on employers across America. "I'm incredibly concerned about Kalpana Kotagal's record of support for radical transgender ideology," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal… -
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Pro-Life States Are Putting Their Money Where Their Mouths Are
Media outlets on the Left constantly berate pro-lifers and accuse them of forgetting about children after they’re born. They push false narratives that the pro-life movement wants to deprive women of opportunities and prevent children from obtaining a safe and fair upbringing. In actuality, pro-lifers have a long history of assisting women and families with options, materials,… -
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Uncovering COVID-19’s Origins: How Team Biden Is Stonewalling
The Biden administration is stonewalling efforts to get to the bottom of the origins of the pandemic that has been blamed for the loss of over 1.1 million American lives. Pursuant to the unanimously enacted COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, the administration is required to provide Congress with detailed, declassified information on specific research activities… -
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Senate Democrats’ Supreme Court ‘Ethics’ Bill Is Really About Disapproval of Rulings
If you hadn’t heard by now, Democrats in Congress and their left-wing allies are really in a state of panic about the Supreme Court, and it’s easy to see why. The Left can’t risk leaving the country to the American people and their elected legislators, but need politically driven judges to impose their agenda. Well,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Challenges Biden Admin to Fly Pro-Life Flags After Pride Celebration
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts of Nebraska is calling on President Joe Biden and his federal agencies to show inclusivity toward pro-life Americans by flying pro-life flags during October, which is Respect Life Month. The Nebraska senator sent 20 letters to Biden administration agencies with this request, first obtained by The… -
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‘REAL WAGE DESTRUCTION’: Small Business Leader Reacts to Latest Inflation Report
An economist says "American families are having to eat the rotten fruit from the tree of government overspending" after the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday that the consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, rose 0.2% in June. "It's great news for the consumer that inflation has slowed dramatically from 40-year highs,… -
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‘Sound of Freedom’ Has ‘Nothing to Do With Politics,’ Angel Studios CEO Says, Rebutting Film’s Critics
The anti-human trafficking film “Sound of Freedom” has raked in more than $41 million since opening on July Fourth. Variety has praised the movie, saying it “makes the desire to ‘take action’ seem more than an action-movie gesture.” And World magazine called the movie a “wake-up call, reminding Americans of the evil that’s perpetrated both… -
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Notre Dame Professor Sues Student Newspaper for Covering Her Abortion Promotion
A pro-abortion Notre Dame professor is suing the student newspaper that reported on her inflammatory abortion remarks, claiming that the reporting subjected her to harassment. The student newspaper says her claims are "entirely false." Notre Dame professor Tamara Kay takes issue with two stories from The Irish Rover, a conservative-leaning newspaper run by students at… -
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You Might Be Safer in Afghanistan Than in Nation’s Capital
“I don’t want to get killed in front of my wife and kids.” That was what Nasrat Ahmad Yar reportedly said to a friend about why he wanted to leave his home country of Afghanistan. On July 3, Yar was fatally shot in Washington, D.C., while finishing a late-night shift working for the ride-sharing company… -
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US-S. Korea Ties ‘Deeply Rooted in Shared Values of Freedom, Democracy, Rule of Law,’ Seoul Envoy Says
As the United States and South Korea mark the 70th anniversary of their alliance in the Indo-Pacific, The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday hosted a panel discussion on the alliance’s future. The panelists emphasized the importance of the trilateral alliance among the United States, South Korea, and Japan in the face of threats from North Korea… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Pew Backs Away From Crackdown on ‘Payday Loans’ After Conservative Group’s Reports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Pew Charitable Trusts appears to have backed away from touting affordable small loans and attacking "payday loans"—often the only form of banking available to many Americans—after a conservative group released two reports undermining Pew's central claims. "A consumer credit crisis is looming: inflation is up, there are no more savings,… -
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What Biden’s Top Military Pick Has to Say About 18-Year-Old Woman in National Guard Required to Shower With Males
An 18-year-old woman in the South Dakota National Guard was required to shower with biological men during basic training, but was afraid to complain about the situation, Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said Tuesday at a Senate hearing. The hearing held by the Senate Armed Services Committee was to consider President Joe Biden’s nomination of Air… -
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A Case Study in Hollywood Hypocrisy: How It Deals With Stars From the Left and Right
As Hollywood rolls out the red carpet for the superhero movie “The Flash,” it is hoping you forgot all you’ve heard about the star, Ezra Miller. Or, at the very least, Hollywood hopes you forgive him quicker than the conservative actors it has canceled. You may know Miller, 30, as Patrick from the 2012 young… -
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The ‘Banned All Over’ Book Antifa Gave Me
The light turned green and I joined what looked like a group of high school students on the crosswalk across North 12th Street in Philadelphia. As I reached the other side of the street in front of the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, the venue for Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit, I was approached by… -
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Transgender-Identifying Man Beats Out Women to Win Netherlands’ Miss Universe Pageant
She is beauty, she is grace, and “she” is actually a “he.” This variation of William Shatner’s song in the movie “Miss Congeniality” may have come to mind Saturday, when transgender model Rikkie Valerie Kollé, a biological man, was crowned Miss Universe Netherlands Kollé, 22, is the first transgender woman to win in the 94-year… -
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Cycling Competition Creates Third Category for ‘Transgender’ Athletes
An American cycling competition created a third division for “transgender” cyclists on Friday after a male recently won a cycling event in the women’s division. In June, Austin Killips, a man who identifies as a transgender woman, competed in the nearly 140-mile Monuments of Cycling’s “Belgian Waffle Ride,” a grueling one-day cycling event that mirrors… -
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Bud Light in a Hole, but Still Digging
More than three months later, the makers of Bud Light still don’t “get” it. And neither, apparently, does its transgender former “spokesmodel” Dylan Mulvaney. Anheuser-Busch is flailing—and mostly failing—in its efforts to win back Bud Light’s disgruntled, largely blue-collar customers repulsed by Mulvaney, a social media “influencer” whose transgender base comprises an estimated .003% of…