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How Is ‘Liberal Woke Takeover’ Affecting Journalism?
Amber Athey, author of the newly released book “The Snowflakes’ Revolt: How Woke Millennials Hijacked American Media,” is weighing in on how the “liberal woke takeover” is affecting journalism and journalistic standards. “The way that this strain of progressivism approaches journalism is completely divorced from what we traditionally understand as journalistic ethics and standards,” said… -
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Bud Light Misread Its Audience, Is Now Paying the Price
Anheuser-Busch stock is struggling to recover after the company’s Bud Light brand launched an ad campaign with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney. During March Madness, Mulvaney posted a reel on his Instagram account of himself enjoying a can of Bud Light. Mulvaney said Bud Light sent him cans of beer to celebrate “day 365 of womanhood.”… -
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Opening the Floodgates: Will Other Prosecutors Target Presidents and Their Families Now?
What constitutes a politicized prosecution is generally a matter of opinion. What seemed definitely different about the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump is that a state prosecutor brought the charges. Legal experts differ as to whether the Trump case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, will unleash more local prosecutors… -
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Biden EPA’s EV Quotas Would Take Away Americans’ Freedom of Choice of Vehicles, Enrich China
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced plans to make cars more expensive for Americans, curb U.S. energy jobs, and make Chinese battery manufacturers richer. The new proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency would require new car sales to be 60% battery-powered electric by 2030 and 67% by 2032 in order for automakers to be… -
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Pro-Border Security Sheriff Announces Run for US Senate Against Prominent Incumbent
Sheriff Mark Lamb of Pinal County, Arizona, a strong advocate for border security, is running for U.S. Senate in 2024. If Lamb wins the Republican nomination, he will face off against incumbent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, a former Democrat who left the party to become an independent last year. “Arizona needs a proven conservative fighter… -
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Fentanyl Being Mixed With Animal Tranquilizer, Spurring White House to Brand Xylazine ‘Emerging Threat’
The White House has labeled the use of the animal tranquilizer xylazine mixed with fentanyl “an emerging threat to the United States.” According to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, “xylazine combined with fentanyl is being sold illicitly and is associated with significant and rapidly worsening negative health consequences, including fatal overdoses… -
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Economic Freedom Being ‘Strangled Into Stagnation,’ Ex-British Prime Minister Warns
The ideas of low taxes, limited government, and free enterprise won the Cold War, but now they are being “strangled into stagnation,” former British Prime Minister Liz Truss warned Wednesday. Truss made her remarks in Washington at The Heritage Foundation's 2023 Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture, hosted by Nile Gardiner, director of the foundation's Margaret Thatcher… -
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EXCLUSIVE: LGBT Legal Challenge Threatens Far More Than Florida Medicaid Rule, Experts Warn
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—If a federal court upholds LGBT activists' claims against a Florida health agency's Medicaid rule on transgender interventions, that decision would have devastating consequences for civil rights law, health care providers, and public health, experts warn. LGBT activist groups led by Lambda Legal and representing four young people who identify as… -
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America Imports Nearly $79 Billion in Cellphones, Other Household Goods From China
In 2020, the year that the COVID-19 pandemic—which originated in China—hit the United States, Americans imported $61,689,114,229 in the category of “cellphones and other household goods” from China. In 2021, Americans imported $75,104,920,094 in Chinese-made cellphones and other household goods. In 2022, the Census Bureau reported last week, Americans imported $78,766,814,842 in Chinese-made cellphones and… -
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The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities
Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died. That’s when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn’t finish… -
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‘A Land of Opportunity, Not Oppression’: Tim Scott Takes Significant Step Toward Becoming Presidential Candidate
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott announced an “exploratory committee for president” Wednesday, his first step in entering the 2024 race. “I know that America is a land of opportunity, not oppression. I know it, because I’ve lived it,” Scott said in the video. “I will never back down in defense of the conservative values… -
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63% of Small Business Employers Concerned ‘Shaky Economic Environment Could Force Their Business to Close’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Job Creators Network Foundation monthly survey is providing somber insight into how some small businesses view the U.S. economy. Sixty-three percent of small business owners "said they’re worried that the shaky economic environment could force their business to close—a six-point jump compared to February," a press release said. The March… -
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March Report Shows ‘Inflation Is Far From Dead,’ Whatever Biden Says: Economist
An economist says that "inflation is far from dead" after the consumer price index report showed inflation rose 0.1% in March, up 5% from March 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. "Today's inflation data show prices rising more than twice as fast as the Fed's target 2.0% rate," EJ Antoni, a research… -
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Will Supreme Court Hear Abortion Pill Case? Plaintiffs’ Attorney Weighs In
On Good Friday, a federal judge in Texas handed down a potentially historic abortion ruling. The case at hand revolves around the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. In 2000, the FDA approved the use of mifepristone to be used along with the drug misoprostol to terminate a pregnancy. But some… -
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New Docs Tie Biden to FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago
The Biden White House potentially played a role in the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago, based on government emails obtained by the America First Legal, a conservative government watchdog group. AFL obtained the information through a Freedom of Information Act request to the National Archives and Records Administration, and on Monday followed with additional records requests. … -
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Judiciary Committee Subpoenas FBI for Documents Regarding Plan to Infiltrate Catholic Churches
The House Judiciary Committee released internal FBI documents on Monday that show a plan to establish sources in local Catholic parishes to combat alleged potential violent extremism from “radical-traditional Catholics.” The committee also issued a subpoena to compel the bureau’s cooperation during its investigation into the FBI’s actions. Following the January leak of an FBI… -
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NPR Is Part of the Incestuous Regime. Why Haven’t Republicans Defunded it?
Update: After this article was published, NPR announced that it would no longer be publishing new content on Twitter. “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence,” NPR said in a statement to The Hill. “We are turning… -
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Hunter Biden Associates’ 80 White House Visits Evidence ‘Biden Family Enterprise Centered Around Joe Biden’
Hunter Biden’s business associates’ more than 80 visits to the White House is more evidence that Hunter Biden’s various business enterprises were all about President Joe Biden, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer told The Daily Signal. Associates and business partners of the president’s son visited the White House while Biden was vice president,… -
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10 House Republicans to File Amicus Brief in Suit Seeking to Overturn Omnibus Spending Bill
House Democrats violated the Constitution in December in approving the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 omnibus spending bill with proxy voting, according to an amicus brief introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. Roy, along with nine other Republican members of Congress, were set to submit the amicus brief Tuesday about the harms of… -
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Experts React to China’s Military Stating It Is ‘Ready to Fight’ After Taiwan Drills
A defense expert and an Asian studies expert are weighing in on the People’s Liberation Army stating it is “ready to fight” following three days of military drills around Taiwan. “The theater’s troops are ready to fight at all times and can fight at any time to resolutely smash any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ and…