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Taiwanese Leader Denounces China’s ‘Assault on Religion’
Just days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to China in an attempt to improve relations, Taiwan’s top legislative leader was in Washington thanking the U.S. for its support and denouncing Beijing’s “all-out assault on religion” amid a broader government effort to block the Chinese people from enjoying fundamental freedoms and human rights. You… -
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Screenshot Shows Sexually Charged Messages From Indiana Teacher to Current Student
A middle school orchestra teacher at Hamilton Southeastern Intermediate School in Fishers, Indiana, appears to have sent sexually suggestive private Instagram messages last summer to a student currently at Hamilton Southeastern High School. A concerned parent sent a screenshot that he claims shows an Instagram private message conversation between a Hamilton Southeastern Schools student and… -
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The Russians Aren’t Complying With the New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty—Now What?
The State Department informed Congress this week in its New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, Implementation Report that it can’t certify that Russia is in compliance with the bilateral nuclear arms control agreement. According to the report, Russia has been preventing required inspections of its nuclear arsenal and has failed to convene a… -
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‘It’s a Fairness Issue’: McCarthy Promises to Protect Women’s Sports From Transgender Threat
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Protecting female sports from biological male athletes is a Republican priority in the 2023 legislative session, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., said at an event celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Wednesday. “It’s not a partisan issue,” said House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who moderated a panel of female high school and college athletes… -
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Fact Check: Karine Jean-Pierre Says Republicans Wanted to ‘Abruptly’ End Title 42 Border Policy
During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Republicans had been the ones to push for an end to the Title 42 border policy, but the record demonstrates the opposite. A reporter asked Jean-Pierre whether the Biden administration would keep or lift Title 42, a public health measure used to easily… -
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‘Disregard for American National Security’: House Panel Seeks Details of Kerry’s Secret Climate Talks With China
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee wants more information about Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry’s negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party over an international agreement. President Joe Biden named Kerry, a former U.S. senator, as his special presidential envoy for climate. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, served as secretary of state during President… -
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Georgia Voters Show Just How Wrong Joe Biden and His Sycophants Are
Here is the question: When will President Joe Biden, failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred, and other denizens of the Left apologize to Georgia’s legislators, governor, and other residents? The answer is probably “Never,” despite the latest evidence of just how wrong they’ve been about Georgia’s commonsense election reforms in… -
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Biden Spending Billions on Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Many Americans Will Never Use
It’s winter, with high temperatures well below freezing in Jackson, Wyoming, and barely above freezing in Wyoming’s capital, Cheyenne. Relying only on battery-powered electric vehicles in a cold climate takes courage because car batteries quickly lose their charge when temperatures are low. Yet the federal government wants to spend billions to build charging stations all… -
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Anthony Fauci Symbolizes ‘Weaponization of Loneliness,’ Former CIA Analyst Says
Tyrants gain control through weaponizing the fear of loneliness, author and former CIA analyst Stella Morabito says. In America, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the omnipresent voice of the COVID-19 pandemic, is one example of this, she says. “I believe that he symbolizes for our era the weaponization of loneliness,” Morabito, a senior contributor at The Federalist,… -
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Doritos, Coke, and Morning-After Pills All Available From This College’s Vending Machines
Running to a vending machine at 2 a.m. for a Coke or a Snickers bar is a normal experience for any college student, especially during finals week. But food and drink aren’t the only things students can get out of a vending machine now, at least at George Washington University in the nation’s capital. GWU… -
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Fight for Speaker Pays Off as House Takes Big Step Toward Restoring Deliberative Government
The Republican rebellion over a new House speaker was a good thing, and it looks like it’s already paying off. In early January, a group of 20 conservative House members held up the election of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker of the House, citing several fundamental concerns about how the legislative body functions. These… -
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5 Things to Know About Nancy Abudu, Leftist SPLC Lawyer Biden Tapped for 11th Circuit
Updated May 18: The Senate voted 49-47 Thursday along party lines to confirm President Joe Biden's nomination of Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director at the Southern Poverty Law Center, for a seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Abudu's confirmation to the appeals judgeship, in which Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was the only… -
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Glenn Youngkin Leads Pro-Life Virginians Marching for Life
RICHMOND, Virginia—Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, marched at the very head of Virginia’s first state March for Life post-Roe v. Wade, smiling broadly and chatting with pro-life Virginians around him. “I believe that we are supposed to express our views and the March for Life is a way to express my view that Virginians… -
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4 Takeaways From House Judiciary Committee’s ‘Biden Border Crisis’ Hearing
As fentanyl kills thousands of Americans and illegal immigration continues to increase, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday addressing how Biden administration’s border policies have affected American lives. Representatives heard testimony from several witnesses, including Brandon Dunn, co-founder of the Forever 15 Project; Dale Lynn Carruthers, county judge of Terrell County, Texas;… -
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When Black Police Officers Kill a Black Man, That’s White Supremacy
This week, tape emerged from Memphis, Tennessee, of five black police officers engaging in the beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man. Nichols was pulled over for reckless driving, according to the officers; they ordered him to get on the ground and to give them his hands; he did not comply and instead began… -
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Congress Must Cut Spending to Match Hike in Debt Ceiling ‘Dollar for Dollar,’ Heritage Foundation President Says
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting about the nation’s debt ceiling Wednesday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., it’s clear some negotiation will be required, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts told reporters. McCarthy’s fellow House Republicans’ metaphor is that they will be “using the debt ceiling fight today, this week, this spring, as an opportunity… -
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Why Blue State Politicians’ Tax Cartel Attempt Will Fail
Cartels are groups of organizations that collude with each other to drive up prices, crush competition, and ultimately extort huge amounts of money to redistribute to the cartel members. While the word is often associated with drugs, oil-producing countries, or anti-competitive business practices, politicians from nine blue states are attempting something new in the U.S.—a… -
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3 Food Stamp Reforms to Improve Outcomes for the Truly Needy—and Save Taxpayers Billions
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the food stamp program became (and has remained) bloated, in part because of a potentially illegal double-digit benefits increase by the Biden administration. Additionally, obvious eligibility loopholes remain unaddressed even as millionaires have enrolled. The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives has the opportunity to initiate three specific reforms that would save… -
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Justice Department Searches Biden’s Beach House for Classified Docs, Attorney Confirms
The U.S. Department of Justice is searching President Joe Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Wednesday amid the news that Biden kept classified documents from his time as vice president to President Barack Obama, according to a statement from the president’s personal attorney. “Today, with the President’s full support and cooperation, the DOJ is… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Pokes Holes in ‘Fatally Flawed’ Study Claiming to Prove Kids Benefit From Transgender Hormones
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals poked holes in a study claiming to prove the marginal benefits of cross-sex hormones for teenagers who persistently identify with the gender opposite their biological sex. The group, Do No Harm, called the study "fatally flawed and borderline unscientific" in a report…