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Bill Amending Oklahoma’s Anti-ESG Law Dies
A bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to amend the state’s three-year-old anti-ESG law died last week after criticism that it would water down efforts to avoid public investments in companies boycotting oil and gas companies. ESG is an acronym for environmental, social, and governance-based investing. Oklahoma’s 2022 Energy Discrimination Elimination Act bans state investments with… -
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‘MAHA’?: New Jersey Democrat Introduces ‘Caffeine Safety’ Labeling Bill
Rep. Rob Menendez Jr. introduced the Sarah Katz Caffeine Safety Act at a press conference Monday, a bill that would require labels showing caffeine levels on beverages. Joined by the parents of children who have died from cardiac episodes after consuming highly caffeinated drinks, Menendez, D-N.J., said his bill fits with the “Make America Healthy… -
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Illegal Alien Accused of Raping, Killing Maryland Mother Gets Pretrial Hearing
The illegal alien accused of killing Maryland mother Rachel Morin walked, shackled, into the Harford County, Maryland, courthouse on Monday for a pretrial hearing. Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez faces a number of charges in Morin's death, including first-degree murder and first-degree rape. “Rachel Morin is another victim of the failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration,” Rep. Michael… -
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Nominally Nonpartisan, Wisconsin High Court Election Likely to Set Ideological Direction of Bench
Voters in Wisconsin head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the ideological majority and direction of their state Supreme Court. The race involves who will replace outgoing left-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. Republicans are supporting Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel, while Democrats are backing Dane County Circuit Court Judge… -
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Florida Special Elections for House Seen as Barometer on Trump Policies
Two special elections Tuesday for House seats from Florida will be a test of the popularity of the first 70 days of President Donald Trump’s second term and will decide whether or not Republicans can maintain their already slender margin of control in the House of Representatives. The stakes are high. With four seats currently… -
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Georgia Democrat Senator Lives Rent-Free in $1M Home: Report
Sen. Raphael Warnock lives rent-free in a tax-exempt $1 million home, the Free Beacon reported Monday. The article raises ethical questions about Warnock, as a senator, receiving numerous benefits from an outside organization. Warnock, D-Ga., who serves as pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church—where Martin Luther King Jr. served in the 1960s—has often backed left-wing causes… -
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‘Empire of Gender Secrecy Policies Is Going to Crumble’ After Trump Education Probe in California, Lawyer Says
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Department of Education under President Donald Trump launched an investigation into the California Department of Education Thursday in a move that could prevent the Golden State bureaucracy from weaseling its way out of a key parental notification lawsuit. The lawsuit focuses on California school policies preventing teachers from notifying parents… -
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Education Department’s Probe Into Anti-Parent California Law Could Help Affected Families, Legal Group Hopes
Aurora Regino was the last to know that her daughter's school district was secretly helping the 11-year-old identify as a boy. An elementary school guidance counselor at Chico Unified School District in California started referring to the little girl with a boy's name and boy's pronouns. Regino said her daughter told the counselor that she wanted… -
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Republican Stronghold Flips Blue as Democrat Credits Trump for Surprise Victory in Pennsylvania
Democrats flipped a state Senate seat in heavily Republican Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, during a special election Tuesday, and the Democrat senator-elect is crediting President Donald Trump for the victory. Democrat James Andrew Malone, the mayor of East Petersburg, won the seat for the 36th District by less than 500 votes, receiving 50% of the total… -
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Border Patrol Recruiter Asked to Leave California High School Career Fair
A Border Patrol recruiter was asked to leave a college and career fair on Wednesday at a public high school in Southern California. A post on the El Centro Sector Facebook page described the incident and questioned if “Extremist Agendas in our Schools” played a role in the high school’s principal asking the Border Patrol… -
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Texas Lawmaker ‘Sneaks’ into University’s Transgender Event, Exposes Programs Funded by Taxpayers
Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison sounded the alarm after he “snuck” into a state-funded transgender conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday, according to a string of posts on his X account. “The Texas Government is promoting a radical, liberal agenda … with your tax dollars,” the Republican wrote on X, adding,… -
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Top MS-13 Gang Member Arrested in Virginia
Authorities have arrested a top MS-13 gang member, FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday morning. “This is a massive victory for a safer America,” Patel wrote on X, adding, “Justice is coming.” The man’s name has not been released, but Fox News Digital reports that authorities arrested the 24-year-old suspect, who is reportedly the gang’s… -
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Maine Insists on Standoff With Trump Over Men in Women’s Sports. Who’s Winning This One?
Maine is putting it all on the line in the name of “transgender rights.” The state has gone so far as to risk federal funding for education and to strip some Maine residents of representation in the state capital. The ongoing dispute between the state and the federal government over Title IX violations is set… -
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How Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Could Affect Balance of Power in Congress
The razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives could hinge on the outcome of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election set for April 1 between Republican-supported candidate Brad Schimel and Democrat-backed candidate Susan Crawford. Elections for the highest court in the Badger State are officially nonpartisan, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court has seven justices,… -
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Why the Push Against Data Centers That Bring Billions to the Virginia Economy?
It was 2001 when I realized the city of Buffalo, where I was living and doing radio at the time, was never going to come back from being a ghost town. That’s because there was this little art house startup tech firm called Microsoft that wanted to build a data center out of the abandoned… -
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‘BIBLICAL TERRORIST’: Georgia Realtor Shares How Trans Activists Hounded Her Out of Her Job
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transgender activists tried to hound a Georgia real estate agent out of business because the realtor urged a public library to move a sexually explicit book out of the children's section. When she sued, the judge dismissed her case. Now, the Georgia Court of Appeals has taken up her case and… -
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Oklahoma Debates How to Fight ESG, Amid AG-Treasurer Clash
Oklahoma lawmakers advanced legislation that could gut a three-year-old anti-ESG law and leave state taxpayers vulnerable to environmental, social, and governance-based investing, critics contend. The Oklahoma Senate Energy Committee recently advanced SB 714, sponsored by state Sen. Dave Rader, which amends the existing law on state contracts and transfers enforcement authority from the state treasurer… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Illinois Sued Over Law That Could Force Pro-Life Groups to Hire Abortion Advocates
A new Illinois law prevents pro-life organizations from hiring based on their pro-life views, meaning they could be forced instead to hire abortion advocates whose views violate their core religious beliefs. Now, a pro-life pregnancy resource center that wants to hire a nurse to counsel women facing unplanned pregnancies and a Catholic diocese are… -
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Texas AG Paxton Sues School District for ‘Illegally Teaching’ Critical Race Theory
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Coppell Independent School District for “illegally teaching woke and hateful critical race theory curriculum,” his office said in a Wednesday press release. The lawsuit follows an undercover video revealing Coppell school district’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction Evan Whitfield admitting to defying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on… -
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Woman Arrested by Attorney General in Texas for Performing Illegal Abortions
A woman was arrested in Texas for allegedly providing illegal abortions, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. The arrest is the first of its kind under a 2022 near-total abortion ban in the state. “In Texas, life is sacred,” Paxton said in a press release. “I will always do everything in my power to…