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Democrats’ Minimum Wage Hike Would Make Life Less Affordable: Study
A new study estimates that Democrats’ proposal to increase the federal minimum wage to $25/hour would cost the U.S. economy 5 million jobs and especially harm workers ages 16 to 24. “Politicians on the Left are making empty promises that minimum wage hikes will magically fix the cost of living crisis without doing their research,”… -
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Georgia Voters’ Opinions on Health Care Revealed in Poll
As Georgia voters consider whom they want to be their next governor, a recent poll reveals that many are concerned about the rising cost of health care. The University of Georgia recently conducted a poll of nearly 1,000 likely voters to gather their opinions on which election issues matter most to them. The poll, sponsored… -
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Iowa Candidate Points to Farming Practices as Root Cause of Rising Cancer Rates
Iowa has the second-highest rate of cancer in the country, and both candidates for governor are putting this issue at the forefront of their campaigns. At an event with the American Cancer Society, MAHA Republican nominee for governor Zach Lahn said the state’s high cancer rates are “tied into agriculture” and Iowa’s water system. “I… -
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Trump’s New FDA Nominee Draws Early MAHA Praise, Calls for Action on Abortion Pill
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that he has selected Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration. “Today I am honored to nominate the wonderful Dr. Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, as our next FDA Commissioner,” Trump wrote in the Truth Social announcement. “Dr. Heidi has been a rockstar in my Administration, where… -
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Christian Mom Who Spoke Out Against Transgender Policies Blocked From Son’s Graduation: Lawsuit
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Christian mom is suing Portland Public Schools after officials barred her from her children’s elementary school for a year in alleged retaliation for criticizing its transgender policies. “What the district said was, ‘Be quiet, or we will take your children away from you,’ essentially—at eight hours a day, nine months… -
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TRANS POLITICAL VIOLENCE: Man Confessed He Planned to Assassinate Trump Official
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a man who confessed to planning the assassination of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Judge Rudolph Contreras, an appointee of President Barack Obama, sentenced 24-year-old Ryan Michael English to 73 months in prison, far short of the 121 months prosecutors sought. English, who identifies as transgender and uses female pronouns… -
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Major Media Outlets Claim Don Lemon’s Church Invasion Prosecution Might ‘Muzzle Reporting in the Public Interest’
Major media outlets joined an amicus brief urging a court to dismiss the church invasion charges against former CNN anchor Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort. Forty-five media outlets and nonprofit organizations joined the brief, including The Associated Press, Dow Jones (which owns The Wall Street Journal), MS NOW, The New York Times, The… -
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Survey: Gen Zers Use Investment Money for Sports Gambling
THE WASHINGTON STAND—A recent survey of American retail investors reveals concerning trends in how the youngest generation of American adults treats its money. More than half (52%) of Generation Z investors said they had redirected investment money into sports betting over the past year, and 26% of Gen Z investors treat sports betting as an… -
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‘Will Come Back to Bite You’: Top FDA Official Asked Fauci for Vaccine Side Effect Study, Email Shows
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A newly released email suggests that the nation’s top vaccine regulator encouraged Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins to leverage billions in scientific research dollars to study COVID vaccine side effects—but they never followed through on her request. In the spring of 2021, Janet Woodcock, then head of the Food… -
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Homelessness Up 20% Under Newsom as Trump Admin Rolls Out ‘Treatment First’ Alternative
Three federal agencies gathered in San Diego on Wednesday to announce a new “treatment first” approach aimed at addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis. Since 2016, California has followed a “housing first” model after then-Gov. Jerry Brown required state-funded homelessness programs to incorporate its core components. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development… -
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Vanessa Sivadge Shares the Story Behind America’s First-Ever Detransition Clinic
In a historic $10 million settlement, Texas Children’s Hospital agreed to open the nation’s first-ever detransition clinic by October and fire five physicians after the hospital allegedly funded gender-transition procedures using Texas Medicaid. Vanessa Sivadge, the whistleblower who sounded the alarm in May 2023, explained that working as a nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital was… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Fauci Called Them ‘Three Stooges’—Now His COVID-19 Critics Are Looking Vindicated
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: I think we should leave [Dr. Anthony] Fauci. The news stories that have come out… -
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Virginia Navigates Measles Outbreak
The school year starts this month in almost every district in Virginia, a change from the state’s long-time policy of beginning the year in early September. Administrators in Central Virginia are beginning the semester with a health concern: a measles outbreak in the region. The Virginia Department of Health reported 177 cases of measles statewide… -
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WPATH Just Made an Earth-Shattering Admission in Court
Democrats, activist groups, and medical associations have long cited the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care as the ultimate authority on a scientific “consensus” for sex-rejecting procedures, but WPATH just made an admission in court that threatens to undermine that exalted authority. The Federal Trade Commission and four state attorneys general sued… -
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Why Don Lemon’s 3 Legal Maneuvers Are Doomed to Fail
Former CNN host Don Lemon is testing three strategies to escape criminal charges for his role in a January church invasion, and a conservative attorney expects all three of them to fail. “I find it very hard to believe that this is going to work,” Josh Hammer, senior counsel at the Article III Project, told… -
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Are Nonprofit Hospitals Betraying Their Mission?
Some of the biggest corporations in our cities pay no income taxes. Often, they also pay no property taxes and get other tax breaks. They all receive massive taxpayer-funded subsidies and other benefits. These are supposedly “nonprofit” hospitals, and they get these benefits based on their claim to be charitable institutions. But do they really… -
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sees a Midterms Role for MAHA
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes the “Make America Healthy Again” movement will play a pivotal role in the upcoming November midterm elections. Kennedy has toured the country touting President Donald Trump’s MAHA accomplishments, visiting Danville, Virginia; Goldsboro, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; Lexington, Kentucky; and Atlanta, Georgia, this week alone. “Everywhere… -
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Family Should Never Become a Political Battleground
There are some disputes that belong in a courtroom. Others belong around a family table. Very few belong in the court of public opinion. When family conflicts involving public figures spill into headlines, cable television, and social media, the public often assumes it is witnessing a search for truth. More often, it is witnessing only fragments of a much larger story. Allegations, counter-allegations, selective leaks, and emotionally… -
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US Job Openings Drop in June, Hiring Increases
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (REUTERS)—U.S. job openings dropped in June amid a sharp decline in the health care and social assistance sector, but a rise in hiring and low layoffs suggested the labor market remained stable. Job openings, a measure of labor demand, had decreased by 178,000 to 7.359 million by the last day of June,… -
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Millionaires and Billionaires Are Blooming Like Red Roses
America’s Big Tech companies are turning Karl Marx’s 19th-century nightmare into a 21st-century dream come true for regular workers. Far-left Democrats—and far-far-left democratic socialists—love to rail against the evils of the super wealthy. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., relentlessly grumbles his cranky incantation about “millionaires and billionaires.” “You can’t earn a billion dollars,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., insists….
