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opinion
Virginia Can Serve as a Model for Federal Permitting Reform
One of the biggest hurdles to undertaking much-needed infrastructure development is a painfully slow permitting process. It can take months or, in some cases, multiple years to get all the necessary permits for new projects. A little under a century ago, iconic structures like the Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building were completed in… -
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Fani Willis’ Office Begging for Résumés on LinkedIn
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking applicants to serve as prosecutors in her office, according to a Monday post on the social media site LinkedIn. A Georgia appeals court threw Willis off a criminal case targeting President Donald Trump in a 2-to-1 ruling released in December, saying the trial court failed… -
opinion
Make DC Safe Again—2.0
President Donald Trump is right to be angry about violent crime in D.C. As one of us (Cully Stimson) wrote in these pages in January, it’s time to make D.C. safe again. There are two ways to do that: an easy way and a hard way. The choice is up for debate—but what’s not is… -
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Chinese Communist Party-Linked Exec Donated $50K to Democrat’s Gubernatorial Campaign
News broke Wednesday that a U.S.-based executive at a luxury electric carmaker gave tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign of Democrat Virginia gubernatorial candidate and former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger. While that wouldn’t normally make news, the executive has been listed as a member of the Chinese Communist Party. Alana Goodman of The… -
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Navy Requesting Cutting-Edge Nuclear Prototypes to Power a New Era of Warfare
Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan put out a call Thursday to America’s technological innovators to power the Navy’s future with small modular nuclear reactors and cutting-edge power generation and storage technology. “President [Donald] Trump’s commitment to unleashing American energy innovation is powering the Navy into a new era,” Phelan said of the Navy’s… -
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Churches Burn and Christians Face Beheadings in Africa
Radical Islamic groups are targeting and killing Christians in multiple African nations. An ISIS affiliate, known as Islamic State Mozambique Province, is taking responsibility for recent beheadings of Christians in Mozambique and setting fire to homes and churches, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, a research organization based in Washington, D.C. On July… -
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This Group ‘WILL NOT BE COUNTED’ in Census, Trump Says
President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Commerce to start work on a new census in which illegal immigrants will not be counted. “I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information… -
opinion
EU Regulatory Overreach Is Unacceptable for America’s Energy, Economy
Recently, the White House announced a massive trade deal with the European Union—one that’s set to bolster the U.S. economy, increase competitiveness, and promote American energy. The White House says the new deal will see the EU purchase $750 billion in U.S. energy and make new U.S. investments totaling $600 billion—all by 2028. This will strengthen… -
opinion
Is the Woke Tide Turning in American Universities?
The student giving a tour at an elite American university this summer hit all the right points: what the core and elective courses are, how hard they are, and what campus life is like. It’s what the guide didn’t do that raised my eyebrow. Suddenly, there was no land acknowledgment. It was like Sherlock Holmes’ famous “Dog That… -
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VA Cuts Ties With Unions in ‘Best Interests of Veterans’
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it is severing its ties with unions, in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order ending collective bargaining with unions at some agencies. The move is intended to make it easier for VA leaders to promote high-performing employees, hold poor performers accountable, and improve benefits and services to America’s… -
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Trump’s Endorsement of Virginia’s GOP Nominee for Governor—and a Little History
Amidst questions about actress Sydney Sweeney’s jeans ad and her reported Republican voter registration, President Donald Trump was asked Sunday if he was going to endorse Virginia’s Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in her race for governor against former CIA case officer and Democrat member of Congress Abigail Spanberger. The reporter “said the quiet part… -
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Musk Wins California Free Speech Court Ruling on Digitally Altered Videos
Tech mogul Elon Musk notched an important victory for free speech this week after a federal judge on Tuesday invalidated a California law that sought to restrict digitally altered videos on online platforms like X, which Musk owns. Assembly Bill 2655, the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, required X and some other… -
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Trump to Press Putin on Ukraine Peace Deal in Possible Meeting Next Week
President Donald Trump told European leaders he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week. This followed a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said he spoke with Trump on Wednesday. “European leaders were on the call, and I am grateful to each of them for their support…. -
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Millions in Defense Dollars Back Group Supporting ‘Safe Abortions’ Globally
The Department of Defense has given multimillion-dollar grants in recent years to a health organization that promotes “safe abortions” and “reproductive health” abroad. The DOD’s stated goal for the money is to mitigate the spread of HIV and AIDS in the military forces of U.S. allies. The organization, Washington, D.C.-based Population Services International, supports “safe… -
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Trump Speaks to Vance Being MAGA Heir-Apparent
Will Vice President JD Vance succeed President Donald Trump as leader of the “Make America Great Again” movement? Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks so, and Trump himself weighed in on Tuesday. At a White House event where Trump signed an executive order creating a 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics task force, the president was… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Honors Victims of Fatal DUI, Other Illegal Alien Crimes
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—It was a warm summer night in New Jersey, and Maria Santos Pleitez was driving her 11-year-old daughter and her daughter’s friend to get milkshakes when a drunken driver slammed into Pleitez’s vehicle, killing her and her daughter. The other girl was injured, but survived the July 26 crash. The man… -
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Former Sen. Sherrod Brown That Much Closer to Running
Last November, now Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, defeated incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, helping Republicans regain control of the chamber. With Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, who was appointed to replace Vice President JD Vance in the Senate, up for election in 2026, Brown may be running once more. Axios last week reported that Brown… -
opinion
80 Years Later: Why America Can’t Disarm
On this day eight decades ago, the U.S. first employed our nuclear power. On Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing at least 70,000 Japanese. Three days later, we dropped another—this time, on Nagasaki, killing another 40,000 and bringing a definitive end to World War II. Eighty years… -
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South Carolina Governor Hopeful Calls for Erasing Sole Dem House District
Rep. Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican running for governor, is calling for congressional redistricting to flip the Palmetto State’s sole Democrat district. Flipping the seat, currently held by Democrat veteran and former House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, would be nothing short of a sucker punch to the Democratic Party. “We have Republican supermajorities in… -
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Selective Media Indignation: Which Scandals Get Defined as a ‘Distraction,’ Which Don’t
There’s something funny in scandal politics when people accuse each other of pushing a “distraction.” So if President Donald Trump tries to change the subject to Russia collusion-hoaxing, it’s a “distraction” from the media’s energetic Jeffrey Epstein obsession. All this really proves is that the liberal media elites get unhappy whenever anyone tries to offer…
