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After Gang Attack on Ex-DOGE Staffer, Trump and Musk See Need to ‘Federalize’ DC
President Donald Trump is threatening to take back federal control over the District of Columbia after a member of the president’s Department of Government Efficiency was brutally beaten in the city in the early hours of Sunday morning. The president on Tuesday sounded off on the failure of the District’s government to properly police the… -
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Nuclear Reactor on the Moon? NASA Chief Says It’s Needed to Power Lunar Base
The Trump administration is prioritizing getting a nuclear reactor on the moon by the end of the decade in a bid to beat Russia and China. “We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon. And to have a base on the moon, we need energy. And some of… -
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‘WORST NIGHTMARE’: Mamdani Issues Dire Warning to Trump
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said he would be President “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.” He also suggested that Trump is afraid of him, which he said explains Trump’s flippant comments about deportation, Fox News reported. Mamdani, the city’s Democrat nominee for mayor, is leading in polls by wide margins in his effort to unseat… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Taxpayers Spent $207 Million to Pay Bureaucrats to Work for Unions in Biden’s Final Year
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Taxpayers spent $207 million to pay federal government employees not for their official government jobs but for hours worked for unions in the 2024 fiscal year, President Joe Biden’s final year in office. According to data exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal, federal employees worked 3.2 million hours for unions… -
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ICE Director Blames ‘Radical Left’ Politicians for 800% Spike in Attacks on Agency
This article is a preview of Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons on “The Signal Sitdown.” Watch the full episode on YouTube by clicking on the video above. Two months ago, violent riots broke out in America’s second-largest city after immigration enforcement officers served legal warrants, signed… -
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Virginians Could Save $1.4B a Year by Conforming to Trump Tax Law
Should the 2026 Virginia General Assembly choose to conform state tax laws to the full set of new tax rules at the federal level, Virginia families and businesses might save as much at $1.4 billion annually. That is a fresh estimate from the Tax Foundation, which looked at the impact of full conformity in all 50… -
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Can Trump Admin’s New Probe Take Down Jack Smith?
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former special counsel Jack Smith is finally facing a federal probe over his conduct while prosecuting President Donald Trump, though its impact may be limited. Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton confirmed Monday that the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal watchdog agency, launched an ethics investigation into Smith. The Office of Special Counsel’s… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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… -
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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….
