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opinion
Can the EPA Help Undo Virginia’s Climate Mandates?
This week, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin began the process of negating the agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding” that was, as President Barack Obama called it, the “holy grail of climate change regulation.” The endangerment finding allowed the EPA to regulate the very byproduct of human existence, carbon dioxide, as a pollutant. With that finding,… -
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Senator Slams ‘Obstructionist’ Democrats Blocking Trump’s Nominees
It’s “imperative” that the Senate approves President Donald Trump’s nominees as soon as possible, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told The Daily Signal. “President Trump is the only president to have nominees presented and not confirmed on voice votes,” Blackburn said in an exclusive interview, “and it is imperative that we move some of these U.S…. -
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Another Mass Shooting, Another Butcher’s Bogus Rationale
WASHINGTON—I have a pet peeve about news coverage of mass murder. When the story breaks, cable news anchors report, as they first did after Monday’s shooting in Midtown Manhattan, that the killer’s motives were unknown. What do mass shooters‘ motives matter? When killers leave notes to explain their brutality, they leave self-aggrandizing excuses for snuffing… -
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Here Come the Socialists
Timing of America’s 250th anniversary next year, 2026, couldn’t be better. It will serve as a great encounter, for too many Americans for the first time, with the founding principles of our nation. Too many have lost touch with the principles that created the miracle called the USA, and unfortunately, increasing numbers are hostile toward… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Aid Group Marks Delivery of 100 Million Meals to People of Gaza
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation reached a milestone Friday: The humanitarian aid organization backed by the U.S. and Israel has delivered 100 million meals to the people of Gaza since its launch at the end of May. “Reaching 100 million free meals delivered directly to the people of Gaza in just two months of operations is… -
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News on Cincinnati Attack Keeps Getting Worse
Last weekend, a white couple was attacked and brutally beaten and kicked by a mob of young black assailants in Cincinnati while a musical festival took place nearby. The story has garnered national attention, especially with complaints over the local response. Since then, the story appears to be getting worse for one of Ohio’s largest… -
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Courageous Optimism vs. Political Cowardice: A Tale of Two New Yorkers
In Monday’s devastating Manhattan shooting that claimed NYPD Officer Didarul Islam’s life, we witnessed two profoundly different responses that define the choice facing New York voters: courageous optimism versus political cowardice. Officer Islam embodied courageous optimism—the conscious choice to serve others despite mortal danger, maintaining unwavering principles regardless of personal cost. When he confronted the… -
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Ex-Biden Adviser: Dems, Pundits Overreacted to Cognitive Decline in Pushing Him Out of Race
A key campaign and White House adviser to former President Joe Biden complained to House investigators Thursday that Democrats in Congress and political pundits overreacted in pushing his former boss out of last year’s presidential race. Mike Donilon, who was senior adviser in the Biden White House, sat down for a transcribed interview with… -
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Democrats Are Addicted to Losing
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. After the defeat of Kamala Harris in November 2024, the Democrats recently decided to run an autopsy, a discovery, so to speak, of why they lost… -
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St. John Henry Newman to Be Elevated by Pope to Doctor of the Church
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday confirmed that St. John Henry Newman will soon be recognized as a Doctor of the Church. The move is the latest recognition of the profound influence of Newman on Catholics in the almost 135 years since his death. Reacting to the news on the social media platform X, Kevin Roberts,… -
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Thune Presses Senate Democrats to Facilitate Confirming Trump Nominees
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, facing a big backlog of unconfirmed judicial and executive branch nominees, is asking Senate Democrats to help confirm President Donald Trump’s less controversial picks in a legislative package. “I do think there at least some of my colleagues, Democrats, on the other side of the aisle, who would like to… -
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Trump Talking to ‘Many’ Universities About Ending Trans Procedures for Minors, Leavitt Says
After the Trump administration’s $50 million settlement with Brown University prohibits it from performing transgender medical interventions on minors, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, the administration is seeking similar commitments from other universities. “I can tell you that ending the chemical castration of children in our country is a priority of this administration,” Leavitt told… -
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Education Department’s Return on Investment? Zero. Shut It Down.
In fiscal 2024, when President Joe Biden was still in office and the federal government was running a $1.8 trillion deficit, the Department of Education spent three times as much as the Department of Homeland Security and six times as much as the Department of Justice. The Department of Homeland Security, according to the Treasury… -
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A Long List of Undesirables; Elected, Blind, and Otherwise!
Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”? Is that not an apt description of the former convicts arrested at the Glass House pot farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo by Homeland Security to the dismay of local politicians and… -
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Making Automobiles Great Again
In all the hoopla about the One Big Beautiful Bill, one provision went completely overlooked—but that provision is now primed to usher in the rebirth of the great American car. But first, a little history. Back in 1975, in a panic over the Arab oil embargo and phony predictions that the world was running out… -
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With FY ’26 Looming, Congress Faces Major Decisions on How Government Is Funded
In the coming weeks, Congress could decide whether government funding is set by traditional bipartisan spending bills, or through temporary funding measures and quick-fix, surgical spending cuts. The Senate is staying in session for part of its typical August state work period, laboring through a hot Washington summer to confirm President Donald Trump’s judicial and… -
opinion
IMMIGRATION HOLD-OVER: Biden Political Appointee Still Holds Prominent DHS Position Under Trump
President Donald Trump has cracked down on illegal immigration and reversed President Joe Biden’s immigration policies, but at least one of Biden’s political appointees in the Department of Homeland Security has kept his prominent DHS job under Trump. Jeff Rezmovic, who currently serves as deputy assistant commissioner at the Board of Trade in Customs and… -
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More Voter Fraud Exposed: Proven Cases of Ballot Tampering and Rigged Elections
A woman votes in two different states for four elections in a row. A small-town mayor locks away ballots and refuses to count the votes. A mayoral candidate forges over 100 absentee ballot requests and sends them to a fake nursing home address. A husband and wife, both candidates for office, fake their residence in… -
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Nixon Foundation Honors Arkansas’ Sanders
The leadership of the state of Arkansas is a model for the rest of the country. That’s what the Richard Nixon Foundation concluded this year in honoring Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders with its Champion of the American Dream Award. The award acknowledges Sanders’ “courage, clarity, and deep commitment to American values,” both as governor of… -
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MASSIVE STING: Authorities Arrest Dozens for Human Trafficking, Child Exploitation, Narcotics
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Combating human trafficking is a priority for the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department, but the agency can’t do it alone. That’s why HHS partnered with state and local officials in Mississippi to carry out a two-week human trafficking sting leading to 72 felony and misdemeanor arrests and 29 victim…
