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Mike Lee’s Idea to Break Logjam on Trump Nominees Awaiting Senate Confirmation
With the U.S. Senate set to break for August recess, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Daily Signal he is pushing for action on approximately 140 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation. While the Senate has confirmed more than twice as many nominees as it had at this point in the first Trump administration, Lee said… -
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Shutting Down
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting–which funds NPR and PBS–is shutting down, it announced on Friday. This follows the Congress voting to cut the funding for the CPB. In a press release, the CPB said it will begin an “orderly winddown.” “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to… -
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Trump Takes Aim at China With New Tariff
The Trump administration has announced a new 40% tariff on transshipments in a move seemingly targeting China. Transshipments are indirect shipments through other nations and often involve the transfer of goods from one vessel to another. China has developed a large global shipping network, so while the tariff on transshipments will affect all countries… -
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There’s Unprecedented Alignment on the Future of Western Sahara. Can Washington Turn It Into Closure?
When the United Kingdom’s new foreign secretary, David Lammy, stood in Rabat this past June and endorsed Morocco’s Western Sahara autonomy plan, he sealed an unprecedented United Nations Security Council alignment: After half a century, the United States, France, and the U.K. are pressing toward the same political end state. Western Sahara, a former Spanish… -
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Religious Expression Rights Restored for Federal Employees
Religious liberty has been restored to government institutions as federal employees can now once again express their faith in the workplace, according to a recent memo from the Trump administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Protections extended to employees include the display of religious items; religious expressions; and religious conversations between federal employees, including… -
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Did You See What Newsom Posted About Ohio’s Redistricting?
Ahead of the 2026 midterms, red and blue states are looking to go through with redistricting. Ohio is included in the list of those gaining attention, and the state legislature must redraw those maps by Sept. 30. They’re hardly the only state looking to such a plan for next year. After Vice President JD Vance… -
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What Soros Group Says About Reputed Ties to Clinton Campaign in Pushing Russia Hoax
An executive with the George Soros-aligned Open Society Foundations appears to have coordinated with a staffer from the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to promote the discredited Donald Trump-Russian collusion narrative, according to declassified information released this week by the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, an Open Society Foundations spokesperson said alleging it orchestrated an FBI… -
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Colorado AG Sues Sheriff’s Deputy for Cooperating With ICE
A Colorado law enforcement officer has been sued for cooperating with federal immigration agents. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued Mesa County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Zwinck last week after Zwinck reportedly sent federal agents information about a student present in the U.S. illegally, The Associated Press first reported. Zwinck and another deputy, Erik Olson, have… -
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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…
