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opinion
Bugs Bunny at 85: Bugs Reflected the Culture, Politics of the Times
I know, I know. We have been in the midst of a blizzard of important domestic and world events this summer, from the final week of the Supreme Court’s term with a slew of important decisions to the fight over the “Big, Beautiful Bill” to the war in the Middle East and the Russian/Ukrainian conflict…. -
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13,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children Located
The Trump administration has located 13,000 children who crossed the border unaccompanied under President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. Under the Biden administration, about 300,000 unaccompanied alien children were either “lost” or placed with sponsors that were not adequately vetted, and some were “allowed to be placed with sponsors who… -
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Major MAGA Media Figure to Take Top Position at One of DOGE’s Biggest Targets
An agency targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency has received a new director to realign its mission. The United States Institute of Peace board of directors named MAGA media figure Darren Beattie as acting president. Beattie is the founder of the media outlet Revolver News. “As President [Donald] Trump continues to implement his bold… -
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Food Stamp Reforms in One Big Beautiful Bill Act Promote Upward Mobility
Means-tested welfare is the third-largest segment of federal spending, only outranked by Social Security and Medicare. The U.S. welfare system has been growing for decades, with little to show when it comes to helping lower-income Americans achieve upward mobility. In the recent One Big Beautiful Bill Act, however, Congress made some promising reforms to one… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Transportation Department Reforms Biden ‘Climate Justice’ Program
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation is moving away from the Biden administration’s climate justice initiative, which made it harder and pricier to build buses. Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, forced grant recipients of a $1.5 billion Federal Transit Administration grant program to build buses in accordance with low or… -
opinion
The IRS Gives Churches More Say Over Their Religious Activities
The Internal Revenue Service says it will relax its long-standing ban on churches engaging in political campaign activity. Churches, of course, must decide whether to do so, but this overdue decision respects their First Amendment rights. Under the Internal Revenue Code, churches—like other organizations that serve charitable, religious, educational, scientific, and similar purposes—are eligible for… -
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Ohio Looking Into Changes for Law School Accreditation Process
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April affecting the accreditation process for institutions of higher learning. As Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell covered in an exclusive for The Daily Signal, the executive order focused on prohibiting accreditors from “participating in unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion discrimination.” Now, Ohio is looking into its accreditation process for… -
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Senate Republicans Continue Harry Reid’s Nominee Blockade
Harry Reid, the former Democrat leader of the U.S. Senate, left the Senate in 2017 and died in 2021, but his ghost must still be haunting the chamber. How else can one explain why the Republican majority is continuing the blockade Reid initiated back in 2007 to prevent a Republican president (George W. Bush) from… -
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Ayanna Pressley Proposes Codifying DEI in the Federal Government
Trump administration policies have brought us to the point where we could return to the America of segregated bathrooms, said the National Urban League’s president at Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s unveiling of her Equity in Government Act on Wednesday. According to the Massachusetts Democrat’s website, the bill would codify into law key parts of President Joe… -
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Gov. Josh Shapiro Attacks Legislators Protecting Women’s Sports
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro criticized the proponents of a bill that would ban males from competing in women’s sports in public schools and public universities. “What we do not need in Pennsylvania are politicians—extremist politicians like [President] Donald Trump, Doug Mastriano, and these others—trying to legislate a student’s participation and legislate the restriction on freedom,”… -
opinion
Revenge or Justice?
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard just released a trove of apparently once-classified documents—with promises of much more to follow. The new material describes the role of the Obama administration’s intelligence and investigatory directors—purportedly along with former President Barack Obama himself—in undermining the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In addition, their efforts extended to sabotaging the… -
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Rep. Mike Collins to Announce Georgia Senate Bid
Rep. Mike Collins will soon announce a bid to unseat Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Georgia, per Fox News. The son of former Rep. Mac Collins, R-Ga., Mike Collins has represented Georgia’s 8th Congressional District since 2023. Collins also owns and operates a large trucking business. In the House,… -
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Here’s How the 2026 Senate Races Are Shaping Up in 3 Pivotal States
Voters won’t be heading to the general election polls for the 2026 Senate races for another year and a half, but the elections are already taking shape. Over the past week, the candidate pool in Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina—states that will determine the Senate’s balance of power during President Donald Trump’s final act—has shrunk… -
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Strong Support for School Cellphone Bans, Polls Show
After years of flip-flopping opinion on screen usage in schools, a vast majority of American voters want to ban cellphones in the classroom. New polls suggest policies to limit or ban phones during class are gaining in popularity as states move to implement various levels of restrictions. A poll from Napolitan News Service released Tuesday… -
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Ohio Governor Orders Flags at Half-Staff for Officer Killed in ‘Ambush’
Three Lorain Police Department officers were shot on Wednesday in what Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, says “appears to have been a targeted attack on law enforcement.” One of the officers shot, Phillip Wagner, has since died from his injuries, leading to an order from DeWine for flags to be flown at half-staff in the state… -
opinion
The Left’s Selective Morality Leads to Preventable Crime
An off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer shot in New York City. A young Texas woman run over and killed by an out-of-control Jet Skier. A young Colorado woman killed by a teen unlicensed driver. These three tragedies had one thing in common: They were the actions of foreign nationals present in the United… -
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Israel to Permit Aid Airdrops Into Gaza as Tensions Grow Over Humanitarian Situation
Israel will soon allow Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to resume aid airdrops into Gaza. In coordination with the Israel Defense Forces, Jordan may conduct its first airdrop as soon as Friday, The Times of Israel reports. In 2024, the U.S., working with Jordan and other nations, airdropped aid into Gaza. The plan to… -
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How Obama Admin Turned ‘Unverifiable’ Report Into Russiagate Dynamite
The Obama intelligence community’s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks to try and help Donald Trump win the 2016 election was based on “one scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports,” according to a just-declassified report that had been locked away in a CIA… -
opinion
Hunter Biden’s Enemies List
WASHINGTON—Hunter Biden is making news again. Former President Joe Biden’s son sat down for a lengthy interview with podcaster Andrew Callaghan that dropped Monday. With his father out of the White House, Hunter Biden could use 2025 to retreat into private life. Instead, for over three hours, the former president’s son talked about his personal… -
opinion
One of the Most Corrosive Abuses of Power in American History
Did former President Barack Obama play a role in the fabrication of the Russia collusion narrative? According to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard—once a rising star within the Democratic Party and now a gadfly for political truth—the answer is unequivocally yes. More than that, Gabbard suggests the Obama administration orchestrated a “treasonous conspiracy” in 2016,…
