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Climate Expert Slams Democrats for Trying to ‘Exploit the Tragedy’ of Camp Mystic Flooding
Flash flooding in Central Texas has killed at least 104 people, including 28 children, and while Democrats have rushed to blame climate change for the disaster, climate analysts have countered that narrative. The flooding began on Friday and escalated over the weekend, and the death toll continues to climb, according to CNN. “North Carolina. Texas…. -
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‘American Hero’: All Corners Praise Coast Guard Swimmer Who Saved Lives Amid Texas Floods
Republicans and Democrats are hailing a Coast Guard swimmer as a national hero after he saved 165 lives from the flash floods in Central Texas. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took to the social media platform X to share about Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Ruskan: “United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and Petty… -
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EXCLUSIVE: National Weather Service Responds to Claims of Understaffing Amid Texas Floods
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—As some Democrats seek to blame the Trump administration for at least 95 flash-flood deaths in Texas, a senior official with the National Weather Service assures Americans that the service features one of the most dedicated groups of employees in the federal government. Critics of the Trump administration have claimed that… -
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Fact-Checking Claims About Texas Floods
Heavy rainstorms caused widespread, deadly floods in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. According to the latest estimates, 94 people have been confirmed dead due to the flooding of the Guadalupe River and elsewhere in Central Texas. This number includes 27 young girls and counselors from Camp Mystic, a Christian camp in Hunt, Texas. Rep. Chip… -
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Supremes to Decide Whether Political Parties Can Act Like Political Parties
Just before breaking for the summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case in its October term that, in essence, concerns whether Congress can limit political parties from doing what they are formed to do—i.e., support their candidates. That’s the issue at stake in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission,… -
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Trump Trade Team Extends Deadline on Tariff Deals
As President Donald Trump’s trade team works to sign new trade deals with foreign countries, the White House is giving trading partners an extended deadline to sign deals before being hit with the heavy tariffs the president introduced in April. The administration had previously set a deadline of June 9 for nations to come to… -
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‘Depraved and Despicable’: White House Slams Politicization of Texas Floods
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says Democrats who are politicizing the Texas floods that have killed at least 89 people are “depraved and despicable.” Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls on Texas’ Guadalupe River, has confirmed that 27 campers and counselors died in flash floods over the weekend. The search continues for… -
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The SPLC’s Slimy Attempt to Wiggle Out of a Defamation Lawsuit Beggars Belief
How can a leftist group present itself as the authority on “hate groups” in public, touting the fact that police and even the FBI have relied on its materials, and then reverse course when challenged in court, claiming that its statements are unprovable “opinion” rather than expert statements of fact? Has the Southern Poverty Law… -
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FTC Trial Reveals Meta Disregard for National Security, Innovation
For years, Meta has claimed that it carefully manages access to its platform’s data to benefit users and developers alike. But internal documents from its Federal Trade Commission trial paint a different picture—one of strategic exclusion and economic sabotage cloaked in user protection. Specifically, documents reveal that Meta has been weaponizing its application programming interface,… -
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83 Percent of Jewish Students Face Campus Hate—How Much More Will Colleges Allow?
I walked into that house meeting with a knot of anxiety, a strange sense of paranoia. An hour later, I was running into the freezing Ohio night, barefoot and coatless, tears blurring my vision. My paranoia, it turns out, was simply an instinct for survival. During my last year at Kenyon College, my roommates, all… -
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When It Comes to Marriage, Faith Matters
Focus on the Family recently surveyed more than 3,800 Americans on how faith impacts personal decisions about marriage and recorded married respondents’ self-assessments of their unions. The good news is that 74% of all married couples described their marriages as “healthy.” But even more encouraging is that convictional Christians—those who actively live out and practice their… -
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Biden White House Leak Reveals Advisers Urged Early Debate
A newly leaked White House memo from April 2024 reveals that former President Joe Biden’s advisers urged him to debate now-President Donald Trump early in the election cycle to “reach the widest audience possible.” The disastrous June 27 debate, in which Biden was often incoherent, was the death knell of his campaign. Under pressure from… -
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Leading Anti-Trump Protest Organizer Engages With Socialist, Communist Groups on Social Media
A key organizer of anti-Trump protests—including the “No Kings” rallies last month—appears to have social media connections with far-left organizations that include openly communist and socialist organizations. The group 50501—read “Fifty-Fifty-One”—is so named to symbolize 50 protests for 50 states and one movement. The 50501 movement says it had decentralized protests across the country on… -
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Modest Cuts, Outsized Outrage: The Truth Behind the Big, Beautiful Bill’s Budget Reform
An unspoken rule among the Washington establishment is that once Congress throws money at a spending program, that decision should be treated as irrevocable. If a future Congress shows any fiscal conservatism and tries even to address some of its waste and abuse, left-wing lawmakers—and their allies in the media—will excoriate it for making supposedly… -
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Majority of Americans See Chaplains in Public Schools as a Resource
Most adults in the U.S. would support chaplains in public schools, a recent survey suggests. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reported that 58% of the public thinks religious chaplains should be allowed to provide support services in public schools. While 6 in 10 adults agree that chaplains should be able to have… -
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The Tide Is Turning on Gender Ideology
In the final weeks of its 2024-25 term, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Tennessee’s restrictions on gender transitions for minors. The high court’s decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti preceded the University of Pennsylvania’s announcement on Tuesday that it would prohibit men who identify as transgender from participating in women’s athletic competitions. The university also… -
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Musk Launches the ‘America Party.’ A Business Associate Is Not Pleased.
Tech titan Elon Musk announced on Saturday the launch of a new political party named the “America Party” in response to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed the House on Thursday with a vote of 218-214. The legislation includes provisions that align with President Donald Trump‘s… -
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What the 12-Day War Hath Wrought
Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been frustrated and puzzled at the lack of progress being made in Vietnam by the 448,000 U.S. troops stationed there, and the… -
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‘Texans Are Tough’: Cornyn Praises Heroic Rescues, Mourns Losses in Wake of Flash Flood Tragedy
Texas is unified in prayer and rescue efforts as the flooding hazard remains, Sen. John Cornyn shared on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” this morning. As of Sunday afternoon, CNN reported the death toll from Friday’s devastating flash flood in Central Texas had risen to 68, with 11 young girls still missing from Camp Mystic,… -
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Populist Rage and Woke Folly: Le Figaro Interviews Mario Loyola
On June 12, 2025, the leading French newspaper Le Figaro published an extended interview with Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mario Loyola. In “Populist Rage and Woke Folly Will Give Rise to an American Synthesis,” Laure Mandeville frames the current moment in American politics as an “apoplectic phase … marked by maximalist posturing and the theatrical…
