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Who Pays for AI Data Center Costs? House Says Big Tech, Not Consumers
The House successfully passed its first major legislation on artificial intelligence to ensure Big Tech pays for its energy usage, rather than passing costs onto the American consumer. The Ratepayer Protection Act passed with overwhelming bipartisan support Wednesday night by a vote of 417-3. The data center operation legislation was brought forward by Rep. Gabe… -
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After Millions in Federal Benefits, Watchdog Pushes Senate Probe of NYC Hospital and ‘Rural’ Designation
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative group is calling for a Senate investigation into a nonprofit hospital, the New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, because of its federal grants, executive compensation, and reported “rural” status. Save Our States noted in a letter Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., that Mount Sinai has filed… -
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Kappa Kappa Gamma Violated Its Own Rules to Admit Men Into the Sorority: Lawsuit
Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae are suing the national sorority for changing its own rules to allow men to join, and a circuit court heard the case Monday. “When Kappa tells you, we promise you a sisterhood of women, and a man shows up, that is the opposite. It is breaking the contract,” Allie Coghan, one… -
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‘Medicare for All’ Means More Government Control—Just Look at Monoclonal Antibodies
Here we are in another election cycle, and just like the migratory birds that return every season, so has the progressive cause célèbre of single-payer universal health coverage, also being marketed as “Medicare for All.” This has become a central part of the socialist platform and is the cornerstone of the Senate campaigns of Abdul… -
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EPA Moves to Scrap Biden Power Plant Rule, Saying Federal Law Doesn’t Allow Climate Change Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it is moving to repeal a greenhouse gas regulation the EPA imposed under President Joe Biden, saying federal law does not allow the agency to regulate power plant emissions in order to fight climate change. “The proposed rule takes the position that it is beyond our authority in… -
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Number of Single Men in US Reaches Record High
THE WASHINGTON STAND—More young men in America are remaining single than ever before, with the rate almost doubling over the last quarter century, according to concerning new data released earlier this week. Statistics compiled by the Institute for Family Studies revealed that there were 30.4 million single men aged 18 to 39 in 2025 in… -
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Project Zero: The Plan to Reduce Property Taxes for Georgia’s Effingham County Residents
As local residents across the country are expressing concerns about the rapid growth of data centers, one county in Georgia thinks it has a partial solution to offset those worries and make sure data centers pay off for local residents—by eliminating local property taxes. In July, OpenAI announced plans to build a 3.2-gigawatt data center… -
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3 People Convicted of $11M Medicaid Fraud in Virginia
A federal jury in Richmond convicted three people this week on charges that they defrauded Medicaid out of more than $11 million. The charges relate to billing by their company, Divine Youth Counseling LLC. The three people, 31-year-old twin sisters E’mon and Armone’ Ambers, as well as 32-year-old Traquan Brown, billed Medicaid for a service… -
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Can Trump Really Give Every Adult American $5K Check?
President Donald Trump shocked the nation Wednesday night when he promised to send a $5,000 check to every American adult if Republicans win the midterms, but conservative economists say the proposal should not come to fruition. “Because we’ve done so well, and because our country is making so much money, only I can make this… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The US Has Entered Stage 3 in the Trade War With Canada
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. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. The philosopher Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, once said that you don’t step into the same river… -
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The Jokes of 9/11
As someone paid to deal with the news each day, it is perhaps not in my best interest to admit that almost everything that comes across your X news feed is disposable. Whatever news has you hot and bothered today, whatever juicy entertainment gossip has you licking your chops, whatever fills the late-night comic’s monologue… -
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Government Employees Fight Trump’s Reforms From Within the Executive Branch
Who ultimately decides how the executive branch works? Is it the president, elected by the American people, or career federal employees and the unions that represent them? The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union representing federal employees, sued the White House’s Office of Personnel Management last month, aiming to block new rules governing… -
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Virginia Baseball Teams Eye Playoffs
Virginia lacks a major league professional franchise, although just three years ago it came close to building a new home that would have attracted the NBA’s Wizards and the NHL’s Capitals. In 2023, a $2 billion proposal to “create a world-class entertainment district in Alexandria at Potomac Yard” was announced by then-Gov. Glenn Youngkin and… -
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Trump EPA Takes Transformative Approach to Ending Plague of Plastic Waste
The Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump has launched a quiet revolution in the approach the EPA takes toward some forms of plastic waste, removing regulatory barriers by treating some plastic recycling as a form of manufacturing rather than waste disposal. The EPA’s new approach aims to incentivize advanced recycling of plastic, contributing to… -
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Trump Celebrates Job Growth That Tripled Expectations
The economy added 162,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department announced Friday morning, tripling the expectations of economists. Economists had predicted a gain of just 53,000 jobs. The unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. “Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except mine!) by double and triple – And you haven’t seen anything yet!” President Donald… -
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Does the First Amendment Give You the Right to Disrupt a Church Service?
The First Amendment protects both freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, but those rights do not give activists carte blanche to invade a church and take over the service. Or so I thought. Now, however, a group of activists who did just that has filed a motion to dismiss federal civil rights charges, arguing… -
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Judge Rejects Leftist Group’s Motion to Sever Its Case From Former CFO
A federal judge rejected the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attempt to sever its trial on fraud and conspiracy charges from that of its former chief financial officer, Heidi Beirich, Monday, delaying the trial until Feb. 1. A federal jury first indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges in April, and juries… -
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‘There’s No Portland Exception to the Constitution’: Mom Sues School Over Trans Policies
A Christian mom asked a court for an emergency order preventing Portland Public Schools from excluding her from her daughter’s school and reversing its policy on keeping gender transitions secret from parents. Portland, Oregon, native Allison Roberts sued her school district earlier this month, alleging retaliation for her free speech in opposition to the school’s… -
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The Subtle Deception of the LGBTQ Movement’s Legal Strategy Roadmap on Parental Rights
The LGBTQ+ Bar Association, the largest membership group for LGBTQ+ legal professionals, claimed in a parental rights strategy memo that the Supreme Court has “muddied the doctrinal waters” on the issue. While critics say the opposite is true, the claim hints at the movement’s likely legal strategy. The document seems meant to accompany a panel… -
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The Constitution Can Unify America, Levin Says at SPN Annual Meeting
ORLANDO, Fla.—In his keynote address at State Policy Network’s Annual Meeting this week, Israeli American journalist and constitutional studies expert Yuval Levin said that the U.S. Constitution once united our nation—and perhaps, surprisingly, might do so again. Hot topics at this year’s gathering ranged from data centers and artificial intelligence in health care to school…
