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Maine Governor Ponders Senate Bid Against Collins
Democrat Maine Gov. Janet Mills is reportedly interviewing people to staff a possible Senate campaign challenge against five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins in 2026. Mills, 77, is expected to make a final decision about attempting to unseat Collins by November. She has had a long career in Maine politics, including serving as governor since 2019…. -
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Top Asset Managers Drop Support for Left-Wing Corporate Activism
A decade-long effort to leverage asset managers to impose net-zero and social justice policies on corporations has gone into reverse with reports from this year’s corporate voting season that the most influential fund managers are no longer voting for these policies. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with more than $11 trillion in assets under… -
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Pam Bondi Puts School Districts on Notice About ‘Abusive’ Acts Against Parental Rights
Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division Wednesday to champion parental rights at schools and monitor attempts to undermine them. “Recent years have seen a disturbing trend in which state and local authorities have brought radical gender and racial ideology into our public schools while suppressing dissenting viewpoints,” Bondi warned in… -
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NAEP Disaster Reveals Failure of Regulatory Accountability and DEI
The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress are nothing short of catastrophic. They are an indictment of an education system that has been subject to decades of top-down “accountability” and consumed trillions of dollars—more and more each year—only to deliver worse results. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education released the 2024… -
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Trump Demands ‘DEATH PENALTY’ for Charlotte Killer
President Donald Trump demanded the death penalty Wednesday morning for the suspect arrested for the slaying of a Ukrainian woman in Charlotte, North Carolina. The slaying has spurred a national conversation about crime and law enforcement. “The ANIMAL who so violently killed the beautiful young lady from Ukraine, who came to America searching for peace… -
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China’s ‘Grand’ Military Parade Is a Facade That Barely Conceals Its Vulnerabilities
Last week, the Chinese Communist Party commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with a meticulously orchestrated military parade, showcasing an impressive array of advanced weaponry. This grand display, however, is merely a façade that barely conceals the vulnerabilities of the authoritarian regime. Strategically, the regime highlighted an impressive collection of… -
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Democrats Have Lost Touch With FDR, LBJ, and Truman, Emanuel Says
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn’t appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a poll by The Wall Street Journal around the same time. It… -
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Who’s Accountable for Biden’s Autopen Pardons?
There are too many politicians in America today who think a man like Decarlos Brown Jr. belongs on the streets and not behind bars or in a padded cell. Brown had been arrested more than a dozen times, and convicted of everything from shoplifting to armed robbery, before he plunged a knife into the neck… -
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‘The American People Should Not Suffer’: HUD Chief Turner Thinks Fed Chairman Is Playing Politics on Interest Rates
On this week’s episode of “The Signal Sitdown,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner weighed in on President Donald Trump’s ongoing fight with the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, over high interest rates. Turner agreed with Trump that interest rates should be lower and that others are “play[ing] political games” with interest… -
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Christian School Banned for Religious Beliefs Wins Legal Victory
A federal appeals court ordered Vermont to let a Christian school compete in state-sponsored sports events—even though the school doesn’t support the state’s view of “transgender” ideology. That decision allows the school to finally participate in athletics again after suffering a yearslong ban for forfeiting a game that would have forced girls on its team… -
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Supreme Court Stays Order Requiring Trump to Pay $4B in Foreign Aid
The Supreme Court moved Tuesday to block a lower court order that required the Trump administration to spend $4 billion in foreign aid by Sept. 30. The high court’s judgment came in response to an emergency appeal filed Monday morning by the Trump administration that alleged it would suffer “irreparable harm” if forced to spend… -
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Trump Responds to Israel Bombing in Qatar
After an Israeli strike in Doha, Qatar, targeting Hamas officials, President Donald Trump said he told Qatari leaders such an incident won’t happen again. Trump says he spoke to Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the monarch of Qatar, and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani after Israel carried… -
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Massie Claims He’ll Soon Have Enough Votes for Epstein Files Petition
Rep. Thomas Massie does not have enough votes yet to force the consideration of his bill to release the files on the now-deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but says he’s confident he will very soon, thanks to upcoming special elections to fill current vacancies. “We will have the 218 votes needed for the Epstein… -
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Trump Should Bring Free Speech With Him to the UK
President Donald Trump could very well usher in a new birth of free speech in the United Kingdom, which very much appears to be on an Orwellian path to tyranny. Despite a long, shared Anglo-American tradition of free speech, the U.S. and the U.K. are going separate ways. In the U.S., institutionally backed political correctness is… -
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How Trump’s Forthcoming Guidance on Public School Prayer Could Alter Existing Court Precedent
President Donald Trump could be preparing to put the final nail in the coffin of court precedent limiting the right to pray in public schools, legal experts say. Trump announced Monday that the Department of Education will issue new guidance on school prayer in line with his 2024 campaign promise to “bring back prayer” to… -
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Odd Bedfellows: LGBTQ Groups, Pro-Gun Orgs Denounce Gun Ban
Pro-LGBTQ+ groups and Second Amendment advocates seem to have formed a surprising alliance, as both last week publicly condemned a potential gun ban proposed by the Department of Justice. Their statements came in response to multiple reports that the DOJ is “reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are… -
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Prosecutor Announces Run to Flip Virginia Congressional Seat Blue
Virginia prosecutor Shannon Taylor announced that she is running for the Democrat nomination for the 2026 congressional midterms in an attempt to remove nine-term Republican incumbent Rep. Rob Wittman. It’s a seat that national Democrats look to target with significant resources. Though a member of the Virginia Progressive Prosecutors for Justice, the Henrico County commonwealth’s… -
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Charlotte Train Stabbing Puts Spotlight on Woke DA
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Crime in Charlotte, North Carolina, spiked under a left-leaning district attorney before the August stabbing death of a woman on a public train thrust the city into the national spotlight. Violent crime in Charlotte was 13% higher in 2024 than in 2018, despite decreases after a COVID-19-era crime surge, according to FBI… -
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‘It’s Got to Be Fixed’: Thune Weighs Moves to Sidestep Dems, Confirm More Trump Nominees
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Tuesday called for an end to Democrats’ obstruction of President Donald Trump’s nominees as he elaborated on his plan to accelerate the rate at which those nominees are confirmed in the Senate. “This is a business model that does not work when it comes to running and operating… -
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Why Is Pam Bondi Being Attacked for Standing Up to China?
For 30 years, Washington promised that cozying up to Beijing would make China a partner. Instead, it made China a predator. Cheap goods came at the cost of stolen American jobs, stolen American technology, and a Chinese military machine now rivaling our own. You would think policymakers of every stripe would have learned that lesson…
