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Judge Orders Wind Down of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
A federal judge has issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration and Florida state officials from sending additional criminal illegal aliens to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the detention center in the Florida Everglades. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of President Barack Obama, issued an 82-page ruling Thursday night siding with environmental groups who claim the facility is… -
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A Poll on Next Year’s Ohio Races Is Already Out
Democrats’ hopes for retaking the Senate in next year’s midterms may come down to former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, taking one of the Ohio Senate seats, but the momentum remains with his Republican opponent, Sen. Jon Husted. Earlier this week, Brown made it official that he was seeking a comeback bid after losing last year… -
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What Is the Democrat Alternative to Trump?
The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative. Its escalating reactive venom and hysteria are calibrated to the success of President Donald Trump’s latest policy. Yet the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor. Still less do Democrats attempt bipartisan efforts to craft shared legislation…. -
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Trump Is Right to Keep Ukraine Out of NATO
After he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and before he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, President Donald Trump issued a pointed statement on Truth Social. “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,”… -
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FBI Raids Home of Trump’s Former National Security Adviser
The FBI raided John Bolton’s home Friday morning, reportedly in search of classified documents. Bolton served as national security adviser during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. Agents arrived at Bolton’s Maryland home around 7 a.m. Bolton is not currently under arrest or in custody. About the same time the agents began searching… -
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Moreno Returns to Cincinnati for Follow-Up Visit About Crime
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is not done with Cincinnati after a recent attack there made national headlines. Earlier this month, he met with local leaders and hosted a press conference, appearing alongside one of the attack victims, Holly. Moreno signaled he would return, doing so on Aug. 19. A press release from Moreno’s office highlighted… -
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Political Debanking Is the Latest Front in the Fight Against the Weaponization of Finance
As companies across America wake up to the risks of “wokeness,” the fight against ideological debanking has become the latest campaign against efforts to weaponize the finance industry to advance a left-wing agenda. Following President Donald Trump’s Aug. 7 executive order against political debanking, new revelations emerged that bank executives may have been pressured by… -
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Why Universities Are Settling
Columbia, Brown, and Penn have already settled their disputes with the Trump administration over anti-Jewish, racial, and gender discrimination complaints. Now, several news reports suggest Harvard and Cornell will announce settlements soon—and UCLA, Northwestern, and others may follow soon after. Many academics and their allies are mystified as to why these universities would agree to… -
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Why Would We Want Bad People Here?
This week, news emerged that the Trump administration has been setting new standards with regard to incoming immigrants. According to Axios, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will not take into account the “positive attributes” of migrants entering the country; such attributes can include community involvement and educational level. Instead of simply seeking to rule… -
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272 Jihadis Killed: The Trump Admin’s Counterterrorism Strategy
Since Jan. 20, the Trump administration has killed 272 “jihadis” around the world, according to Sebastian Gorka, senior director for counterterrorism on the president’s National Security Council. Among the first terrorist threats eliminated under President Donald Trump was a leading member and recruiter for ISIS. “This [was] a man planning to kill Americans,” Gorka explained… -
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State Department Slams Latest Instance of Leftist ‘Judicial Overreach’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The State Department is condemning a Biden-appointed federal judge’s ruling barring the Trump administration from using the president’s latest travel ban to deny visas to foreigners from certain countries. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, a 2024 appointee of then-President Joe Biden, ruled Thursday that the State Department cannot rely on the… -
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Trump’s Aim to ‘Make DC Safe Again’ Sends Message to Democrat-Run Cities
President Donald Trump has pledged to “make D.C. safe again,” with a federal intervention to stop crime in the nation’s capital. To emphasize the point, Trump is doing a ride-along with law enforcement around Washington Thursday night. “I’m going to be going out tonight, I think, with the police and with the military, of course…. -
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James Dobson Had a Profound Impact on My Life, But Not for the Reasons Our Culture Might Think
Stories of “deconstruction” among millennials who grew up in the 1990s have become so common they’re rather passe. Men and women my age are expected to talk about how purity culture, Promise Keepers, and Focus on the Family scarred them for life. I, for one, am grateful for our past evangelical overlords, however. The Christian… -
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Ex-White House Official Who Defended Biden’s Mental Acuity Met With Him Only Twice
A former White House spokesperson who staunchly defended Joe Biden’s mental acuity—attacking a former federal prosecutor who raised questions about it—only met the 46th president twice in person, said House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer. Comer, the Kentucky Republican who led most of the congressional probes of the Biden administration, noted that he… -
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Moms for Liberty Leader Says She Faced Death Threats, Swatting, Expulsion From Girl Scouts for Opposing LGBTQ Pride
The Girl Scouts recently expelled a Moms for Liberty chapter leader in what she believes to be retaliation for refusing to promote LGBTQ+ Pride to her troop for “Pride Month.” The expulsion comes after she received death threats and was swatted, in what she believes to be retaliation for criticizing a church’s LGBTQ+ Pride flag…. -
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How Ohio’s Redistricting Is Different From the Rest
As plenty of states earn national attention for their redistricting battles, all eyes ought to be on Ohio, with Vice President JD Vance recently highlighting the role of his home state. It’s not merely Vance’s interest, though. The Buckeye State is actually required by law to redraw maps for 2026, though the fact Ohio is… -
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Federal Judge Stops Texas From Requiring Ten Commandments in School Classrooms
A federal judge Wednesday temporarily blocked a Texas law that would require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery, a Clinton appointee, put the law—originally set to take effect Sep. 1—on hold, ruling it likely violated the First Amendment by crossing “the line from exposure to coercion.” Texas’… -
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A Tale of Two Black Women: Legacy Media Ignores Conservative Winsome Earle-Sears but Promotes Liberal Stacey Abrams
Liberal media bias and hypocrisy are on full display in Virginia. Winsome Earle-Sears, the current lieutenant governor of Virginia, is the Republican nominee for governor. It’s impossible to find a starker compare-and-contrast between the media and cultural “elites”’ treatment of Earle-Sears and Stacey Abrams, who shares key similarities with Earle-Sears. Both are black women from… -
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‘IDENTICAL FACTS’: Loudoun County Punishes Christian Boys While Exonerating Muslim, Lawyer Says
ASHBURN, Va.—The father of a high school boy punished by the school district for expressing shock at seeing a girl in the boys’ locker room says he would take his son’s case to the Supreme Court, if necessary, as his lawyer says the case illustrates “blatant religious discrimination.” “Are you in this for the long… -
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In NYC Mayor’s Race, Adams Asks Mamdani ‘Where in His Quran’ Prostitution Is OK
Prostitution has taken center stage in the New York mayor’s race, as front-runner Zohran Mamdani is pushing to decriminalize it in the city. This has prompted one of his opponents, incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, this week to question the religious principles of Mamdani, a Muslim. Mamdani, the Democrat nominee for mayor and a self-professed socialist, championed…
