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The Trump administration is dropping a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to compensate passengers for canceled flights and cover travelers’ expenses for delays or cancellations caused by the airlines. The Biden administration’s proposed rule would have guaranteed passengers $200 to $775 for disruptions under the airline’s control. Passengers would have also been entitled to free meals, lodging,…
Noted political philosopher Patrick Deneen made a case Thursday for the need for what he calls “the public order” to restore the institutions of civil society. “Our young people need assistance from the public order, in order to make it easier for them to marry, to buy a house, to have children,” Deneen said in…
The Fox News Channel ended its summer run as the top network in all of prime-time television through Labor Day, topping even ABC, NBC, and CBS. Reaching more than 2.4 million weekday prime-time viewers since June 20, Fox News surpassed ABC with 2.38 million viewers, NBC with 2.2 million viewers, and CBS with 2 million…
“We must decouple and hard decouple starting tomorrow morning.” That was former adviser to President Donald Trump Stephen K. Bannon, on the relationship between the United States and China in his remarks at the National Conservatism Conference in the District of Columbia on Thursday. Bannon, who is the current host of the “WarRoom” podcast stressed…
Virginians on Facebook may see a post from what looks like a news outlet touting Democrat governor candidate Abigail Spanberger’s campaign stops and message on education. Unsuspecting Virginians may think a friend posted this news, but it’s actually appearing in their feeds because someone paid for it. It also doesn’t come from a news outlet,…
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told members of Congress that there are “thousands” of examples of federal bureaucrats covering up scientific data that contradicted the government’s preferred narrative. Kennedy’s remarks came in a Senate Finance Committee hearing Thursday, where he was called on to explain his actions as HHS…
Illinois state officials told the Department of Justice they won’t be turning over voter data, despite the Trump administration’s request. In a letter to DOJ officials Tuesday, Illinois election officials said that submitting the information would violate state law, risking Illinoisans’ privacy. “We take Illinoisans’ privacy very seriously; data breaches and hacking are unfortunately common,…
Is the Green New Deal dead or not? On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to repeal what he called the “green new scam”—his pejorative for the various green energy subsidies and regulations instituted by former President Joe Biden, mostly through the Inflation Reduction Act. Members of the House Freedom Caucus—a conservative faction…
China may have stolen data from nearly every American, including President Donald Trump, a yearslong joint investigation by multiple intelligence agencies has concluded. The group “Salt Typhoon,” which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party, reportedly hacked phones Trump and Vice President JD Vance used last year during the presidential campaign. The investigation has uncovered…
Sen. Josh Hawley on Thursday took the elitist project of transhumanism—an ideology aimed at moving beyond natural human limits, including mortality—to task over its disdain for the dignity of humankind. In an address at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington, the Missouri Republican argued that transhumanism was by definition about “overcoming the common and ordinary…
In a Senate hearing Thursday, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke out about the firings under his leadership, calling them “absolutely necessary adjustments.” The Senate Finance Committee called on Kennedy to testify on Trump’s health care agenda writ large. But early questions from senators focused largely on recent news…
There is a growing movement to ban stock trading by members of Congress, but it is altogether unclear whether the two parties will be able to overcome differences to pass such reforms anytime soon. A bipartisan group of House members—including some of the chamber’s most conservative and most liberal members—is pushing the Restore Trust in…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blasted party leadership on Wednesday for largely failing to get behind avowed socialist and Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the 2025 New York City mayoral race. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both D-N.Y., have yet to endorse Mamdani’s campaign for mayor in…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) settled a class action lawsuit Wednesday with parents over learning loss suffered by students during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The lawsuit, filed by several parents of LAUSD children in 2020, alleged the district’s remote learning model failed to properly educate children and left them years behind their peers. LAUSD…
President Donald Trump joined a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders, where Trump urged European nations to stop purchasing Russian oil. French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders invited the president into their “Coalition of the Willing” meeting, a White House official told The Daily Signal. “President Trump emphasized that Europe must stop purchasing…
A federal judge Wednesday struck down the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze nearly $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard. That funding freeze was part of the administration’s effort to combat antisemitism at universities that failed to protect their students and faculty. But U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs said Wednesday that the halt on…
The attorney general for the District of Columbia is suing President Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard to clean up the crime in the nation’s capital. The lawsuit says that Trump has “run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy—that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.” Attorney General Brian…
Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., declared his support for the Republican Party “as the party of the working class” on Thursday at the National Conservatism Conference. “Rising GDP and a soaring stock market are great, but real success is what ordinary people care about the most is measured by the strength of our families and what…
As the Trump administration prepares an executive order to ban mail-in voting and require voter identification, Maine’s Democrat secretary of state admitted non-citizen residents are registered to vote in her state. “I’m sure there are, in some isolated incidents, some non-citizens may be on the rolls,” said Shenna Bellows, who is running for Maine governor…
Russia says it will help China grow its nuclear power capacity and overtake the U.S. as a leading producer of nuclear energy. The U.S. currently has 94 nuclear reactors, the most in the world, followed by France and China, tied with 57 each, according to the Power Reactor Information System database. China is…