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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump’s recent policy decisions regarding China could backfire amid trade negotiations with Beijing’s communist regime, China analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Trump announced on Monday that he would allow 600,000 Chinese students to study in the U.S., less than a week after the White House launched an official…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a number of illegal aliens across the U.S. on Thursday, including criminals with sodomy and murder convictions. “These vicious murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and violent criminals have no place in this country,” a senior Department of Homeland Security official said in a statement Friday. “We’ve said it before,…
Vice President JD Vance took aim at likely 2028 Democrat presidential candidate California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in an interview Thursday with Fox News host Will Cain. “You can’t mimic the master. You ought to just go and be yourself. And I think the people would like that…
A federal judge ordered the University of Pittsburgh Thursday to let a pro-Palestinian activist group back on campus. U.S. District Court Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan instructed the school to lift its suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine at the university, saying the rules the school based the suspension on likely violated the First Amendment….
In a Friday media blitz, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson confirmed that the “comprehensive crime bill” that President Donald Trump proposed earlier this week is in the works. “It is a very real possibility,” said Johnson, R-La., on Fox News. On Wednesday, Trump wrote on social media that “Speaker Mike Johnson and [Senate Majority] Leader…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee for governor, responded to a Democrat official who accused her of antisemitism. “These folks are grasping at straws,” Earle-Sears told The Daily Signal in a phone call Wednesday. The antisemitism accusation traces back to the debate over a recent protester’s sign comparing her…
The Federal Election Commission confirmed it opened an investigation into Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., for allegedly taking illegal campaign contributions and attempting to conceal them from required federal reporting. The FEC is responding to a complaint from conservative advocacy group the Coolidge Reagan Foundation based on a separate investigation done by an internal congressional watchdog….
Vice President JD Vance promoted the tax savings from the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” to working-class Americans at a steel fabrication company in western Wisconsin. On Thursday, Vance took his “Big, Beautiful Bill” promotion tour to Mid-City Steel in La Crosse, Wisconsin, a district represented by Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden. National Journal’s 2026 House…
EL PASO, Texas—There is a gap to plug at the southern border, and it’s not in the wall. The Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, is combating illegal border crossings underground through the city’s extensive storm-drain system. El Paso has more than 100 access points to its storm drain system, according to interim Border Patrol…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democrats are attempting to draw negative attention to the U.S. economy under Republican leadership, but cite price increases that began in the middle of former President Joe Biden’s sole White House term. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in July launched HouseRepublicanPriceHike.com, an interactive tool aiming to highlight how the cost of some grocery store…
A group of LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to uphold a Colorado law that bans conversion therapy for minors. In a “friend of the court” brief, the organizations said Colorado’s law “promotes supportive parent-child relationships.” According to the groups, conversion therapy “divides youth from their families and promotes parental rejection of LGBTQ…
Democrat leaders in Congress invited their Republican counterparts to government funding negotiations in a Thursday letter, albeit one brimming with partisan accusations of legislative malfeasance. The hostile letter sets the stage for tense spending negotiations with little more than a month left to fund the government before the end of fiscal year 2025 at the…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday sharply criticized comments made by one of her predecessors, Jen Psaki, about the mass shooting Wednesday at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, characterizing the remarks as “insensitive and disrespectful.” Discussing the school shootings that left two children dead and 17 others injured, Psaki raised the topic of…
Fox News contributor and former Rep. Trey Gowdy launched his new crime thriller on Tuesday, marking the first novel published by Fox News Books. “I want people to know what it’s like to be a homicide prosecutor. I did it for 20 years, and if you are interested in homicide crime from start until the…
Democrat nominee for Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger says she plans to revoke an order by Gov. Glenn Youngkin designed to facilitate cooperation between Virginia and federal law enforcement officers to combat illegal immigration. “Virginia is not a sanctuary state,” the order says. But in an interview with Virginia Mercury, Spanberger said one of her first…
THE CENTER SQUARE—Republicans are calling for 35 inland counties to secede from California and create a new state. The GOP announced the plan Wednesday as its response to Democrats’ congressional redistricting efforts. “I want to take a step back from all of the chaos we had and talk about the forgotten people of California,” Assembly…
Facing unprecedented delays from Democrats on confirming President Donald Trump’s executive and judicial nominees, Senate Republican leaders want to change the rules to expedite the process. “President Trump has more than 1,000 senior-level appointments that require Senate confirmation. Under a radical Democratic resistance strategy, the Senate has so far confirmed only 135,” wrote Senate Majority…
Republican Reps. Michael Cloud of Texas and Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania are co-sponsoring a House of Representatives resolution to be introduced on Friday to recognize Sept. 12 as “The Day of the Bible” in the United States. The resolution explains that on Sept. 12, 1782, Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, officially endorsed the “Aitken…
One of the better ways for ordinary Americans to keep our vast, federal bureaucracies in check is to submit public comments about their rulemaking. Federal agencies open rules up for “notice and comment,” a process by which citizens have a chance to weigh in on regulatory rules and policies. It’s a way to not just…
Vice President JD Vance spoke out Thursday morning against what he sees as attacks on prayer in the wake of the deadly shooting at Minnesota’s Annunciation Catholic School. “It is shocking to me that so many left-wing politicians attack the idea of prayer in response to a tragedy,” wrote Vance, himself a convert to Roman…