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President Donald Trump rated his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin a “ten” out of ten after the two met in Alaska on Friday for peace talks regarding the Ukraine war. Russia is also suggesting great progress has been made. The U.S.-Russia summit took place at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. While neither Trump…
President Joe Biden’s former White House chief of staff and former press secretary are among the final four witnesses set to take questions from House of Representatives investigators about the 46th president’s awareness while in office. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will resume transcribed interviews this week as part of the probe of…
During a press conference Monday, President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration is considering rescheduling marijuana as a less potent drug under federal law, which could open the door for a vast economic expansion of the drug’s distribution through interstate commerce. The announcement comes despite extensive evidence of the serious medical harms that cannabis causes…
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin both professed to have made progress, but did not reach an agreement on how to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, after their meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday. Trump said the two leaders had one or two major details remaining to be worked out. “There is no…
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—Reports that the Trump administration might strike a deal granting Russia access to Alaskan minerals are “fake news,” Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy told The Daily Signal. Dunleavy also said President Donald Trump could be the “front-runner” for a Nobel Peace Prize if he’s successful in negotiating a “just peace” to end the…
The Trump administration released this week newly declassified documents that appear to reveal political weaponization of intelligence regarding Russiagate and the Clinton Foundation probe. These documents shine new light on how the Intelligence Community handled the investigation into potential corruption regarding Bill and Hillary Clinton’s family foundation. They also suggest Democrats intentionally leaked classified information…
Intel Corp. was supposed to have a project in Ohio for 2025, though serious delays and other concerns have raised the alarm among lawmakers at the state and federal level. With the Trump administration reportedly taking an interest in Intel, however, perhaps such concerns may be assuaged. In recent weeks, there’s been chatter over Intel’s…
Texas state House Democrats again failed to show up to vote on Friday, putting on hold the special session to redistrict the Lone Star State and add potentially five more Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats fled the state on Aug. 3 in order to deny a quorum—the number of representatives required…
In the aftermath of the SHOCKING disclosure that Sydney Sweeney is a Republican and the absurd injection of racial controversy into her jeans advertisement, the actress said something completely unexpected from a movie star cudgeled by the political correctness police stick. She said nothing. And that was the right thing to do. Because despite the…
Cincinnati’s crime problem is being put under the microscope after a violent attack last month, and now its bond policies are being scrutinized. In late July, a violent attack took place in Cincinnati, with the local response receiving considerable scrutiny and criticism, including at the national level. While several suspects have been arrested and charged, the…
As Virginia’s gubernatorial race presses on, Republican nominee Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears continues to try to define her opponent, Democrat nominee Abigail Spanberger. The Earle-Sears campaign released two ads Wednesday that aim to reveal what it considers is Spanberger’s true identity. In one of the ads, titled “Forward,” the Republican candidate and Marine Corps veteran…
Longtime Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., is facing a formidable Gen Z opponent in the form of Liam Elkind during this primary season. Elkind, a former Rhodes scholar and nonprofit founder, has already raised more than $340,000 in his bid to oust Nadler after launching his campaign on July 30. The Democrat incumbent, by contrast, has…
After months of negative Texas Republican Senate primary polls showing him trailing a firebrand opponent, longtime Sen. John Cornyn appears to be gaining some ground. On Monday, Emerson College Polling showed Cornyn leading 30% against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s 29% among Republican primary voters. Thirty-seven percent of the respondents remained undecided and the margin…
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins just entered Georgia’s U.S. Senate race in late July, but his campaign says he’s already built the infrastructure needed to flip the Senate seat red in 2026. Incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., narrowly won the state in a 2022 runoff election and is now up for reelection. “He [Collins] is the…
The effect of wokeness may be fading in Ohio’s capital city. Years after the Christopher Columbus statue was removed in Columbus in 2020 during the height of Black Lives Matter protests, there are plans to restore the statue to public prominence. State Rep. Brian Stewart, a Republican who represents Ohio’s 12th District, shared news about…
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom fired up a Los Angeles crowd Thursday, promoting a November ballot measure to redraw the state’s congressional map in Democrats’ favor in response to Texas’ redistricting. “[President] Donald Trump, you have poked the bear, and we will punch back,” Newsom said at the Japanese American Museum’s National Center for the…
Conservatives are catching up to the Left when it comes to digital donation prowess. While the Left is known for employing the fundraising behemoth ActBlue, Republicans increasingly have their own formidable fundraising platform called WinRed. Ryan Lyk, the CEO of WinRed, described the organization’s mission as helping “Republican candidates raise more money online, grow a…
If President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin goes well, the two might extend their trip to Alaska to establish a peace deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “I’m more interested in an immediate peace deal—getting peace fast,” Trump told Fox radio host Brian Kilmeade. “Depending on what happens with my meeting,…
The Trump administration arrested another illegal immigrant for sexual misconduct against a child. On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Michael Kabiona, an illegal alien from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who had been convicted of sexual abuse against a child, an administration official told The Daily Signal. Kabiona “repeatedly raped and sodomized his step-daughter…
Following up on President Donald Trump’s executive order on improving the integrity of American elections, the Department of Justice recently issued requests to multiple states for information about their voting procedures and databases. As reported in Votebeat, the DOJ has “asked for varied sets of data and records, including voter rolls, information on potential election…