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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel does intend to take full control of the Gaza Strip but does not want to rule the territory long-term. “Well, we don’t want to keep it,” Netanyahu said in an interview Thursday with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer. “We want to have a security perimeter, but we don’t want to…
Almost two weeks after a mob attack took place in Cincinnati, garnering national attention, one of the victims, Holly, spoke at a press conference held by Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio. The Wednesday event focused on moving forward. Moreno called the media out for their coverage of the violent incident. “Let’s be honest, because a lot…
A litigation group run by veteran Democrat election lawyer Marc Elias helped coordinate legal challenges from California and Illinois to stop President Donald Trump’s agenda. Democracy Forward, where Elias is chairman, coordinated an online conference with lawyers working for the California and Illinois state attorneys general offices to challenge executive orders from Trump, according to…
A 10th former Joe Biden White House staffer took questions from House investigators on Thursday, insisting that the 46th president was up to the job. Anita Dunn, former senior adviser to the president for communications, has been closely linked to Biden for years. Dunn and others voluntarily spoke to the House Oversight and Government Reform…
Zohran Mamdani’s ascent in New York City’s mayoral race is being heralded as the reconfiguration of the Democratic Party, but the Democrat Senate primary in Michigan could be an even bigger step toward the national party embracing democratic socialism and a more critical stance toward Israel, thanks to one would-be senator in particular. In the…
A conservative group issued a “woke alert” on JPMorganChase, a bank that President Donald Trump said once tried to “debank” him. Consumers’ Research issued its alert as Trump signed an executive order Thursday opposing debanking by any financial institution for political or religious beliefs. Debanking is a newer phenomenon where banks refuse to do business with…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A 2024 climate change study amplified by the corporate press projecting up to $38 trillion in global climate damages by 2050 relied on inaccurate data, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The study’s inclusion of Uzbekistan’s faulty gross domestic product figures skewed its results and cast doubt on its conclusion that global GDP…
President Donald Trump is threatening to take back federal control over the District of Columbia after a member of the president’s Department of Government Efficiency was brutally beaten in the city in the early hours of Sunday morning. The president on Tuesday sounded off on the failure of the District’s government to properly police the…
The Trump administration is prioritizing getting a nuclear reactor on the moon by the end of the decade in a bid to beat Russia and China. “We’re in a race to the moon, in a race with China to the moon. And to have a base on the moon, we need energy. And some of…
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said he would be President “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.” He also suggested that Trump is afraid of him, which he said explains Trump’s flippant comments about deportation, Fox News reported. Mamdani, the city’s Democrat nominee for mayor, is leading in polls by wide margins in his effort to unseat…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Taxpayers spent $207 million to pay federal government employees not for their official government jobs but for hours worked for unions in the 2024 fiscal year, President Joe Biden’s final year in office. According to data exclusively provided first to The Daily Signal, federal employees worked 3.2 million hours for unions…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former special counsel Jack Smith is finally facing a federal probe over his conduct while prosecuting President Donald Trump, though its impact may be limited. Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton confirmed Monday that the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal watchdog agency, launched an ethics investigation into Smith. The Office of Special Counsel’s…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking applicants to serve as prosecutors in her office, according to a Monday post on the social media site LinkedIn. A Georgia appeals court threw Willis off a criminal case targeting President Donald Trump in a 2-to-1 ruling released in December, saying the trial court failed…
Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan put out a call Thursday to America’s technological innovators to power the Navy’s future with small modular nuclear reactors and cutting-edge power generation and storage technology. “President [Donald] Trump’s commitment to unleashing American energy innovation is powering the Navy into a new era,” Phelan said of the Navy’s…
Radical Islamic groups are targeting and killing Christians in multiple African nations. An ISIS affiliate, known as Islamic State Mozambique Province, is taking responsibility for recent beheadings of Christians in Mozambique and setting fire to homes and churches, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, a research organization based in Washington, D.C. On July…
President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Commerce to start work on a new census in which illegal immigrants will not be counted. “I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information…
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it is severing its ties with unions, in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order ending collective bargaining with unions at some agencies. The move is intended to make it easier for VA leaders to promote high-performing employees, hold poor performers accountable, and improve benefits and services to America’s…
Tech mogul Elon Musk notched an important victory for free speech this week after a federal judge on Tuesday invalidated a California law that sought to restrict digitally altered videos on online platforms like X, which Musk owns. Assembly Bill 2655, the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, required X and some other…
President Donald Trump told European leaders he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week. This followed a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said he spoke with Trump on Wednesday. “European leaders were on the call, and I am grateful to each of them for their support….
The Department of Defense has given multimillion-dollar grants in recent years to a health organization that promotes “safe abortions” and “reproductive health” abroad. The DOD’s stated goal for the money is to mitigate the spread of HIV and AIDS in the military forces of U.S. allies. The organization, Washington, D.C.-based Population Services International, supports “safe…