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With the U.S. Senate set to break for August recess, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Daily Signal he is pushing for action on approximately 140 presidential nominees still awaiting confirmation. While the Senate has confirmed more than twice as many nominees as it had at this point in the first Trump administration, Lee said…
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting–which funds NPR and PBS–is shutting down, it announced on Friday. This follows the Congress voting to cut the funding for the CPB. In a press release, the CPB said it will begin an “orderly winddown.” “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to…
The Trump administration has announced a new 40% tariff on transshipments in a move seemingly targeting China. Transshipments are indirect shipments through other nations and often involve the transfer of goods from one vessel to another. China has developed a large global shipping network, so while the tariff on transshipments will affect all countries…
Religious liberty has been restored to government institutions as federal employees can now once again express their faith in the workplace, according to a recent memo from the Trump administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Protections extended to employees include the display of religious items; religious expressions; and religious conversations between federal employees, including…
Ahead of the 2026 midterms, red and blue states are looking to go through with redistricting. Ohio is included in the list of those gaining attention, and the state legislature must redraw those maps by Sept. 30. They’re hardly the only state looking to such a plan for next year. After Vice President JD Vance…
An executive with the George Soros-aligned Open Society Foundations appears to have coordinated with a staffer from the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to promote the discredited Donald Trump-Russian collusion narrative, according to declassified information released this week by the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, an Open Society Foundations spokesperson said alleging it orchestrated an FBI…
A Colorado law enforcement officer has been sued for cooperating with federal immigration agents. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sued Mesa County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander Zwinck last week after Zwinck reportedly sent federal agents information about a student present in the U.S. illegally, The Associated Press first reported. Zwinck and another deputy, Erik Olson, have…
It’s “imperative” that the Senate approves President Donald Trump’s nominees as soon as possible, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told The Daily Signal. “President Trump is the only president to have nominees presented and not confirmed on voice votes,” Blackburn said in an exclusive interview, “and it is imperative that we move some of these U.S….
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation reached a milestone Friday: The humanitarian aid organization backed by the U.S. and Israel has delivered 100 million meals to the people of Gaza since its launch at the end of May. “Reaching 100 million free meals delivered directly to the people of Gaza in just two months of operations is…
Last weekend, a white couple was attacked and brutally beaten and kicked by a mob of young black assailants in Cincinnati while a musical festival took place nearby. The story has garnered national attention, especially with complaints over the local response. Since then, the story appears to be getting worse for one of Ohio’s largest…
A key campaign and White House adviser to former President Joe Biden complained to House investigators Thursday that Democrats in Congress and political pundits overreacted in pushing his former boss out of last year’s presidential race. Mike Donilon, who was senior adviser in the Biden White House, sat down for a transcribed interview with…
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday confirmed that St. John Henry Newman will soon be recognized as a Doctor of the Church. The move is the latest recognition of the profound influence of Newman on Catholics in the almost 135 years since his death. Reacting to the news on the social media platform X, Kevin Roberts,…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, facing a big backlog of unconfirmed judicial and executive branch nominees, is asking Senate Democrats to help confirm President Donald Trump’s less controversial picks in a legislative package. “I do think there at least some of my colleagues, Democrats, on the other side of the aisle, who would like to…
After the Trump administration’s $50 million settlement with Brown University prohibits it from performing transgender medical interventions on minors, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, the administration is seeking similar commitments from other universities. “I can tell you that ending the chemical castration of children in our country is a priority of this administration,” Leavitt told…
In the coming weeks, Congress could decide whether government funding is set by traditional bipartisan spending bills, or through temporary funding measures and quick-fix, surgical spending cuts. The Senate is staying in session for part of its typical August state work period, laboring through a hot Washington summer to confirm President Donald Trump’s judicial and…
The leadership of the state of Arkansas is a model for the rest of the country. That’s what the Richard Nixon Foundation concluded this year in honoring Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders with its Champion of the American Dream Award. The award acknowledges Sanders’ “courage, clarity, and deep commitment to American values,” both as governor of…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Combating human trafficking is a priority for the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Department, but the agency can’t do it alone. That’s why HHS partnered with state and local officials in Mississippi to carry out a two-week human trafficking sting leading to 72 felony and misdemeanor arrests and 29 victim…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A pro-Trump investment firm is demanding the Federal Reserve hand over a transcript of its closed-door meeting this week, in which the committee decided not to lower interest rates. Azoria Capital applied for a temporary restraining order requiring the Federal Open Market Committee to allow the public to watch its meeting…
Fox News Channel continued to dominate television ratings in July, making it the highest-rated network in all of primetime TV—topping not just its cable news rivals but also NBC, CBS, and ABC. With an average of 2.4 million primetime viewers in July, Fox News outpaced NBC with 2.1 million viewers, CBS and ABC with 2…
A top White House official and campaign chief for former President Joe Biden took probing questions from House investigators on Wednesday, pushing back strongly against assertions of Biden’s cognitive decline while still in office. Steve Ricchetti, counselor to the president in the Biden White House and a longtime player in Democrat politics, sat down with…