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In a dramatic moment, Axios reporter Stef Kight ushered Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., off stage on Wednesday after protests crashed his interview with her. Two protesters rushed toward the stage at the Axios News Shapers forum in D.C. One carried a banner and the other held a Palestine flag. Their aggressive acts may have suggested…
Fourteen football players boarded a plane and flew from Israel to Amsterdam in the middle of July for the Australian Football League’s European tournament. When news of Israel’s participation in the tournament triggered threats of protests, Australian Football League Europe did not capitulate to political pressure. It is the role of the Australian Football League…
The House Freedom Caucus has dominated the headlines since President Donald Trump took office in January. The group pressured House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with tough love to phase out green energy incentives in the One Big, Beautiful Bill, enact deeper spending cuts, and remove punitive taxes on firearms. Ultimately, they provided the necessary votes…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal asked the Supreme Court to hear the case of two families whose daughters were exposed to transgender ideology behind their backs. In 2021, Erin Lee’s 12-year-old daughter was invited by her art teacher to come to art club after school in the Poudre School District…
The Trump administration has located 13,000 children who crossed the border unaccompanied under President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. Under the Biden administration, about 300,000 unaccompanied alien children were either “lost” or placed with sponsors that were not adequately vetted, and some were “allowed to be placed with sponsors who…
An agency targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency has received a new director to realign its mission. The United States Institute of Peace board of directors named MAGA media figure Darren Beattie as acting president. Beattie is the founder of the media outlet Revolver News. “As President [Donald] Trump continues to implement his bold…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Transportation is moving away from the Biden administration’s climate justice initiative, which made it harder and pricier to build buses. Joe Biden’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, forced grant recipients of a $1.5 billion Federal Transit Administration grant program to build buses in accordance with low or…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April affecting the accreditation process for institutions of higher learning. As Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell covered in an exclusive for The Daily Signal, the executive order focused on prohibiting accreditors from “participating in unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion discrimination.” Now, Ohio is looking into its accreditation process for…
Trump administration policies have brought us to the point where we could return to the America of segregated bathrooms, said the National Urban League’s president at Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s unveiling of her Equity in Government Act on Wednesday. According to the Massachusetts Democrat’s website, the bill would codify into law key parts of President Joe…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro criticized the proponents of a bill that would ban males from competing in women’s sports in public schools and public universities. “What we do not need in Pennsylvania are politicians—extremist politicians like [President] Donald Trump, Doug Mastriano, and these others—trying to legislate a student’s participation and legislate the restriction on freedom,”…
Rep. Mike Collins will soon announce a bid to unseat Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff in the 2026 U.S. Senate election in Georgia, per Fox News. The son of former Rep. Mac Collins, R-Ga., Mike Collins has represented Georgia’s 8th Congressional District since 2023. Collins also owns and operates a large trucking business. In the House,…
Voters won’t be heading to the general election polls for the 2026 Senate races for another year and a half, but the elections are already taking shape. Over the past week, the candidate pool in Georgia, Michigan, and North Carolina—states that will determine the Senate’s balance of power during President Donald Trump’s final act—has shrunk…
After years of flip-flopping opinion on screen usage in schools, a vast majority of American voters want to ban cellphones in the classroom. New polls suggest policies to limit or ban phones during class are gaining in popularity as states move to implement various levels of restrictions. A poll from Napolitan News Service released Tuesday…
Three Lorain Police Department officers were shot on Wednesday in what Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, says “appears to have been a targeted attack on law enforcement.” One of the officers shot, Phillip Wagner, has since died from his injuries, leading to an order from DeWine for flags to be flown at half-staff in the state…
Israel will soon allow Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to resume aid airdrops into Gaza. In coordination with the Israel Defense Forces, Jordan may conduct its first airdrop as soon as Friday, The Times of Israel reports. In 2024, the U.S., working with Jordan and other nations, airdropped aid into Gaza. The plan to…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Former Vice President Mike Pence’s think tank formally asked the Food and Drug Administration on Friday to turn over documents related to the dangers of the abortion pill, mifepristone. Pence’s think tank, Advancing American Freedom, believes that the FDA took illegal shortcuts under previous administrations that led to its approval of…
The Obama intelligence community’s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized dirty tricks to try and help Donald Trump win the 2016 election was based on “one scant, unclear, and unverifiable fragment of a sentence from one of the substandard [intelligence] reports,” according to a just-declassified report that had been locked away in a CIA…
Joe Biden’s first White House chief of staff and longtime confidant told House of Representatives investigators Thursday that Biden became less energetic in office and his memory had gotten worse but that he had the mental acuity for the job. However, Ron Klain said in a transcribed interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform…
President Donald Trump put Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on the spot about the cost of renovations to the Fed’s Washington headquarters building going over budget. “We’re taking a look, and it looks like it’s about $3.1 billion. Went up a little bit—or a lot,” Trump said. “So, the 2.7 is now 3.1. It just…
Senate Republicans are sounding off on Democrats’ obstruction of the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s judicial and executive branch nominees. “There is absolutely zero reason we should have this backlog—especially with such important nominations,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said on the Senate floor on Thursday. Blackburn was just the latest Republican senator to express frustration…