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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Entrepreneur James Fishback started the Full Support for Donald PAC to counter Elon Musk’s efforts to create a third political party. Now that Musk’s threats have quieted, the FSD PAC will set its sights on bringing down Rep. Maria Salazar, a Florida Republican who sponsored a bill that would provide amnesty…
Marziyeh Amirizadeh says there is only one country in the Middle East that she believes could become a Christian nation—Iran. “I know my people, I know their heart, and know how much they are tired of Islam,” Amirizadeh told The Daily Signal. “And Iran can be a country, a Christian country in the future, hopefully…
Vice President JD Vance has emerged as an essential force in getting President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda across the finish line. To date, the millennial veep has cast seven tiebreaking votes in his capacity as president of the Senate in support of the Trump administration’s priorities since the beginning of Trump’s second term. This past…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A U.S. district court released a comprehensive list on July 11 of every book banned from use in Pentagon-run schools, which includes a slew of highly sexual LGBTQ+ topics directed at children and other leftist literature. The list, totaling 596 books, was included in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union against…
The sudden hospitalization this week of retiring Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., was a reminder of the stresses of politics on an aging Congress. Smith, 67, was hospitalized Wednesday after not feeling well. She was discharged from the hospital the next day but had already announced that she would not run for reelection in 2026. Being…
Running in the Boston Marathon was a longtime dream for Natalie Daniels, and doing it six months’ postpartum, she says, felt like a way to celebrate the beauty and power of the female body. That’s why Daniels says she was troubled to learn that the Boston Marathon was now allowing men who identify as women…
Edwin J. Feulner Jr., founder of The Heritage Foundation and a longtime leader of the conservative movement, died Friday. He was 83 years old. Heritage announced Feulner’s death in a statement released by President Kevin Roberts and Board Chairman Barb Van Andel-Gaby. They praised Feulner as “more than a leader—he was a visionary, a builder,…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt warned the nation about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda on Thursday at a press briefing. But there’s another name she could have added. Meet Omar Fateh, a Muslim democratic socialist running for Minneapolis mayor. National attention has recently turned toward this 35-year-old native of the District…
“We are in the second American Revolution,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts declared Friday. “I don’t mean that there needs to be bloodshed,” Roberts said at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 52nd Annual Meeting. “Although, [on] the left, if you spend some time in Washington, D.C., around Capitol Hill and outside of The Heritage Foundation…
There’s a new border czar in town, and he says he has “zero tolerance” for attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. “This ridiculousness is over,” Tom Homan told The Daily Signal. “You put a hand on an ICE officer, you’re going to prison. You impede an ICE officer, you’re getting prosecuted,” he said Friday…
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. President Donald Trump is negotiating with the college presidents and elite universities in general, places like…
With the new Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing to effectively codify President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring price transparency from health care providers. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. Republicans Sens. Tim Sheehy of Montana, Chuck Grassley, and Joni Ernst of…
As self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani heads for the general election in the race for New York City mayor, he’s seeking to foster relationships with national Democrats in Washington. Mamdani, a Democrat in the New York state Assembly who won his party’s primary for mayor on June 24, has garnered the support of some…
Ohio has been experiencing winning results thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law earlier this month by President Donald Trump. Planned Parenthood, not so much. Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio announced closures of Springfield and Hamilton locations, effective Aug. 1. The announcement was made in a July 17 press release and included…
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday a reduction in force that will save taxpayers nearly $750 million. The workforce reorganization is part of the agency’s “comprehensive restructuring efforts,” and will affect the Office of Research and Development, the EPA’s scientific research arm. After the latest reduction, the EPA will have cut its workforce from 16,155…
A new book detailing the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt on President Donald Trump debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times’ bestseller list this week. Salena Zito, a journalist and Daily Signal columnist who witnessed the shooting just feet from then-candidate Trump, wrote about the harrowing episode in “Butler: The Untold Story of the…
The mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, has “jeopardized” the safety of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and their families, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says. “Mayor Freddie O’Connell has gone after our ICE individuals and agents that work with [Homeland Security Investigations],” Noem said at a press conference in Nashville on Friday. O’Connell,…
The House of Representatives approved a bill this week enshrining the name of a wildlife preserve to memorialize a young Texas girl killed more than a year ago, allegedly by a pair of illegal aliens. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who sponsored the legislation in the Senate, told The Daily Signal, “Jocelyn Nungaray was a 12-year-old…
Gas prices often increase in the summer as more motorists hit the road, but this year’s pump prices have dropped to match the summer of 2021, the last time seasonal gas prices were this low. The national average is down about 3 cents per gallon from last week, returning to the price from a month…
When Sen. Ted Cruz pitched the president on the most far-reaching federal school choice measure on the books, he encouraged Donald Trump to consider his legacy. “I made the argument to him that there was no provision in this bill that would have a greater legacy than the school choice provision,” Cruz told The Daily…