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Iran launched dozens of missiles at Israel on Friday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Explosions were heard in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv as sirens sounded across Israel. Dozens in Israel were injured in the attack. The missile attack on Israel from Iran came less than 24 hours after Israel launched a major attack on…
Despite Democrat efforts to condemn the Trump administration’s arrests of illegal immigrants, voter approval of deportation efforts continues to rise. A recent poll from Napolitan News Service found that 56% of respondents either strongly or somewhat approve of the deportations of illegal immigrants throughout the U.S. The country’s eyes remain glued to the Los Angeles…
Senate Republicans are sharply criticizing Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., for his disruption Thursday of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem‘s press conference. “Sen. Padilla should have been in Washington, D.C., voting. He has a responsibility to his constituents to show up at work—not try to make a spectacle of himself,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the…
Washington, D.C., police are looking for the arsonist believed responsible for over 30 fires set in the Capitol Hill neighborhood since early March. Four fires were set Wednesday morning and 10 were set the previous night. Local station NBC4 reported Wednesday that a federal warrant is out for the arrest of 50-year-old Mohammad Al-Rashidi, whom…
As tensions escalate in the Middle East after Israeli strikes targeted Iranian military and nuclear sites, Heritage Foundation experts hit the airwaves Friday to discuss the latest developments. Victoria Coates, vice president of Heritage’s Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, discussed the conflict on “Fox & Friends First” with Carley Shimkus and Todd…
Nebraska recently passed a law making it illegal for men to participate in women’s sports. The law also recognizes only two distinct and separate identities—male and female, as categorized by their reproductive systems. The “Stand With Women” Act states, “Males and females possess unique and immutable differences” that are “enduring.” It passed in the Nebraska…
After anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rioters shut down two Veterans Affairs offices in Los Angeles, the VA secretary criticized the state’s Democrat leaders for prioritizing illegal immigrants over veterans. “Don’t tell me that you’re really overly concerned about veterans if you’re allowing the riots to get to a point where we can’t take care of…
Reaction from Republican members of Congress to Israel’s Thursday evening strikes on Iran was mixed, highlighting the foreign policy divide in the party. House and Senate leadership appeared supportive of Israel after the strikes. Still, some prominent GOP members of Congress expressed concern over the United States potentially being drawn into another Middle East war….
Major provisions in congressional Republicans' 'One Big Beautiful Bill' resonate with the American people, as do Republican rebuttals to Democrats' attacks on the bill, a new poll finds. While President Donald Trump and Republicans argue that the bill will prevent the largest tax increase in American history and strengthen Medicaid by removing illegal aliens and…
Following Israel’s targeted strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and top military leaders Thursday, President Donald Trump says “there is still time” for Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. “I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning, about 10 hours after Israel first launched…
Israel carried out strikes against Iran on Thursday evening, according to multiple reports. The Israel Defense Forces “launched a preemptive, precise, combined offensive to strike Iran’s nuclear program,” the IDF wrote on X. “Dozens of IAF jets completed the first stage that included strikes on dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of…
Nathaniel Craig Wetter Taylor, the protester who allegedly pepper-sprayed security officers outside The Heritage Foundation Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in a Washington, D.C., arraignment Thursday. Taylor faces two misdemeanor counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer after he reportedly used pepper spray to attack two security personnel as he attempted to enter…
Britain soon could pass the most extreme abortion law Europe has ever seen. Members of Parliament have proposed amendments that would legalize abortion up until the moment of birth. The amendments could also allow for sex-selective abortions and would take away the ability to prosecute abusers who harm unborn children, according to the Society for…
The House passed the HALT Fentanyl Act on Thursday, sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. “Fentanyl is a bioweapon, and this bill treats it like one,” Rep. Addison McDowell, R-N.C., whose younger brother died from a fentanyl overdose, told The Daily Signal. “The HALT Fentanyl Act slams the…
Youthful gun-control activist David Hogg won’t run again to be a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee after members of the committee voted to redo the election that installed him. Hogg, who gained prominence after surviving the deadly February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, resigned from his…
According to former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Los Angeles riots are “overwhelmingly peaceful” and nothing more than “part of the Trump administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division.” But as one Department of Homeland Security official commented, “These rioters in Los Angeles are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals…
The House Republicans successfully passed a rescissions package to cut $9.4 billion from foreign aid and public broadcasting Thursday, in the first major codification of President Donald Trump’s efforts to restructure the federal government. The rescissions package, which targeted funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development as well as for National Public Radio and…
Three Democrat governors defended their sanctuary state policies for illegal aliens before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday. Govs. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Kathy Hochul of New York, and Tim Walz of Minnesota testified at the hearing, which came just days after riots broke out in Los Angeles against the enforcement of federal immigration law…
A few hours before a House vote on whether to defund foreign aid and public broadcasting, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., shared his thoughts on how a heavily indebted America can right its fiscal ship of state. The rescissions package the House is considering would eliminate $9.4 billion in spending through cuts to…
Heritage Action has scored President Donald Trump’s rescissions package as its first key vote of the 119th Congress. The rescissions package passed the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon. “Heritage Action applauds the work President Trump and his administration have done to deliver a bold rescissions package to Congress,” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan…