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Just one day after the fallout between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk went nuclear on social media, Democrat House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was already trying to leverage it to his advantage. To be sure, Jeffries, D-N.Y., is not mourning Musk’s departure from the Washington scene. Asked by The Daily Signal if he thought…
The House Committee on Education & the Workforce is monitoring the relationship between an agency within the Labor Department and the pro-union group the Solidarity Center following a recent Daily Signal report on a potential conflict of interest. "This report is deeply concerning and calls into question whether there was a significant conflict of interest,"…
Catholic advocacy organization CatholicVote is challenging Apple CEO Tim Cook on what it called a “Eucharistic desecration” scene in an Apple TV+ program after the group gained about 170,000 signatures on a petition from people saying they “won’t stand for blasphemy.” Fox News first reported on the letter Friday. “As the nation’s largest lay Catholic…
Job growth in the U.S. exceeded economists’ expectations in May, according to the jobs report released by the Department of Labor on Friday. It showed the U.S. added 139,000 nonfarm jobs from April to May, 9,000 more than some economists had predicted. The unemployment rate remained at 4.2%, about the same rate as in March…
While negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program appear to have made little progress, Iran is further arming itself, a new report indicates. Iran has ordered materials for ballistic missiles from China as it seeks to bolster its military amid ongoing talks with the U.S. over its nuclear program, according to The Wall Street Journal. China…
On Jan. 29, 2024, three American service members were killed and over 40 wounded when a drone exploded inside a U.S. base in Jordan. That was the first time in over 70 years that U.S. troops died in a direct enemy air attack—and those deaths didn’t come from jets or missiles. They came from a…
The Illinois state House has passed a physician-assisted suicide bill that would allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication to patients who are terminally ill. The legislation—which reportedly stalled Thursday afternoon in the state Senate—requires that people have a prognosis of less than six months to live and be of sound mind before allowing…
The Oversight Project has discovered a third autopen signature used to sign presidential proclamations for former President Joe Biden, the watchdog group’s president, Mike Howell, said Thursday. “We previously disclosed there were two autopen signatures,” Howell said in an interview with “The Sean Hannity Show” on talk radio. “So, think about it as two versions…
After its passage by narrowest of margins in the House of Representatives, Republicans' “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill is facing the prospect of major changes in the Senate, which could make it extremely difficult to pass when the revised bill is returned to the House. The bill passed the House by a 215-214 margin with…
President Donald Trump’s feud with Elon Musk continued to escalate on Thursday afternoon, when the billionaire entrepreneur accused Trump of being in the Epstein files. Trump, in turn, made no personal attack, but defended what he calls the “big, beautiful bill.” “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files,” Musk…
Nearly half of Americans believe the Department of Government Efficiency is right on target or hasn’t gone far enough in its cost-cutting efforts. That’s according to a new poll from the Napolitan News Service, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters last week on their feelings about DOGE, the Elon Musk-inspired initiative that targeted waste, fraud, and…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered the U.S. Navy to rename a tanker vessel that had been christened the USNS Harvey Milk after the late left-wing gay activist and San Francisco politician. Milk, who began a relationship with a 16-year-old boy when he was 33, has long been seen as a homosexual rights…
There’s justice for a North Carolina teen wrongly suspended and branded a racist for using the phrase “illegal alien.” Last year, 16-year-old Christian McGhee of Central Davidson High School in Lexington, North Carolina, was given an English assignment: Write about aliens. Being an intelligent lad, Christian asked the teacher a logical question: “Like space aliens…
An illegal alien is the lead suspect in a hit-and-run accident in Tennessee, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Tony Gebian Lopez Infante, an illegal alien from Venezuela, is wanted for allegedly striking a 21-year-old American, Zach Carach, in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 18 before fleeing the scene driving a silver Mitsubishi Mirage….
The Supreme Court has unanimously overturned a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that prevented the Catholic Charities Bureau from receiving a religious tax exemption. Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned the opinion for the court, while Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson each filed concurring opinions. The court, in its opinion released Thursday, held that Wisconsin’s court…
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to be “a part of it” in the Big Apple—making his return to the spotlight at Wednesday night's Democrat New York City mayoral debate. He was joined on the debate stage by eight other mayoral hopefuls. As he received a barrage of criticism from the other candidates, Cuomo—running…
President Donald Trump said he is unsure of the future of his relationship with Elon Musk following the billionaire entrepreneur’s sharp criticism of the “Big Beautiful Bill.” “I’m very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here, better than you people,” Trump told the press. “Elon and…
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said House Republican scrutiny of a Biden administration $2 billion grant to a Stacey Abrams-aligned nonprofit was aimed to “keep a strong black woman down.” The House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, or the DOGE Subcommittee, held a hearing Wednesday about federal grants to politically connected nonprofits. In April…
President Donald Trump issued travel restrictions on 12 nations, saying he will not allow “what happened in Europe to happen to America.” The majority of the nations included in the travel ban are countries with a predominant Muslim population. Over the last decade, Europe’s Muslim population has increased drastically as more immigrants from Muslim nations settle…
President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into the alleged use of an autopen to sign pardons under the Biden administration without the former president’s knowledge. “In recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that former President Biden’s aides abused the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive…