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Supreme Court justices grew fiery at times, and occasionally comical, during Monday’s arguments in the case of a former Twitter employee who was a paid informant of the Saudi Arabian government. Justices considered a narrow legal question about venue—whether a defendant can be prosecuted in a place where the alleged conduct didn’t occur. In the…
President Donald Trump addressed concerns that his plan to use the Senate’s reconciliation procedure to pass the SAVE America Act will fail. “The parliamentarian is going to have to make a decision on that,” he said on Sunday in response to a question from The Daily Signal. Reconciliation allows for the Senate’s expedited approval of…
President Donald Trump on Monday said he is making progress in negotiations with Iran’s leaders, but he threatened further attacks if they do not agree to a deal soon. “The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran,” Trump wrote in…
ISLAMABAD/TEL AVIV, March 29 (Reuters)—Pakistan said on Sunday it was preparing to host “meaningful talks” to end the conflict over Iran in coming days even though Tehran earlier accused Washington of preparing a land assault while seeking negotiations. Speaking after talks between regional foreign ministers, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said they had covered possible…
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl pressed Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday over his party’s role in the ongoing partial government shutdown leaving the Department of Homeland Security largely without funding. Democrats have voted against funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of their opposition to Immigration…
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Israeli police prevented a Catholic Cardinal from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the church traditionally believed to have been built over the burial tomb of Jesus Christ, adding a new dynamic to the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, was traveling with the…
Drug cartels have “limitless resources” and the ability to rapidly adapt to avoid interdiction, and authorities are currently playing a “game of catch-up,” says the head of a Caribbean security cooperative. “Cooperation and collaboration” between nations is paramount to stopping the illegal flow of drugs through the Caribbean to the U.S., Europe, and Australia, said…
Police arrested dozens during “No Kings” protests around the country on Saturday, including 70 in Los Angeles, California. According to organizers, eight million people took to the streets of American cities Saturday in a show of opposition President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, and the Iran war. “Multiple demonstrators” failed to disperse at…
MIAMI—A Mexican senator has received death threats for speaking out boldly against the criminal cartels operating in her country. “I am under threat,” Sen. Lilly Tellez told The Daily Signal. “But I have faith in God, and that’s why I do this. And if we don’t speak about it, this will get worse, and no…
More than half of the attendees of the 2026 Conservative Political Action Conference want to see Vice President JD Vance as the 2028 Republican presidential nominee. A straw poll at CPAC in Grapevine, Texas, released Saturday found that 53% of the more than 1,600 attendees who participated in the survey prefer Vance. However, Secretary of…
After arguments in a major Supreme Court case regarding mail-in ballots, the Republican National Committee is still involved in 120 election integrity lawsuits across 30 states. Going into the midterm elections, the four priority areas for the committee are voter ID, securing mail-in voting, stopping noncitizens from voting, and holding states accountable for their failures…
The House of Representatives on Friday rejected the Senate’s deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security without funding border security, instead voting to fully fund the department until May 22. The House passed a continuing resolution to fully fund DHS for 60 days on a mostly party-line vote with three Democrats defecting to join…
The Justice Department opened an investigation into male inmates being placed in women’s prisons in California and Maine. The DOJ notified California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Maine Gov. Janet Mills, respectively, on Thursday about the pending probes, noting the danger to female inmates of potential sexual assault. California law allows male prisoners who identify as…
While the pro-life cause suffered a major setback in Ohio when the Reproductive Freedom Amendment passed in 2023, Ohio lawmakers continue to pass legislation to protect the unborn. The Ohio House of Representatives passed the Share the Health and Empower With Informed Notices Act, or the SHE WINS Act for short, on Wednesday by a…
REUTERS—The Homeland Security Department said on Friday it was taking emergency action to pay 50,000 airport security officers who have gone unpaid since mid-February, after work absences brought chaos and long security lines to U.S. airports. “[The Transportation Security Administration] has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce. TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks…
House Republican leadership and the party’s hardline conservative faction rejected the Senate’s homeland security funding deal, which omits funding for border security. “The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., said Friday afternoon as he…
A dozen members of the Sharia Free America Caucus spoke consecutively on the House floor Thursday evening against the “threat of radical Islamic terrorism” in the United States. The speeches, organized by Republican Texas Reps. Keith Self and Rep. Chip Roy, the founders of the caucus, claimed that America was on the same migration trajectory…
The House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to grant the president authority to limit U.S. port access for countries that have seized American property abroad. As Congress remains bitterly divided on the SAVE America Act and funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the Defending American Property Abroad Act of 2026 passed with bipartisan support. The bill, introduced…
REUTERS—Iran-linked hackers have broken into FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email inbox, publishing photographs of the director and other documents to the internet, the hackers and the bureau said on Friday. On its website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said Patel “will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims.” The…