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Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party made big gains in Thursday’s local elections and gained another seat in Parliament as it positions itself as a new right-leaning party of opposition to the reigning Labour Party. Reform UK gained hundreds of new local council seats, while the Conservative and Labour parties conversely lost hundreds. The results are…
The White House celebrated a positive April jobs report as markets rebounded Friday, a welcome relief amid uncertainty over tariffs. “The Golden Age is here,” said Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer after the report came out. “This is another great jobs report … better than expected.” The report showed a 177,000 increase in nonfarm payroll jobs….
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night axing taxpayer funding for “biased” news outlets NPR and PBS. “National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service receive taxpayer funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” the order says. “Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today, the media landscape is filled with abundant,…
President Donald Trump made a new announcement about how the federal government would treat Harvard University in a post Friday. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” the president posted on Truth Social. In April, Trump had floated the idea of Harvard losing its tax-exempt status. “Perhaps…
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama—President Donald Trump has 10 pieces of advice for 2025 college graduates, who he said “have a chance to be the greatest generation in the history of our country.” Trump’s speech at the University of Alabama was his first graduation address of his second term. He addressed a stadium of about 100,000 people. Many…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A thrice-failed Democrat political candidate in Texas is considering taking on a Republican Senate seat in the consistently right-leaning state if voters want him to. Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke said at a town hall in Denton, Texas, on Saturday that he would be open to launching a new Senate campaign for the…
TEL AVIV, Israel—After Oct. 7, 2023, and amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, the Abraham Accords remain in place and may soon be expanded, according to a Heritage Foundation visiting fellow based in Israel. “To be honest, President [Joe] Biden was not able to add any additional countries to the Abraham Accords….
Conservative groups who have successfully backed legislation in six states this year to ban foreign funding of ballot initiatives have one message for Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte about his state’s measure. Veto it. House Bill 818 passed the Montana Legislature but was watered down through amendment and lacks the same strong protections against foreign funding…
President Donald Trump on Thursday established by executive order a Religious Liberty Commission, a panel to be led by members of the clergy and government officials to advise the White House on religious liberty issues. “Americans need to be reacquainted with our nation’s superb experiment in religious freedom in order to preserve it against emerging…
The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to repeal a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency waiver that allowed California to ban the selling of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles by 2035. The vote was 246-to-164, with 35 Democrats crossing party lines to join all 211 Republicans who were present in support of the joint resolution. The measure…
Financial questions continue to hover over the Biden family, even with former President Joe Biden three and a half months out of office. The 46th president’s daughter, Ashley Biden, founded the Women’s Wellness Spa(ce) in 2023. The nonprofit tax-exempt organization says it serves women who have experienced trauma. It failed to report a total of…
At a Capitol Hill press conference Thursday, Kelly Loeffler, director of the Small Business Administration, laid out President Donald Trump’s carrot-and-stick strategy for returning manufacturing to the United States. Loeffler joined Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, to promote the Made in America Act, which would increase to $10 million the limit…
President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, is getting a new role Trump announced in a post on Truth Social that he was “pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations.” From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress…
House Democrat Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has a plan to guide his party out of the political wilderness, but he appears not to want to go into too many details. At a Thursday press conference, Jeffries, D-N.Y., touted his resistance to President Donald Trump and his agenda, but would not expand on his plans to…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar told Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Myles Morell to “f— off” when he asked about her party advocating for an alleged MS-13 member. Morell asked Omar if more Democrats should be traveling to El Salvador to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13…
The Office of Personnel Management announced a proposed rule Thursday morning to stop including diversity, equity, and inclusion metrics and end grade inflation on senior bureaucrats’ performance evaluations. The proposed rule aims to reform the Senior Executive Service performance appraisal system. For several years, more than 96% of bureaucrats in the SES, top-level agency employees…
The Department of Health and Human Services released a report Thursday detailing the dangers of experimental transgender medical interventions euphemistically referred to as “gender-affirming care.” The report marks a sea change from the Biden administration, which forcefully advocated for off-label use of hormones to make males appear female and vice versa, and surgical interventions to…
The Department of Justice is fighting child abuse in American schools in the form of radical gender ideology, said White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller at a press briefing on Thursday. “It is child abuse to change a child’s gender, particularly if you do not inform the parent,” Miller said. “So, if there…
JERUSALEM—Israel’s war with Hamas goes beyond land and borders; it’s a battle for “our common civilization, for our values,” a former Israeli envoy to the United States warns. “The enemy we’re fighting against is an enemy that detests everything that you stand for, everything that we stand for,” Michael Oren, who served as Israeli…
New York Attorney General Letitia James—already facing a federal criminal referral—now faces a potential state probe regarding her reporting of properties she owns in Virginia. America First Legal, a conservative government watchdog, filed a bar complaint against James with the New York Committee on Professional Standards, seeking an investigation into the statements made in a…