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A new poll about the Israel-Hamas war found a 29 percentage point divide between older and younger Americans on support for Israel. Recent polling for the Napolitan News Service of 1,000 registered voters comes as President Donald Trump hopes to end that war in the Middle East. Trump last month hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
While President Donald Trump has been tackling LGBTQ+ activism at the federal level, Iowa has become the first state to pass a bill that removes gender identity from the state’s civil rights law. On Friday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, signed SF418, which made its way to her desk with a 33-15 vote in the…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s White House is calling on Senate Democrats to represent the vast majority of Americans by voting Monday night to bar males from girls and women’s sports. “Given America’s overwhelming support to protect women’s sports, Senate Democrats should put aside their left-wing agenda and vote to pass this nonpartisan,…
The Pentagon is surging about 3,000 active-duty troops and other resources to the U.S. southern border as aggressive efforts continue to stop the flow of illegal immigration. The Department of Defense announced Saturday that it's sending a Stryker Brigade Combat Team and a General Support Aviation Battalion to the U.S. border with Mexico. The…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A diversity training that taught police officers to apologize for misgendering “transgender” people, avoid using “unacceptable terms” such as “Tranny,” “Shim,” and “Shemale,” and urged agents to attend pride events “in uniform” to build relationships has been removed from the Department of Justice website. Under the Biden administration, the United States Department…
The Daily Signal is relaunching its popular “Top News in 10” daily news program, featuring a new host and the introduction of a video format for the first time in the show’s history. Beginning today, the program also moves to a morning release schedule, providing you with essential news updates to start your day. Tony…
There have been several polls in recent years all pointing to a decline in Christianity among U.S. adults. Research released in April of 2023 from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University found millennials, in particular, seemed to wrestle with purpose as those who had religious affiliations steadily dropped. A few months later, the Pew Research…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano allegedly declined to prosecute a registered sex offender because the man’s transgender identity and a county policy shielded him from any wrongdoing. Richard Cox was arrested in December of 2024 in Arlington County after several parents claimed a man had exposed himself to young girls in the Arlington…
A New Mexico mom is speaking out against pornographic content in her two daughters’ high school curriculum. One of Monika Bialostocka’s twin daughters brought home a book assigned as part of her English curriculum that graphically depicted pedophilia between a 64-year-old woman and a 10-year-old boy, according to an original report last week in Independent…
Legislation in the U.S. House and Senate to rein in the federal bureaucracy and allow poor performers to be fired or disciplined would “codify” the efforts of the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative, said Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. Loudermilk, along with Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., in the Senate, proposed similar versions of…
Having failed to convince the voting public about the merits of its campaign against fossil fuels, the climate movement is now turning to the courts to enforce its agenda. And to support this effort, millions of dollars are now flowing through liberal charities and nonprofit groups to pay lawyers to prosecute these cases. States, cities,…
President Donald Trump has an 11th-hour plan to avoid a federal government shutdown—a continuing resolution that would renew government funding until the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30. The stakes are high, as a shutdown could imperil the fulfillment of his campaign promises. “As usual, Sleepy Joe Biden left us a total…
The Heritage Foundation gave a resounding endorsement Thursday to Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be undersecretary of defense for policy. In a post on X, the conservative think tank released an advertisement praising the foreign-policy expert. A spokeswoman for Heritage told The Daily Signal: Elbridge Colby is a fantastic choice for undersecretary of…
Kari Lake, who is President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Voice of America, will become a senior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the VOA. The acting U.S. Agency for Global Media chief, Roman Napoli, announced Lake’s arrival in an email to the staff, VOA reported Friday, that read, “As…
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed an executive order requiring all cities and counties in the commonwealth to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “It's just common sense that our law enforcement, our state and local law enforcement, are working with—instead of against—our federal authorities,” Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares told The Daily Signal…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A religious liberty law firm has launched an investigation into censorship of Americans’ free speech within the government’s science agency. Alliance Defending Freedom’s Center for Free Speech filed two public records requests shared with The Daily Signal to federal government agencies seeking information related to possible free speech violations within the…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump said in an interview published Friday that he suspects a member of the Biden family was responsible for leaving a bag of cocaine in the White House in July 2023. The discovery of cocaine in the West Wing of the White House quickly became a national scandal, with speculation running rampant as to…
After the passage of the House of Representatives’ budget resolution on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers face a major challenge: getting Senate Republicans to sign off on the plan without making too many changes so as to make it impossible to pass when it comes back to the House. This complicated game of legislative sudoku will require…
Vice President JD Vance on Friday addressed his relationship with the Catholic faith and Pope Francis at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Vance also discussed the elephant in the room about his relationship with the head of the Catholic Church, who nearly died this week. “We are not called as Christians to obsess over every…
Federal judges ruling against President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions have been almost entirely appointees of his two Democrat predecessors. Some were previously activists, others were steeped in Democrat politics, and one is a former clerk for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor. These judges have issued rulings to block Trump’s policies on immigration, federal spending, the Department…