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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A watchdog group is pushing Bank of America to conduct an inquiry in light of revelations from a House panel probing weaponization of government that financial institutions are providing customers’ information to the FBI and Treasury Department. The National Legal and Policy Center submitted a shareholder resolution asking that the Bank…
The House of Representatives voted 281-140 on Wednesday evening to approve an annual defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, that for the first time protects children of members of the military from irreversible transgender medical interventions. “We should not be funding this with our military,” Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal….
When Clementine Breen began getting puberty blockers at age 12, she had no idea she was agreeing to become a lifelong patient. Breen, now a 20-year-old detransitioner, filed a lawsuit last Thursday against prominent child-gender specialist Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, alleging medical negligence. Breen says Olson-Kennedy pushed her into irreversible transgender medical interventions at only 12…
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped two innovative businessmen—Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—to head the Department of Government Efficiency as the new advisory commission works to eliminate waste and abuse from the federal government. The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t a government agency, however, and lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate have teamed up to…
Christopher Wray is resigning as FBI director, multiple news outlets are reporting. Wray, who President Donald Trump appointed in 2017, had three years left in his term. However, the move isn’t as a surprise as now President-elect Trump announced he would nominate Kash Patel to be the new FBI director. Trump happily accepted the news…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former Marine Daniel Penny said Tuesday that he stands by his actions on a New York City subway, despite enduring years of harsh criticism. During an interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro on “The Five,” Penny revealed his motivations and said he intervened to prevent potential harm as he prioritizes the safety of others over…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—House Democrats are attacking the Republican Party’s move to stop the military from paying for child sex-change treatments in the National Defense Authorization Act. House Republicans negotiating the most recent iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act managed to include language that expressly prohibits the military from paying for “medical interventions for the treatment…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley confronted American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday about how flooding the job market with illegal immigrants benefits Americans. Melnick previously stated in October that mass deportations would be detrimental to many American industries, including hospitality, construction, and agriculture. During a hearing…
Americans in nine states and the District of Columbia will soon see digital ads calling on them to urge their senators to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees. “This is the first stage of targeted advertising to urge undecided senators in a positive way to complete a swift confirmation process of President Trump’s nominees," Ryan…
President-elect Donald Trump made mass deportations a pillar of his winning campaign platform. Trump and Tom Homan—the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who Trump tapped to be his border czar—say they will prioritize the deportations of criminal illegal aliens. Whether all of the estimated more than 10 million illegal aliens who…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—China made its largest show of force around Taiwan in decades in a time when President Joe Biden is seemingly less involved as commander in chief, moving over for President-elect Donald Trump. The Chinese navy deployed a group of 60 ships and 30 coast guard vessels off the coast of Taiwan this…
How did violent anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rioters get away with destroying government property, burning American flags and an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and raising a Palestinian flag in place of Old Glory on July 24? Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ariz., asked that at the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing, “Desecrating Old Glory:…
A Virginia real estate broker faces the prospect of losing his license and paying a hefty fine because of a Facebook post about a Bible verse about homosexuality. On Feb. 13, 2015, Staunton-based broker Wilson Fauber reposted the Rev. Franklin Graham’s post citing a verse in the Bible and added commentary from his own perspective as…
Between transgender-identifying men competing in women’s sports and women’s limited athletics funding coming from so-called Name, Image, and Likeness policies, Sen. Tommy Tuberville says, there will be no women’s sports left in five years unless something is done. Tuberville, R-Ala., a former Auburn University football coach, met with President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of…
A Maine high school may open a new health clinic that would give students confidential “reproductive health care.” At other school-based health centers, that term has been a euphemism for transgender drugs and birth-control prescriptions. Maine School Administrative District 11 voted on Dec. 5 to review the contract for a school-based health center that can…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Black Lives Matter leader Hawk Newsome called for “black vigilantes” to descend into major cities Monday to retaliate against 26-year-old former Marine Daniel Penny’s acquittal over the death of Jordan Neely. A Manhattan jury found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide after he held 30-year-old homeless man Neely in a chokehold to protect…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative leaders, led by a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is urging the Senate to maintain the integrity of the Supreme Court by passing a constitutional amendment. “With the recent election representing a resounding rejection of such proposals,” the letter to U.S. senators says,…
After a screaming match between acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe and Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, erupted at a Thursday House hearing on the attempted assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump, new details are emerging about the circumstances that sparked the outburst. Several Secret Service sources question whether Rowe has perjured himself during the explosive…
The Heritage Foundation launched an ad campaign on Friday promoting President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. On Nov. 21, The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America announced the launch of a $1 million campaign advocating for prompt Senate confirmation of Trump’s Cabinet nominees. Of that, $50,000 will go toward bolstering…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a law Friday requiring Chinese internet company ByteDance either to sell TikTok or for the social media platform to be effectively banned in America. The three-judge panel’s ruling paves the way for the law to take effect on Jan. 19, 2025. ByteDance is…