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THE CENTER SQUARE—U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, led a bicameral coalition filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting it to uphold American sovereignty in a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Mexico blaming U.S. gun manufacturers for cartel gun violence in Mexico. The bicameral appeal was made in concert with one by a…
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Joe Biden, when he pardoned his son, conceded that his own Justice Department is politically motivated, attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump argue. In their latest motion to dismiss Trump’s New York case, defense attorneys pointed Monday to Biden’s claim Sunday that his son Hunter Biden was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” with political…
After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in U.S. v Skrmetti, the case that will determine whether states may ban transgender medical procedures for kids, one mother told The Daily Signal that her child began to transition as a baby. “She knew since birth,” Michelle Callahan-DuMont said of her 10-year-old, a biological male who…
A House task force probing the attempted assassination in July of Donald Trump held a final hearing Thursday that contained some fireworks, promises to improve, and unanswered questions. Ronald L. Rowe Jr., acting director of the Secret Service, was the only witness to appear before the task force, which includes eight Republicans and six Democrats….
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s plans to cut waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government’s nearly $7 trillion budget through President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is beginning to attract support from a notable group: Democratic lawmakers. Democratic Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz is the first Democratic lawmaker to join the…
Employees at the United Auto Workers, the sixth-largest union in America, have gone on strike against the union this week in Manhattan, but you wouldn’t know it from the legacy media’s silence. UAW Staff United, which represents hundreds of employees across 34 locals, announced its strike Monday, and Thursday marks the fourth day of picketing…
Does the fact that cross-sex hormones affect children differently based on their sex make it unconstitutional for states to protect minors from transgender medical procedures? This is the key issue of the case heard Wednesday by the Supreme Court, says Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, a Republican who is the named respondent in United States…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, told SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly on Wednesday that he believes he is the target of a “smear” campaign, comparing his experience to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process. After Trump nominated Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court in 2018, Democratic lawmakers quickly sought to…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a slew of nominees who will, if confirmed, impact administration policy on Big Tech, space, cryptocurrency, slashing government waste, and the economy. Several are new faces, while others are returning from the first term. Here’s a look at the announced nominations and appointees and how they could affect the Trump agenda…
About 1,000 transgender activists and parental rights champions rallied outside the Supreme Court as it heard oral arguments in a case that will decide whether states may ban transgender medical interventions for children. LGBTQ+ activists with the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign, the Gender Liberation Movement, the Young Feminist Party, and other groups…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Annual college closures may increase as enrollment at higher education institutions continues to decline, according to a new report. If enrollment at universities continues its downward trend, as many as 80 additional colleges may be forced to shut down, according to the December report published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Recent data shows freshman…
The narrow Republican House majority in the 119th Congress will “have nothing to spare,” as it aims to “fix everything,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Wednesday, the morning after Democrats flipped a seat in California. That narrows the GOP majority in the House to 220 to 215, and it’s set to become even narrower,…
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the pivotal transgender case U.S. v. Skrmetti, and both the lawyers arguing against a Tennessee ban on “gender-affirming care” and three Supreme Court justices made dubious claims and stated outright falsehoods in support of experimental transgender “treatments.” Tennessee’s SB1 bans medical procedures on minors for the purpose of…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration has granted millions of dollars in funding for a virtual treatment that aims to help cure eating disorders by “affirming” LGBTQIA+ patients’ sexual orientation and gender claims. The U.S. National Institutes of Health awarded Auburn University assistant professor of psychological sciences Tiffany Brown and San Diego State University professor of psychology Aaron…
THE CENTER SQUARE—A coalition of 28 attorneys general has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a case in which Mexico is blaming U.S. gun manufacturers for Mexican cartel gun violence. At issue is a 2022 lawsuit brought by the Mexican government against U.S. gun manufacturers arguing they are responsible for Mexican cartel crime…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Chinese government-backed hackers have infiltrated major U.S. telecom networks, and officials are now struggling to remove their access, U.S. authorities announced Tuesday. Jeff Greene, a senior official at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, pointed out the complexity of the situation, according to CNN. He explained that it’s tough to figure out just…
All of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for federal government posts will be confirmed, Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday after a conference with his fellow Senate Republicans. “I think Kash Patel will be confirmed, and I think the rest of them will be confirmed,” Cruz, R-Texas—a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will vote on…
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol abruptly declared martial law on Tuesday, blaming “anti-state forces” planning to overthrow the government. Yoon had previously complained of media and opposition groups pushing false information to subvert society, but gave no indication he would take such drastic measures. Yoon’s action reversed decades of South Korean democratization from its…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—China announced Tuesday that it is banning exports to the U.S. of some metals and rare minerals that can be used in the production of semiconductors and ammunition, according to the Financial Times. China’s Ministry of Commerce announced that it is banning exports of “dual-use” items related to germanium, gallium, antimony, and…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Biden-Harris administration opened the door for a massive increase of taxpayer-funded transgender interventions, including child sex-change surgeries, and the Daily Caller News Foundation has obtained enough data to give a partial estimate of the cost. From January 2018 to September 2023, 16 states spent more than $165 million funding “gender transition…