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Following President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping victory in the election earlier this month, illegal immigrants in small town USA are fleeing to “sanctuary cities” and, in some cases, even “self-deporting.” According to both CBS News and The Guardian, thousands of Haitian immigrants in the city of Springfield, Ohio, are rushing to Chicago, New York City, and other “sanctuary” locations…
President-elect Donald Trump is considering removing mainstream media journalists from the White House press briefing room, according to his son. Donald Trump Jr. told Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles on Monday that the elder Trump may reorganize the White House press briefing room’s seating arrangement to sideline mainstream media outlets and give credentials to…
THE CENTER SQUARE—The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to hold a formal hearing next week on its plan to reschedule marijuana at the federal level. The proposal is to move marijuana from a Schedule I drug, along with heroin and LSD, to Schedule III, where it would join ketamine and anabolic steroids. In May, the Department…
FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—The head of the U.S. Census Bureau is set to face questions from Congress on Dec. 5 regarding its overcounting of residents of blue states and undercounting of those in red states. Such errors could aid Democrats politically by giving blue states a larger share of Electoral College votes as well as…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is scaling back its diversity, equity, and inclusion—or DEI—policies, according to The Associated Press. The retailer confirmed that it would not renew a five-year commitment for a racial equity center created after the death of George Floyd in 2020, it would withdraw from a gay rights index…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he agreed to a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah on Wednesday. Israel and Hezbollah have been locked in conflict since October 2023, and hostilities between the two have only risen in recent months. Netanyahu announced on Wednesday he would press his security cabinet to agree to…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Sen. Joni Ernst sent Department of Government Efficiency cochairmen Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy a letter Monday with ideas for budget cuts that could save the federal government more than $2 trillion. Trump named Musk and Ramaswamy as cochairmen of DOGE on Nov. 12. In the seven-page letter, Ernst’s…
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the reason the government doesn’t give money to entities that discriminate against pro-life health care providers. In 2005, then-Rep. David Weldon, R-Fla., first proposed the Weldon Amendment, which prohibits Department of Health and Human Services funds from going to entities…
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, met over the weekend with President-elect Donald Trump and his choices to slash billions if not trillions of dollars in federal spending—entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The Musk- and Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency is expected to work closely with the new Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget to…
Israel and Lebanon’s militant group—and Iranian terror proxy—Hezbollah seem set to reach a temporary ceasefire deal, despite increased conflict over the weekend. The Israeli cabinet will meet Tuesday to discuss the prospect of a 60-day truce. The Israel Defense Forces reported that on Sunday, Hezbollah launched 250 rockets across the border from Lebanon into Israel,…
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 —Todd Scofield portraying the character of “Lord Capulet,” pictured left, and Fran Tapia as “Lady Capulet,” pictured right, in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s production of “Romeo and Juliet,” which ran Oct. 1- Nov. 10, 2024. (Erika Nizborski, Photographer.)
Threats and bullying from peers and censorship from his college couldn't stop detransitioner Simon B. Amaya Price from sounding the alarm on so-called gender transitions for children. Amaya Price, 20, was tasked with creating an event about social change for a class at Berklee College of Music, a private music college in Boston. He decided…
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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The United Kingdom signaled on Monday that it would arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he paid a visit to the country. The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest on Thursday, arguing that he had violated international law and committed humanitarian crimes in his oversight of Israel’s ongoing war against…
Special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Monday in D.C. District Court to drop the Jan. 6 case against President-elect Donald Trump with Judge Tanya Chutkan. “As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant, Donald J. Trump, will be inaugurated as President on January 20, 2025,” Smith’s motion said. “It…
A federal judge compared a female-only entrance policy for a Washington state-based spa to a “whites-only” policy at a hearing on Monday. Judge M. Margaret McKeown, a Clinton appointee who sits on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, drew a parallel between Olympus Spa, a Korean spa whose services are restricted to biological women, and…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Lawmakers in North Carolina overwhelmingly voted for legislation to require law enforcement across the state to cooperate with federal immigration authorities who are trying to catch illegal aliens. The GOP-dominated state Legislature on Wednesday completed its override of Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of HB 10, a bill that effectively will ban “sanctuary city” policies…
The Massachusetts Education Association apparently pushed three neighboring teachers unions to go on strike at the same time, sources close to the unions say. Because of the strikes, schools in three districts in Massachusetts have been closed for over two weeks, leaving working parents in the lurch without child care and extending the school year…
Over half of registered voters approve of how President-elect Donald Trump is doing, with Hispanic and younger voters driving his increased popularity, according to a new poll. Of the 52% who approve of Trump, 31% said they “strongly approve” and 21% said they “somewhat approve,” according to the survey commissioned by Napolitan News Service. …
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of Republican lawmakers wants to investigate how much federal funding goes to abortion providers including Planned Parenthood. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith, Rep. Robert Aderholt, and Rep. Claudia Tenney led a bicameral letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office requesting a report on federal funding…