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If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s Washington, D.C. politicians not following the will of the people. That’s not the way, of course, the Founders hoped it would work—but as all of us know, it is what too often happens. But why? The Daily Signal’s politics editor, Bradley Devlin, is launching a new show, “The Signal Sitdown,”…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A United Nations agency expressed “profound concern” on Monday over the Biden administration’s updated asylum restrictions along the U.S-Mexico border. President Joe Biden on Monday updated an executive order that will help keep in place asylum restrictions and control the number of unlawful crossings at the southern border. However, the United Nations…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Thousands of unionized dockworkers went on strike just after midnight Tuesday at 14 major ports along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, setting the stage for possible supply chain disruptions with about a month to go until Election Day. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) announced in an early-morning Tuesday Facebook post that the…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The nonprofit that has been exposing radical gender ideology in California filed a lawsuit Monday against the public school district in Lynwood, California, for failing to comply with state law by providing requested documents about its "gender transition" plans for schoolchildren. Lynwood Unified School District in Los Angeles County hasn’t responded…
Sirens sounded all over Israel Tuesday night as ballistic missiles flared overhead. Millions of Israelis were directed to hide in bomb shelters while at least 180 Iranian projectiles entered Israeli airspace. Israel’s Iron Dome intercepted most of the missiles, but some managed to get through and hit locations in central and southern Israel, according to…
THE CENTER SQUARE—U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer subpoenaed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for information about Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz’s alleged connections to the Chinese Communist Party. Comer, R-Ky., on Monday subpoenaed Mayorkas after the committee received whistleblower disclosures, learning “of a nonclassified, Microsoft Teams group chat…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A coalition of parents sued the Bow School District in New Hampshire on Monday after being punished and threatened over a “silent protest” standing up for women’s sports. Multiple parents and one grandfather decided to wear pink wristbands during a soccer game to show support for protecting women’s sports, to which the…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Wyoming's governor removed a doctor from the state's board of medicine because the doctor supported a law banning "gender-affirming care" for minors. The doctor is suing, and his lawyers are filing a motion Tuesday asking the court to reinstate him on the medical board. His legal team also revealed that more…
When Mackenna Greene took the abortion pill to end the life of her unborn daughter, she immediately knew she had made the wrong choice. "I'll admit that in the days leading up to it, I was not excited," Greene told The Daily Signal. "I was second-guessing myself. I found myself trying to convince myself that…
THE CENTER SQUARE—Requiring students to make a DEI statement to qualify for a course is “inappropriate” and could cross the line of compelled speech, according to a Brookings Institution expert. Stanford University is requiring that those applying to enroll in “Global Entrepreneurial Marketing,” a course offered by the Department of Management Science and Engineering, make a statement…
The Biden-Harris Justice Department is suing Alabama for removing more than 3,000 noncitizens from voter rolls just weeks after a coalition of left-leaning groups—including the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center—filed a similar lawsuit. Alabama is far from a battleground state, but the Justice Department’s move could have national consequences by setting a legal precedent for…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Retired Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott blew the whistle to the Daily Caller News Foundation on what he calls the Biden-Harris administration’s going to great lengths to hide the illegal immigration crisis from the public, just days after a current sector chief made similar claims. Aaron Heitke, a former chief patrol agent for the…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly supported "gender-affirming care" for "transgender" minors, but the National Institutes of Health has approved multiple research grants acknowledging there is "scant evidence" to support the idea that experimental medical interventions improve the lives of children who identify as the opposite sex….
Michigan lawmakers are poised to empower Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson—a Democrat who has faced six separate court orders to enforce election laws—to have more control over elections. A package of four bills dubbed the Michigan Voting Rights Act cleared the Democrat-controlled state Senate and awaits action by the Democrat-controlled state House of Representatives. Critics…
“We are not going back,” Vice President Kamala Harris has promised. But where are we heading? And who is being left behind? Concerned Americans asking these questions can find answers at this year’s Climate Week NYC, a gathering of liberal activists and elites who claim that we are heading away from a “fossil-fuel society” and toward a…
As Tennessee’s attorney general for only two years, Republican Jonathan Skrmetti is racking up wins for conservatives in policy and law against the Biden-Harris administration and private sector actors. One of those successes looms at the U.S. Supreme Court, where in the term that begins Oct. 1 the justices are expected to take up the federal…
North Carolina has removed nearly 750,000 ineligible voter records from its rolls in the past 20 months, or more than 1,200 per day, the North Carolina State Board of Elections said Thursday. The election board’s announcement also says that the board follows “careful policies” to ensure that only ineligible records are removed, not those of…
Paper ballots can be manufactured and purchased by those intent on election fraud, according to experts interviewed by commentator Dinesh D’Souza in his new documentary film “Vindicating Trump.” D’Souza, an author and filmmaker, said this form of election fraud surprised even former President Donald Trump, the subject of the film. “A lot of times people,…
A member of Congress from Alaska voted against a bill allowing parents to access the curriculum at their children's school while accepting thousands from groups that support schools hiding gender identity from parents. Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola voted against the Parents Bill of Rights Act in March 2023, which would have required schools to allow…
A school district's LGBTQ affinity group violated the First Amendment by blocking a journalist on social media amid a heated debate about parents' right to opt their children out of hearing teachers read LGBTQ-themed books, a federal judge ruled last week. Atheist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and other parents demanded the right to opt out of…