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House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., says he is confident that President Joe Biden and his family will be held accountable for overseas business deals that add up to influence peddling. “Impeachment is still on the table,” Comer said shortly after his remarks Tuesday at a government weaponization symposium at The Heritage Foundation,…
A number of Arizona Republicans are rapidly distancing from the state’s controversial Supreme Court ruling protecting almost all unborn babies from abortions. The state Supreme Court upheld a 1864 law on Tuesday that bans almost all abortions in Arizona, except when the mother’s life is at risk. In a 4-to-2 decision, the court said that…
A member of the House panel investigating the weaponization of government expressed disappointment Tuesday in House Republican leaders and the scope of that investigation. Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., a member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.., wouldn’t support a proposed reform of…
The FBI’s description of a confidential source who alleged President Joe Biden was involved in a bribery scheme when he was vice president changed dramatically over a matter of months, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday at a Heritage Foundation symposium on the weaponization of government. The informant, revealed to be Alexander Smirnov when federal…
Seven Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Joe Biden’s administration over a new student loan forgiveness plan rolled out this week. Biden announced Monday that he was rolling out the plan, which would cancel a minimum of $5,000 for over 10 million Americans with student loans, despite the Supreme Court striking down Biden’s previous initiative in…
Two FBI agents who had their security clearances suspended after speaking to Congress about how law enforcement went after pro-lifers and concerned parents, now warn that the FBI has adopted a “Marxist culture” and called for its abolition. “The type of recruiting events they have—they have adopted this Marxist culture to permanently change our institutions…
A co-defendant in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election case said Monday he would be taking legal action against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, citing alleged racism. Harrison Floyd accused Willis, who secured an indictment against him, Trump, and other defendants—including former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A prominent Catholic organization is calling on the Department of Justice to defend Catholic churches from anticipated pro-abortion attacks, pointing to the disparities in the DOJ’s enforcement of a law protecting both abortion clinics and churches. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Signal, CatholicVote President Brian Burch calls on…
In academic institutions, “We have a system now that’s broken,” said Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, in a Fox News interview. “On these campuses, we have an evil being taught. … It’s a virus. It’s called DEI.” The acronym stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Owens described DEI as a “Marxist-based ideology that [believes] there is an oppressor race…
Many drivers of two-wheeled motorized vehicles are breaking the law in the nation’s capital and don’t appear to be facing any consequences for doing so. Individuals, many of whom entered the country illegally, are acquiring and driving motorbikes to do food deliveries in the District of Columbia, but many of the bikes do not…
The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that would further entrench unelected federal bureaucrats from accountability to President Joe Biden or his elected successors. Key to the new rule from the Office of Personnel Management is the effective “grandfathering” of federal employees into their current category of employment, making it harder for a future…
The Vatican on Monday issued a declaration, “Dignitas Infinita,” on human dignity, warning that the practice of surrogacy, transgender surgeries, and gender theory are contrary to human dignity. “In the face of so many violations of human dignity that seriously threaten the future of the human family, the Church encourages the promotion of the dignity…
A Nebraska state legislator is transitioning from blue to red after his own party censured him for having a pro-life stance. Nebraska state Sen. Mike McDonnell officially left the Democratic Party last week after 40 years and became a Republican. In a written statement explaining his decision, McDonnell wrote: “I have asked the Democratic Party to…
The French government is targeting a Catholic priest for calling homosexuality a “weakness” and declaring that homosexual acts and relationships are sinful. Father Matthieu Raffray, a Catholic priest of the traditionalist society Institut du Bon Pasteur, posted a video to social media last month encouraging Christians to fight against their sins, which he says are forms of…
The attorney representing Hunter Biden in his ongoing legal battles met with first lady Jill Biden’s top aide in the East Wing of the White House days before the first son defied a congressional subpoena. Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s attorney, met Dec. 11 with Anthony Bernal, the first lady’s top staffer, visitor logs at the…
Former President Donald Trump says each state should follow “the will of the people” and pass state-specific laws on abortion. “My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law…
Before voters approved a constitutional amendment to make their state the 28th in the nation to ban private funding of election administration, Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison, already had spent over $1 million in private grants. Madison, like jurisdictions in three other states that ban private dollars from paying for elections—Arizona, Georgia, and Missouri—is a member…
A former pornography star and “creator,” Bree Solstad, was initiated into the Catholic Church on Saturday. “I wept with abundant joy after I first received the body and blood of Jesus,” she told The Daily Signal on Thursday. “My life will never be the same.” Known on X, formerly Twitter, as “Miss B Converted,” Solstad…
Staffers at a pro-life pregnancy resource center in Rochester, New York, are criticizing the FBI for failing to provide any kind of status update of investigations into pro-abortion vandals’ attacks on the pregnancy center. Nearly two years after the initial June 2022 attack, CompassCare pregnancy medical center says that the FBI has put up billboards…
Once a week, an estimated 30,000 students across the country are picked up by what’s called “a big, red LifeWise bus” and leave public school grounds for a Bible lesson at a local church or other religious institution. It might surprise some, but it’s entirely legal in the United States, says LifeWise Academy founder and…