Daily news coverage of politics, policy, and issues shaping the nation.
President Joe Biden claimed Tuesday that he doesn’t have the “power” to fix the crisis at the southern border, but four former federal border and immigration enforcement officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation that he in fact does have the power to fix it. Most of what Biden needs to do is reverse his…
The Biden administration confirmed that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella organization consisting of multiple Iran-backed militant groups, is the group that conducted an attack in Jordan that killed 3 U.S. soldiers and injured at least 40 troops. The White House has signaled plans for a multitiered response to the deadly drone attack on Jordan’s Tower…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Conservatives in Congress condemned the Biden administration in the wake of the revelation that a high-ranking Department of Education official met with the Southern Poverty Law Center one year before the SPLC added parental rights groups, including Moms for Liberty, to its “hate map” that includes conservatives along with KKK groups….
A Missouri school district intends to double its percentage of minority teachers even as the state’s attorney general has warned that private companies that racially discriminate in hiring face legal action. Webster Groves School District’s teaching and administrative staff should match the racial demographics of its student body, according to the Missouri school system’s strategic…
A former White House official and now senior adviser with The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 joined “The Kevin Roberts Show” podcast to discuss his time working with President Donald Trump and how other conservatives can get their foot in the door to work for the next conservative administration. John McEntee was the director of the…
Two Big Tech CEOs apologized to grieving parents Wednesday while others insisted to senators that they are working to prevent exploitation of teens and children on their social media platforms. The CEOs testifying at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, titled “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis,” included Jason Citron of Discord Inc.;…
Trucker convoys that could total as many as 700,000 vehicles are headed south to demand a secure border this weekend. “We have a trucker convoy coming down to the border,” Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, said in an interview with Fox Business Network, adding: “The American people have had enough. We’re demanding that the Biden administration do…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A New York school district socially transitioned a girl without her mother’s consent, repeatedly lying to the mother about the child’s mental health and social struggles, according to a new lawsuit. Represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, Jennifer Vitsaxaki of New York filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Skaneateles Central School District…
A father is suing a Garden State school district after his daughter’s gender transition was allegedly kept a secret from him. The father, who is remaining anonymous to protect his daughter’s identity, found that New Jersey’s Delaware Valley Regional High School had been calling his daughter by a male name and male pronouns for at least two…
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday told Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives to their faces, “You have blood on your hands” and that their product “is killing people.” The CEOs of the largest social media companies testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about online child exploitation. The CEOs in the committee hot…
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas cannot “remain in office any longer,” Rep. Mark Green says. Green, R-Tenn., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, oversaw the markup of two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas on Tuesday and into early Wednesday morning. “Today is a grave day,” Green said at the start of the…
A Nashville jury found six pro-life activists guilty Tuesday of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and conspiracy against rights based on charges brought by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. Pro-life activists Chet Gallagher, Coleman Boyd, Heather Idoni, Cal Zastrow, Dennis Green, and Paul Vaughn face up to 11 years…
Florida residents may not alter the gender marker on their licenses, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said, and those who misrepresent their biological sex on a driver’s license will henceforth be guilty of fraud and subject to criminal penalties. “The Term ‘gender’ … does not refer to a person’s internal sense…
A federal agency is working with left-of-center nonprofits to increase voting among prisoners and former prison inmates under an executive order from President Joe Biden designed to increase election turnout. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has partnered with and regularly consults on voting issues with the League of Women Voters, the American Civil Liberties Union,…
Several San Francisco residents are suing city officials over an allegedly “illegal” program that provides taxpayer funds to black and Latino biological men who “identify as females.” In November 2022, Democratic Mayor London Breed, who is listed as a defendant, announced the “Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) Program,” which provides “low-income transgender San Franciscans…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Catholic University confirmed to The Daily Signal that it has terminated the contract of the professor who invited a self-declared “abortion doula” to speak to students about coaching women through abortions and “pregnant men” through a “seahorse birth.” Catholic University President Peter Kilpatrick announced to students on Jan. 30 that…
A high-ranking official at the Department of Education under President Joe Biden met with representatives of the Southern Poverty Law Center a year before the center put parental rights groups, including Moms for Liberty, on its “hate map” alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, according to documents obtained by The Oversight Project. The department…
A Democrat-backed permitting reform bill unveiled in December would hand out billions in grants for eco-activist nonprofits to conduct environmental reviews on green government projects. Nonprofit organizations, localities, and Native American tribes would be able to apply for $500 million in grants each fiscal year starting in 2024 through 2029, as a part of the Clean Electricity…
President Joe Biden has said he wouldn’t call the situation at the southern border a crisis, but officials in Chicago—host to this summer’s Democratic National Convention—appear to differ. Chicago city officials, as well as Cabinet secretaries and senior staffers for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, routinely refer to a “crisis” in emails and other…
An interfaith coalition has offered prayers of solidarity to two evangelical Christians facing their third trial for declaring that homosexuality violates the Bible, a position prosecutors call “war crimes and crimes against humanity.” Despite two unanimous acquittals, Finland’s state prosecutor has taken an elderly member of Parliament and a Lutheran bishop before the Supreme Court…