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After a Supreme Court victory and being reinstated to his football coaching position, Joe Kennedy has submitted a letter of resignation to the Bremerton School District in Washington state. “We have come to learn of serious allegations of retaliation against coach Kennedy by the Bremerton School District,” Hiram Sasser, executive general counsel at First Liberty…
Republican New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith called on his colleagues Wednesday to recognize that 120,000 Armenian Christians living in Nagorno-Karabakh are facing extinction. “Delay is denial,” Smith, who chaired the emergency congressional hearing on Nagorno-Karabakh as co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, said in a statement to The Daily Signal. “The Biden Administration must…
House Republicans are noting apparent “collusion” between Hunter Biden’s business allies and then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office regarding the handling of messaging about Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, and citing a key date for evidence. Records obtained by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee show that on Dec. 4, 2015, a Biden family business associate suggested…
Sen. JD Vance introduced legislation on Tuesday that aims to prohibit federal mask mandates from being imposed once again in the U.S. The Freedom to Breathe Act “would apply through the end of 2024” and “would prohibit any federal official, including the President, from issuing mask mandates applying to domestic air travel, public transit systems, or…
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has questioned the credibility of a doctor’s notes asserting that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is in good health, according to comments reported by Politico on Tuesday. McConnell, age 81, has faced several public health scares in 2023, the most recent being when he froze while speaking with reporters in Kentucky…
Kareem P. Montague has been opinionated on Facebook since 2011, taking jabs at Republican political operative Karl Rove, posting messages about Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s first Senate campaign in Massachusetts, defending the pro football players who take a knee, and denouncing “white privilege.” Now an Army colonel, Montague—a veteran of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—has…
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee is seeking to know what steps the Secret Service took to tip off Hunter Biden in the criminal investigation into his overseas business activities. The committee issued six subpoenas to the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service, a division of the DHS, on Tuesday. The subpoenas come…
One of the Harvard Journal on Legislation's former editors revealed Monday that he was "shocked by the plagiarism" that he discovered in a 2000 article submitted by then-Sen. Joe Biden. Roger Severino, now vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation, weighed in Monday in a Twitter thread on the president's "tradition of embellishing,"…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did not suffer a stroke or seizure after his latest freeze in public, according to a doctor’s note released by his office on Tuesday and shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. McConnell, R-Ky., 81, froze during a press conference in Kentucky on Aug. 30 and was unable to continue…
The Family and Medical Leave Act was a “first step” when it became law 30 years ago and should be expanded, President Joe Biden said earlier this year. But some employees hired by Biden's predecessor apparently didn't deserve the benefit, The Daily Signal has learned. Department of Homeland Security records reveal that Biden’s presidential transition…
BREMERTON, Wash.—Fans from both teams cheered as Joe Kennedy knelt in silent prayer for 10 seconds at the 50-yard line. It was the moment of culmination after a more than 7-year legal battle over prayer that ended with a victory for Kennedy at the Supreme Court. “I used to run marathons quite a bit and…
Transgender advocates repeatedly claim that minors only take "puberty-blocking" drugs or cross-sex hormones, but never undergo surgeries in an attempt to force their male or female bodies to resemble the opposite sex, yet a new study estimates that more than 3,000 minors underwent transgender surgeries in a five-year period, and more than 400 of them…
The U.S. unemployment rate increased in August, reaching the highest number since February 2022, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released Friday. "There’s no question about it now: The labor market is weakening," Alfredo Ortiz, chief executive officer and president of the Job Creators Network, said in a statement. "August marks the third…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — The Metropolitan Police Department backtracked Thursday evening, informing The Daily Signal that it is not, in fact, investigating abortionist Cesare Santangelo and his Foggy Bottom abortion clinic. The police department had said Tuesday that it was investigating both Santangelo and Washington Surgi-Clinic, apparently related to the 2022 discovery of five…
Amid reports that COVID-19 is rising again, and additional lockdowns could be returning, local governments in the heavily blue-leaning cities and counties surrounding Washington, D.C., chided federal agencies for allowing employees to ditch the office. Local government employees for the District of Columbia, as well as suburbs in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland, have mostly…
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin won’t be mandating that Americans mask up or lock down to fight the COVID-19 pandemic any time soon, The Daily Signal has learned. Some schools, hospitals, and businesses have begun encouraging Americans to wear masks again amid a rise in COVID-19 cases throughout the country, sparking fears that lawmakers will once…
Amid growing fears that Americans could face more COVID-19 lockdowns or mandates, Republican candidates vying for the 2024 presidential nomination say they are firmly against such restrictive measures. “No mask mandates,” candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told The Daily Signal on Thursday. “No vaccine mandates. No lockdown ever again.” Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas reminded The Daily…
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa questioned the Biden administration over its telework policy, citing instances where employees working from home took bubble baths and played golf while on the clock. In a letter sent to all government agencies, Ernst cited a media account of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee who attended a staff meeting while…
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., apparently experienced another health episode Wednesday during a press event in his home state. McConnell, 81, appeared to be briefly unable to respond to a question from a reporter about running for reelection after he spoke to the North Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Covington, Kentucky. After a pause,…
The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed to The Daily Signal on Tuesday that the department is currently investigating Cesare Santangelo and his Foggy Bottom abortion clinic. The confirmation follows news that a D.C. jury has convicted five pro-life activists of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act when they sought to prevent the deaths of unborn babies…