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Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said last week that he isn't supportive of a federal ban on abortion, and he touted the difference between himself and his fellow Republican candidates on this point. The Daily Signal has learned that the presidential candidate is reportedly discussing with scholars whether federal protections for the unborn would be constitutional….
A Texas nurse has won religious exemptions for Department of Veterans Affairs employees nationwide opposed to participating in performing abortions, the First Liberty Institute says. Stephanie Carter filed a lawsuit against the VA in December after seeking a religious exemption from taking part in abortions, and finding no such exemption existed, contrary to a VA…
Detransitioner Chloe Cole pleaded with lawmakers Thursday on Capitol Hill to pay heed to the traumatic struggles she has already endured as a young person who sought to transition to become another gender. Cole spoke before the a House Judiciary subcommittee on the “Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children,” a hearing pushed by…
A supermajority of respondents in a new poll say President Joe Biden should acknowledge the existence of his seventh grandchild and nearly as large a majority opposes the idea of the federal government using tax dollars for slavery reparations. In a poll released Wednesday and conducted from July 18 to July 22 by WPA Intelligence…
The federal judge’s concerns about the Hunter Biden plea deal closely aligned with that of an amicus brief filed a day earlier by the Oversight Project, the watchdog arm of The Heritage Foundation. “Mission accomplished,” Mike Howell, director of the Oversight Project and an investigative columnist for The Daily Signal, said Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware,…
Elisa Tambunga became pregnant with her daughter when she was only 19 and, according to Tambunga, her little girl quickly became the center of her world. Usually, at about this time of year, Tambunga says she would be buying her elementary school-age daughter school supplies. Instead, the Texas mother sat before members of Congress at…
A male nurse practitioner hung around meetings for "transgender children" to find "clientele" for cross-sex hormones, according to a new lawsuit on behalf of a detransitioning young woman. Soren Aldaco's suit alleges that she visited the transgender "support group" Trans-Cendence International in Fort Worth, Texas, a nonprofit 501c3 organization "dedicated to the support, well being,…
House Republicans pressed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on his failure to secure the U.S.-Mexico border during a roughly four-hour hearing Wednesday. The Biden administration “violates the law under the guise of instituting safe, orderly, and humane policies,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said at the start of the House Judiciary Committee hearing. Lawmakers pressed Mayorkas…
A generation of American students has fallen behind academically in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the forced school closures that took place during that time. A subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce addressed the problems created by school closures Wednesday in a panel called “Generational Learning Loss: How Pandemic…
Hunter Biden’s plea agreement with federal prosecutors on tax and gun charges—panned by critics as “a sweetheart deal”—fell apart in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday after a federal judge scrutinized the agreement. Although the president’s son on June 20 reached a deal to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and to lying…
Rather than donating to organizations that support abortion like some mainstream diaper makers, the new EveryLife diaper brand supports its customer base by donating to pro-life organizations. EveryLife debuted on July 13 as an alternative diaper option to mainstream liberal diaper brands. Launched by Public Square, an app that provides an online marketplace for people…
Less than a week after the release of an FBI form alleging President Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe while serving as vice president, the White House won’t comment on a pending House impeachment inquiry. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also declined to comment on pending testimony to Congress by former Hunter Biden…
A Louisiana state senator says he is undeterred despite receiving a death threat after he voted to override a governor's veto on a bill protecting children from experimental "transgender" medical interventions. "No type of threat would ever stop me from trying to save children and keep them from being mutilated or from facing any other…
For more than 120 years, the Daughters of the American Revolution has brought together the female descendants of Revolutionary War heroes to promote "historic preservation, education, and patriotism." But now, faced with the prospect of biological men joining the esteemed society, DAR finds itself grappling with both resignations and indignation. DAR organizers passed an amendment…
Congress is debating an expansion of a migrant-worker visa program. Tucked within the Department of Homeland Security’s $91.5 billion spending bill for fiscal year 2024 are changes to the H-2A and H-2B visa programs. The H-2A visa is specific to temporary agriculture work, while the H-2B is a temporary work visa for non-agriculture work….
A local school board president in California has been inundated with threats that left-wing activists will dismember her, kill her children, and slaughter her pets. Her crime? Saying that teachers should not keep parents in the dark if their children begin to “identify” as transgender. The new Chino Valley (California) Unified School District Board of…
WARNING GRAPHIC: Some content in this story may be disturbing for readers. Another detransitioner who attempted a gender transition at age 17 is suing the doctors who operated on her, accusing them of ignoring her plethora of mental health conditions and pushing her down a destructive path. Soren Aldaco, who is now 21 years old,…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative nonprofit launched by former Vice President Mike Pence is representing 11 conservative groups in supporting fishermen challenging the extensive power of the federal bureaucracy. Advancing American Freedom, which plays no role in Pence's 2024 presidential campaign, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Loper Bright Enterprises v….
This article was corrected to reflect that the origin of the weapons and ammunition including grenade launchers obtained by criminal gangs and arms traffickers in Ukraine was not identified in the available portions of the report. Criminal gangs, arms traffickers and other bad actors in Ukraine accessed dangerous weapons including grenade launchers, machine guns, bulletproof…
“The communist has shifted the language to make you accept his political program and invented new terms to conceal the horrors he wishes to unleash on you and your family,” retired U.S. Marine Jesse Kelly writes in his new book about the Left in America, “The Anti-Communist Manifesto.” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts interviewed Kelly,…