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Another female detransitioner is suing the doctors who facilitated her attempted gender transition when she was a vulnerable teenager, accusing them of medical malpractice and of using "unfair and deceptive trade practices," causing her years of both psychological and physical pain. Prisha Mosley says she suffered severely from mental and emotional health issues as a…
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray Monday threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress after the FBI allegedly failed to comply with subpoenas issued earlier in the year. Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote that the FBI’s compliance in two separate subpoenas has been “wholly inadequate” and warned the House Judiciary…
In a massive win for the movement fighting for the integrity of women's spaces, an international cycling union has formally banned biological men who identify as transgender women from competing in women's events. "The meeting of the UCI Management Committee was held following a seminar on the conditions for the participation of transgender athletes in…
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy released a list of judges Monday that he will consider for top judicial appointments should he become president of the United States. Ramaswamy's list of Supreme Court candidates includes James Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit; Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
Field reporter Savannah Hernandez was one of the only reporters on the ground covering the massive religious protest against anti-Catholic and anti-Christian bigotry. Hernandez joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the protesting against the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the anti-Catholic “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” — a group of trans-identifying and queer…
PALM BEACH, Fla. — In a speech to college students and conservative Americans on Saturday evening, former President Donald Trump promised that he would not allow the United States to head into a third world war. "I'm the only one that can make this promise," Trump said, amid concerns over President Joe Biden's approval of the…
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Podcast host Megyn Kelly disagrees with some Republican takes that 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis floundered through Friday's town hall with Tucker Carlson. And she thinks it is time for the Florida governor to make a stir on liberal television networks. "I think DeSantis is starting to find his groove," Kelly…
“I’m very confident that the freedom in Florida is what more people would choose rather than the public defecation on the streets of San Francisco,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, said at the end of an interview Friday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Given the difference between Florida’s priorities and…
Censorship of Americans’ opinions led to the Capitol riot two weeks before President Donald Trump left office, entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says. Former Fox News host Tucker Carson questioned Ramaswamy regarding what happened Jan. 6, 2021, during an onstage interview Friday in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Family Leadership Summit, a…
Tucker Carlson asked Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley a series of probing questions about her presidential candidacy on Friday. Haley spoke with the former Fox News host at the Family Leadership Summit, being held in Des Moines, Iowa. Several other Republican presidential hopefuls also took part in the event. Haley, who declared her candidacy for…
Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke about his role during the Capitol riot, backed election reforms, and argued on behalf of Ukraine in a sometimes contentious interview Friday with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The former vice president, Indiana governor, and congressman sat down with Carlson in Des Moines, Iowa, during the Family Leadership…
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a “heartbeat bill” into law on Friday, banning abortions after six weeks, when a fetal heartbeat can be detected. This makes Iowa the 13th state to have a heartbeat bill protecting the unborn. “Not only will I continue to fight against the inhumanity of abortion, but I will also remain…
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott says his public policy priorities might not be for everyone. “For those who don’t like commonsense, conservative principles driven by the Judeo-Christian foundation, choose another candidate,” said Scott, R-S.C. “It’s that simple.” Scott made his remarks during a nearly 30-minute onstage interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson…
The Montana State Library Commission voted Tuesday to withdraw from the American Library Association based on that organization’s new president, who is a “Marxist lesbian” by her own description. The lopsided vote (5-1, with one abstention) represents the first time a state entity has withdrawn from the 147-year-old nonprofit. “Our oath of office and resulting duty to the…
A Republican congressman warned about the dangers of foreign companies doing business in China, noting that “Beijing reserves the right to swipe any data, seize any assets, and filch any IP [intellectual property] that it wishes.” “The government often mandates the creation of [Chinese Communist Party] cells inside firms, and China’s Military-Civil Fusion Policy means…
A divided House voted Friday morning to pass an annual national defense bill after Republicans amended it to prohibit the Pentagon from spending taxpayers’ money to pay for travel and other abortion-related expenses. With this pro-life amendment, the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 passed by a bipartisan vote of 219-210,…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. tax dollars are going to the employers of former intelligence officials who signed a misleading open letter in 2020 claiming that emails, photos, and other content on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop likely amounted to a “Russian information operation.” The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project determined that research organizations, think tanks that…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is demanding that the Secret Service turn over the list of individuals who may have accessed the area of the White House where cocaine was discovered over the Fourth of July weekend, on the heels of news Thursday that the agency had closed the investigation. "Pursuant…
The Senate will vote soon on the controversial nomination of D.C. Judge Loren AliKhan to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-10 entirely along party lines Thursday to advance AliKhan’s nomination to a full Senate floor vote, despite a coalition of more than a dozen legal and policy…
Lawmakers grilled climate czar John Kerry on Capitol Hill Thursday, asking about his private jet usage and views on China. Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, defended the cost of President Joe Biden’s climate policies before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and accountability. The country’s first climate czar is set to…