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An American cycling competition created a third division for “transgender” cyclists on Friday after a male recently won a cycling event in the women’s division. In June, Austin Killips, a man who identifies as a transgender woman, competed in the nearly 140-mile Monuments of Cycling’s “Belgian Waffle Ride,” a grueling one-day cycling event that mirrors…
A new report by the House of Representatives' Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic alleges then-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci prompted an effort to suppress the theory that the coronavirus emerged from a lab in Wuhan, China. Fauci on numerous occasions prompted researchers to author a paper intended to…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s taxpayer-funded staff frequently pushed colleges and libraries to purchase her books ahead of speaking engagements, according to The Associated Press. Supreme Court staff often assisted with arranging speaking engagements designed to promote Sotomayor’s books, which have earned the justice a minimum of $3.7 million since she took her seat on the bench…
UPDATE July 11, 2023: Judge Terry Doughty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Monday rejected the Biden administration's motion for a stay of his historic July 4 preliminary injunction preventing the administration from pressuring Big Tech to censor Americans. Two days after Doughty issued the injunction, the Biden administration…
Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the highest-paid employee of the federal government, might have to pay back his salary for his final year at the National Institutes of Health, based on a congressional committee’s finding that he wasn’t legally appointed by the Biden administration. Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Monday that they…
A group of seven state attorneys general sent a letter to Target on Wednesday warning the retail giant that its Pride clothing line collection may be in violation of state child-protection laws. The letter comes in the wake of public outrage that swelled in May when it was discovered that Target began selling, among other controversial items, “tuck-friendly” swimwear…
Samuel Johnson, father of the dictionary, called second marriages “the triumph of hope over experience.” That sounds like “progressive” policy on immigration and crime—and they get both wrong. The Biden administration wants increased and easier immigration. While most Americans support reasonable legal immigration, they reject unlimited numbers via open borders. Last year, a majority of…
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is giving the U.S Attorney’s Office in Delaware until July 21 to answer questions about why information about a “criminal bribery scheme” involving President Joe Biden wasn’t pursued in the federal investigation of his son, Hunter Biden. Grassley’s letter brings up Assistant U.S. Attorney for Delaware Lesley Wolf’s actions, based on…
A lawsuit by a canoe and kayak business aims to sink Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s buoy barrier against illegal aliens in the Rio Grande at the nation’s southern border. Jessie Fuentes, owner of Epi’s Canoe & Kayak Team LLC, filed the lawsuit Friday, the same day that construction of the buoy barrier began. Fuentes claims…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Todd McMurtry, the lawyer who secured settlements from CNN, NBC Universal, and The Washington Post on behalf of Covington Catholic High School teen Nick Sandmann, has joined the legal team for D.A. King and the Dustin Inman Society, who are suing the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation. “We’re proud of…
Images in this article contain swear words. FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Moms for Liberty has received countless death threats, but the messages spiked after the Southern Poverty Law Center put the parental rights group on its "hate map," its cofounders say. "It gave people permission to treat us as subhuman," Tiffany Justice, one of the…
Heavily redacted documents from the National Security Agency tell at least part of the story of a final-month rush by the outgoing Obama administration to torpedo the incoming presidency of Donald Trump. The Daily Signal obtained 217 pages of documents from the NSA through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that Obama…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is under fire after announcing tentative plans to house illegal aliens in public schools over the summer. “Our schools and educational resources should be dedicated to our children, not diverted to support unvetted migrants who are entering our country illegally,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told The Daily Signal….
Twitter users are questioning the health risks of “transgender milk” after a male posted a TikTok video expressing his desire to produce milk for others’ babies. “I have always wanted to lactate,” the man, who appears to identify as a woman, explains while telling viewers he wants to set up a GoFundMe page so he…
The popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok has already experienced censorship on tech giant Meta’s new text-based app Threads, according to a screenshot shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Libs of TikTok, which is run by Chaya Raichik, posted that “[n]on-binary isn’t real” on Threads Friday morning, and the newly launched app…
Former President Donald Trump has signed a presidential pledge to uphold the dignity of women and motherhood should he again become president of the United States, according to a national women's group. "As president of the United States, I promise to uphold the truth that women are exclusively female," the pledge says. "Only women can…
Top candidates vying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are weighing in on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s promotion of trans-identifying men and women “chestfeeding” infant babies. In guidance on feeding infants posted on the CDC’s website, the federal agency stresses that “transgender and nonbinary-gendered individuals may give birth and breastfeed or feed…
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee wants answers from the Secret Service about the cocaine found in the White House over the Fourth of July weekend. Meanwhile, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said any White House staffer who brought the substance will face “appropriate consequences.” President Joe Biden so far has ignored…
The State Department has released an “After Action Review on Afghanistan” nearly two years after the U.S.’ catastrophic military withdrawal from that country, which concluded on Aug. 30, 2021. The report was released following a 90-day review and included more than “150 interviews with current and former State Department officials at all levels of the…
More than 180,000 Americans sent in comments on the Biden administration’s stringent emissions rule, which threatens to remove cheaper and more reliable gas cars from the market in favor of less popular electric vehicles. A total of 15,995 Americans submitted comments opposing the new rules through a portal created by Heritage Action for America, the…