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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to allow enforcement of new immigration rules that would deny asylum to migrants who did not seek protected status in a country they passed through on their way to the southern border. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, a federal judge in San Francisco, entered a preliminary injunction…
A federal appeals court has ruled that Idaho must pay for a transgender inmate’s surgery. Thirty-one-year-old Adree Edmo is a convicted sex offender who is scheduled to be released from jail in 2021. The sex offender was diagnosed with gender dysmorphia in 2012, identifies as a woman, and is currently housed in a men’s prison, according…
The White House Correspondents’ Association filed a brief Monday expressing support for Playboy reporter Brian Karem’s lawsuit after his press pass was revoked by the White House earlier in August. Karem, also a CNN political analyst, got into a verbal confrontation with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka in July. A video appeared to show Gorka yelling at…
Steven Menashi’s nomination for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest touchstone in the judicial confirmation wars. Liberal commentators and activist groups are accusing Menashi of advancing extremist positions in the Trump administration and as an academic, while his conservative supporters say Democrats are warping his views. The 2nd Circuit is the…
Academia today “is not for the faint-hearted,” says a veteran professor who was head of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine until he was demoted and then let go for making public comments on gender identity. “You know, I really was an academic physician, not a politician. I wasn’t…
MIDDLETOWN, Pennsylvania—Not every nurse at St. Mary Medical Center supports “Medicare for All” or the political goals of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. But every nurse at that Bucks County hospital soon will pay dues to a labor union that has backed Sanders and government-run health care, now that a majority of their colleagues has voted…
As a kid, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie recalls, he visited a VA hospital at Christmastime. “One of my fondest memories growing up, we used to sing Christmas carols at the VA hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina,” Wilkie told The Daily Signal, sitting in a 10th-floor office at VA headquarters on Vermont Avenue Northwest, overlooking…
An illegal immigrant from Honduras returned to the U.S. sometime after being deported in 2006. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in North Carolina arrested the man in June on a charge of first-degree rape and two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child. One day after the arrest of Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, 33, U.S. Immigration and…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is maintaining an active public schedule after concluding three weeks of radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer. The justice visited Buffalo, New York, Monday to accept an honorary degree from the University at Buffalo School of Law and deliver public remarks to an evening program at Kleinhans Music Hall. “Justice…
Some journalists are irate over a New York Times story about allies of President Donald Trump collecting damaging information on reporters from “news organizations deemed hostile” to the president. This is “the latest step in a long-running effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to undercut the influence of legitimate news reporting,” according to the article….
A Kirkwood Community College professor in Iowa resigned after confirming that he supports Antifa following his social media posts coming to light. Jeff Klinzman, a former English literature professor, responded to a tweet from President Donald Trump where he called Antifa “gutless Radical Left Wack Jobs who go around hitting (only non-fighters) people over the head with…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia—The Camp Ten Four restaurant, on the ninth and top floor of the Graduate Charlottesville hotel, offers a good view of much of this city associated with Thomas Jefferson. Sitting at a table in the rustic venue, Charlottesville resident Pat Napoleon expresses concern about what she sees as city leaders’ dishonoring the founder of…
CNN published a story about a breastfeeding mother apprehended in an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, but a medical examination disputes the basic premise by finding the woman wasn't even lactating. The CNN article published Aug. 19 told the story of Maria Domingo-Garcia, a mother of three of who was among 680 illegal aliens apprehended by…
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., has asked House panels investigating President Donald Trump to share impeachment documents. Nadler requested the documents in a Thursday letter to fellow Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff of California, Maxine Waters of California, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, and Elliot Engel of New York. The House Judiciary Committee chairman asks in the letter that their…
Some on the left celebrated the news Friday of billionaire David Koch’s death after a battle with prostate cancer. The libertarian philanthropist and political activist had contributed over $1.3 billion to public policy institutes, medical organizations, cultural institutions, and more. He was 79. Those on the left expressing happiness over Koch’s passing included American sportswriter Charles Pierce, who suggested…
Washington state has withdrawn from Title X, the federal family funding program, rather than comply with new rules imposed by the Trump administration. The Washington Department of Health informed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of its decision to withdraw from the program rather than obey administration rules banning Title X grantees from…
President Donald Trump told U.S. companies Friday to “start looking for an alternative” to China for business, after that country announced a 25% tariff on all U.S. automobiles and a 5% to 10% tariff on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods. Trump tweeted that bringing companies back home would be a “GREAT opportunity” for the…
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s celebration Saturday of its Independence Day marks 28 years since the country split from the Soviet Union. But freedom hasn’t come easy for Ukraine. And the country’s freedom struggle isn’t over. For more than five years, Ukrainian troops have been bogged down in a war in the country’s eastern Donbas region, where they…
Gun owners in California’s third-largest city are slamming a proposal that would force them to buy liability insurance or be penalized with a fee. “We believe that anything that government does as a prerequisite to exercising an enumerated constitutional right is unconstitutional,” Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California, told The Daily Signal…
A journalist for Business Insider tried her luck at buying a gun at a Walmart store and said it was “far more complicated” than she expected after leaving empty-handed. Twice. Since 22 people were killed in a shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 3, at least six more threats of mass shootings have…