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Greenhouse gas emissions have declined across multiple sectors since President Donald Trump has been in office, the Environmental Protection Agency announced. The latest figures show total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions dipped by 2.7 percent during 2017 compared with 2016, President Barack Obama’s last full year in office, the agency said as part of its Greenhouse…
A Pocahontas descendent is calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to apologize for claiming Native American heritage. Debbie White Dove Porreco, who says she is a descendant of the 17th-century Native American Pocahontas famous for allegedly saving the life of Englishman John Smith, appeared on Fox News Tuesday and called on Warren to “come back…
With the federal budget deficit reaching $779 billion, President Donald Trump is asking Cabinet members to cut spending in their departments by 5 percent next fiscal year. Because such trimming is hardly slashing the total budget, however, some experts question whether that even will make a difference in fiscal 2020, which will begin Oct. 1,…
A new study says a growing threat to national security doesn’t involve China, Russia, or the Middle East: It’s American obesity. Of the 7 out of 10 Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 already disqualified from serving in the military, the report found, 31 percent are disqualified because of obesity. This spells trouble…
President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda has meant $23 billion in savings for businesses across the country over the last year—leading to more economic growth, according to an administration report. The president held an Oval Office event Wednesday titled “Cutting the Red Tape, Unleashing Economic Freedom,” which included business and government leaders across the country as…
A Colorado firefighter and Army veteran with a diagnosed brain bleed is coming home from Mexico after five days in a hospital that his family and friends say was charging thousands of dollars in cash but unwilling to release him. The news follows pressure from the U.S. government and inquiries from The Daily Signal and…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was first elected in 1984, but says his biggest achievement to date is something that didn’t happen. “My decision not to fill the Supreme Court vacancy during the 2016 election was the most consequential decision I’ve ever made,” McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday night at The Heritage Foundation President’s Club meeting…
The city of Atlanta said Monday it will pay $1.2 million to a former fire chief following a federal court ruling in December that found some city policies that led to his firing are unconstitutional violations of First Amendment freedoms. Kelvin Cochran, a former fire chief who was fired in 2015, said he was dismissed from his…
Rutgers University last week canceled a speech against radicalism by investigative journalist Lisa Daftari in the face of a growing outcry from student groups who called her views Islamophobic. But Monday, a Rutgers spokesman told Campus Reform that it had reinvited Daftari to campus earlier in the day and offered four possible dates in November. The…
KYIV, Ukraine—The trench lines of Europe’s only ongoing land war are six hours away by train from Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv. But you can hardly tell. Businesses and bars and universities and protests and politics—in other words, life—all go on and on despite the war. Yet, the war is always there. Distant and unseen…
Administrators replaced a North Carolina high school principal after she told a student to take off his Trump jersey at a patriotic-themed football game. Cindy Gordon, who was principal at Harnett Central High School, asked Matthew Collins, 18, to remove the jersey because it was political, WRAL reported Friday. The front of the jersey read “USA”…
A movie about Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortionist in Philadelphia who went to prison after being convicted in connection with the deaths of three babies, hit the Top 10 films at the box office over the weekend. “We were [No. 10] on Friday and Saturday, but slipped back to 12 on Sunday,” Phelim McAleer, who co-produced…
Much of President Donald Trump’s “60 Minutes” interview Sunday consisted of responding to veteran CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl’s questions on what have been Democrats’ talking points for months. During one exchange, Trump described to Stahl how the media treated his predecessor, President Barack Obama, much differently. “I disagree, but I don’t want to have…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., touting a DNA test Monday that revealed she has a tiny amount of American Indian ancestry, reminded President Donald Trump of the $1 million he talked about giving to charity if she were to present proof of such a heritage. “Remember saying on [July 5] that you’d give $1M to a…
A part-time musician from Chicago who liked Donald Trump’s campaign message decided to write a song when he overheard two boys talking down America. The result, produced and recorded with a couple of friends, was “Let’s Make America Great Again.” And now that Joe Ambroggio and his family are among millions doing better in the…
The son of former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice, a pro-Trump College Republicans leader, is pressing “full charges” against a fellow Stanford University student who he says assaulted him at an event supporting new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. John David Rice-Cameron, Rice's son and president of the Stanford College Republicans, alleges that fellow Stanford sophomore…
Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, at the center of early allegations of "collusion" with Moscow, will appear before Congress to give closed-door testimony later this month, his wife confirmed to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Papadopoulos, 31, will appear Oct. 25 before members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government…
A group that advocates more conservative judges on the nation’s courts has bought advertising to thank Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, for her speech and vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Sources familiar with the Judicial Crisis Network’s six-figure ad buy said it consists of a single ad that began airing last week…
Andrew Brunson’s first stop en route to the U.S. after being freed from house arrest in Turkey was Ramstein Air Base in Germany. There, the pastor from North Carolina was greeted by U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell and a folded American flag. Fresh off of the airplane and with his wife Norine by his side, Brunson…
A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman won a women’s world championship cycling event Sunday in California. Rachel McKinnon, an assistant professor of philosophy at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, won the women’s 35-39 age bracket at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles. McKinnon, representing Canada, bested Carolien Van…