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The process of undoing the Waters of the United States rule came closer to completion following the Environmental Protection Agency's announcement that it was sending the White House a scaled-back version. The Waters of the Untied States, one of former President Barack Obama’s signature environmental achievements, was immediately met with controversy when it was enacted…
A Senate committee hearing Monday on how the FBI and Justice Department handled the Hillary Clinton email probe leading up to the 2016 presidential election elicited a promise from FBI Director Christopher Wray that future investigations would be handled differently. “We are going to hold accountable any employee for potential misconduct,” Wray said during the…
Policy experts at The Heritage Foundation unveiled the think tank’s extensive “Blueprint for Balance” report on Monday, with the goal of providing Congress with a plan to balance the federal budget and rein in government spending. “This blueprint is about freeing the American people to prosper,” said Romina Boccia, deputy director of the Institute for…
A Virginia school board thrust through changes to its sex education curriculum Thursday despite around 90 percent of public respondents disapproving of the changes. The Fairfax County School Board passed changes including the replacement of “biological sex” with “sex assigned at birth” and the teaching of an HIV drug with “life-threatening side effects,” reported Fox 5. School…
About 60,000 illegal immigrants protected from deportation have been arrested but allowed to remain in the United States, including 10 accused of murder, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. The numbers cover the so-called Dreamers, illegal immigrants who are allowed to work in the U.S. and are shielded from deportation under an Obama administration…
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said comparing illegal immigrant detention centers to Nazi death camps is a form of “holocaust denial,” Monday on “Fox & Friends.” Dershowitz’s comments come after ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden tweeted a photo of Auschwitz Saturday and doubled down on the tweet while appearing on CNN’s “New Day” Monday morning. “Michael Hayden is a great man. He was…
Asylum numbers for people seeking entry into the European Union dropped significantly between 2016 to 2017, according to the European Union asylum office. The number of asylum-seekers seeking entry into the EU lowered by 43 percent from 2017 to 2016, The Guardian reported Monday. The EU’s asylum office received 728,470 applications in 2017 compared to 1.3 million applications in 2016….
Ireland is reeling after its Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced that all publicly funded hospitals in Ireland will be forced to provide abortions. “It will not, however, be possible for publicly-funded hospitals, no matter who their patron or owner is, to opt out of providing these necessary services, which will be legal in this state once this…
FBI official Peter Strzok is willing to testify voluntarily before Congress in an effort “to clear his name,” his attorney says. “Special Agent Strzok, who has been fully cooperative with the [Department of Justice] Office of Inspector General, intends to voluntarily appear and testify before your committee and any other Congressional committee that invites him,”…
The controversial Southern Poverty Law Center has reached a settlement to anti-extremist organization Quilliam resulting in an apology and a $3.375 million payment for wrongly naming the group and its founder as anti-Muslim extremists. The SPLC originally placed the organization and President Maajid Nawaz in a list directed for journalists named the Field Guide for…
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is investigating FBI leakers, as legal experts say revelations about gifts in an inspector general’s report this week raise new legal and ethical issues. “We will separately report on those investigations as they are concluded,” @JusticeOIG says. The Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General noted that “dozens” of FBI agents…
An FBI attorney who worked on the special counsel’s Russia investigation until earlier this year sent anti-Trump text messages to a colleague, including one exclaiming: “Viva le Resistance.” The attorney’s comments are revealed in a Justice Department inspector general’s report released on Thursday. The lawyer is not identified, but he worked on the Hillary Clinton…
The Seattle City Council voted 7-2 to repeal its less-than-a-month-old "head tax" on the city’s businesses Tuesday in a win for employers, The Seattle Times reports. On May 15, the council unanimously approved an annual tax of $275 per employee to fund housing programs for the city’s homeless population. The tax was expected to net the city…
The Daily Signal caught up with some of the thousands of LGBT activists and their supporters who celebrated in the District of Columbia on June 9 by attending the city’s gay pride parade, now called the Capital Pride Parade. We asked younger attendees their thoughts about children transitioning between genders, and whether they thought parental notification…
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., has a big idea. On Friday, the conservative lawmaker planned to launch the first episode of his new weekly podcast series, “What’s the Biggs Idea.” Initially, the idea began as a radio show for his Arizona constituents geared toward opening up Congress so they could better understand what was happening in…
The Department of Justice inspector general identified a number of instances where FBI employees regularly spoke with members of the media and received a number of free perks from journalists, including meals and tickets to various events. On page XII in the report, the inspector general says the department “identified numerous FBI employees, at all…
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed the U.N. resolution blaming Israel for recent violence at the Gaza border. “The nature of this resolution clearly demonstrates that politics is driving the day,” Haley said at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, according to The New York Times. “Such one-sided resolutions at the U.N….
Californians will vote this fall about dividing the state into three new states. The plan, called Cal 3, has implications for the entire country. It would bump the U.S. Senate up to 104 members as well as throw off the balance of the Electoral College. California currently has 55 electoral votes, but if voters OK the…
An investor confronted the CEO of the Dick’s Sporting Goods chain at an annual shareholders meeting in Pittsburgh, blasting the retailer’s recent restrictions on gun sales and its anti-gun advocacy. David Almasi, a vice president at the National Center for Public Policy Research, attended the meeting Wednesday representing the think tank’s Free Enterprise Project, according…
Two athletes who were born males placed first and second in state track championship events for high school girls, causing anger among other competitors and parents who say they had an unfair advantage over the girls. Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood dominated Connecticut’s races, sweeping gold and silver medals with little competition and stirring outrage…