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House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday highlighted Congress’s recent legislative successes, stating it is returning to regular order. He also dismissed accusations that President Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. “We are returning to regular order—the way this [Congress] is supposed to work,” said Johnson, R-La., on “Fox New Sunday” today. “I’m very proud…
As part of the larger Catholic Church celebration of the Jubilee of Hope, the Jubilee of Education was held in Rome Oct. 31 and Nov. 2, with Pope Leo XIV an active participant. Christians believe that their faith (relationship with God) ought to impact every area of their lives. Since God created us and since He is our destiny, then everything…
President Donald Trump is continuing to call for the Federal Reserve to decrease interest rates amid his push to highlight Republican affordability accomplishments ahead of midterms. “As the Trump administration continues to address the underlying causes of Biden’s economic disaster—from fiscal mismanagement to overregulation—inflation is now trending towards its target, and the environment is ripe…
Even if you have never heard of Samaritan’s Purse, you have likely seen images of children around the world receiving their red and green Christmas shoe boxes filled with little gifts and hygiene products. Every year, children in more than 100 nations receive the boxes at Christmastime. While Samaritan’s Purse Vice President Ken Isaacs says he would like to one day see children in Gaza opening their own Christmas…
A former staffer in the Barack Obama White House who went to work for climate activist groups joined a federal agency regulating energy under President Joe Biden and appears to still remain in his post under Donald Trump. The staffer, Brett Cozzolino Bhave, has set off alarm bells among conservatives who support the Trump administration’s…
Traveling this week to Brazil, California Gov. Gavin Newsom cast himself as standing up for the climate–even as his state imports most of its oil from the area of the international conference where he spoke. About 45% of California’s oil imports come from the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana, and Colombia. Newsom attended the…
A provision slipped into the funding bill that reopened the government at the last moment has caused harsh disagreement between the House and Senate. The provision in question, signed into law by President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, enables senators to sue the Department of Justice for at least $500,000 each instance their data is…
The official Democratic Party X account has deleted a social media post about the relationship between President Donald Trump and disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The deleted X post claimed that documents showed that Trump spent time with Epstein during Thanksgiving in 2017, according to a report from the Washington Examiner. Before…
The Trump administration is firing back after a group of Senate Democrats accused President Donald Trump of being responsible for “soaring electricity bills” and “failure” to prevent “consumers from being forced to subsidize the cost of data centers.” “Democrats’ baseless claims serve only to distract from this administration’s proven record of making energy more affordable for Americans,” a Trump administration official told…
Conservative students at one of the most left-wing universities in the United States welcome a Justice Department probe after violent protests erupted at a Turning Point USA event Monday evening. The DOJ is considering potential conspiracy and civil rights charges against those who acted violently at the TPUSA event at the University of California, Berkeley,…
House Democrats, despite being in the minority, are making use of a procedural mechanism to bypass Republican leadership and force Republicans into tough votes. The mechanism is known as a discharge petition, which allows a member to force a vote on legislation that leadership is not putting on the floor once the petition collects 218…
Loudoun County Republican Party Chairman Scott Pio is calling for big changes in the wake of this month’s election results. Pio spoke with The Daily Signal’s Virginia correspondent and radio talk show host Joe Thomas about four major problems the party faced during the 2025 elections, which led to the Democrats sweeping the statewide races and capturing 64 seats in the House of Delegates. …
A Trump administration official referred Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell of California to the Justice Department over mortgage fraud allegations, reports say. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte made the allegation. Pulte is currently under fire for suggesting 50-year mortgage plans, which conservatives say will cause homeowners to pay more in interest while taking longer…
Information related to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is one step closer to being released to the public after a discharge petition in the House of Representatives received the necessary support to bring a bill to the House floor for a vote, setting up what could be more Republican infighting over the Epstein files….
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is making a big political bet after a decade in Congress—that she can become the first Republican governor of New York in 20 years. “[Gov.] Kathy Hochul has a record and has led single-party Democrat rule, making it the most unaffordable state in the nation,” Stefanik, an Upstate New Yorker, says…
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it is suing Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Secretary of State Shirley Weber over the state’s newly adopted congressional map, which creates as many as five additional Democratic House seats ahead of the midterms. California voters on Nov. 4 approved Proposition 50 to suspend the state’s…
Chinese-sponsored actors are responsible for an artificial intelligence cyberattack against about 30 entities. Experts are calling the hack the first documented case in which a cyberattack was executed with very little human intervention. The hack “represents multiple firsts in AI-enabled threat actor capabilities,” according to a report by Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, detailing the findings of the attack. In the middle of September,…
President Donald Trump is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate financier Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement with prominent Democrats, including a former president. “Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam…
Despite President Donald Trump’s pardons on Sunday, Democrat attorneys general told The Daily Signal and publicly suggested they plan to continue their state prosecutions against contingent state electors from the 2020 election. Democrats attorneys general—from Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin—brought criminal charges against the contingent Trump electors, who were in-waiting if courts or state legislatures…
The Trump administration is cracking down on left-wing violence, designating four Europe-based, Antifa-affiliated organizations as terrorist groups on Wednesday. The State Department designated a Germany-based organization, an Italy-based group, and two Greek organizations as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” and also stated that all four groups will be viewed as “Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)” as of…