Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in testimony before a Senate committee, called it “an appalling and detestable lie” for Democrats to suggest he would collude with Russians to undermine the U.S. presidential election. “I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false allegations,” @USAGSessions says. Sessions himself frequently stirred up Democrats on…
As House Republicans attempt to force a vote on protecting babies born alive after abortion, activists from around the country came to advocate for these children’s lives. Rachel del Guidice speaks to the Balek family, who came from South Carolina to attend the event put on by Heritage Action, the lobbying and advocacy arm of…
With Congress officially in recess until November, campaign season is in full swing and this fall brings no shortage of competition for control of the U.S. Senate. Since Republicans need to net just six seats to regain the majority in the upper chamber, Senate races from Alaska to Colorado to New Hampshire command the attention…
It was a GOP wave. In a near-sweep of yesterday’s midterm elections, Republicans shifted the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, gaining at least seven seats, widened their majority in the House by at least 11 seats and defeated Democrats in 24 governor's races. "We are headed to Washington and we are going to make ’em squeal,"…
Five years ago, Chloe decided she was transgender. Last year, at the ripe old age of 16, she abandoned the flirtation with transgender ideology and embraced her natural sex. In the intervening four years, she had both her breasts removed. “I was failed by the system,” she now says. “I literally lost organs.” If a new…
Two senators, Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are taking seriously the need to improve our broken immigration courts, and their attention to this issue is welcome and much needed. The immigration courts—the courts that conduct removal proceedings and decide asylum claims—are in a sorry state. Their backlog continues to rise dramatically and now…
The New York Times hired Bari Weiss as an opinion writer and editor to help readers gain a wider perspective after President Donald Trump’s surprise election in 2016. Now, Weiss has resigned. In a lengthy letter Tuesday to the Times’ publisher, posted on her personal website, she says she was bullied and run out of…
Conservative criminal justice reform advocates are making the case that reducing the prison population, treating drug addiction, and giving a second chance to lawbreakers are policy prescriptions that mesh with conservative ideals. While advocates cite polls that show that most conservatives support ideas like providing alternatives to prison for low-level drug offenders, GOP leaders on…
Just short of a month into President Donald Trump’s second term, the Senate has already confirmed the vast majority of Trump’s top Cabinet nominees. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., celebrated the feverish pace of the confirmations, writing on X, “The liberal media told you [Tulsi Gabbard’s, Pete Hegseth’s, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s] Cabinet nominations were…
In some cases, the answers were surprising. In other cases, the answers were surprising only in hearing top U.S. military leaders state publicly what already was suspected. The Senate Armed Services Committee got some answers Tuesday from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Marine Gen….
President Joe Biden is harder on America’s allies than he is on pro-Hamas radicals on American college campuses, Senate Republicans said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Joe Biden is putting more pressure on Israel these days than he is on Hamas itself, or on the pro-Hamas chapters on America’s campuses,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said at the…
It brings us no joy to say we were right. But we predicted last year that a disaster-in-the-making would unfold if President Joe Biden selected rogue prosecutors from around the country to become rogue U.S. attorneys. Some were specifically floating the name of Rachael Rollins, the rogue Suffolk County district attorney in Boston, as a…
In a move that isn’t without precedent, 11 Senate Republicans are pushing for a special panel to investigate questions of fraud arising from the presidential election. Some conservatives oppose such objections to the election outcome, in which former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, claimed an Electoral College victory of 306 votes to the…
Americans and other friends of freedom need to keep pressure on the Communist regime in Cuba, if true democratic reforms ever are to take root there, one of the leading human rights activists in the island nation says. “The dictatorship has become stronger over these past two years,” human rights activist @cocofarinas says. Psychologist and…
This January, when President Joe Biden was serving his last weeks in office and turning over the presidency to Donald Trump, the United States ran a $31.7 billion trade deficit with China. That was the largest trade deficit the United States ran that month with any nation—and it continued a long-standing pattern. In 2024, according…
After more than 280 reporters and editors at The Wall Street Journal signed a stinging letter to the publisher last week criticizing the newspaper’s conservative opinion pages, the editorial board fired back: “We are not The New York Times.” The previous month, the Times had its own staff revolt via Twitter after its opinion editors…
Lawmakers returned to Washington, D.C. on Monday with a new item on their agenda—getting clarity on the administration’s policy in Venezuela after the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife by U.S. forces. The White House hastily scheduled a briefing for Monday evening with congressional leaders. Punchbowl News reported that Secretary of State…
Pro-life groups and lawmakers denounced former Vice President Joe Biden’s choice of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Far from ‘uniting’ the country, Biden has proven yet again he is an extremist on abortion,” Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement following Biden’s Monday…
We’re in the dawn of a high-tech, bloodless cultural revolution, one that relies on intimidation, public shaming, and economic ruin to dictate what words and ideas are permissible in the public square. “Words are violence” has always been an illiberal notion meant to stifle speech and open discourse. Popularized by a generation of coddled and…
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Before becoming one of the Justice Department’s top leaders, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke was allegedly involved in a violent domestic dispute, according to court documents, records, and text messages—an incident that ended in her arrest and was ultimately expunged. During her Senate confirmation, Clarke specifically denied ever having been…