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    Trump Teases UFO File Release While Celebrating Artemis Moon Mission

    The Artemis II crew met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office today, celebrating their successful mission around the moon. While the country has its eyes set on space, Trump hinted at releasing government records related to unidentified flying objects. “I think we’re going to be releasing as much as we can in the…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Trump Says Visit With King Improved UK Relations Amid Iran Tension

    President Donald Trump said the visit of King Charles III smoothed over U.S. relations with the United Kingdom amid tension over Iran. Trump has criticized U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer for declining to help the United States with its military operation in Iran. The president has said the U.K. “should be our best ally” and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    ‘Click of Handcuffs’: Leaders Warn Blue States in Wake of Dr. Oz’s Medicaid Audit

    Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Dr. Mehmet Oz announced this week the launch of a nationwide audit of Medicaid providers ahead of their revalidation. The move marks the latest effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs, and it’s being welcomed by…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Manifesto of WHCD Shooter Reads Like a Legacy Media Transcript

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal.   About 10 minutes before the would-be assassin Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California, tried to get into…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Mehek Cooke: Trump Assassination Attempt Was Not Just a Security Failure. It Was a National Warning.

    The Daily Signal’s Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke said the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump should be treated as a clear, intentional act of political violence and a warning sign of a broader national security crisis. In an appearance Monday on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight,” Cooke addressed the legal consequences facing…
    Mehek Cooke
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    Ohio Childcare Worker Fired for Post About Trump

    The third assassination attempt against President Donald Trump continues to reverberate across the country, including in Ohio. The attempt, made Saturday night at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, has sparked conversation not only about political violence, but also political rhetoric. Corinne Baum, who until just recently worked at the BrightPath Bridgetown Child Care Center in…
    Rebecca Downs
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    From ‘Workplace Violence’ to Assassination Attempts

    On Nov. 5, 2009, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan shouted, “Allahu Akbar.” He then opened fire at Fort Hood, murdering 13 people and wounding dozens. Hasan’s jihadist ties were clear. He had business cards identifying him as “SoA” (Soldier of Allah), emails with al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, and an explicitly Islamist ideology. He even had…
    Drew Allen
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    FBI Raids Minnesota Daycares in Fraud Investigation

    Federal agents raided 22 locations in Minnesota on Tuesday as part of an investigation into widespread taxpayer fraud. “Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement. The raids focused on…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Obama’s Telling Phrase After the Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting

    Former President Barack Obama posted on X in response to the attempted shooting of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The post began with a familiar formula: “Although we don’t yet have all the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting…” And yet—almost instantly—the moral framing is already in place. It’s…
    Steve Cortes
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    They Said ‘Punch Him’—Now It’s Bullets: The Dangerous Escalation No One Wants to Admit

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We have had the third attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, where shots were exchanged within two…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Conservatives Ask Trump to Use Obscure Constitutional Power to Fund DHS

    In the latest pressure campaign on Republican leadership, a group of Washington conservatives is asking President Donald Trump to use his constitutional authority to force Congress into session indefinitely until it fully funds the Department of Homeland Security. On Saturday, shortly after an attempt on Trump’s life at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jeff Clark,…
    George Caldwell
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    INSIDE THE BALLROOM: Being at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner During an Assassination Attempt on Trump

    “What’s happening??” It was Elizabeth Mitchell, the Daily Signal’s White House reporter. She was seated next to me at Saturday evening’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. There was urgency and confusion in her voice. Our table was to the right of and somewhat back from the dais, where President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, First…
    Keith Koffler
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    Trump Explains Why Secret Service Returned Him to White House After Assassination Attempt

    THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump explained to “The Sunday Briefing” co-host Jacqui Heinrich why the Secret Service insisted he return to the White House after a gunman allegedly targeting his administration was thwarted Saturday night. Trump initially declared in a Truth Social post that he intended to return to the stage and that the White…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Acting AG: Trump the Likely Target of Shooting at WH Correspondents’ Dinner

    WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and officials in his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday. The man fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at…
    Bo Erickson
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    What We Know About the Man Arrested After WHCD Shooting

    The suspect arrested in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting on Saturday was identified by a law enforcement official as Cole Tomas Allen, a Los Angeles-area man who appears from social media sites to be a Caltech graduate working as a part-time teacher and game developer. The official said Allen, approximately 31 years of age,…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Americans Must ‘Recommit’ to Oppose Political Violence, Trump Says After WHCD Shooting

    President Donald Trump called on Americans to “recommit” to resolve their differences peacefully after a shooter disrupted the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday evening. The Secret Service took a gunman into custody after he ran past a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton. The gunman shot a Secret Service agent, but did not wound him,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Worst of the Worst of Government’: How Trump Admin Is Ending ‘Orphan Tax’

    When Assistant Secretary of Health Alex Adams led the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, he ended the state’s “orphan tax.” Now he is helping every other state do the same thing.  “We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re gonna keep at this,” said Adams, who leads the Administration of Children and Families…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Arch: Senator Backs Trump’s Capital Revamp

    Republican Sen. Jim Banks has come out in support of President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch in Washington, D.C., calling for it to serve as a template for the construction of more neoclassical architecture of its type in the capital. Trump has proposed that a 250-foot triumphal arch be constructed on Columbia Island—a piece of…
    George Caldwell
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    The Triumph of Economic Freedom?

    Prices rise. People blame capitalism. Politicians promise “solutions.” President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Elizabeth Warren wants politicians to decide what prices are “excessive.”    So I was surprised to see economist Donald J. Boudreaux’s new book titled “The Triumph of Economic Freedom.” “Economic freedom…
    John Stossel
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    Trump, Vance Evacuated and Safe After Shooting at White House Correspondents Dinner

    WASHINGTON HILTON, WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and key cabinet officials were evacuated from the White House Correspondents Dinner after shots had been fired outside the ballroom where the event was being held Saturday night. Journalists were told to get on the ground, get under the tables, and hide for approximately five…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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