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    9th Circuit Delivers Major Setback to California’s Anti-ICE Law, Finds Trump ‘Certain’ to Prevail
    An appeals court Wednesday rejected California’s mandate that federal immigration agents wear identification, asserting it violates the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. California’s No Vigilantes Act, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, requires nonuniformed law enforcement officers to display their agency and name or badge number during arrests, detentions, and crowd control enforcement. The…
    Fred Lucas
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    Military Chaplain Seeks to Correct the Record After Losing a Promotion Over ‘Microaggression’
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—An Army chaplain is asking military authorities to expunge from his record a negative report stemming from an alleged “microaggression” against people who identify as LGBTQ. Lt. Col. Joseph Lawhorn argued that the report, which he says contains errors, may have cost him a promotion to colonel earlier this year. “Chaplain…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Operation Lonestar Roundup Disrupts North Korean IT Network
    Federal authorities on Tuesday said that the North Korean government used information technology workers to funnel money from North Texas back to North Korea. The U.S. District Attorney of the Northern District of Texas, Ryan Raybould, held a morning press conference to announce that federal agents carried out the North Texas investigative effort known as…
    Emily Medeiros
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Should the Fort Hood Terrorist Be Publicly Executed?
    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. The last few days there’s been a major controversy over the fate of one murderer, Major Nidal…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Omar Seeks Funds After Immigration Raid at Her Home
    Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is soliciting money after her house was raided as part of a federal criminal immigration investigation. Hours after Department of Homeland Security investigative agents raided the home of the Somali native, she sent out a fundraising message to her supporters, saying, “Please … support me [against] fascist bullies.” “[President Donald] Trump’s…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    DHS Raids Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home as Part of Federal Immigration Investigation
    The Department of Homeland Security raided the home of Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., early Monday morning, less than a month before the midterm election. The raid is part of a larger criminal fraud investigation into the congresswoman’s immigration paperwork and was signed off by a federal judge. First reported by Fox News Digital, multiple…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Trump Doctrine: No More Free Defense for Ungrateful Allies
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler:  Let’s talk one other—since we were just talking about Fort Hood, keep on the Islamic, Islamicism, if that’s a…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Iranian Regime Has Only One Way Out
    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. This is the first week of October, and the Iran war conflict, whatever term we want to…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    The Daily Signal Sits Down With Bert Mizusawa
    The midterm race that no one is talking about. By nobody, I mean the Virginia senator whose term is up in January. Sen. Mark Warner has dodged two debates, which isn’t unusual for a long-term incumbent. What is unusual is that the debates were going to be hosted by AARP and the League of Women…
    Joe Thomas
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    Victor Davis Hanson: The Truth About Oct. 7 Massacre, 3 Years Later
    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. This week marks the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 slaughter of Israelis, civilians, some people in the…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    CAIR Sued to Get El-Sayed’s Sister-in-Law Removed From Terror Watchlist
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed two lawsuits with the federal court system during the administration of former President Barack Obama in an attempt to remove Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s sister-in-law from a terrorist watchlist, claiming it violated her Fifth Amendment rights. CAIR filed the lawsuit, along with another seeking damages, after Mariam…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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    Trump Approves Firing Squad for Radical Islamic Terrorist
    President Donald Trump has approved execution by firing squad for convicted mass murderer Nidal Malik Hasan, the Islamic terrorist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. “Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended—and President Donald J. Trump has approved—death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan,…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    What Is the Golden Dome Actually Providing? 
    The Senate Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee held a hearing on Sept. 29 discussing President Donald Trump’s ambitious plan for American missile defense called the Golden Dome.  Senators and witnesses attempted to flesh out the administration’s vision for the Golden Dome and whether partisanship is preventing action that could keep America safe from its…
    Caroline Berkness
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    Why Did the US Suddenly Withdraw Its Bombers From RAF Fairford?
    On Oct. 4, the United States removed all bombers stationed at Royal Air Force Fairford from active service and sent them back to their home bases in America. The Pentagon and the U.S. European Command did not announce it until after the planes had left, and they provided no explanation. The number of aircraft that…
    Peter McIlvenna
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    Don’t Let Flydubai Terror Scare Derail Abraham Accords Progress
    Terrorists want nothing more than to prevent peace. It’s why they fly planes into buildings, don explosive vests, and rain indiscriminate missiles on civilian populations. The response to such terrorism isn’t to cower. It is to lead with boldness, courage and, sometimes, outright heroism. The world just saw precisely such heroism in the high drama…
    Josh Hammer
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    Flock Is Always Watching 
    Do you worry that you’re being watched?  If you drive, you probably are.   My new video covers the cameras that photograph the backs of millions of cars.  A company called Flock has 80% of that market.  Flock’s CEO says the goal is to “eliminate crime.”  But lots of people hate the cameras.     “We are asked…
    John Stossel
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    Revolutionary-Era South Carolina’s Mantra: ‘Be Cool and Do Mischief’ 
    On Feb. 9, 1776, Christopher Gadsden stood before South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in Charleston with what the congressional record called an “elegant standard,” a yellow flag bearing a rattlesnake poised to strike and four words beneath it: “DON’T TREAD ON ME”  The story of that flag takes us into a fascinating stage of South Carolina’s…
    Jim Sanderlin
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    Victor Davis Hanson: Iran’s Regime Is Running Out of Options
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Sami Winc: Iran, let’s turn to. It looks like internal strife is increasing, not because of the protesters out there, although…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump’s Pressure on Nigeria Just Saved Hundreds of Christians’ Lives
    Even amidst tragic news that at least 18 Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt state of Plateau were killed by Fulani jihadists over the past week, there is reason for hope: The nation’s government has finally bowed to pressure and taken concrete action against the plague of anti-Christian violence. Because of pressure started by President Donald…
    Sean Nelson
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    Supreme Court Move Could Have Major Consequences for Trump Deportation Policy
    The Supreme Court lifted the injunction against deporting illegal immigrants to a country other than their country of origin, known as sending them to a “third country,” and announced it will hear a case on the Trump administration’s policy. The case, D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security, is about whether the government can deport illegal…
    Fred Lucas
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